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Mazo de la Roche, author of the acclaimed Jalna series, is revealed in the writings of two luminaries on the subject: author Heather Kirk, and Mazo herself.

In 1927, Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly for her novel Jalna.

Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, ess

Short-listed for the 2010 Saskatchewan Young Reader’s Choice Award - Snow Willow and for the 2010 Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award It is the year 2213.

Avi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem.

Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens, long-listed for the 2009 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Twelve-year-old Lewis Castorman is a master locksmith: there is no lock on

What do you do when you’re being watched at every turn by creatures plotting to take over the world? Simon Carpenter is a normal 16-year-old living in Vancouver. Or is he normal?

Felix Taylor once stopped a devastating plague, but now he must save his world from humankind itself.

In this dark and moving young adult novel, sixteen-year-old Naomi’s best friend has moved away, and Naomi herself is starting at a new high school.

Eva is a seventeen-year-old from Edmonton in 1979 who is experiencing a world of trouble at home.

For the first time, the Felix Taylor Adventures are available as together in this two-book bundle.

Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history.

Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history.

Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history.

Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent people in Canada’s history.