Daniel is not looking forward to the class trip to a heritage farm. Small, skinny, and bucktoothed with coke-bottle glasses, he has enough problems as the bookish class runt without the added hassles of a day around pigs. Daniel’s last name is Hogg, and the class bully, Shane Coolen, has already taken great [...]
Sophie is afraid of big dogs, thunderstorms, snapping turtles, and the moon falling on her house, but most of all, she’s afraid of sea monsters. However, when she finds a little blue sea monster under her bed, she realizes that he is even more afraid than she. He’s scared of leopards and anteaters [...]
Twelve year-old Maxwell Kane’s life is transformed when he meets Kevin. Despite the odds, the hulking giant who’s “never had a brain” and the fierce, mouthy genius locked in a crippled two-foot body become friends, and then more than friends. When they discover that, together they are more than the sum of their [...]
“I’m never, ever, not in a million trillion gazillion years going to sleep,” Penelope announces when her father tucks her into bed. Penelope is afraid of monsters and her bedroom seems to be full of them! Gnomes in her dresser drawers, trolls in her closet, and giants under her bed. When her [...]
It’s Christmas of 1945, the first Christmas since the end of the War, and Tommy is troubled to learn that his best friend Sammy’s father has been beaten up and left in a coma. Is it because somebody wants his job at the streetcar barns, or because he’s a Jew? Tommy, who is [...]
Hunky Dory is at the head of her class at Charm School. She is first in spelling and almost always Miss Harbinger’s class pet. But, when she makes an uninvited visit to a Christening party with her Auntie Malice, something in this young witch begins to change. She can’t help herself from [...]
Casey has spent the summer pet sitting to earn enough money to buy her favourite horse, Lightning, from the riding stable at which she takes lessons. Zelda, the owner of the stable, needs the money and can’t wait much longer for the $1500 she’s asking for Lightning.
When Casey learns that Geronimo Patchett, the wealthy [...]
London, 1945. When their house is bombed, 10-year-old Peggy, along with her mum and baby brother Tommy, go to live with her granddad, a difficult old man whom Peggy doesn’t know very well, and who doesn’t seem happy to have them stay. Peggy must go to a new school, where she is ignored [...]
King Chinembira lies gravely ill, and his kingdom, whose fate is tied to the king’s health, is in the grips of serious drought and is threatened by uprisings. Mella has watched many healers try and fail to restore her father to health, and finally goes to the Rangarirai, a respected elder, to ask for [...]
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. [...]
