Fourteen year-old Gerry Copeland has mixed feelings about spending six months of every year living in a camp on the African veldt while his scientist parents study baboons. He misses his friends, going to the movies, watching television, indoor plumbing. Returning from a supply run to Arusha, where they have stocked up on [...]
Dinah Galloway is looking forward to travelling with her friends, Pantelli and Talbot, across the country to Toronto to appear on the television show Tomorrow’s Cool Talent. At twelve years old, Dinah is loud, tactless and very inquisitive, but she possesses a magnificent singing voice, one that will one day make her a star. [...]
Twelve year-old Christine Bellamy has been invited by her best friend, Pepper McKenzie, to join her and her parents on a trip to England. That’s the good part. The bad part is that Pepper’s parents have invited her younger brother, Hal, to come as well, and Hal is loud, obnoxious and nosy.
The trip gets off [...]
Fatimah is a young carpet weaver who lives and works in a small stone and tin shed behind the courtyard of her master’s big house in Lahore, Pakistan. Bonded to that master after her parents contracted a small debt to a local money lender, she has worked at her loom since she was five [...]
Daniel is not looking forward to the class trip to a heritage farm. Small, skinny, and bucktoothed with coke-bottle glasses, he has enough problems as the bookish class runt without the added hassles of a day around pigs. Daniel’s last name is Hogg, and the class bully, Shane Coolen, has already taken great [...]
Fifteen year-old Ian needs 40 hours of community service if he wants to pass Grade 10 Civics. Since he’s left it so long, he ends up in one of the most demanding volunteer placements available, serving food to homeless men at The Club, a soup kitchen on the wrong side of town. Though [...]
Students in one of our Grade 3 classes recently completed a quilt which they have donated to Design Hope Toronto, who raise money and awareness for local organizations who help Toronto’s homeless. The quilt will be auctioned off at Design Hope Toronto’s Gala on Friday, February 8th at the Modern Weave, 160 King [...]
Thirteen year-old Cat Peters hates her new high school. Following her parents’ divorce, she and her mother and younger sister, Sookie, have moved to Darkmont because of her mother’s new job as office administrator at Grimoire School, an exclusive private school for girls. But mom can’t afford to send her to Grimoire, so [...]
Twelve year-old Stephen Majok lives with his sixteen year-old sister, Naomi, and their mother in a small village in southern Sudan. Though civil war rages around them, the villagers are more preoccupied with looking for the first clouds that will herald the rainy season, desperately needed after three years of drought. The village’s [...]
Marjane Satrapi is a young girl when revolution comes to Iran in the late 1970s. Living with her parents in Tehran where she attends a private school and enjoys all the normal activities of children, she listens as her parents, both socialist intellectuals with communist leanings, discuss 2500 of tyranny and submission beginning with [...]
