Beatrice struggles to manage her hopelessly disorganized family in an effort to make a professional start in her new neighborhood.
Juvenile fiction
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Author:Hughes, AlisonSummary: - Author:Saunders, MarshallSummary:
Marshall Saunders "Beautiful Joe" (1893) is a remarkable classic exploring issues of animal cruelty told from the point of view of one dog, Joe. This work was an instant success upon its release in Canada, becoming the first book to...
- Author:Spillett-Sumner, TashaSummary:
A simple story exploring the feelings of a mixed heritage child who begins to notice the physical differences between her mother's features and her own. One day, Izzy notices that her skin looks different from her mama's. "Mama,"...
- Author:McKinley, RobinSummary:
Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
- Author:Brenna, BeverleySummary:
A new middle grade novel from the author of the Michael L Printz Honor Book, The White Bicycle.
Ten-year-old Harris is still dealing with the death of his parents three years after the accident. To make matters worse, Grampa...
- Author:Lord, CynthiaSummary:
Newbery Honor-winning author Cynthia Lord has written a sensitive and accessible book about the challenges of fitting in when you know you're a little different. On the last night of summer, Emma tags along with her game warden father...
- Author:DiCamillo, KateSummary:
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
- Author:Baker, DeirdreSummary:
When eleven-year-old Becca returns to her grandmother's rustic cottage for another summer, she finds herself seeing her beloved island in new ways. A hunting owl mistakes a bobbing ponytail for prey. A cozy sleepover on the beach...
- Author:Libenson, TerriSummary:
Middle school is full of challenges. Everyone knows how much brainy Bri likes the spotlight (not). So why did she ever agree to something that forces her to learn a new language, give a speech, help organize a party, and juggle drama at...
- Author:McDonald, MeganSummary:
During Fun with Food Week in her school science class, second-grader Beetle McGrady tries to work up the courage to eat an ant.
- Author:Thorpe, KikiSummary:
Four real girls in a fairy's world. It's the first day of school, and Gabby can't wait to tell the fairies all about it. She even met a new friend who loves fairies as much as she does! But what will the Never Girls do...
- Author:Woodson, JacquelineSummary:
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson''s stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember...
- Author:Fryer, Mary BeacockSummary:
Beginning Again is a sequel to Escape: Adventures of a Loyalist Family, Mary Beacock Fryer's historical novel for ten to fourteen-year-olds. This new work chronicles the lives of the Seamans as they make a new start in Canada. The...
- Author:Vance, AlexanderSummary:
Seventh-grader Claudia Miravista loves art, but socially she is always the odd girl out--but on a trip to the local art museum she sees a boy in a painting, who moves from painting to painting, and soon she embarks on an adventure...
- Author:Spalding, AndreaSummary:
The four volumes of Andrea Spalding's Summer of Magic Quartet are among her most exciting work. The White Horse Talisman was nominated for the Silver Birch, Hackmatack and Manitoba Readers' Choice Awards. Dance of the Stones was also a...
- Author:Guest, JacquelineSummary:
Belle must put aside her struggle to become the church bell ringer when those she loves are threatened during the battle of Batoche, part of the Riel Rebellion.
- Author:Martin, Ann M.Summary:
Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country, and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away, her brother and father are fighting again, and she becomes involved with the two new children...
- Author:Lawson, RobertSummary:
Benjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries.
- Author:Hume, Stephen EatonSummary:
After his "wonderful airship" crashes near St. Francis of Assisi's Home for Foundlings in Quebec City, Ben Franklin is thrown slightly off course in his carefully laid plan to coax Canada into joining the Americans in...
- Author:Stevenson, Robin, Parkins, DavidSummary:
Inventors invent inventions! That's what Ben and his best friend Jack like to say. So when Ben discovers that Jack's family is planning to move to another city, he decides they should put their inventions to work. The boys figure that...
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