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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

There You Are

By (author) Joanne Taylor
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

World War II is not long past and life is returning to normal in Cape Breton’s lovely Margaree Valley. But Jeannie Shaw is achingly lonely. Among the thirteen families in her community, there is no ...