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Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, w

The story of Hilary Craven's involvement in a unique organisation which arranges the escape of scientific geniuses.

Winner of the Sheila A.

Rose and Michael are good students with bright futures. They are also in love.

The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins.

A Catholic priest turned detective is asked to hear a criminal's confession as he faces the death penalty.

It's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war.

Leon and his friend Susan live in New Auckland, a small isolated fishing village on the coast of British Columbia.

A Booklist Editors’ Choice and a Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book Street gangs have exploded worldwide.

When sixteen-year-old Gloria fails thirteen out of fifteen subjects on her final exams, her future looks bleak indeed.

In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacamo Nerone has inspired talk of saint-hood.

Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award Jeanne Chatel has always dreamed of adventure.

Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Picture Book Award, the TD Norma Fleck Award, the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book Award, and a USBBY Out

This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot’s heart-stirring song, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” to readers young and old.

A war party of Apaches was on the rampage between the burnt out relay station and the next stopover. Only on Blood Hill could the travellers find safe shelter.