Fred is going to spend the weekend of the Saint Yaya agricultural fair with his friend William. This year, William and his pig Omer are going to participate in the big race. Unfortunately, on the morn
When TJ Barnes and his best friend, Seymour, join their school's Quiz Kids team, TJ is not sure that he can memorize all of the facts that he needs to know, and his competitive streak causes problems
Walking with her mother on the way home from school one day, Lily runs straight into a gruff and untidy-looking man selling papers on the street. Frightened, Lily insists on taking the bus home every
What has twenty legs but just one wing? That is part of the riddle Jeremy must solve in this sequel to Jeremy and the Enchanted Theater and Jeremy in the Underworld, if he is to help Mr. Magnus save t
TJ Barnes is back, playing with his crazy cats, T-Rex and Alaska, helping out in his parents' hardware store and goofing around with his best friend, Seymour. When Seymour announces that he has signed
Misha is excited about visiting his favourite aunt, especially now that she has moved into a cottage that is more than a century old. What an opportunity to search out secret passages and hidden cella
Hyperorganized perfectionist Beatrice More is determined to plan a spectacularly professional birthday party for her little sister, Sophie. But she is foiled at every turn: her mother insists on makin
Inspired by memories of fantastic family birthday parties, mother-and-daughter team Nikki Tate and Dani Tate-Stratton researched the history of birthdays in order to answer such questions as, How much
Driftwood Dragons is a collection of thirty-four lyrical seaside poems for children. Inspired by the coastline and accompanied by whimsical illustrations, these poems are celebrations of the coastal e
"Lilly is excited about playing with the community league girlsi soccer team. When the new girl, Sara, joins the team, there is controversy over her headscarf caused by their competing teamis coach. T
Fred is a near-sighted dog who worries all the time. He worries the most about what kind of trouble Pete is going to get them into next. Unlike Fred, Pete is a happy, impulsive dog who believes someth
In order to save Mr. Magnus's enchanted theater, Jeremy and his cat Aristotle travel back in time to ancient Greece where they encounter the Minotaur's maze and Daedalus's flying machine.
Yeny's family has escaped from the violence in their mountain village in Colombia to live with cousins in the city. Yeny knows all too well that Columbia is one of the most dangerous countries in the
Conner loves animals, and when everyone else in his animal club adopts a pet from the shelter, he takes home a rat named Oscar, but he has to keep the rat hidden because of his parents' rule against p
When Rosie comes home to find her mom dancing alone in the living room-on a school day-she knows something wonderful is about to happen. So when one of her two mothers announces, "Your Mum and I are g
Sixteen-year-old Jolene, named after the girl in the Dolly Parton song, is from a long line of lowlifes, but at least they're musical lowlifes. Her mother is a tanning-salon manager who believes she c
It is 1864 in the smallest colony of British North America, and the circus is coming to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Twins Gracie and Gabriel are excited about its arrival, but they are even m
Tilly has always known she’s part Lakota on her dad’s side. She’s grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn’t until an angry
Simon and his daring sidekick, Catapult Man, navigate the dangers of the neighborhood playground. Kids will love following this precocious pair as they launch off rocket boosters (swings), evade space
Addison Addley hates math. He hates public speaking too. Actually, he hates anything that involves work, but he only has a couple of weeks to write and memorize his grade five speech. The problem is,
The two little alien robots, Googol and Googolplex, are on another scavenger hunt on Earth and ask Pippa and Troy to help them, but runaway cows and disappearing rainbows make their task difficult and
A unique and much-needed collection, The Smart Princess takes readers inside the fantasies, dreams and disappointments of young people who are deaf. This book is written and illustrated by winners of
The two little alien robots, Googol and Googolplex, are on another scavenger hunt on Earth and ask Pippa and Troy to help them at the beach, but the neighborhood bully, Martin, tries to foil their pla
Are Shakespeare’s lost manuscripts buried deep in the notorious Money Pit? Do booby traps conceal the Holy Grail of the Knights Templar or Blackbeard’s pirate loot? The mystery of Oak Island’s rumored
“We raised all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways.” So began Severn Suzuki’s speech to the international delegates at the 1992 Earth Summit in
Lasso the Wind is the first collection of children’s poetry by renowned poet and playwright George Elliott Clarke. By turns absurd, witty, playful and profound, Clarke’s poems speak to the vivid wonde
Artist, animal lover and would-be swimming sensation Mimi Power knows what it's like to live under the tyranny of a three-year-old sister. Things have never been the same in the Power household since
Find Scruncheon and Touton 2: All Around Newfoundland is the sequel to the highly successful picturebook Find Scruncheon and Touton: All Around Newfoundland, published in spring 2012. Young readers wi
Baby Steps is a series of three board books: Baby Play, Baby Look andBaby Talk. These are the perfect “starter books” for Baby’s first year and are offered for the first time in one package.
That's so gay! It's a phrase commonly heard in school halls and on playgrounds. But when used as a put-down, it's also homophobic. With plenty of quizzes, Q+As, comics and scenarios, this interactive
When Joseph and Devon find money in the schoolyard, they have a difference of opinion about what they should do with it. Will they say “Finders, keepers,” or will they try to find out who lost it? Dev
At twenty-five, Rob Baltovich lost the love of his life, Elizabeth Bain. That was bad enough. Then he was arrested, jailed, sent to trial for murder, convicted and sent to prison—for life. Throughout
