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Series: The Math Kids A Knotty Problem Paperback David Cole 9781988761732 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Oct 01, 2022

Tensions Rise Between the Math KidsWhen Stephanie finds out her soccer team has a tournament on the same day as the district math competition, an upset Justin offers her a choice: choose Math Kids or leave the club. Dismayed by his attitude, Stephanie quits and Catherine goes with her. With their club in shambles, the future of their friendships is further threatened by the news that Justin's dad has been offered a new job and wants to move his family to St. Louis.Jordan, Justin, Catherine, and Stephanie may face the permanent fracture of their... + Read More
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Series: Asha and Baz Meet Mary Sherman Morgan Paperback Caroline Fernandez 9781988761671 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Asha and Baz have a paper rocket to launch! Whoever builds the rocket that travels the farthest will get to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. The only problem is Asha and Baz don’t know how to power their rocket. Stuck and unsure, the kids brainstorm by drawing a rocket in the sand using a stick. But this is a very unusual stick. In fact, it’s a magic stick! And it transports them back in time to meet a person who might be able to help them with their rocket problem: scientist Mary Sherman Morgan.
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Series: Faded Glimpses of Time Paperback Nyah Nichol 9781988761718 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Wren Derecho has successfully time travelled back to the present, confident that the dangerous and powerful orb has been lost forever in the broken shards of time. However, her sense of relief quickly turns to horror when she realizes the orb has mysteriously reappeared and things are not the same as when she left them. Now Wren must navigate through the new timeline and overcome the unexpected obstacles and twists it presents. As she struggles to adapt, she learns about Operation Aquarius Deep, a DAWN mission to retrieve ground-breaking... + Read More
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Series: The Math Kids The Triangle Secret Paperback David Cole 9781988761626 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 12 Apr 01, 2022

A Mysterious Will Launches The Math Kids Into Their Riskiest Adventure Yet!When FBI Special Agent Carlson is kidnapped while investigating the plane crash of Willard Howell, an eccentric billionaire inventor, the Math Kids spring into action. If Catherine, Stephanie, Justin, and Jordan can figure out the Great Triangle mentioned in Howell’s will, they might just uncover who’s behind the crash and Agent Carlson’s kidnapping—if they don’t get caught themselves!This Middle Grade Book- introduces readers to mathematical patterns- features an action... + Read More
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Series: Lucy & Dee The Silk Road Paperback Kirsten Marion 9781988761640 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 01, 2022

Lucy wants an adventure. Dee just wants to find his missing parents. When they chance upon a hidden road and the lord of stone offers them a quest, the opportunity for both arises. All they have to do is befriend a young emperor—which would be a lot easier if he wasn't a royal pain and an angry queen didn't want to destroy him.
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Series: Lucy & Dee The Silk Road Hardcover Kirsten Marion 9781988761664 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 01, 2022

Lucy wants an adventure. Dee just wants to find his missing parents. When they chance upon a hidden road and the lord of stone offers them a quest, the opportunity for both arises. All they have to do is befriend a young emperor—which would be a lot easier if he wasn’t a royal pain and an angry queen didn’t want him dead.
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Series: The Adventures of Grandmasaurus at the Aquarium Rescue Centre Paperback Caroline Fernandez 9781988761589 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2021

GRANDMA IS AT IT AGAIN! Moonie and I just want to enjoy our class trip to the Aquarium Rescue Centre, but Grandma has other plans. When dust makes her sneeze and turn into different Mesozoic Era marine reptiles, it's up to us to track her down, stop her funny business, and make sure we still have time to finish our field trip reports!
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Series: The Adventures of Grandmasaurus at the Aquarium Rescue Centre Hardcover Caroline Fernandez 9781988761596 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2021

GRANDMA IS AT IT AGAIN! Moonie and I just want to enjoy our class trip to the Aquarium Rescue Centre, but Grandma has other plans. When dust makes her sneeze and turn into different Mesozoic Era marine reptiles, it's up to us to track her down, stop her funny business, and make sure we still have time to finish our field trip reports!
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Series: The Math Kids An Incorrect Solution Paperback David Cole 9781988761602 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2021

Fifth grade is off to a terrible start for the Math Kids. Jordan and Justin are in a different class from Stephanie and Catherine. Worse, they have Miller the Killer for math, and he hates math! Even more troubling, Jordan witnesses Robbie, the class bully, in an angry confrontation with his father and wonders if Constable Colson might be doing more than yelling. People problems suddenly seem a lot more challenging than homework, but maybe with the right plan—and some math—the four Math Kids can find a way to deal with their classroom woes ... + Read More
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Series: The Math Kids An Encrypted Clue Paperback David Cole 9781988761565 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 01, 2021

