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101 Ways to Dance

What if you lusted after someone you shouldn't? What if you wanted to touch someone that you couldn't? And then... what if... you did? These are just some of the steamy questions that the teens in... more

1212: Year of the Journey

In a world where thousands are dying over matters of religion, where do you go? What do you believe? Who do you put your own faith in? These questions, so relevant to growing up in 2006, are also q... more

A Chanukah Noel

A Christmas at Chanukah? Charlotte and her family have just moved to a small town in France. There is a lot to get used to - a new language, new friends, a new school. Even the milk tastes differe... more

A Friend Like Zilla

This is a brave book. Rachna Gilmore writes from inside the mind of a pre-teen child with unerring confidence ... masterful." - Quill and Quire. Nobby meets the older Zilla when her family goes on ... more

A Ghost in My Mirror

Poppy is visiting her grandmother. Before going to bed, she sees a picture of someone who looks just like her - Grandma's sister Daisy, who died when she was the same age as Poppy. Soon, Poppy fall... more

A Gift for Gita

Gita and her family are in turmoil. During her grandmother's visit, Gita's father announces that he has received a job offer back in India. They have been living in North America for a few years, a... more

A Long Way From Home

An Afghan girl, an American boy, and the resilient residents of a small town are thrown together on 9/11. Thirteen-year-old Rabia, her mother, and her younger brother have escaped Afghanistan and ... more

A Monster in My Cereal

Poppy isn't very pleased. Her father is a pain. And the worst of it is that she is stuck with him for a whole weekend while her mother and brother are away. Suddenly, the monster on the cereal box ... more

A Mother's Adoption Journey

For much of her adult life, Darlene believed she wouldn't make a good mother: "Besides, I couldn't admit to anyone that I didn't know how to do mother things. So I married someone who didn't want t... more

A Partisan's Memoir

An unforgettable story of heroism, hardship, and resistance... Faye Schulman was an ordinary teenager when the Nazis invaded her town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a large, loving famliy,... more

A Riddle of Roses

Fantasy fiction with Celtic influence for today's adolescent reader... Meryl's mother was a great bard - a storyteller and musician who sang of life and the world around her. Meet Meryl, already a... more

A River of Hands

The first of its kind, this anthology contains four children's stories by young Deaf authors and Deaf illustrators. Contributors were mentored by some of Canada's most notable authors, editors and ... more

A Tale Worth Telling

Part of the I'm a Great Little Kid Series, which is published in conjunction with the Toronto Child Abuse Centre, who believe that empowering young children makes them less vulnerable. Written in ... more

A Taste for Justice

From Bridgehead, the trading company owned by OXFAM-Canada which promotes economic justice through fair trade with the developing world, comes a cookbook with a difference... Recipes combine easil... more

Adoption Reunions

In Adoption Reunions, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion, from the initial search decision to coping with post-reunion letdown. She... more

Amazing Women Athletes

This collection features ten women athletes from Canada and around the world beginning with our own, and mostly forgotten Olympian, Bobbi Rosenfeld, considered by many experts as this country's mos... more

An Alien In My House

When Ben discovers that an alien is living in his house, he is less than thrilled. After all, the alien looks strange, eats only green food, and doesn't let Ben watch television when he wants to. T... more

Astonishing Women Artists

Reflections of the world through the eyes of creative trailblazers... The newest addition to the acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame Series profiles ten phenomenal women with a passion for art. Politic... more

Aunt Fred is a Witch

Leila is about to spend a weekend with her Aunt Fred, whom everyone says is a witch. When the adults leave, Aunt Fred puts on a wild outfit and scoops Leila up onto her motorcycle. After a spectacu... more

Bad Date

In Bad Date, crime journalist Jane Yeats is on the scene again, full of her trademark smart-ass attitude and fondness for Irish ale - not to mention her problems with her next door neighbour, a cra... more