Twelve year-old Emily Windsnap lives with her mother aboard The King of the Sea, an old sailboat tied up in a marina in the seaside town of Brightport. Because of her mother’s fear of water, Emily has never so much as had a bath, and she has never learned to swim. But swimming lessons [...]
The arrival late one night of a mysterious stranger sets off alarm bells in twelve-year old Meggie’s head. But Mo, her gentle bookbinder father, lets the odd little man into their farmhouse and sends his daughter back to bed. Instead, she listens at the door while Dustfinger, for that is the stranger’s name, [...]
Aislinn has lived by Grams’ rules since she was very small; don’t react to faeries, don’t do anything to bring yourself to their attention, and never, ever, underestimate their power. As long as her rules are followed, Grams will let Aislinn attend high school and continue her growing friendship with Seth, the gentle free-spirited young [...]
Struggling to care for his severely depressed mother, whose illness has meant their downward slide into extreme poverty, Owen must also cope with the whispers and knowing looks of people in the village. “Like father like son. He’ll go the same way,” the neighbours say, not very comforting or supportive when those same neighbours state [...]
Thirteen year-old Cat Peters hates her new high school. Following her parents’ divorce, she and her mother and younger sister, Sookie, have moved to Darkmont because of her mother’s new job as office administrator at Grimoire School, an exclusive private school for girls. But mom can’t afford to send her to Grimoire, so [...]
Blake Winters is not happy to find himself in Oxford, dragged there by his mother who is doing research in the ancient libraries its university colleges. He misses his father, who has remained in Canada, and worries that his parents’ separation will lead to divorce. Accompanied by his younger sister, Duck, Blake spends [...]
Torrie, the oldest of the Old Things of the Wild Forest, is looking for adventure when he meets a rather unusual young girl, named Wren. Just fourteen years old and burdened with a clubbed foot, Wren has chosen the roaming, carefree and, sometimes, dangerous life of a pedlar over her previous job as an [...]
Reunited at last with her parents, from whom she was kidnapped as a baby, and surrounded by her friend Rocky and her faithful canine companion, Petula, Molly Moon ought to be happily settling into life at Briersville Park, but she cannot stop thinking about her long-lost, and long-forgotten, twin brother. Stolen at birth by [...]
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. [...]
Fifteen year-old Will anxiously awaits Choosing Day, when he and his four ward mates will learn to which craft master they will apprenticed. Told that his nameless father was a war hero, Will dreams of being a knight, but, with his small, wiry body, fears that he will be rejected by the head of [...]
