Caillou: The Silver Knight

Adapted by Robin Bright
Illustrated by Lauren Adams, Rebecca Galloway, Michelle McIver & Tony Mitchell
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

A Heartwarming Story on the Importance of Family Ties

Caillou is disappointed when his friend Sarah gets sick and can't come over to play. To cheer him up, Daddy tells him the story of a great knight who ...

Mira and Baku

By (author) Sara Truuvert
Illustrated by Michelle Theodore
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

A Quill & Quire Book of the Year

With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese Canadian incarceration in World War II.

It’s ...

My Name Is Seepeetza

By (author) Shirley Sterling
Afterword by Tomson Highway
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.

Seepeetza loves living on Joyaska Ranch with her family. ...

Stealing Home

By (author) J. Torres
Illustrated by David Namisato
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

When a boy struggles after moving to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, baseball shows him another way to approach life.

Sandy Saito is a happy boy who reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball ...

Some Creatures Have All the Luck!

Other primary creator I Musici de Montréal & Colm Feore
By (author) Ana Gerhard
Illustrated by Marie Lafrance
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Series: Little Stories of Great Composers

Travel through time following a charming little mouse called Minim, who happens to love cheese and music. With great courage, he braves a cold Venetian winter night to visit an orphanage. Luckily, it’s ...

My Indian

By (author) Mi'sel Joe & Sheila O'Neill
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Series: My Indian

***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST***

***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST***

***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION – SHORTLIST***

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Clear Skies

By (author) Jessica Scott Kerrin
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

It’s the summer of 1961, right in the midst of the US–Soviet space race, and eleven-year-old Arno is obsessed with everything to do with space. He has just one problem—Arno is claustrophobic. Instead ...

Town Is by the Sea

By (author) Joanne Schwartz
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home ...

When We Were Alone

By (author) David A. Robertson
Illustrated by Julie Flett
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does ...

Nuptse and Lhotse Go To the Rockies

By (author) Jocey Asnong
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Nuptse and Lhotse are back for another marvellous adventure! When Mrs. Jasper, a very large grizzly bear, loses her twin cubs Yoho and Kootenay, she needs Nuptse and Lhotse to help her find them. In a ...