Two Indiana farm youngsters decide to joust with their newly arrived grandmother and find that she is more than a match for them in this warm autobiographical portrait of rural life in the early part of the century...
Feeling misunderstood at home and at school, Crabbe, a wealthy Canadian teenager, runs off to live in the woods where he meets a mysterious woman who teaches him about outdoor survival and taking responsibility for one's life....
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Thrilled when his cameraman father invites him along on an assignment in China, seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson does not suspect that they will become part of the great historical events sweeping China in the sp...
NOTHING'S WORSE THAN NOT KNOWING.Wick Chandler is obsessed with the past. When he sets out to find the father who abandoned him when he was seven years old, Wick begins a quest that brings revelations he never would have imaginedrevelations tha...
When a rich woman in a palanquin orders her servant to buy the last of his family's fish in the marketplace with a silver coin, Gang-Gang asks the river that flows past his home, and from which his family gets its living, to make him rich...
Allie's life has just taken a turn for the worse; not only do her parents fight all the time, but she is failing more classes than not and now she thinks she might be pregnant. Unable to face up to her parents she decides to run away. She hooks up wi...
The award-winning author of Stones and Zack brings us a collection of original stories that will captivate teens as completely as his bestselling novels.
With these eight absorbing tales, acclaimed storyteller William Bell explores the highs a...
Lee wants to be a Tarantula â€" a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Lee’s father sends him to live with his aunt in New Toronto....
When Jake Blanchard gets a job as a student set designer at the York School of Arts, it's an exciting first step towards realizing his dream of making movies. But soon enough he finds himself starring in a drama of his own creation. Nothing in Jake's...
Poking around a sacred Indian burial ground in the middle of the night with her brother, John, isn't Karen Stone's idea of a great way to start off the summer. But she lets John talk her into it, and the two are plunged into a world they neve...
During the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, comes a story of true patriotism. Based on a real patriot, Ishmael Day. Follow his life from his exciting youth until, as an old man, he takes on the Confederate Cavalry and lives to tell about it. A pro...
Zach Dolan resigned his commission with the Navy Seals and came home to serenety of Colorado. He did not know that Al Qaeda had sent a team of assasins to kill him. He also did not know that he would soon be returning to the middle east in his unexpe...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
Excerpt from the Introduction: “Few poems have been more variously designated than Comus. Milton himself describes it simply as “A Mask”; by others it has been criticised and estimated as a lyrical drama, a drama in the epic style, a lyric poem...
Garnet Havelock was always a bit different from other guys. He never quite fit in and he was okay with that. Now, in his final year of high school, he's just marking time, waiting to get out into the real world. When a mysterious girl transfers to ...