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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In Gold Rush Orphan Sandy Frances Duncan has woven a fascinating tale of hardship and adventure based on her grandfather’s gold rush journal entries of his 1898 trip to the Klondike. The arduous trek ...

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 ...

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 ...