When Stephanie Lewis finds secret writing in the margin of an old book in the library, the Math Kids have a new puzzle to solve. But first, they must learn about codes and ciphers, and how to use their math skills to solve them. As one clue leads to another, the kids are drawn into the mysterious old house that overlooks the town. Is it really haunted like some townspeople say? And who is the man in the long beard who keeps showing up everywhere they go? But that's not their only problem. Unless they can find a solution, the math competition t... + Read More
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Series: The Adventures of Grandmasaurus Paperback Caroline Fernandez 9781988761459 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2020

HALF GRANDMA. HALF DINOSAUR. ALL MISCHIEVOUS! The Adventures of Grandmasaurus features a quirky Grandma who magically sneezes herself into different dinosaurs while on a field trip with her two grandchildren. When Grandma starts behaving like a dinosaur, the kids quickly learn this will not be a regular field trip! There is a world of adventure to find while searching and identifying Grandmasaurus. This intergenerational tale also shows kids know best when it comes to proper behaviour at the museum!
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Series: The Adventures of Grandmasaurus Hardcover Caroline Fernandez 9781988761466 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2020

HALF GRANDMA. HALF DINOSAUR. ALL MISCHIEVOUS! The Adventures of Grandmasaurus features a quirky Grandma who magically sneezes herself into different dinosaurs while on a field trip with her two grandchildren. When Grandma starts behaving like a dinosaur, the kids quickly learn this will not be a regular field trip! There is a world of adventure to find while searching and identifying Grandmasaurus. This intergenerational tale also shows kids know best when it comes to proper behaviour at the museum!
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Series: Broken Shards of Time Paperback Nyah Nichol 9781988761480 $18.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Wren Derecho is the lone survivor of a mysterious accident that took the lives of her parents. As Wren tries to navigate through the pain of grief and loss, she crosses paths with three other individuals and soon realizes that something beyond coincidence has intertwined their lives. Each of their journeys is marked by immense tragedy, fate, a time machine, and a mysterious power source that seems to be alive . . . and not from this world. From the perspective of these four characters, you’ll find the heart of the story lies within the growt... + Read More
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Series: The Girl from the Attic Paperback Marie Prins 9781988761510 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Maddy Rose lives in two worlds. A hundred years apart. In the same strange house built in the shape of an octagon. When a mysterious black cat leads her into an unknown attic, she meets Clare and his very sick sister Eva. Together Maddy and Clare jump into a money-making scheme in his uncle's dangerous soap factory to buy a cure for Eva. But an unexpected tragedy befalls them. And then Maddy is pulled back into her own time to confront the premature birth of her own sister. Will Maddy be able to deal with hardships of two lives? Will the skills... + Read More
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Series: Just Watch Me! Paperback Erin Silver 9781988761541 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Twelve-year-old Simon Rosen has qualified for the Canadian Video Game Championships in Vancouver. If he can get straight A’s in school, his parents have agreed to take him. The stakes are especially high: his parents are always fighting, and if he can just get them to Vancouver—the place where they fell in love—maybe he can save his family from the brink of divorce.
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Series: #NotReadyToDie Paperback Cate Carlyle 9781988761398 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Ginny's life suddenly comes to a screeching halt one fateful Monday when a shooter shows up at Southwestern High School during first period. In lockdown with both the homeroom sub and her secret crush Owen badly wounded, Ginny finds herself teamed up with Kayla, one of the “Barbies.” Together, they must try to keep their classmates alive amid terror and pain. As the chaos continues, Ginny is plagued with questions. Has she judged Kayla too harshly? Will she ever have the chance to ask Owen to prom? Will the fight she had with her mom before s... + Read More
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Series: Stop Reading This Book! Paperback Caroline Fernandez 9781988761411 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Here’s an idea . . . turn the left page. That way, you can go back to the beginning, close the book, and pretend you didn’t start reading this book. It would be like going back in time . . . give it a try . . . This heart-warming picture book using comedy and contradiction to urge children to read. Who is the villain—the reader or the book? In this story, the book itself perceives the reader as a mischief-maker and tries to protect its pages. It is a story of a book judging a reader by their "cover." In turning pages, the reader becomes t... + Read More
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Series: Stop Reading This Book! Hardcover Caroline Fernandez 9781988761428 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 Oct 07, 2019

This book tells you to Stop Reading This Book. But will you?...Here’s an idea . . . turn the left page. That way, you can go back to the beginning, close the book, and pretend you didn’t start reading this book. It would be like going back in time . . . give it a try . . . This heart-warming picture book using comedy and contradiction to urge children to read. Who is the villain—the reader or the book? In this story, the book itself perceives the reader as a mischief-maker and tries to protect its pages. It is a story of a book judging a r... + Read More
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Series: The Math Kids An Unusual Pattern Paperback David Cole 9781988761374 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Oct 01, 2019

