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Ariana’s life is already pretty difficult when she starts to hear the singing – her mother suddenly disappeared, she’s trying to get used to living with her aunt after bouncing around a series of f

Hong Mei and her single mother have had to move from town to town in modern China – as soon as townsfolk get suspicious that her mother’s magical healing powers are, in fact, truly magical, they mo

Gail has lived in council houses all her life - not as bad as a large orphanage but even so...However, she has a skill in gymnastics and through it she feels she can, and must, succeed.

It’s Halloween, and Josh and Maddy are all ready to go out trick-or-treating. But the arrival of their otter-people friends with an urgent message from Keeper the Giant changes everything.

Now a formidable Sorceress, Eliza Tok at sixteen is a world away from the unknowing child she once was.

Andrei and his family leave Ukraine for a homestead near Batoche, Saskatchewan, in the spring of 1900.

Autobiographical in nature, breathing at dusk follows the journey of one girl as she escapes her childhood home and all of the painful memories that home elicits – her memories largely centered aro

A young Welsh clerk arrives at the seaside town of Penmadoc to work in the local bank.

Willa is a thirteen-year-old orphan shipped to the new world in 1795.

Aba Zytka Jones (Abi) doesn t expect to get anything from anybody. Her dad's stuck in his chair and her mom s taken off, but she s going to work out what to do on her own.

Dorothy’s father has always dreamed of having his own farm.

A poignant story of an autumn love affair. Owen returns to Britain after 30 years in the East and meets again the woman he had once loved.

Jack Waters sees his small prairie town turned upside down in World War II when an air base to train English flyers is set up nearby.

Morningstar Mercredi was born and lived in the north – Fort Chipewayan and Fort McMurray in Alberta, Uranium City in Saskatchewan, and a number of small communities.

High above the crashing waves on the rugged west coast of Canada stands the lighthouse Nell calls home.