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 ...

My Indian

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

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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: Historical 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 ...

The Glory Wind

By (author) Valerie Sherrard
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Winner of the 2011 Ann Conner Brimer Award for Children's Literature Winner of the 2011 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People 2012 Silver Birch Fiction Award nominee Shortlisted ...

Panther

By (author) Roderick Haig-Brown
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories

“Nothing in nature, so long as it is honestly observed and honestly described, can harm the mind of a child. Almost all the ills of the human race may be traced to the fact that it has strayed too far ...

Red Goodwin

By (author) John Wilson
Categories: Children's Fiction

John Wilson has created a compelling story based on the folk hero, Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, also known as "Red" Goodwin from the colour of his hair and his radical social ideas. Goodwin was originally ...

Roundup at the Palace

By (author) Kathleen Cook Waldron
Illustrated by Alan Daniel & Lea Daniel
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Zack is looking forward to taking Buster the bull to the National Western Stock Show in Denver. As Zack and his dad sing their way down the road, Buster the bull doesn’t find his first trip away from ...