Written from the points of view of four young people living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto—Zanele, a black female student organizer; Meena, of South Asian background working at her father’s ...

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 ...

In this adventurous novel - set in the ancient Arctic, but narrated for modern readers by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator - a young, wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens ...

On the CBC Bookie Awards list 2014, Best Canadian Young Adult category

In July 1940, a British government-sponsored program called Children's Overseas Reception Board -- or CORB -- was set up to send children ...

Thirteen-year-old Bing-wing Chan must conquer his fear of ghosts as his father?s gambling debts force him to dig for human bones in a graveyard and then to work as a houseboy in a haunted house. Set in ...

Governor General's Literary Award winner 2009 CLA Children's Book of the Year Award shortlist, 2009 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People 2009 finalist Manitoba Young Readers' ...

A coming-of age story about two girls, separated in time by thousands of years, who are forced to leave their homes and make a dangerous journey to an unknown land.

The lines of the celebrated poem are interwoven with fascinating information about the First World War, details of daily life in the trenches, accounts of McCrae’s experience in his field hospital, ...

This illustrated collection of Greek myths presents the history of the Minoan civilization. The novel connects famous myths; Zeus and Rhea, Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur, Icarus and Daedalus, Jason ...

On a school trip to the museum, Matthew has an eerie meeting with Peter Glimmer, a 17th-century Dutch boy imprisoned in his own portrait. Peter Glimmer entrusts Matthew with recovering from the past the ...