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Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express Award Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits — and the co

When Ethan arrives at summer camp for the first time, he has just three modest goals. First, to survive. Second, not to be hated. Third, not to be the worst at anything.

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.

These thirty-five brief stories — and the found photographs that inspired them — are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling.

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book.

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.

When Jeremiah Birnbaum becomes obsessed with the banjo, his best friend, Luella, convinces him to learn how to play despite his parent forbidding him from it.

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

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.