Peggy Dymond Leavey

• Nov-1994
• / General Fiction
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Thirteen-year-old Mark Rogers knew that his Grandpa Luigi had Alzheimer’s but he hadn’t counted on it turning his life upside-down. When his mother suggests that the two of them move in with Grandpa and help care for him, Mark reluctantly agrees ...

• May-1999
• / Mystery
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Thirteen-year-old Jane Covington doesn’t want to go to Sky Lake to visit her grandmother for the summer holidays - she wants to visit her father in the north. But when she returns to the cottage on the lake with the tall cliff, she is happy to be b...

• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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It’s an exciting time for seventeen-year-old Libby, as she announces to her aunt that she plans to leave Toronto in the 1950s to spend the summer living alone in the empty family home in Pinkney Corners. Libby is determined to make it on her own an...

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Martin Jessup, teller of tall tales and other untruths, cannot understand his sister’s objections to the family’s move from Winnipeg to small-town Ontario. With Dad in the military, moving is a fact of life. Settling into his new ...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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Who are the strangers Wren sees in the mirror? Twelve year- old Wren Ferris thinks the mirror she finds in the abandoned old movie studio will make a good souvenir. Never having known that her hometown of Trenton, Ontario, had long ago been one of th...

• May-2005
• / Horror
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Thirteen-year-old Norah Bingham and her mother plan to spend Christmas in the country with Caroline Stoppard, Norah’s great-aunt. When her mother is called away on business, Norah goes on her own to stay with the aunt, someone she has never even me...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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Rather than face the consequences of his attempted shoplifting, twelve-year-old Joel Osler leaves his mothers home in Toronto to go live with his dad and stepmother in Turtle Narrows. He hopes to make a fresh start in the little lakeside town. On ...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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The Osler family has just moved into the old Clifton House, with its unusual little rooftop room. Dropping in at his dads shop, Joel overhears a stranger demanding money. Suddenly, it looks like they might lose the house. If that happens, Joel won...

• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Living in grim Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Frannie, Ivy Chalmers has never met her father. In 1931, Frannie sends twelve-year-old Ivy to stay with her paternal grandmother in L...