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, [...]
Thirteen year-old Samantha Gwynn has a secret that she needs to share, and no one whom she can share it with. Sure, she has some good friends, Angie, Tracey and Vanessa, the type that you can hang around with at school and spend every single Saturday night with having sleep overs, but she can’t [...]
Fifteen year-old Ian needs 40 hours of community service if he wants to pass Grade 10 Civics. Since he’s left it so long, he ends up in one of the most demanding volunteer placements available, serving food to homeless men at The Club, a soup kitchen on the wrong side of town. Though [...]
It’s the summer of 1945, and all of Ottawa awaits word that the war in Asia is over and that the world can return to happy times. However, young Martin O’Boy’s life is too complicated to be transformed by the end of war. His father is an emotionally abusive drunk and his mother, [...]
