After her mother’s death from AIDS, sixteen year-old Chanda Kabelo struggles to bring up her six year-old sister, Iris, and her five year-old brother, Solly. Though her former high school teacher, Mr. Selalame, has helped her get a supply teaching job at the local elementary school, her neighbours, the gossipy and overly intrusive yet [...]
Eleven year-old Max Remy has made up for her lack of friends and her parents’ constant attention elsewhere by creating a rich and exciting fantasy for herself. In her imagination, she is Alex Crane, top spy for Spy Force, and regularly pits herself against the world’s greatest villains and wins.
Max has been looking forward to [...]
After we read Jeffrey and the Sloth, children in the Primary Division tried their hands and doodling. They went to ArtPad, a website that allows you to paint virtual pictures, and created some wonderful paintings. I wouldn’t mind have many of these pieces on my walls! Simply click on the image to [...]
Jeffrey has to write a story for homework and cannot think of anything to write about. So he begins to doodle on the page and soon as drawn a long-armed sloth who slips off the page and into his bedroom. While Jeffrey tries to concentrate on his story, the sloth informs him that [...]
On January 1st, Stargirl begins a letter to Leo, the boy she loved - loves. Recently moved to Pennsylvania from Arizona where, after being home schooled from kindergarten, she briefly attended high school (an experiment that didn’t work out so well), sixteen year-old Stargirl tells Leo about her new home, about the poetry field [...]
Lily likes walking home from school with her mother, waving to Frank, the crossing guard, and visiting Mrs. Chan’s store for milk and the occasional treat. But, when she bumps into a homeless man selling newspapers on her street, Lily is overcome with shyness and fear. The man’s raggedy appearance and wild hair, and his [...]
Every winter, the animals on Stolski’s farm play hockey, practising hard for the big game, the one that will decide the winner of the Stolksi Cup. Though the Farm Team has lost that big game fifty years in a row to their rivals, the Bush League Bandits, they love hockey and they play with heart. [...]
Flying northwest in a single engine plane to spend the summer in the oil fields of northern Canada with his engineer father, thirteen year-old Brian Robeson is angry over his parents’ recent divorce yet eager to see his father again, after several months’ absence. The pilot seems friendly, and shows Brian how to hold [...]
Nine year-old Murphy Jones has lived in the same apartment with his mother, Lisa, and his cat, Mousetrap, for as long as he can remember. Though his mom worries that he doesn’t spend enough time with other boys his age, and her job doesn’t pay well enough for many trips to restaurants or the [...]
On January 1, 2001, Becky Morley begins to record her thoughts in a new journal, the gift of her father, a Devon farmer. At thirteen, Becky is on the cusp of adolescence, impatient of her school teacher mother’s nagging, and proud that her father has decided she is old enough for three sheep of [...]
