Hugo Cabret lives in a secret apartment hidden deep within one of the great train stations of 1930s Paris. His clock maker father dead in a terrible fire and his drunken brute of an uncle vanished, Hugo travels the secret passageways and tunnels of the train station, keeping its twenty-seven clocks running and on [...]
Eleven year-old Sabrina and seven year-old Daphne Grimm are descendants of Wilhelm Grimm, famed author of Grimm’s fairytales, and heirs to his legacy. Though the world believes that his fairytales are just made-up stories, it seems that Wilhelm did no more than write accounts of the fairy tale characters, or Everafters, whom he knew, [...]
Maxwell Kane has size seventeen feet and a body to match. Though only fourteen, he towers over most adults, and sometimes frightens them with his sheer size. But Max is a gentle giant, slow to talk, fearful of bullies and taking the initiative, and terrified that, one day, he is going to turn [...]
Twelve year-old Jim Hawkins lives with his widowed mother who struggles to run the Admiral Anson Inn, which has fallen on hard times that are made all the more difficult when the Moehners, a wealthy and influential local family, decide they want to buy up the inn and redevelop it as part of a new [...]
Ten year-old Charlie Bone has always been happily ordinary, and happy to live with his widowed mother, his two grandmothers, and his great uncle Paton. Although he knows that his mother struggles to earn enough money to feed and clothe them, and that he has disappointed his Grandma Bone, Charlie enjoys living at number [...]
In recent years the community of Parkdale, in Toronto, has become home to many immigrants from Tibet. In 2006, with the help and encouragement of their school principal and some teachers as well as adults from the Tibetan community, a group of students at Parkdale formed the Tibetan Book Club and set out to [...]
When their parents depart on an archaeological dig, twelve year-old Stanley Brambles and his best friend, Alabaster Lancaster, go to stay with Stanley’s great uncle Jack, who lives in a mansion by the sea. There they meet Nell, who builds and flies model planes and who is desperate to get out from under her [...]
