Torrie, the oldest of the Old Things of the Wild Forest, is looking for adventure when he meets a rather unusual young girl, named Wren. Just fourteen years old and burdened with a clubbed foot, Wren has chosen the roaming, carefree and, sometimes, dangerous life of a pedlar over her previous job as an [...]
Reunited at last with her parents, from whom she was kidnapped as a baby, and surrounded by her friend Rocky and her faithful canine companion, Petula, Molly Moon ought to be happily settling into life at Briersville Park, but she cannot stop thinking about her long-lost, and long-forgotten, twin brother. Stolen at birth by [...]
It’s snowing and Christmas is just around the corner, but eleven year-old Min Randall is not looking forward to the celebration. She hates Christmas because it only serves to remind her that she doesn’t have a family of her own. When her foster mother abruptly packs up her things and delivers her back [...]
In the midst of fighting a forest fire in the interior of British Columbia, Forest Ranger Garrett Brock notices something usual, a she-wolf moving in and out of the fire, carrying something in her mouth. After the fire is out, Brock stumbles upon the she-wolf’s cache, and finds her four newborn wolf cubs. [...]
When their mother dies and their father sinks into a depression and stops noticing them, twelve year-old Sydney and her eight year-old brother, Turk, decide to run away and return to the farm where they spent the happiest summer of their lives.
The two children sneak onto a train going west and ride the rails from [...]
Fifteen year-old Will anxiously awaits Choosing Day, when he and his four ward mates will learn to which craft master they will apprenticed. Told that his nameless father was a war hero, Will dreams of being a knight, but, with his small, wiry body, fears that he will be rejected by the head of [...]
The Intermediate Book Club has decided to read Deborah Ellis’ Sacred Leaf, sequel to I am a Taxi (see my review). While we await the arrival of our books, book club members have spent a very enjoyable couple of lunch hours talking about books and debating the relative merits of one author over another.
Today [...]
As she reaches puberty, thirteen year-old Dusie is contending with all of the uncertainties of adolescence; fear that she is not brave or kind or wise, fear that she will never be attractive enough, cool enough, lovable enough to deserve that special love for which she longs.
When she awakens one morning to discover that, in [...]
The forty-odd members of the Girls’ Book Club have been fortunate to receive their first books of this year through the kind efforts of Tessa Griffin, of Canadian Children’s Book Clubs. After lengthy debate, girls chose five novels, Dusssie, by Nancy Springer, Dancing Through the Snow, by Jean Little, The Royal Woods, by Matt [...]
The three kids enter a different world that nobody has explored before. Jared, Simon and Mallory move into their extremely old aunt’s house which looks like it’s going to fall apart. The first time Jared walks into the old house he hears a strange noise in the wall which sounds like something running around.
Then strange [...]
