The boys at Linbury Court Preparatory School are eager to speed up the progress of space travel, and none more so than Jennings, whose first task is to find a suitable helmet. But is it really a good idea to take a dome-shaped glass-...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Buckeridge, AnthonySummary:
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Dorf a toujours été fidèle à sa devise : « Si ça en vaut la peine, fais-le. Si ça n'en vaut pas la peine, fais-le quand même. » Mais il a déménagé à la ville et le terrain est différent. Il ne peut plus faire rouler sa planche oû bon...
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, football player Luc is forced to take a dance class, where he discovers an unexpected new passion.
- Author:Beaty, AndreaSummary:
You loved the bestselling picture books starring Rosie Revere, Ada Twist, and Iggy Peck. Now you can follow The Questioneers' further adventures in all-new chapter books! Don't miss the first instant New York Times bestselling...
- Author:Andrea, BeatySummary:
2017 Parent's Choice Award Winner! Like her classmates, builder Iggy and inventor Rosie, scientist Ada, a character of color, has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Why are there pointy things stuck to a...
- Author:Gravel, EliseSummary:
Ada est une vraie grincheuse: elle boude, elle râle, elle déteste tout. Mais ce qu'elle déteste le plus, c'est le samedi, parce que c'est le jour de son cours de ballet. Ada déteste son tutu rose, le long trajet en auto pour s'y rendre...
- Author:McMillian, MelodySummary:
Addison Addley hates math. He hates public speaking too. Actually, he hates anything that involves work, but he only has a couple of weeks to write and memorize his grade five speech. The problem is, he can’t think of a single topic....
- Author:McMillian, MelodySummary:
Addison's mother wants to sell their comfortable old house and move into a townhouse in a new development across town - a shoe box near a shoe factory, Addison calls it. As usual, Addison's brain goes into overdrive as he tries to solve...
- Author:Porter, Connie RoseSummary:
Meet Addy Walker, a courageous nine-year-old girl growing up during the Civil War. When her poppa dna brother are sold to another plantation, Addy and her mother take the terrible risk of escaping to freedom in the North. To get away...
- Author:Waldman, DebbySummary:
Addy has worn hearing aids for as long as she can remember. Her mother tells her this makes her special, but now that Addy's in grade six, she'd wants to be special for what she's done. When Addy joins the school running club to keep...
- Author:Baker, E. D.Summary:
La princesse Annie a déjà trouvé le prince bien-aimé de sa soeur Rosalie qui a su la réveiller d’un sommeil qui devait durer cent ans. Et maintenant, qu’est-ce que Rosalie attend d’elle? Eh bien, Annie doit trouver le nain maléfique qui...
- Author:Guimond, Danielle, Plourde, Mélanie, Guimond-Plourde, RenéeSummary:
Jacoby, qui a aidé de nombreux enfants à gérer leur anxiété et les a encouragés à lire, est très malade. Devant sa douleur, Madame Ève se résout à l'emmener chez la vétérinaire pour le faire euthanasier. Alors qu'elle apprend à vivre...
- Author:Birney, Betty G.Summary:
Humphrey the classroom hamster has adventures going to the library, learning about the ocean, and sailing across a pond on a sailboat.
- Author:ENGEL, MarianSummary:
Two city children become caretakers of a crocodile and many other animals in an old mansion on an isolated island.
- Author:Helmer, Marilyn, Deas, MikeSummary:
Bad weather, bugs and boredom -- DJ and the boys in Camp Lots-o-Fun's cabin six are starting to call it Camp Not-so-Fun. To make matters worse, one of the boys has it in for DJ. But DJ isn't about to let that bother him. His lively...
- Author:Grant, ShauntaySummary:
When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she's heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the...
- Author:Grant, ShauntaySummary:
À quoi ressemblait la communauté ? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline ; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football ; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting ; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de...
- Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary:
Ten-year-old Rosario Ramirez and her family are political refugees from Mexico, trying to make a new life in Canada. After being teased at school, Rosario vows not to speak English again until she can speak with an accent that’s one...
- Author:Cumyn, AlanSummary:
Nominated for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the TD Children's Literature Award As the new school year unfolds, the magic of the Skye brothers' antic adventures is replaced by a different kind...
- Author:Matas, CarolSummary:
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.