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Ava travels to Beijing for the premiere of her secret lover Pang Fai's latest film, Mao's Daughter.

When eleven-year-old Becca returns to her grandmother's rustic cottage for another summer, she finds herself seeing her beloved island in new ways.

Thirteen-year-old Jewel has been holding her life together ever since her older sister, Charmaine, suddenly left home with no forwarding address.

When a circus train derails in Toronto in 1925, a lion escapes and finds shelter in High Park, a four-hundred-acre park in the west end of the city.

Charity takes small steps to escape her controlling father. Jasmine endures the rumors about her at school, even though no one really knows what happened last summer. The Oh!

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.

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.

Winner of the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award for Most Underrated Canadian Book! An admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a three-thousand word sentence in defence of his passion.

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.

These stories are diary shreds of young women who are in school but things happen anyway. Girls with their hears open like agar petri dishes.

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

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.