A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
Juvenile fiction
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Author:Cannon, JanellSummary: - Author:Horvath, PollySummary:
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
- Author:Goldemberg, SilvanaSummary:
After losing her parents, 14-year-old Victoria and her young twin brothers move in with their aunt. But shortly afterward, her aunt’s boyfriend attempts to assault her, and she runs away and learns to survive on the dangerous streets of...
- Author:Henighan, TomSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Rigg, son of Leif Eriksson, loves mystery and adventure. In the early eleventh century, he finds both of these in abundance when his father sails away and leaves him behind in Vinland, the Vikings' precarious...
- Author:Henighan, TomSummary:
Short-listed for the 2007 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction When 17-year-old Rigg and his friend Ari hang a marauding wolf in the wilds of medieval Greenland, they get much more than they bargained for: a hint of werewolves, glimpses of...
- Author:Jocelyn, Marthe, Scrimger, RichardSummary:
When Wylder Wallace spills his lunch on Addy Crowe at ComicFest then discovers that her uncle is a steampunk comic artist, Wylder embarks on a series of adventures with Addy involving the loss of her pet rat and the unfolding of a comic...
- Author:Duprey Stehlik, Tania, Vuleta Jovanovic, VanjaSummary:
When Violet's father comes to pick her up at school, one of her classmates asks: How come your Dad is blue and you're not? Violet comes to appreciate the beauty of being different.
- Author:Baldacchino, ChristineSummary:
In this thoughtful story about understanding and acceptance, Violet’s natural introversion and feelings of social anxiety are normalized when she and her father reach a solution together.
- Author:Hartt-Snowbell, SarahSummary:
New Year’s 1955 is coming up fast, and eleven-year-old Vivian is determined to buy a snazzy new diary. The diary is soon put to good use, as Vivian must untangle the web of problems in her life, including a stolen keepsake of...
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
- Author:Russell, VirginiaSummary:
Winner of the Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice: Best Books for Kids & Teens Dave gets more excitement than he bargained for on his summer holidays to British Columbia's Gulf Islands while visiting his grandparents....
- Author:Walker, DanSummary:
Zoya DeLarose se réveille dans un bateau volant grinçant au beau milieu de la nuit. Elle n'a aucune idée des raisons pour lesquelles elle a été clandestinement enlevée ni de la façon dont sa vie est sur le point de changer à jamais…...
- Author:Spafford-Fitz, KarenSummary:
Highlighting girls' volleyball, a sport which has overtaken girls' basketball in popularity, Volleyball Vibe shows how engagement in sports can boost self-esteem, confidence, and foster responsibility and teamwork. The main character,...
- Author:Jacques, BrianSummary:
Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave...
- Author:Epstein, Adam JaySummary:
Chopping blades, scorpion nests, giant spider webs - no one makes traps better than Wily Snare. He has never seen the sun or a blue sky or even his parents. Wily Snare lives underground, creating traps to keep treasure-seekers away from...
- Author:Perro, BryanSummary:
1- VOYAGE AUX ENFERS Prisonnier des Enfers, le porteur de masques devra traverser l'Achéron, le fleuve du chagrin, le Styx, l'affluent de la haine, le Phlégéton, la rivière en flammes, le Cocyte, le torrent des lamentations, et le Léthé...
- Author:Duchesne, Christiane, Côté, Geneviève, Kunigis, PaulSummary:
Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and a recorded song performed by Karen Young and Glen Bowser. Learning the alphabet is bound to be fun as you go on a wild and amazing musical odyssey through the letters A to Z. Zany, hilarious...
- Author:Speidel, SageSummary:
A mother - the author of this story - shares Lakota cultural experiences with her daughter, introducing her to waci (dance) as a way to celebrate life. Wacipi (powwow), where the dancing occurs, is a setting for Indigenous song, dance,...
- Author:Munsch, RobertSummary:
It is Olivia's birthday, and when she blows out the candles on her cake and makes a wish, she gets exactly what she wanted—SNOW, SNOW, and MORE SNOW, even though it's summertime. All that snow leads to too much trouble, though, so...
- Author:Connor, LeslieSummary:
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of...
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