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The setting is South Africa, during the Boer war.

This work was authored in the colonial period and contains terms, descriptions and accounts of aboriginal peoples which may be offensive to modern readers.

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits; Come buy; come by…' -Excerpt from Goblin Market.

Growing up in the ?50s with a single mother and no father, Hope is a loner with a wonderful imagination.

This can’t be good! Suddenly Suze’s mom wants back into her life, and her teacher wants her to “try harder”?!

In the summer of 1900 a meteorite lands on the day of Peg Staynor’s baptismal, barely missing the small church in rural Ontario.

Sixteen-year-old Peggy has gone north to plant trees for the summer. On a visit to a petroglyph site, she is abruptly transported to Notherland, an imaginary world she created when she was seven.

It is 1937 Poland, and Miriam is devastated when her grandparents tell her that they can no longer survive as a family, and that the only solution is for David to go to an orphanage.

Gladys Sage escaped the backwoods of Northern Ontario, leaving behind the body of her stepfather, to arrive in New York and the world of political revolutionaries.

Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish “coming of age” ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project.

Danny McMillan never knew that his father was abusing his mother, until a night of violence that shattered his family forever.

David’s younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways she’s still a baby. She embarrasses him in public.