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A year after a tragic accident, thirteen-year-old William McCoy runs away to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to be with his late father's family.

In a small working-class town, the building of a new dam uproots everyone and everything including the graveyard and those who rest beneath it.

"Set in nineteenth-century Tokyo and twentieth-century Boston, Pure Inventions tells of the incredible adventures of Hiroshiprankster, forger, authenticator, and artist.

Gloria Murray's daughter jokes that Gloria would have sold her first born to further her musical career - a reproach closer to the truth than anyone but Gloria suspects.

Liz Ryerson believes that Hillcrest Village, her Toronto neighbourhood, is quaint and quiet, but stumbling over a corpse while walking her dog dissolves that illusion for good.

Set in 1936 Montreal, this is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a fifteen-year-old piano prodigy who is forced to keep the shameful secret of his mother's mental illness as he attempts to raise himself

Eleven-year-old Katelyn has always had voices and visions. She's long suspected she is hearing from past lives.

Lillie Dempster of Saint John, New Brunswick, often imagines herself on the big screen. It is the one fantastic escape she can afford from her tragic daily life.

Cameron Dodds has just turned thirty. A writer, he get his ideas from the lives of others, often borrowing stories from the patients of his workplace, the Salvation Army Treatment Centre.

Naomi is in Dublin, Ireland, visiting her grandparents as her thirteenth birthday approaches.

Losing weight over the summer gains Serena some popularity, but it also means discovering first-hand the pains of being a 15-year-old girl in a world that both sexualizes and shames young women.

The year is 1738. Jacques Lafargue, a wide-eyed young Frenchman, arrives in New France aboard the Saint Michel.

It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination.

A robber holds up a Canadian bank but instead of stealing money he takes from each person the item of most sentimental value.

Urgle is not a good hunter; he's not good at much of anything, particularly being a big brother to Cubby.