At first Curtis isn't worried when his mother doesn't come home after her all-night shift at the gas bar. For a time Curtis manages on his own, looking after himself and his five-year-old brother...
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Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada’s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:This special bundle unites two books, one of short stories and one novel, by one of Canada’s premier short fiction writers. The Sky Is Falling deftly intertwines themes of first love, sexual...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:In Film Studies, 15-year-old Cass is so cool she’s cold. That’s what people think. But she struggles to decide what role to play in life — an act that swallows her whole. It’s her director father...
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Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:Nicola’s adorable little dog, June Bug, keeps getting into trouble. She steals the neighbor’s turkey, yanks down the Christmas tree and destroys Mum’s almost-finished giant crossword. Everyone is...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Adderson, Caroline, Flook, HelenSummary:Seven-year-old Bruno is back and tackling problems with his trademark originality. He defeats hiccups. He trades his mother for a new hat. He skillfully avoids math. And thanks to his special...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Author: Adderson, Caroline, Flook, HelenSummary:Bruno is a boy with particular tastes and ideas. He will not, for example, eat anything green. He spends one day as Sir Bruno and another as the Queen. He is an entrepreneur and he understands the...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:In this witty and colourfully peopled novel, Caroline Adderson effortlessly plunges the reader into a nineteenth-century Russian tragicomedy. Aspiring painter Masha C. is blindly devoted to...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:
Linked short stories follow the interconnected lives of children living in one apartment building as they shelter in place during the pandemic.
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Short stories -
Author: Adderson, Caroline, Engel, MarianSummary:
First published in 1970, The Honeyman Festival chronicles one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between affection for her family and the need for a life in...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fiction -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:
When the grownup virus hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Short stories -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:
Pierre and Paul are back for another imaginative bilingual adventure. Pierre speaks French and Paul speaks English, but that doesn't stop them from being friends and exploring together. Today is...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:
Pierre and Paul are neighbors, friends, and explorers. Pierre speaks French and Paul speaks English, but that doesn't stop them from sharing their adventures. The boys imagine everyday situations...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:
These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada’s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively...
Genre: Short stories, Canadian fiction -
Author: Adderson, CarolineSummary:Malcolm Firth is an aging hairdresser whose partner, Denis, in the late stages of Alzheimer's, has become inexplicably anti-Semitic. Alison, his young suburban protege, has never heard of the...