The Math Kids are at it again! When their new friend, Special Agent Carlson, asks them to take a look at a cryptic poem written by a dying bank robber, they know they will need all of their math skills to crack the case. The poem isn't their only problem, though. Their favourite school janitor is fired for stealing from student lockers. The Math Kids know Old Mike would never do anything like that, but how can they prove it, especially with the new janitor watching their every move? Jordan, Stephanie, Justin, and Catherine will need math, ... + Read More
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Series: The Extraordinary eTab of Julian Newcomber Paperback Michael Seese 9781988761282 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION May 15, 2019

Julian believes he's finally escaped his father's calamities. Until a vaguely familiar 20-year-old man walks out of the bedroom closet and says he's future Julian. Turns out his (their?) inventor father's latest contraption, the eTab, alters time. When grown-up Julian travelled into the past, he dropped his cell phone on a Civil War battlefield. It was, what the sarcastic crowd might call, a bone-headed move. Now, Grown-Up Julian needs Young Julian to help him retrieve his cell phone, before the future is unpredictably changed No pressure.
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Series: The Math Kids A Sequence of Events Paperback David Cole 9781988761305 $11.99 JUVENILE FICTION May 15, 2019

The Math Kids Club is back! After solving the case of the prime-time burglars, the Math Kids—Jordan, Justin, and Stephanie—are ready to return to the original purpose of their club: solving math problems. And the district Math Olympics is the perfect opportunity to do just that. But before they can enter the competition, they need a fourth teammate. The Math Kids set their sights on Catherine Duchesne. Even though Catherine has been quiet in class, she knows some really cool math tricks that are sure to help the Math Kids win the competition... + Read More
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Series: Lackbeard Book Adam Rocke 9781988761244 $13.99 JUVENILE FICTION Dec 31, 2018

All they wanted was their forever homes. But when a motley group of orphans steals an ancient artifact from the Golden Age of Piracy and a treasure map drawn in blood, what they get is an epic adventure.
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Series: Dear Earthling: Cosmic Correspondent Paperback Pen Avey 9781988761268 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Dec 01, 2018

Dethbert Jones is your average ten-year-old—only he lives on the planet Crank with his pet chicken-snail and his robot best friend Andi Social. When he and Andi join the Space Cadets, a Scouts-like organization, they are totally smooshed at the prospect of going to Space Camp where they’ll learn to pilot a real shuttlecraft and disintegrate weapons of mass destruction. Blamtastic! To earn his cosmic correspondent badge, Dethbert begins writing to an earthling—and boy, does he have a lot to write about! Between questions about Earth food, cultur... + Read More
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Series: The Math Kids The Prime-Time Burglars Paperback David Cole 9781988761220 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Dec 01, 2018

Jordan and Justin are best friends and the only two kids in their class's advanced math group. So it isn’t until Stephanie Lewis marches into their classroom that they meet someone who's as good with numbers as they are. Their shared interest in math quickly draws them together, and the three soon form the Math Kids. Unfortunately, life as math club kids isn't always easy. In addition to extra homework, the three friends have two new problems. First, a string of mysterious burglaries has the whole neighbourhood on edge, including their parents... + Read More
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Series: The Boatman Paperback Kat Hawthorne 9781988761206 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Apr 30, 2018

Isabel Wixon is weird. Not only does she see dead things, but her list of friends consists of a talkative ventriloquist’s dummy and the gentlemanly spider that lives in her hair. Real friends? Too hard. Inventing friends is much easier. Inventing the Boatman—a terrible monster that lures kids into a strange sleeping sickness and never lets them go—probably wasn’t one of her better ideas though.
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Series: The Great & the Small Paperback A. T. Balsara 9781988761107 $17.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Oct 31, 2017

Where is the line between good and evil? Deep below the market, in the dark tunnels no human knows exist, a war has begun. Led by the charismatic Beloved Chairman, a colony of rats plots to exterminate the ugly two-legs who have tortured them in labs, crushed them with boots, and looked at them with disgust for as long as anyone can remember. When the Chairman's nephew is injured and a young two-leg nurses him back to health, however, doubt about the war creeps in. Now the colony is split—obey the Chairman and infect the two-legs with the anci... + Read More
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Series: The Great & the Small Hardcover A. T. Balsara 9781988761121 $29.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Oct 31, 2017

Where is the line between good and evil? Deep below the market, in the dark tunnels no human knows exist, a war has begun. Led by the charismatic Beloved Chairman, a colony of rats plots to exterminate the ugly two-legs who have tortured them in labs, crushed them with boots, and looked at them with disgust for as long as anyone can remember. When the Chairman's nephew is injured and a young two-leg nurses him back to health, however, doubt about the war creeps in. Now the colony is split—obey the Chairman and infect the two-legs with the anci... + Read More