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Series: Beyond the Future Paperback Johanne Masse 9780887532108 $5.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 1990
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Series: Gold Rush Orphan Paperback Sandy Frances Duncan 9781553800125 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 08, 2004

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 to the goldfields comes alive in the fictionalized story of Jeremy Britain, a young teen who joins James Fraser and his companions to search for the gold that would make their fortunes. Duncan begins the story in the gold rush port of Skagway where Jeremy has a run-in with the infamous Soapy Smith and his gang. The cruelties and lawlessness of life... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Disaster Tragic Links Paperback Cathy Beveridge 9781553800668 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 15, 2009

Tragic Links is award-winning author Cathy Beveridge's fourth young adult novel focusing on Canadian historic disasters. This time Jolene and her family find themselves in Quebec where her father is conducting research for his Museum of Disasters. From the first, Jolene finds herself caught up in an old family feud and a new romantic friendship with Stephan, a Mohawk descendant who is also her grandmother's neighbour. When Jolene finds a time crease, she discovers Montreal in the 1920s and her own personal look-alike. Despite Stephan's warning... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Disaster Shadows of Disaster Paperback Cathy Beveridge 9781553800026 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 16, 2003

-"Sometimes it's good to take a risk." Twelve-year-old Jolene knows that her grandfather's words are true, but she's not a risk-taker like her twin brother. Frustrated, Jolene convinces herself that it would be easier to take risks if she were a boy. Her grandfather disagrees, but then her father thinks her grandfather might be as crazy as his old stories. For her part, Jolene thinks her father, who's trying to preserve history in a Museum of Disasters, is the crazy one. Jolene learns the truth when they take a trip to the Crowsnest Pass to re... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Disaster Stormstruck Paperback Cathy Beveridge 9781553800415 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2006

This historical time-travel novel, for children ten and up, is the third volume in Cathy Beveridge's ongoing series on Canadian disasters. Once again we meet Jolene and her twin brother Michael, this time in an RV on the shores of the Great Lakes, where her father and grandfather are conducting research into the Great Storm of 1913. Away from home, twelve-year-old Jolene feels fragile and lost, lacking a sure sense of direction in her life. When Grandpa discovers a time crease that enables them to step back into 1913, Jolene embraces the oppor... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Disaster Chaos in Halifax Paperback Cathy Beveridge 9781553800194 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Aug 21, 2004

"I wish I wasn't a twin." Twelve-year-old Jolene is determined to find independence from her brother, Michael, during a family trip to research the Halifax explosion of 1917 for her father's Museum of Disasters. When her grandfather finds a time crease into the past, Jolene discovers a new friend and the importance of family and loyalty in a world torn apart by World War I. When Michael joins them, however, the past suddenly becomes much more complicated.
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Series: Winds of L' Acadie Paperback Lois Donovan 9781553800477 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION May 01, 2007

When sixteen-year-old Sarah from Toronto learns that she is to spend the summer with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, she is convinced that it will be the most tedious summer ever. She gets off to a rough start when she meets Luke, the nephew of her grandmother's friend, and one unfortunate event leads to another. Just when she thinks her summer cannot get much worse, she finds herself transported to Acadia in 1755. Here she meets Anne and learns much about the Acadian culture and history and the Acadians' relations with the Mi'kmac people. Sh... + Read More
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Series: Terra Incognita Paperback Anne Metikosh 9780921870760 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 16, 2000

This young adult historical novel, set in the early seventeenth century, tells the story of Madeleine Hebert and her brother Philippe who travel to New France to join their father after their mother dies in France. On arriving in Quebec city, they learn that their father, with the Regiment de Carignan, is at Michilimackinac, and possibly ill. When Philippe decides to go in search of their father by persuading Gabriel, a coureur de bois, to take him to Michilimackinac, Madeleine refusesto stay behind. With the help of her brother, she cuts off ... + Read More
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Series: The Loyalists Trilogy Way Lies North, The Paperback Jean Rae Baxter 9781553800484 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 21, 2007

