Ordered to “Get!” when he begs at the picnic table for food, Stanley wanders down to the river and finds his good friends Alice and Nutsy and Gassy Jack. Bored and hungry, the dogs discover a trash can filled to the brim with all sorts of delicious treats, only to watch as the garbage truck [...]
Sent to live with her aunt and uncle while her widowed mother goes to Toronto to look for a job, twelve-year old Peggy Henderson resigns herself to a summer of listening to Aunt Margaret’s endless lectures, and her determined efforts to get Peggy out and making friends with other kids. She prefers helping Uncle Stu [...]
In the midst of fighting a forest fire in the interior of British Columbia, Forest Ranger Garrett Brock notices something usual, a she-wolf moving in and out of the fire, carrying something in her mouth. After the fire is out, Brock stumbles upon the she-wolf’s cache, and finds her four newborn wolf cubs. [...]
Living in Victoria, British Columbia in the 1880s, Emily Carr struggles to conform to her family’s, and society’s, expectations of her. Young girls should be obedient, quiet, neat and godly. They need to learn to be good wives and mothers. But Emily is neither obedient, nor quiet, nor neat. Though she [...]
Sent to spend the summer on the west coast with his Gran and four girls cousins while his mother honeymoons with her new husband, twelve year-old Kip finds himself rather overwhelmed by this first meeting with his extended family. Since her big, rambling house by the sea is due to be torn down at [...]
New Auckland is a small town perched on the rocky coast of British Columbia. The houses and other buildings of the town are squeezed into a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the pebbled beach. The residents live with the sea at their back doors and the Rockies at the front. [...]
During the early hours of April 29, 1903, the top of Turtle Mountain come crashing down, sealing the mine entrance, burying part of the town of Frank, Alberta, and taking out the CPR rail lines, shortly before the Spokane Flyer was due to come through.
13 year-old Natalie Vaughan rushes to help in the rescue efforts. [...]
