ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES? The ad, which appears in the local newspaper, catches Reynard Muldoon’s eye. The eleven-year old, who is constantly taunted and ridiculed by the other children because of his exceptional intelligence, has completed every class and read every book in the Stonetown Orphanage. Even his kind tutor, [...]
Twelve-year old Percy Jackson seems to be plagued by bad luck. Constantly in trouble at his upper New York state boarding school, hounded by a nasty classmate named Nancy Bobofit, and struggling with both dyslexia and ADHD, it’s like he’s an accident waiting for a place to happen. And it happens inside one of the [...]
Emily Bing is happy to meet Matt Martinez, the boy who walks up her front walk to say hello soon after she and her family move into her Great-Aunt Miranda’s old house. Matt wants to know if the house is haunted, which it isn’t, but it does contain an odd little room at the top [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Plucked alive from among the dead bodies in a lifeboat and brought by ship to the port of Montreal in 1809, Peter figures, based on his size and colouring, that he is 15 or 16 years old and English. Named Peter by the crew of a passing ship, the boy remembers nothing of [...]