This young adult historical novel focuses on Charlotte and her family, Loyalists who are forced to flee their home in the Mohawk Valley as a result of the violence of the "Sons of Liberty" during the American Revolution. At the beginning, fifteen-year-old Charlotte Hooper is separated from her sweetheart, Nick, who sympathizes with the Revolutionaries. The war has already taken the lives of her three brothers, and it is with a sense of desperation that Charlotte and her parents begin the long trek north to the safety of Fort Haldimand (near pre... + Read More
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Series: The Loyalists Trilogy Broken Trail Paperback Jean Rae Baxter 9781553801092 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 01, 2011

Broken Trail is the story a thirteen-year-old white boy, the son of United Empire Loyalists, who has been captured and adopted by the Oneida people. Striving to find his vision oki that will guide him in his quest to become a warrior, Broken Trail disavows his white heritage - he considers himself Oneida. But everything changes when Broken Trail, alone in the woods on his vision quest, is mistakenly shot by a redcoat soldier.
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Series: Old Brown Suitcase, The Paperback Lillian Boraks-Nemetz 9781553800576 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 15, 2008

The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived the Holocaust against all odds. At age fourteen, Slava comes to Canada with her parents and sister and a suitcase filled with memories of a lost childhood, memories that now haunt her new life. She cannot forget the hunger, stench and disease in the Warsaw Ghetto, nor the fear and humiliation of being incarcerated... + Read More
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Series: Hurricanes over London Paperback Charles Reid 9780921870821 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 16, 2001

Browsing in his grandfather's study, young Jamie discovers a notebook entitled "This Was My War" and finds himself pulled into the life of East End London teenagers whose adolescent years were overtaken by the devastation of World War II. As Jamie follows his grandfather's story in which "war" changes from silver screen exploits to bombs exploding on neighbourhood streets and the deaths of friends, John Wayne is superseded by real life heroes such as Canadian ace pilot Willie McKnight, who won two DFCs (Distinguished Flying Crosses) in his sort... + Read More
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Series: Survivor's Leave Paperback Robert Sutherland 9781553800972 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 01, 2010

It's 1944, and two young Canadian able seamen, Glen Cassley and Arthur "Ding Dong" Bell, find their ship sinking beneath them after a German submarine unleashes an acoustic torpedo. Miraculously, everyone on board survives, and Glen shouts out triumphantly: "You know what this means, Ding? Survivor's Leave. We qualify for Survivor's Leave!" With fun and adventure on their minds, Glen and Ding set off for London. But there is no rest from battle, for the Germans have begun dropping a new kind of bomb, the horrific V-1s, or doodlebugs. When a n... + Read More
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Series: Ghost of Heroes Past Paperback Charles Reid 9781553801023 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Aug 15, 2010

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Anders is something of a misfit, with no friends and a poor school record, but all this begins to change when he is awakened one night to find a soldier-ghost in his bedroom. Johnny is taken back in time to meet a series of unusual heroes in Canada's war history. These include Joan Bamford Fletcher, who commandeered Japanese soldiers to take hundreds of wounded civilians to safety through the jungles of Indonesia, and the much-decorated Raymond Collishaw, through whom Johnny learns that Canada played a role in the Russi... + Read More
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Series: Girl in the Back Seat, The Paperback Norma Charles 9781553800569 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 15, 2008

In this fast-paced, on-the-road young adult novel, Norma Charles once again manages to include provocative social issues in an adventure story that will appeal to children from age twelve and up. Charles takes on the issue of young girls being forced to marry older men in polygamist religious communities. She also explores the issues surrounding mixed-race families. Fifteen-year-old Jacob Armstrong is disgruntled that his mother has decided that the whole family must accompany his sister, Minerva, to her new university on a road trip all the wa... + Read More
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Series: Pete's Gold Paperback Luanne Armstrong 9781553800590 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2008

Pete's Gold, a novel for readers ten and up, is a captivating book of adventure that will appeal in particular to boys. Luanne Armstrong takes the classic adventure story of the search for gold and updates it with the inclusion of a young boy's contemporary problems. Pete has been sent to stay with his grandmother in the country for the summer because his parents are splitting up. At first, he thinks country life will be boring, but that is before he hears of a hidden stash of gold - gold that may allow his grandmother to keep the farm that is ... + Read More
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Series: Chasing a Star Paperback Norma Charles 9781553800774 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2009

When Sophie LaGrange hears that her idol, Olympic gold medal winner Barbara Ann Scott, is coming to town to star in the Hollywood Ice Review in the fall of 1951, she can't wait to meet the famous figure skater. But Sophie's mother says they can't afford the tickets for the show, so Sophie plots to meet Barbara Ann some other way.
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Series: Dark Times Paperback Ann Walsh 9781553800286 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 28, 2005

