Traded to the Hogtown Maple Buds near the end of the regular season, Clancy Cooke helps his new team make the playoffs. With his skating and stick handling, Maple Buds fans believe, the team has a real shot at the Stanley Cup.
The visitors take an early lead in that seventh game of the finals, but [...]
Growing up on the Toronto Islands in the 1860s, Ned Hanlan dreamed of rowing. The son of a poor Irish immigrant, he had neither the well-to-do background nor the big, bulky physique of most rowers of his day, but Ned possessed natural athletic ability and the will to win.
Ned Hanlan won his first big race, [...]
For the boys who move at the end of the June from houses in the city to their cottages on the Toronto Islands’ Ward Island, that summer of 1949 promises to be magical. Freed from the demands of school, the everyday world of city life, and the cautious fretting of their parents, Jack, Donnie, Dougie [...]
Fourteen year-old Dana is a runaway, living on the streets of Toronto. Begging for spare change to buy coffee and a doughnut, and protecting her rapidly dwindling possessions from thieves is a far cry from her comfortable life in the suburbs, but she cannot go home.
Fortunately, Dana is adopted into a street family. [...]
On the afternoon of Friday, October 15, 1954, thirteen year-old Lizzie Hardy walks the two McBride children home to their house on Raymore Drive and then prepares to baby-sit them until their parents return home from work. While Lizzie enjoys looking after six year-old Susie, she finds her older brother David a difficult kid [...]
When thirteen year-old Jules makes a list of the talents of his best friend, Chris, and compares it to a list of his own abilities, the only thing he knows he excels at, by comparison with his intelligent, athletic, good-looking, quiet friend, is talking. So when he and Chris and their impulsive, wild-child sidekick, [...]
In recent years the community of Parkdale, in Toronto, has become home to many immigrants from Tibet. In 2006, with the help and encouragement of their school principal and some teachers as well as adults from the Tibetan community, a group of students at Parkdale formed the Tibetan Book Club and set out to [...]
Most of us have dreamed about writing and publishing our own book but my friends Martha and Molly have done so! Following her purchase of a magnificent Victorian doll’s house about a year ago, Martha Davis conceived and wrote The Maples on the Move!, a novella about the Maples whose house becomes too small [...]
