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After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home.

A little before seven in the morning, Stacey wakes to the police pounding on her door.

Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience.

In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resi

Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted listeners with its poetry.

Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the 20th century, No Pain Like This Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season.

In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J.

While sorting through the possessions of his recently deceased neighbour, Harold Johnson discovers an old, handwritten manuscript containing epic stories composed in an obscure Swedish dialect.

Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children's clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends the family garden.

The seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own.

<p>Coyote Columbus story: Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus's voyages.

When Charlie's artist mother is invited to visit a school in Cuba, the whole family goes along on the trip.

When the grownup virus hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings.

For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder.

Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics of volcanoes.