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Commended for the 2007 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choice Selection It is Christmas 1912, and Charlotte McEwan is 15 years old.

Robbie Carter is adjusting to his new life in late-1950s Toronto with his single mother, an engineeer with the airplane manufacturer A.V. Roe.

Set against a backdrop of grey spruce and muskeg, Cowboy tells the story of Gilles Desches, a twenty-something who moves from Montreal to Grande-Ourse, a northern Quebec town haunted by the grisly

Star Girl flies again in this sequel to the bestselling, award-winning Sophie Sea to Sea.

Susan Ouriou's first novel explores a season in the life of three women, two sisters - on an artist, the other a codemaker - and their mother.

Lucy Brenner has left her husband, her town, and her previous life behind.

A bartender who discovers magic on a winter night, a pair of losers taking a baking class, and a middle-aged woman who goes on a wild limo ride with the ghost of John Diefenbaker.

Jessica Marsh, who is fifteen and "hasn’t lost her baby-fat yet," lives with her mother on the top floor of a hundred-year-old triplex in Parkdale, a multicultural area in Toronto.

Thomas Wainewright - Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon - is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers.

In a small Ontario town, seven women gather occasionally to watch movies on video. Gilaine E.

First published in 1932, in Finch’s Fortune, Finch Whiteoak celebrates his twenty-first birthday and comes into his inheritance from Grandmother Adeline.

In the tradition of such great Latin American magic realists as Jorge Amada, Sergio Kokis recreates the magic world of a child in Brazil.The novel is told from the point of view of a Brazilian pain

Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of Ontario’s James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father.

Growing up, Rosie had never known any of her father's family.

Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adul