Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

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The Better Tree Fort

A father’s love is worth more than the best tree fort money can buy.

Smile

Cassandra Wilson’s life is not easy. She has spent most of her teenage years taking care of her much younger brother, working to support her widowed mother, and coping with high school and its pressures. ...

nipêhon / I Wait

A quiet, gentle story about a family working together written in Cree and English.

A young child, her grandmother and mother are going out to pick wild yarrow. As Grandmother gets ready, the child and ...

Town Is by the Sea

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 ...

A Trio of Tolerable Tales

Three hilarious Margaret Atwood tales, together in a chapter book for the first time!

In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Ramsay runs away from his revolting relatives and makes a new friend with ...

Stepping Stones / حَصى الطُرُقات

Stepping Stones tells the story of Rama and her family, forced to flee their once-peaceful village to escape the ravages of the civil war raging ever closer to their home. With only what they can carry ...

Spirit Level

Harriet (known as Harry) is a donor-conceived child who has never wanted to reach out to her half-siblings or donor—until now. Feeling adrift after a breakup with her long-time boyfriend, Harry tracks ...

The Summer We Saved the Bees

For Wolf, saving the planet means first saving his family from self-inflicted disaster.

Wolf’s mother is obsessed with saving the world’s honeybees, so it’s not too surprising when she announces ...

Sidewalk Flowers

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year

In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers ...

The Just Right Gift

Migisi loves his Gookom. Can he find the perfect gift to show her how much? The Just Right Gift is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe—love, wisdom, ...