It's the most talked about trophy in Howling -- The Wassabbee! And it goes to the winner of the annual fathers versus sons hockey game. This year the fathers are in trouble, so they've changed the rules. The game won't be played indoors...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Brouwer, Sigmund, Ross, GrahamSummary:
- Author:Brouwer, Sigmund, Griffiths, DeanSummary:
Johnny Maverick and Tom Morgan are in a race for the league's goal-scoring trophy, but one or two other things are getting in the way. Like a joke on the coach. And, worse, the smelly socks of death...
- Author:Redniss, LaurenSummary:
The joy a child finds in making their own time capsule, filled with everyday objects, comes alive in this inviting picture book from the MacArthur “genius grant” recipient and award-winning author of Radioactive. A set of dice. A...
- Author:Alexander, LloydSummary:
Cats don't really have nine lives, but they can visit nine different lives, anywhere, anytime. This is the secret Jason's cat, Gareth, tells him. When Jason hears this, he begs to go along. Soon cat and boy find themselves in...
- Author:Maher, AllisonSummary:
Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and...
- Author:Morstad, JulieSummary:
** IBBY 2022 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award Honor Book** An imaginative picture book that combines nature and play to talk about the passage of time.
- Author:Mull, BrandonSummary:
Trapped in a world where magic is powerful and dreams are real, Cole's epic adventure comes to a close in book five of the New York Times bestselling "fanciful, action-packed adventure" series (Publishers Weekly, starred...
- Author:Silvey, Diane, Mantha, JohnSummary:
Kaya and Tala, the adventurous twins, are back from their exploits in Spirit Quest on a new mission to discover why children are disappearing from one of their tribe’s villages. Earth dwarves are being blamed for the missing children,...
- Author:Hamilton, VirginiaSummary:
Eleven-year-old Valena lives both in the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to her mother's tales of her family's proud history.
- Author:Liparulo, RobertSummary:
To find their mother, who is lost in time, the Kings must turn the tables on Taksidian, the menacing stranger who wants them out of their mysterious new house so he can use it for his own twisted purposes.
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise "Total Failure,...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
Timmy is forced to hit the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and smells-like-a-tangerine criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
Banishment from his life's calling can't keep a comically overconfident detective down in the latest episode by New York Times bestseller Stephan Pastis. This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
In the sixth book in Stephan Pastis's hilarious series, Timmy is being threatened and must rely on his new partner to solve the mystery - and possibly save his life! Timmy is in Key West, Florida, ostensibly for the honeymoon of his...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs: for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.
- Author:Anderson-Dargatz, GailSummary:
Sadie works as a framer, building houses. She lost her own home in a recent divorce and now lives with her two daughters in a rented bungalow. When her landlady says she needs to move out, Sadie finds there's a housing crisis in...
- Author:García, EmmaSummary:
Describes how various earthmoving trucks clean up a dump and make a playground, discussing what such machines as diggers, mixers, bulldozers, and cranes can do.
- Author:Hutchins, HazelSummary:
TJ may not like cats, but that doesn't stop a taxi from showing up at his door bearing his grandmother's four felines. Killer, Cleo, Kink and Maximillian the Emperor -- Max for short -- invade TJ's life and replace dinosaurs as the...
- Author:Hutchins, HazelSummary:
In this sequel to TJ and the Cats, TJ and his best friend Seymour are back, joined by a classmate Amanda. TJ does not believe in ghosts, so when he agrees to create a haunted house in his own home as a fundraiser, he does not anticipate...