Inspired by real stories of Canada’s home children, About a Home Child follows a core group of poor and orphaned children at Dr. Barnardo’s Home in East London, who were give free shelter and an education by their benefactor, then shipped across the pond and placed in employment across rural Canada.
Taking on odd jobs cleaning messes nobody else wants to touch, Nick, Khenan, and their helper Florrie are raking in cash this summer — until they dig up a buried secret that shocks the whole town, stirring up a much bigger mess than any of them could’ve expected.
Callie Garcia thought she would finally get to experience summer camp — campfires, kayaking, and crafts. But Camp Briarwood has other plans. Thrown into a perilous game of cat and mouse between inventors and frauds, Callie’s scientific mind is the only thing that can save the camp.
Stuck in a van with no A/C and no cell phones on a three-week family road trip across America, Guppie Persaud and her brothers secretly enter a photography contest without their technophobe parents’ permission, hoping to win new phones for the whole family.
Targeted because of their connection to the Ghost Tree, kidnapped by robotic pterodactyl-like creatures, then forced to work at a mining camp, twelve-year-old orphan Ellis and her friends must band together to escape — but can they survive long enough to find the rumored forests of the night?
Winter 1979. Twelve-year-old Truly has settled in with Andy El at Eagle Shores Trailer Park, but the peace of her new life is shattered when her mother unexpectedly returns after abandoning Truly the previous summer, asking for a second chance. Has her mother really changed? Can Truly ever forgive her?
In 1902 Edinburgh, a clockmaker is found dead inside a locked clocktower. When the clockmaker’s apprentice finds clues inside a seemingly unfixable watch, he races against time to discover the truth of his mentor’s death and a map to a miracle cure that can save a dying friend.
The dying wish of Rose’s father is that she and her brother survive the plague rampaging through London in 1665. Armed with the last creation their father made in his apothecary, Rose and Lem hope to protect themselves against the sickness, but as word about the special oil blend spreads, they must also protect themselves against thieves.
Multiple food allergies destroy 12-year-old Ella’s confidence, especially when it comes to public speaking. She plans to conquer her fear by participating in a CN Tower climb and reading her poetry when she gets to the top.
Star trumpet player Jaxson gets a duet partner, Liv, who has more in common with Jax than his best friend, his first girlfriend, or even his mom. Both the only child of single mothers, Jaxson and Liv soon learn they share something that makes them rethink the meaning of “family.”
Jewellery is missing from the store where Mom works and she’s the main suspect. With Shamus’s help, the kids set out to catch the real thief, with surprising and hilarious results, including a false closet wall, a lucky bowling ball, and a vicious poodle named Hepzibah.
Thirteen-year-old Frida discovers a mysterious painting hidden in a desk in the house she and her brother inherited from their late grandmother. She tries to find out who the woman in the painting is and why she was hidden away for so many years.
As Echo1 wakes from an 83-year sleep to search for life in the wasteland, the children of Oculum flee the Unruly and their stolen weapons, desperately trying to reach the safety of MedFell Hall.
Mortimer T. Flightdeck, Future YouTube Sensation, has big plans for ratkind: he’ll join the International Space Station (ISS) and document his experiments on the human astronauts to prove rats are much better than humans when it comes to colonizing Mars. But when his schemes go awry, he is forced to face new truths about dreams and friendship.
Emmy is the greatest zombie fighter of all time. Fire, rage, and fury are this hamster’s weapons of choice and woe to any undead human crossing her path. Betrayed by those she loves, Emmy runs away, determined to eradicate the zombie threat. But she discovers that there’s no honour in fighting for yourself.
A twelve-year old boy copes with his mother’s mental illness with the help of a talking—and possibly magic—bird, and friends he finds in unexpected places.
A thirteen-year-old girl who prefers homelessness to living with her abusive mother is sent to live with an aunt, whose costume shop helps her discover who she is, and what a family is.
A raccoon survivor in a zombie apocalypse wonders where all the other raccoons have gone and enlists the help of animal friends to find the answer.
A house cat and her animal friends struggle to survive after the zombie apocalypse. Without humans to care for them or manage the world, they need to fight not only zombies, but also wild animals and, suddenly, wild former house pets.
A supernatural magpie gives a girl a chance to live the stories she reads about, but he doesn't tell her that he is stealing her soul.
Twelve-year-old Pip idolizes Robin Hood and dreams of becoming one of the Merry Men. But to everyone else, Pip is the son of Aldwin of Nottinghamshire, a seller of wool blankets.
In this dystopian novel for middle-grade readers, a child finds a door to an "outside" that is not supposed to exist.
