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Fourteen year-old Summer Widden has just received the best Christmas present of her life - Coach Nola named her captain of the basketball team. Several girls on her team are furiously jealous.

Spring 2010. Harriet works in local radio in London, England. Her husband, Michael, stuck in New York, travels to Toronto to stay with an old flame.

"Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant - wise in the culture of comic books - is both hilarious

Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC.

"Thirteen year-old Ailish, a feisty Irish fortune-teller, is about to become part of history.

When twelve-year-old Ana's zoologist parents move the whole family into the zoo, the Sneers--the clan of carnivorous female predators in her class--have even more ammunition to make her life m

Robin is distraught over losing her mother and angry at her father for moving the family to a town in cottage country where her eccentric grandmother lives.

In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.

When the wind brings her a babushka just like the one Baba used to wear, the young girl goes on a magical adventure to a springtime in the past and discovers the Easter traditions of her Ukrainian

The wind brings Natalia a babushka just like the one Baba used to wear, taking the young girl on a magical journey to an autumn long ago to discover the wedding traditions of her Ukrainian heritage

Sam Brown is a shy, nineteen-year-old farm kid fresh out of cooking school. Determined to make a life for himself in the city, he lands a job in a busy downtown Saskatoon diner.

A poignant conversation between parent and child across the years.