The result of a cross-Canada contest for the best short stories about young people's experience of loss and grief, Dark Times is a superb anthology about a topic that often remains hidden but is crucial in the development of a child's sense of identity.
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Series: Driftwood and the Necessary Forest Paperback James Davidge 9781897411124 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Oct 15, 2009
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Series: Driftwood saves the Whales Paperback James Davidge 9781897411018 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Nov 15, 2008
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Series: Driftwood's Crusade Paperback James Davidge 9781896209920 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 02, 2007
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Series: Driftwood Ellesmere Hardcover James Davidge 9781896209814 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Nov 30, 2006
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Series: Driftwood's War Paperback James Davidge 9781897411179 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Mar 30, 2010
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Series: Preposterous Fables Maestro, The Hardcover Judd Palmer 9781896209784 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Aug 03, 2003
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Series: Preposterous Fables Wolf King, The Hardcover Judd Palmer 9781896209821 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jul 30, 2004
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Series: Preposterous Fables Sorcerer's Last Words, The Hardcover Judd Palmer 9781896209845 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jul 30, 2004
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Series: Preposterous Fables Giant Killer, The Hardcover Judd Palmer 9781896209470 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Nov 30, 2004
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Series: Preposterous Fables Tooth Fairy, The Hardcover Judd Palmer 9781896209760 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Nov 12, 2003
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Series: Duchess Ranch of Old John Ware, The Paperback James Davidge 9781897411186 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 75 Mar 30, 2010
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Series: Odyssey of a Slave Torn from Troy Paperback Patrick Bowman 9781553801108 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 01, 2011

Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi, a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the war and enslaved by Odysseus himself, Alexi has a very different view of the conquering heroes of legend. Despite a simmering anger towards his captors, Alexi gradually develops a grudging respect for them. As the Greeks fight off the angry Cicones, ... + Read More
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Series: Submarine Outlaw Submarine Outlaw Paperback Philip Roy 9781553800583 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2008

Submarine Outlaw takes young adult readers on a unique journey when Alfred, a young boy who wants to be an explorer - not a fisherman, as his family demands - teams up with a junkyard genius to build a submarine that he sails around the Maritimes. The book takes the reader through the hands-on process of submarine construction into the world of real ocean navigation, replete with a high-seas chase, daring rescue and treasure hunting. Children will identify with Alfred's desire for an adventurous life and the sense of empowerment that comes wit... + Read More
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Series: Submarine Outlaw Journey to Atlantis Paperback Philip Roy 9781553800767 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2009

In this sequel to the prize-winning young adult novel Submarine Outlaw, the sea of myth and legends beckons young Alfred once again, and the intrepid young explorer answers the call. With his loyal crew of a dog and a seagull by his side, Alfred sails across the Atlantic in his homemade submarine and enters the Mediterranean in search of the fabled lost island of Atlantis. Ziegfried, genius and master builder of the sub, cautions Alfred to be careful and practical. Yet Sheba, friend and island enchantress, whispers to Alfred: "Trust your feelin... + Read More
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Series: Submarine Outlaw River Odyssey Paperback Philip Roy 9781553801054 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2010

In the third volume of the Submarine Outlaw Series, Alfred sets off in his submarine up the dark and wilful St. Lawrence River. With Hollie and Seaweed, his dog and seagull crew, Alfred follows the route of Jacques Cartier, nearly five hundred years before them, as they sail down the Strait of Belle Isle into the largest river mouth in the world. But the St. Lawrence is a treacherous river, concealing many dangers beneath its surface, not least of all the cursed and ghostly Empress of Ireland, a sunken ocean-liner that has claimed the lives of ... + Read More
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Series: Submarine Outlaw Ghosts of the Pacific Paperback Philip Roy 9781553801306 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2011

Ghosts of the Pacific, the fourth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, begins with Alfred and his crew of Seaweed the seagull and Hollie the dog undertaking a harrowing journey through the icy gauntlet of the Northwest Passage on the way to the South Pacific. Alfred wants to see those dark places of the earth where horrendous events have taken place. He sets his sights on exotic Micronesia - a beautiful place, but home to the nuclear testing of Bikini Lagoon; the Suicide Cliffs of Saipan; the airfields of Tinian, where the Enola ... + Read More
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Series: Follow the Elephant Paperback Beryl Young 9781553800989 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 01, 2010

