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Maximillian's Mistake

By (author) Jonathan Christenson
Illustrated by Bretta Gerecke
Categories: Children's Fiction
Series: Odd Little Books

A darkly humorous family tale of six sisters and a brother that is sure to bring tears to the reader’s eyes.

Maximilian leads a perfectly ordinary life until one day his father contracts a mysterious ...

Kiss Me! I'm a Prince

2012 Blue Spruce Award nominee, 2011 Amelia Bloomer List nominee "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a prince!" says the frog. But Ella thinks that a talking frog is much more interesting than living like ...

The Glory Wind

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 ...

Caillou: Training Wheels

Caillou would like to remove the training wheels on his bike, but he soon learns that there is a proper time for everything.

G Force

Rising star Eddie Stewart is on the starting grid of one of the greatest races in the world, the Indianapolis 500. With an innovative new car, an international sponsor, and the support of a talented team, ...

For Now

Jes desperately needs something solid to hold onto. In Losing Forever, she learned to accept the inevitability of change. But the change is moving at a heartbreaking pace and her world shifts by the day. ...

The Moon Children

Staring across the street the day after his alcoholic father disappears, eleven-year-old Billy Ray is startled to see one of his schoolmates, an adopted Romanian girl, gazing at the sky and then writing ...

The End of the World As We Know It

“I hate the world and everything in it. And that includes me. ”

Asked to write something for English class that expresses who he really is, 16-year-old Carson takes pleasure in blistering the page ...

Jakeman

Jake and his sister Shoshona have been under foster care since their single mother was arrested for possession and trafficking three years before. Both have found their own ways to cope: Shoshona has ...

Payback

Thirteen-year-old Charley Callaghan is coping with some difficult changes. His family has recently moved to Vancouver from Ireland, and his mother has died of cancer. Now he is desperately trying to fit ...