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 Girls’ Book Club read Anne of Green Gables, in this the 100th anniversary year of the publication of LM Montgomery’s Canadian children’s classic. We enjoyed Anne’s bursts of enthusiasm, her wildly romantic and fanciful imagination, her fierce love of Diana, Miss Stacey, Mrs. Allen and Matthew, her equally fierce hatred of Gilbert and [...]
When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert request an orphan boy to help around the farm, they are sent, instead, a little girl named Anne Shirley. The child has red hair and freckles and big green eyes, and possesses plenty of spirit and imagination. Shy, gentle Matthew Cuthbert, who is sent to fetch the orphan [...]
At eight years old, after she stood on a kitchen chair to read the names of paint colours off a chart posted on the wall, Saffron Casson discovered that she was adopted. She learned that her sisters, Caddy and Rose, and her brother, Indigo, were, in fact, her cousins, and that, following her mother’s [...]
On January 1, 2001, Becky Morley begins to record her thoughts in a new journal, the gift of her father, a Devon farmer. At thirteen, Becky is on the cusp of adolescence, impatient of her school teacher mother’s nagging, and proud that her father has decided she is old enough for three sheep of [...]
Eleven year-old Princess Jill, sister to King Jack and daughter to Mother Goose, is spoilt and impulsive and prone to trying to sneak out of doing her chores, but she’s also brave and smart and determined, so, when she receives a message from someone known only as F.G., urgently asking for her help in the [...]
After her father’s death in a mining accident, Maggie Sullivan, her sister, Elly, and their mother must leave their cosy home and go to live with Aunt Hortense, because houses in the small mining town perched up in the mountains of British Columbia are reserved for miners and their families. For a young girl [...]
Best friends Angela Black and Emmie Seegal have to come up with a way to earn some summer spending money after their baby-sitting job falls through. Fortunately, both of them have lots of experience with animals, so hiring themselves out at pet sitters seems like the perfect solution to their money woes. When [...]
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 [...]
Marjane Satrapi is a young girl when revolution comes to Iran in the late 1970s. Living with her parents in Tehran where she attends a private school and enjoys all the normal activities of children, she listens as her parents, both socialist intellectuals with communist leanings, discuss 2500 of tyranny and submission beginning with [...]
