Sixteen-year old Kim Cameron’s world seems to be defined these days by the painful consequences of love: her parents’ marriage cancelled due to lack of interest; her classmate Katie Matthews dumped by her boyfriend, John Reddear, who then commits suicide, it’s rumoured, because of his feelings for another boy on the volleyball team; Kim’s own [...]
The Once Upon a TIMES reports that Princess Vera is deathly ill, and that her father, the King, is frantic. Fortunately, Libby Gaberchik, fairy and healer, knows just what is wrong with the dear girl. Love. The princess is starved for it.
So Libby tells the king that Vera must eat three perfect peaches and marry [...]
Following the death of their mother, fifteen-year old Prosper takes his five-year old brother, Bo, and sneaks onto a train bound for Venice, a place neither boy has ever visited but that looms large in both their imaginations because of their mother’s stories. He is desperate to get them far from Germany and their aunt [...]
After reading Mattland, students in Grades 1, 2 and 3 created their own imaginary lands using Smart Notebook 10. Here are just a few of their efforts!
When Matt’s parent move again, this time to a new house in a new subdivision, Matt finds himself with no one – and nothing – to play with. Standing on bare ground littered with scraps of construction materials, Matt sees a stick and feels like breaking it, or hitting something with it, but when he [...]
Fifteen-year old Luke, and his younger sister Zaidee, have spent most of their lives moving around with their marine biologist father, Dr. Sam Perkins. Sam works for the wealthy and controversial Anthony Cavenger, who travels the world in pursuit of mythological creatures – yetis, dragons, sasquatches and sea monsters. This time, Cavenger’s hunt has brought [...]
