In his treetop scientific lab, eleven-year old Newton has finally completed his latest invention, a time machine. Genius younger brother of a set of overbearing and sports-mad quadruplets, Newton has become accustomed to being picked on by his older brothers, who ridicule his scrawny frame, his geeky manner, and his complete lack of interest in [...]
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Conditioned by his experiences, both at school and at home, eleven-year old Billy Ray has learned not to expect much from life. His inability to read more than a handful of simple words or to recall numbers, and his hyperactivity in class have made him the butt of his classmates’ taunts and putdowns. At home, [...]
Sent to live with her aunt and uncle while her widowed mother goes to Toronto to look for a job, twelve-year old Peggy Henderson resigns herself to a summer of listening to Aunt Margaret’s endless lectures, and her determined efforts to get Peggy out and making friends with other kids. She prefers helping Uncle Stu [...]
For the boys who move at the end of the June from houses in the city to their cottages on the Toronto Islands’ Ward Island, that summer of 1949 promises to be magical. Freed from the demands of school, the everyday world of city life, and the cautious fretting of their parents, Jack, Donnie, Dougie [...]
Sent outside to enjoy the wintery weather, Shawn Mahoney and his younger brother, Craig, along with Shawn’s best friend, Tony, wander over to the new bridge built near their homes in Riverview. The bridge, which spans the Petitcoudiac river, links their town with the city of Moncton, New Brunswick.
Standing on the bridge watching the river [...]
While the other people in their village celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, Tara and her seven-year old brother Suraj sit watching from the front step of the family hut, mourning the anniversary of their mother’s disappearance. One year earlier, the kind and beautiful Parvati had crept to Tara before dawn and told her that [...]
Capital of England and the 19th century world, the proud and beautiful city of London of the late 1860s is also a city full of bigotry, hatred and despair, something young Sherlock Holmes knows only too well. The product of a runaway marriage between the daughter of a well-to-do country squire and a brilliant but [...]
When he is asked to join the school’s Quiz Kids team, TJ Barnes figures that the person they really want is his best friend, Seymour. Seymour is a walking encyclopaedia of strange and interesting facts, and just what the school needs to finally win against their arch-rivals at Fairview, who have won the contest three [...]
Tom Tin and his four teenaged companions find themselves in desperate straits; aboard a stripped down, lumbering hulk of a steamboat lost on the ocean in the southern hemisphere, half a world away from England, and rapidly running out of water, food and fuel to run the steam engine. It seems they have escaped from [...]
