Kinder- & Jugendbücher

Big Bad Beans (Cul-de-sac Kids Book #22)

To Earn a Star

Marianne Orban

The year is 2054. Brenda Warrick, an aspiring young fighter pilot trainee for the USAF, dreams of earning the highest of all awards: the Star of Courage. A war bubbling in Australia may grant her ...

A Riddle of Roses

Caryl Cude Mullin

Meryl's mother was a great bard -- a storyteller and musician who sang of life and the world around her. Meryl, already an orphan, wants fo follow in her mother's footsteps. Highly spirite...

Annie Moore: The Golden Dollar Girl

Eithne Loughrey

This is the second book in the trilogy - it charts the further adventures of Cork-born Annie Moore, who was the first immigrant to land at Ellis Island, New York, in 1892. Four years later, Annie...

The Great Laundry Adventure

Margie Rutledge

<p>The Lawrence family (three children, one dog, one cat and two parents) has a crisis on its hands - too much laundry and no place to put it. Are the thirteen baskets they buy in the myster...

Black Hearts in Battersea

Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked c...

Nightbirds on Nantucket

Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, w...

The Minstrel Boy

Sharon Stewart

<p><i>Winner of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choice: Best Books for Kids &amp; Teens</i> <br><br> David Baird, a talented young rock musician, accompanie...

Underground Railroad

By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the...

Shortcut

Albert and his trusty mare June set off early on market day to sell their melons in town and return home before dark. Is this another insignificant day in the life of a farmer? Perhaps-but look ag...

Borrowed Children

George Ella Lyon

Sophie Sea to Sea

Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with her family. In 1949, the year Newfoundland joins Conf...

The Great Canadian Book of Lists

Mark Kearney / Randy Ray

<p>Who were Canada’s ten most romantic couples of the twentieth century? What were this country’s worst disasters, its ten best beers, and its most controversial works of art in the past...

Sophie Sea to Sea

Norma Charles

<p><i> Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award</i> <br><br> Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Cana...

Seven-Day Magic

Luckily for Edward Eagers fans, the children in his latest book are just as lively and literary as those in Half Magic.--The New York Times Book Review

Well-Wishers

This one will delight.--Christian Science Monitor

Sky Lake Summer

Peggy Dymond Leavey

<p>Thirteen-year-old Jane Covington doesn’t want to go to Sky Lake to visit her grandmother for the summer holidays - she wants to visit her father in the north. But when she returns to th...

Darkness Be My Friend

Ellie and her friends had been rescued. Airlifted out of their own country to the safe haven of New Zealand, they'd arrived burnt and injured and shocked, with broken bones, and scars inside a...

Lucy Maud and Me

It is 1942, and 12-year-old Laura Campbell arrives in Toronto, a city bustling with the war effort and news from abroad. While looking for something to do in the grandfather's quite neighbourh...

Lucy Maud and Me

Mary Frances Coady

<p>It is 1942, and 12-year-old Laura Campbell arrives in Toronto, a city bustling with the war effort and news from abroad. While looking for something to do in the grandfather’s quite nei...