Ordered to “Get!” when he begs at the picnic table for food, Stanley wanders down to the river and finds his good friends Alice and Nutsy and Gassy Jack. Bored and hungry, the dogs discover a trash can filled to the brim with all sorts of delicious treats, only to watch as the garbage truck [...]
As a young boy, Rick Hansen was never still. He took part in all kinds of sports, and loved fishing. At fifteen, however, Rick’s life changed when he was thrown from a truck in an accident and became a paraplegic.
For a while, Rick figured he would never enjoy his favourite activities again, but his dad [...]
Growing up on the Toronto Islands in the 1860s, Ned Hanlan dreamed of rowing. The son of a poor Irish immigrant, he had neither the well-to-do background nor the big, bulky physique of most rowers of his day, but Ned possessed natural athletic ability and the will to win.
Ned Hanlan won his first big race, [...]
David loves his Bubbie, and loves to visit her in her apartment above the Kuni Lemmel Bagel Shop. But he dreads going to see her on his birthday because each and every year, David’s Bubbie give him the same present for his birthday, a gift he neither wants nor appreciates. She gives him a stiff, [...]
When Emily’s dad breaks his promise to come outside and build snow animals in the backyard, she’s sad and angry. She stomps outside determined to build something all by herself. Something big. A dinosaur! She’s pretty happy with Grizzle, the Diphosaurus she makes, but, leaning out the window, dad calls Grizzle “cute and little”. With [...]
What’s a guy to do when the girl he likes gives him a box of note paper and stamped envelopes before she moves away to a nearby town? If you’re Owen Skye, you start writing her letters telling her about life, about your two brothers, Andy and Leonard, about your dog, Sylvester, who has a [...]
Eleven-year old Griffin Bing is the Man with the Plan, the kid who can figure out a solution to every problem. But his parents are facing a financial disaster that seems to be beyond even his organizational cunning. His inventor father has come up with the SmartPick, a device that is sure to be a [...]
