Award-winning author Sarah Ellis's new book Next Stop! introduces this acclaimed author to a new, younger audience. On Saturday, Claire rides the bus and sits right up front so she can help the driver. At the front of the bus Claire can see all of th...
Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Violet Downey Book AwardWhen Megan finds out why her mother is acting so odd, she is shocked and overwhelmed. Suddenly she is expected to welcome a new half-sister as part of the family.This is a beauti...
Thirteen-year-old Polly loves life  -- with her single-parent mom (a stained-glass artist), her quirky best friend Vanessa (who has a crush on their English teacher), and her endearing neighbor Ernie Protheroe (who collects postal codes and TV them...
For Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings, avoiding trouble with the wrathful Schoolmaster Bane and Edwin, the school basher. But when he turns twelve, trouble finds him. Apprenticed to a bookkeeper, he believes h...
A 2006-2007 Chocolate Lily Book Award Nominee in the Picture Book category
Ontario Library Association Best Bets List 2005
Blue Spruce Award shortlist, 2005
Ben likes nothing more than to go over to Peter's house. When the...
Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature AwardKip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog. Gran's house...
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize (2007) nominee
Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007
Queen Daisy can't help it - It's her feet that are misbehaving!
Queen Daisy had a great deal of troubl...
Jessica knew that the family meeting Dad had called for that evening probably wouldn't be good news. Family meetings usually meant Mum talking a lot and then the whole family getting involved in some project that left everything in a mess until they ...
Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. But in Milorie, Saskatch...
In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, a young girl must come to terms with haunting memories from the voyage. It is May 1912, one month after the horrific sinking of the Titanic, and twelve-year-old survivor Dorothy Wilton is sent home from schoo...
An eleven-year-old orphan is reconnected to her mother's family, but her courage and strength are tested as she is put to work in a textile mill.Flora is a young, imaginative girl who has dreamt of having a family to call her own since her parents di...
A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Join the lively Christmas pageant and you'll be in for a big surprise. The homesteading life that Ivy and her family were promised when they emigrated from Engl...
A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction!A Christmas wedding is just the thing to bring everyone together. Flora longed for a family of her own after living in an orphanage for almost ten years. She fou...
Lynn’s life is full  -- choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family  -- bo...
His sister is a big kid in grade five. His brother is a big kid in grade three. Ben is a little kid in preschool. He can't swim; he can't use chopsticks; he can't even see out of the car window. If only he could bring home a real report card like the...
From award-winning author Sarah Ellis comes the story of an American draft dodger who turns up to stay with thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her family.In 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pit...
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