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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
When he is asked to join the school’s Quiz Kids team, TJ Barnes figures that the person they really want is his best friend, Seymour. Seymour is a walking encyclopaedia of strange and interesting facts, and just what the school needs to finally win against their arch-rivals at Fairview, who have won the contest three [...]
From the moment he sets eyes on Will Reid, Shane has him in his sights. With his old-man clothes, his preoccupation with ants, and his secret writing of poetry, Will is an obvious target for Shane’s bullying. Though he was accepted, or, at least, tolerated, in elementary school, Will finds himself on his own in [...]