What thirteen-year-old boy wants to travel on a hopeless quest to India with his grandmother? Not Ben Leeson, whose anger about his father's recent death has led him to escape into the isolated world of computer games. India is the last place Ben ever thought of visiting and his grandmother is the last person he'd ever dreamed of travelling with, but the ticket is already bought and Ben finds himself in India on a search for Gran's long lost pen pal, Shanti. In the midst of insufferable heat, strange food and the constant haggling of street beg... + Read More
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Series: Red Goodwin Paperback John Wilson 9781553800347 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 01, 2006

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 a miner from the north of England, who came to Canada and took up the cause of the working man during the Trail smelter strike and at the coal mines on Vancouver Island. His ideas were eventually considered so dangerous that a special constable was hired to hunt him down in the forest near Cumberland. Wilson tells the story of a young boy, Will R... + Read More
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Series: Scorpion's Treasure Paperback Daniel Sernine 9780887532115 $5.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jan 01, 1990
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Series: Seeking Shelter Paperback Catherine Goodwin 9781553800330 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 20, 2006

Seeking Shelter, a novel for readers nine and up, is a sensitive and moving story of a young girl's struggle to recover from the death of her mother. When her dad lands an assignment in the States, thirteen-year-old Marcie Chisholm is sent to the Crieffs, friends and former neighbours in Montreal, for the summer. Armed with a backpack, the violin her father insists she take, and a heart full of longing and memories, Marcie sets out for the city where she was born. It's been four years since her mother died in Montreal, and this is Marcie's fir... + Read More
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Series: Hannah Hannah and the Spindle Whorl Paperback Carol Anne Shaw 9781553801030 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Aug 15, 2010

When twelve-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancient Salish spindle whorl hidden in a cave near her home in Cowichan Bay, she is transported back to a village called Tl'ulpalus, in a time before Europeans had settled in the area. Through the agency of a trickster raven, Hannah befriends Yisella, a young Salish girl, and is welcomed into village life. Here she discovers that the spindle whorl is the prize possession of Yisella's mother, Skeepla, a famous spinner and weaver. When Steeple falls victim to smallpox, Hannah finally begins to open up about... + Read More
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Series: The Red Apples Paperback Marion Mineau 9780887531408 $3.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 01, 1986
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Series: Run Marco, Run Paperback Norma Charles 9781553801313 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2011

In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his father yells at him, "Run Marco, run!" Marco manages to escape, and seeing no possibility of help in Colombia, he stows away on a freighter headed to Vancouver where a good friend of his father is living and who may be able to help. During his search, Marco encounters what seem like insurmountable odds and learns t... + Read More
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Series: Jackie, Luther and I A Story of Adventure and Friendship Paperback Rick Desclouds 9781894543385 $15.00 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 25, 2006
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Series: Inanna, Goddess of Love Great Myths and Legends from Sumer Great Myths & Legends from Sumer Paperback Marcella Kampman 9781897411032 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Nov 15, 2008
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Series: Journey to the West with the Stone Monkey Hardcover Yun-Chong Pan 9781897411087 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 15 Sep 15, 2009
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Series: Dreamer's Legacy, The Paperback Celu Amberstone 9780978499891 $14.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Jan 05, 2012
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Series: Keeper of the Trees, The Paperback Beverley Brenna 9780921870630 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 16, 1999

This modern fantasy novel set in London - for children ages 8 to 12 - tells the story of Elizabeth, a twelve-year-old Canadian girl who feels homesick and lonely after her mother's death when her father moves them to London. Soon, however, she meets an assortment of unusual characters and a strange adventure unfolds. Among her new friends is Maud, the homeless woman in the park, who befriends her and teaches her the magic of the great chestnut trees. But friendship works two ways and soon Elizabeth must shoulder Maud's job as "Keeper of the Tr... + Read More
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Series: Long, Long Ago Paperback Robin Skelton 9780921870364 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 16, 1996

