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 [...]
Eleven year-old Princess Jill, sister to King Jack and daughter to Mother Goose, is spoilt and impulsive and prone to trying to sneak out of doing her chores, but she’s also brave and smart and determined, so, when she receives a message from someone known only as F.G., urgently asking for her help in the [...]
After her father’s death in a mining accident, Maggie Sullivan, her sister, Elly, and their mother must leave their cosy home and go to live with Aunt Hortense, because houses in the small mining town perched up in the mountains of British Columbia are reserved for miners and their families. For a young girl [...]
Ten year-old Eddie lives with his mother and grandparents in Haida Gwaii, known by non-Natives as the Queen Charlotte Islands, along the coast of British Columbia. With his best friend, Jake, Eddie hikes up to Spirit Lake, where they have built a raft, helps Jake’s mother gather berries and plants to make traditional medicines, [...]
Best friends Angela Black and Emmie Seegal have to come up with a way to earn some summer spending money after their baby-sitting job falls through. Fortunately, both of them have lots of experience with animals, so hiring themselves out at pet sitters seems like the perfect solution to their money woes. When [...]
When they fled the pogroms in Russia and made their way to Canada, the inhabitants of Braslav thought they were coming to a land of hope and opportunity. However, though they are free from the fear of soldiers arriving to burn their homes and kill them, Yossi and his family discover that they have [...]
New this year, the Silver Birch Express program is intended for students in Grades 4, 5 and 6 who want to take part in Silver Birch, but who need fewer books, shorter books, and books that are written for less experienced readers. Strong readers in Grade 3 are also welcome to take part!
There are ten [...]
