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A girl and her dragon friend are playing knights, and a bully comes to ask the dragon to go away. They go to the king to petition for help. After a roundtable discussion, the bully accepts that everyone has a right to pl...
A group of Ukrainian Canadian women forges bounds during a summer at Kalyna Beach as they share gossip, dreams and the "racy" books that they trade back and forth.
In May 1759, Abenaki Indian Geneviève Aubuchon must choose between remaining with her friends in Québec or retreating to the Abenaki mission at St. Francis so that she may be safe. Includes historical note.
When the renowned choir director is murdered, the lock on the monastery's massive wooden door is drawn back to admit Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Surete du Quebec. There they discover disqu...
Bearcub follows his mama wherever she goes. By Mama's side, he discovers how to catch a fish and dig for grubs. With Mama's help, he learns to climb a tree and find honey. But one day, while Bearcub is exploring the high...
Emily's grandmother is moving into the Forest View Retirement Home. Leaving her house and neighbours on Maple Street isn't easy after so many years.
The early sixties, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of eight-year-old Madeleine McCarthy who lives ...
On the cliff edge overlooking the North Sea, a woman in a wheelchair stares unseeingly at the waves. She had been murdered. And, miles away, in a storeroom in the Maze, at the heart of Eastvale, Yorkshire, a young woman ...
Jillian always finds a new game to play despite numerous promises to clean up her room.
No one admits to seeing George's large houseguest, Shiraz the elephant.
"When little Kristi goes fishing with her Dad, she gets swept over the side of the boat-- and the stage is set for another hilarious Bob Munsch adventure!"--Back cover.
Lucy learns the secret of how flowers grow as she waits impatiently for the seeds she has palnted in little pots to become flowers.
A selection of seventeen previously published stories, arranged in the order in which Alice Munro wrote them, which allows the reader to enjoy the development of her writing. Introduced by Margaret Atwood.
While recovering from a car accident in a hospital burn unit, a once physically beautiful man meets Marianne Engel, a compelling yet unhinged sculptor of gargoyles, who insists the two were once lovers in medieval German...