In this delightful collection of animal fables, Robin Skelton transports young readers back to long long ago - an ancient and fabulous time. These humorous stories offer solutions to such difficult questions as "Why does the ostrich bury its head in the ground?" and "Why does the rabbit have no voice?" These are stories that will take children into a wonderful world of fantasy and yet - as always with Skelton - the tales have unexpected endings. Pamela Breeze Currie's engaging pen-and-ink drawings capture the spirit of Skelton's witty fables.
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Series: Mathemagick & Mystiphysics The Probabilities of Pandemonium Paperback James Davidge 9781897411193 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Mar 30, 2010
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Series: Polly Perfect and the Tragic Fart Paperback Jacob Richmond 9781897411360 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Feb 15, 2012
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Series: Maximillian's Mistake Paperback Jonathan Christenson 9781897411353 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Feb 15, 2012
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Series: Umbrella, The Paperback Judd Palmer 9781897411346 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 18 Feb 15, 2012
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Series: Monica's Mother Said No Paperback Shirley Day 9780887531583 $1.99 JUVENILE FICTION May 01, 1988
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Series: Haunting of Amos Manor Paperback Richard Stevenson 9781926794075 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 15, 2011

“An Old House With Possibilities,” the Real Estate advertisement had read, meaning, one supposed, a fixer-upper. For the Waldmans at least, that would be half the pleasure, for the house did indeed offer possibilities. The large upstairs bedroom, with it its big turret window, would make a wonderful painting studio for Mrs. Waldman, for one thing, and Karen and Mark would certainly have fun decorating their rooms the way they wanted them. For Mr. Waldman, a little rural respite from the duties of managing the new Safeway in Chilliwack would be ... + Read More
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Series: Sword of Arhapal, The Paperback Daniel Sernine 9780887532122 $5.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jan 01, 1990
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Series: Swampy Jo Paperback Jennifer Barbeau 9781896350400 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 15, 2010

How do you find the truth when the adults in your life are crazy? This is the dilemma of thirteen-year-old Sarah Joanne Bradley--alias Swampy Jo.Swampy Jois a heroic tale of a young girl setting aside her personal need to disappear, in order to save the life of a brooding love interest--because she is the only one aware that he needs saving. Puberty and love aren't easy when you're navigating a minefield of secrets in your divorced, formerly upper-middle class family, while the adults in your life hinge their hopes on religious superstitions an... + Read More
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Series: Tangled in Time Paperback Lynn Fairbridge 9780921870692 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 16, 1999

Lynne Fairbridge's Tangled in Time presents a captivating story of a young girl's travel in time back to the harsh life of the Depression years. The novel opens in Edmonton with Janna's world being turned upside down when her mother tells her that she plans to remarry. Withdrawing from her family and feeling as though her father's memory has been betrayed, Janna finds herself attracted to a mysterious painting in her grandmother's house. When a beckoning woman in the painting lures Janna into the past, she is convinced that she must be dreamin... + Read More
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Series: Tenth Pupil, The Paperback Constance Horne 9780921870869 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 16, 2001

The Tenth Pupil, for readers eight to fourteen, is set in a small logging camp on Vancouver Island in 1934. Eleven-year-old Trudy Paige enjoys her life in Mellor's Camp. She has a loving family, a shaggy dog, friends, a swimming hole, a fishing stream, books to read, wild animals to lend a touch of danger, and a friend in Vancouver to visit. She especially enjoys school, until the government threatens to close the school because there are only nine children, and ten are legally required if the government is to fund the school. Unexpectedly, Sh... + Read More
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Series: Thirteen Minutes A 20th century tale of family, eugenics, Dadaism...and hockey Paperback James Davidge 9781897411292 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 75 Sep 30, 2010
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Series: Those Who Watch Over the Earth Paperback Daniel Sernine 9780887532146 $5.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jan 01, 1990
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Series: Willobe of Wuzz Paperback Sandra Glaze 9780921870487 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Aug 16, 1997

"Wuzz is a place not far from here. It's like here. Almost." Thus begins Willobe of Wuzz, the coming-of-age story of a dragon like no other - a dragon who uses his fire power to bake rather than burn, and who'd rather paint pictures than fight with knights. When Willobe wins the friendship of Princess Emily the Resourceful, a major flare-up with his grandfather Cedric results, and a fiery family secret is inadvertently revealed. Estranged from his family, Willobe withdraws to the mountains of Wuzz. Here he often feels, but is not in fact, alon... + Read More