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"Granny dumping" has become a popular Christmas phenomenon and Kathleen is not ready for Passing Downs Old People's Home.

Fifteen-year-old Alina comes from a long line of women who have gone to serve on the Isle of the Weavers, and she has always dreamed of doing the same.

Finn is furious when his parents head off on another scientific mission to the other side of the world, and he has to stay with his grandmother on her farm in southern Manitoba.

Visiting her grandmother's farm, Emily encounters a strangely-dressed girl her age, and discovers that she's a relative -- from another time! Who is this oddly dressed girl?

A man wakes up terrified. He does not know what has happened to scare him, but he feels as if he has been through a dreadful experience.

When Canadian teen Delora James finds herself banished to Germany for the summer, reading the professor's old journals seems like a good time- waster.

The central character, Taras Kalyna, has run away from the Austrian army on the brink of World War I, to follow his love, Halya, to Canada.

Set in the depressed areas of Tyneside during and after World War One, this novel highlights the difficulties experienced by participants of mixed marriages.

This first short fiction collection by a prominent Canadian journalist paints vivid word pictures of the world and on these canvasses superimposes people in all their human imperfections. Russell W

The Fourth Down needs a drummer, and Sid's the best in the school. But right from the start, the all-male band makes her struggle. One member outright votes against a girl in the group.

Claire Sullivan quickly settles in to her new home at Clearwater Lake in northern Manitoba, especially once she befriends Jeff Carson, a quiet mixed-race loner who lives with his parents in the oth

Having saved the first Shard of the sword Excalibur from internet mogul Rex Major (aka Merlin), Ariane and Wally are on the lookout for the second.

In Simmie's trademark style, this sweeping new novel is the funny, sad and engaging story of a shattered family's attempt to figure out where exactly each member fits.

Following the adventures of Dinosaur Hideout and Dinosaur Breakout, twelve-year-old Daniel Bringham once again travels back to the time of dinosaurs to learn more about the prehistoric creatures he

Del Curb, interstellar courier and self-styled hero, has in his possession a sleeping 21st century astronaut whom he intends to use to gain undreamed of wealth.