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In this novel for middle-grade readers, painfully shy Beatrice Gelman ends up at summer camp all by herself.

In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, 14-year-old Blue Jasper goes on another Faerie Woods adventure, to the Wherewood, the forest of lost things.

This volume contains two novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing. Both stories follow the lives of young artists who have dreams for a better future.

THE MISSION: Sink an unsinkable warsub. Truman McClusky, Mayor of Trieste City on the shallow continental shelf just off the coast of Florida, has given his team an impossible task: infiltrate an enemy warsub, blend in with a hostile crew, damage the vessel from within, and hope to hell they can escape before it takes them all down. The stakes are massive, for if they don't succeed, its next target will put an end to the peaceful colonization of the ocean floor once and for all: Trieste City itself.

In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, a young girl who is fascinated by sharks gets a chance to see one in real life while taking sailing lessons.

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher. / Excerpt: "He sits. Strangely when he sits under the bridge his head is still near the roof. Wasn't his head touching the roof when he was standing? He sits. He still fills the space.

Bright colours, rich textures, and whimsical text bring these curious cats to life as they explore the great Canadian prairie landscape! Nuptse and Lhotse are floating home in their hot-air balloon after their latest adventure when they get caught in a terrible storm. As they tumble and twist past flying cows this storm is about to spin them right into another fabulous adventure, this time in the Prairies!

Bright illustrations and whimsical text bring the Canadian Prairies to life for early readers. Author and illustrator Jocey Asnong continues her journey across Canada in this early concept board book that showcases the diversity, habitats, native animals, and outdoor activities enjoyed across the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Children will learn the alphabet and letter recognition as Asnong's illustrations take us on a tractor ride through our fields, follow bison as they roam through birch trees, and look for antlers in alfalfa fields.

Marian lives in a world of spectres. She is devoted to her research on ghosts in Québécois literature to the exclusion of nearly everything else, including her husband. When an after-hours encounter at a conference sparks an uncomfortable attraction to her professor, Rémy, the ghosts of her research begin to haunt her - all too literally.As his flirtation with Marian becomes a full-blown affair, Rémy wonders if he's courting his own demise. Not only is he betraying his fiancée, he is also violating university policy, putting his career at risk.

Ginny Johnson, her husband Martin, and their two kids, Alistair and Ruby, spend a week at Happy Sands Resort every summer. And it's always perfect. Mostly perfect. It could be perfect. Probably. This year, Ginny's expectations are dashed again as Martin spends all his time sleeping, eight-year-old Ruby turns anything and everything into a competition, and teenage Alistair avoids the sun and his family.