While the other people in their village celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, Tara and her seven-year old brother Suraj sit watching from the front step of the family hut, mourning the anniversary of their mother’s disappearance. One year earlier, the kind and beautiful Parvati had crept to Tara before dawn and told her that [...]
From the moment he sets eyes on Will Reid, Shane has him in his sights. With his old-man clothes, his preoccupation with ants, and his secret writing of poetry, Will is an obvious target for Shane’s bullying. Though he was accepted, or, at least, tolerated, in elementary school, Will finds himself on his own in [...]
For the first time ever, thirteen-year old Clare Ferron is looking forward to going back to school. The breasts she had despaired of getting have finally put in an appearance, she’s got a new dog, and, most importantly, she has made a best friend. With her quirky personality, her disinterest in clothes and makeup, and [...]
Every winter, the people of Ungava Bay collect mussels by walking on the bottom of the sea. This is the story of a young girl’s very first time climbing down onto the sea bed alone.
After cutting a hole through the sea ice with her chisel, Eva lowers herself down into the hole with her [...]
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 [...]
