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Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world.

In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.'s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple-murdered in flagrante and left in a grues

In Sarah Sheard's celebrated novel Almost Japanese, a young girl's obsession with a famous Japanese musician blossoms into personal transformation.

All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist.

Winner of the 2009 ReLit Award! He saw it. Like one dead eye filmed over. Like a tunnel that would kill you. Like a star coming to explode you. He saw it. Closer and closer. It was morning.

KWONG WAS A GOD. Everything was about to change.

Pan Harris is is brash, loud and damaged. Ordered into foster care, Pan is full of anger at the mother who abandoned her, and the older sister who kept her from her father.

Nominated for an Alberta Book Award. Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop. Not that skinny. Skin and bloody bone, boy. Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident.

Eli has lived in Crooked River his whole life, and he knows better than anyone about that sinking number.

Diana, Princess of Wales, had it easy compared to another lonely princess, Crown Princess Masako of Japan.

Bartleby the Scrivener meets Catch-22 in this charmingly sardonic tale of love, war and fertilizer. WINNER OF THE PRIX DES COLLÉGIENS Simón turned his thoughts to her daily.

All sorts of things can happen, no matter what road you take, and I never forget that. Death in particular can never be forgotten.

The 2012 One Book Toronto title. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. A girl faints in the Toronto subway.

Ms. Beatrice Hempel has just taken her first job as an English teacher.

On an isolated island in Lake Ontario live twins Lucy and Levi and their father, Daniel.