While camping in Ontario’s Algonquin Park with their fathers, best friends Dani and Caitlin spend the night by themselves at an isolated site on Canoe Lake, rumoured to be the favourite spot of the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson....
Juvenile fiction
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Author:McCloskey, LarrySummary: - Author:Pearce, PhilippaSummary:
When his brother catches measles, Tom is sent away for the summer to stay with his uncle and aunt - and is thoroughly fed up about it. What a boring summer it's going to be. But then, lying in bed one night, he hears the old...
- Author:Warner, ChristopherSummary:
Eight-year-old Tommy is losing his eyesight and wants to get a guide dog, but his parents say he is too young. He then imagines what it would be like to have a variety of other animals as a guide. Includes information about CNIB Guide...
- Author:Hische, JessicaSummary:
In a follow-up to Tomorrow I'll Be Brave, award-winning illustrator Jessica Hische brings to life another series of inspirational words and scenes with her lovely hand-lettering and adorable illustrations. This uplifting and...
- Author:Grist, HilarySummary:
Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and two recorded songs by Hilary Grist about two siblings, Ira and Isabelle, who live in a little red house by the sea, and decide one night to escape the sound of the city's beeping cars. They...
- Author:Grist, HilarySummary:
Ira and Isabelle, who live in a little red house by the sea, decide one night to escape the sound of the city's beeping cars and sail off to a faraway land where they learn from a newly-made friend, a robin with a soft voice, that...
- Author:Lukoff, KyleSummary:
A haunting ghost story about navigating grief, growing up, and growing into a new gender identityIt's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next...
- Author:Hudson, KatySummary:
Rabbit loves carrots a little too much. In fact, his carrots are crowding him out of his cozy burrow. When his friends offer to help, they're just asking for trouble-a lot of trouble! This charming children's story shows how friendships...
- Author:Soto, GarySummary:
Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
- Author:Goodluck, LaurelSummary:
A little boy wants a chance to shine on his own but discovers that being apart from his large and lively Native family isn't necessarily better in this heartwarming and humorous picture book. When Russell gets a part in the school play...
- Author:Hahn, Mary DowningSummary:
After Daniel's young sister disappears in the woods, he starts to believe the myth about a witch and her terrifying hog who take little girls and keep them for fifty years.
- Author:Joyce, WilliamSummary:
Beware a tooth fairy queen scorned in this volume of Academy-Award winner William Joyce's The Guardians series. There's a lot more to this tooth-swiping sprite than meets the eye! Now that the back story of Nicholas St. North has been...
- Author:Barnett, MacSummary:
What's Mac B.'s newest top-secret mission? Travel to Iceland and retrieve the ravens that were stolen from the Tower of London...before Britain is ruined. In Iceland, he discovers secret submarines, hungry polar bears, mysterious...
- Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested...
- Author:Bowman, PatrickSummary:
Alexi is a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the war and enslaved by Odysseus himself, Alexi has a very different view of the conquering heroes of legend. Despite a simmering anger towards his captors, Alexi gradually develops a...
- Author:Bowman, PatrickSummary:
Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the...
- Author:Patrick, CatSummary:
In this heartfelt and powerfully affecting coming of age story, a neurodiverse 7th grader is determined to find her missing best friend before it's too late.Things never seem to go as easily for thirteen-year-old Frankie as they do...
- Author:Ryan, TomSummary:
Neil plays guitar with his family's band, the Family McClintock, even though he can't stand the Celtic music they play, he doesn't dance, he hates the outfits, and every single performance reminds him that he isn't as talented as the...
- Author:Lord, CynthiaSummary:
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the...
- Author:Gorham, VivienSummary:
When thirteen-year-old Jamie Francis's parents divorced, she and her mother moved from Halifax to the small town of River Bend, Nova Scotia. Jamie doesn't have any friends and isn't sure how she'll ever make any, when she comes across a...
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