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When Ian's parents separate, he moves with his mother to the city, a thousand miles away from the prairie wheat farm he calls home.

Presenting a special 2-book bundle of Andrea Spalding’s award-winning books for kids!

CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2017) Selection • 1996 Sheila A.

In this story without words, "a king emerges from a hidden door in a city park, startling two children sheltering from the rain.

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached

Using a red marker, a young girl draws a door on her bedroom wall and through it enters another world where she experiences many adventures, including being captured by an evil emperor.

Finn's friend Sheila, a magical selkie and shape changer, dives into the sea to rescue him from a storm, but in doing so, she gives up her life as a girl and returns to being a seal.

In 1935, a boy witnesses a forbidden potlatch. This edition combines both written and spoken words.