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 [...]
Thirteen year-old Emmaline Cayley calls herself an aviatrix. She dreams of flying and is determined to build a flying machine! Since the year is 1894 and airplanes have not yet been invented, this is an extraordinary and, some might say, even foolhardy ambition.
Fortunately for Emmaline, she has recently come from India, where her [...]
Twelve year-old Jim Hawkins lives with his widowed mother who struggles to run the Admiral Anson Inn, which has fallen on hard times that are made all the more difficult when the Moehners, a wealthy and influential local family, decide they want to buy up the inn and redevelop it as part of a new [...]
Ten year-old Charlie Bone has always been happily ordinary, and happy to live with his widowed mother, his two grandmothers, and his great uncle Paton. Although he knows that his mother struggles to earn enough money to feed and clothe them, and that he has disappointed his Grandma Bone, Charlie enjoys living at number [...]
When their parents depart on an archaeological dig, twelve year-old Stanley Brambles and his best friend, Alabaster Lancaster, go to stay with Stanley’s great uncle Jack, who lives in a mansion by the sea. There they meet Nell, who builds and flies model planes and who is desperate to get out from under her [...]
Cheyenne Shluffmuffin thinks her brother Wally is too pessimistic. She thinks he ought to focus on what is good in their lives. Wally thinks Cheyenne’s crazy. The two kids are on the run from giant ants bent on using them to take over the world, and their dad, who drowned in a [...]
Martha Snapdragon has problems. She and her father, Luther, live in the hot and noisy boiler room of the Horace E. Bloggins, the school she attends and where her father is caretaker, and, because her father’s job pays very little, they never quite have enough to eat.
Although Martha works hard at her lessons, and [...]
