Children's Fiction
A Girl Called Tennyson
By Joan Givner
Anne "Tenn" Tennyson Miller's adventure begins during an ordinary ferry trip, but reality soon melts away as Tenn is transported to the fantasy land of Greensward. When she arrives in Greensward, Tenn is elected to rescue her new friend, Una, who has been spirited away to a ... Read more
Adrift in Time
By John Wilson
Set in the present day, John Wilson's young adult novel Adrift in Time explores the tensions in family life between parents and children. It also demonstrates how the new generation's knowledge of the family's past can ease those tensions.The novel opens with Ian, a teenager, ... Read more
Age of Minority
By Jordan Tannahill
Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers. The award-winning rihannaboi95 centres around a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when YouTube videos ... Read more
Alison's Fishing Birds
By Roderick Haig-Brown
Illustrated by Sheryl McDougald
Beautifully illustrated children's story about Canadian wildlife by famed Canadian conservationist and Governor General Award-winning author, Roderick Haig-Brown.First published as a limited edition in 1980 by Colophon Books, ALISON'S FISHING BIRDS by BC's acclaimed author and ... Read more
All Around the Circle
By Cara Kansala
From the creator of The Grumpy Goat Gallery. A visually stunning, often humorous book of verse, All Around the Circle celebrates the landscape and spirit of outport Newfoundland. How did Aunt Maud’s cat manage to sail across the tickle? Why is Heloise the chicken so worried? ... Read more
All In Together Girls
By Kate Sutherland
Candid and truthful stories about women, young and old, grappling with generational wariness, creative recklessness, and illusive purpose celebrate all that is beautiful, wild and distinctive in contemporary women.
All In Together Girls, whose title is inspired by a jump rope ... Read more
Ancient Fall
By Jaime Lee Mann
Vengeful Mother Earth has finally decided to fight back against the humans who, under the power of a dark curse, have been abusing her for centuries.
Animalphabetical Adventures
Illustrated by Kinga White
Anything But Hank
By Zachariah Wells
Illustrated by Eric Orchard & Eric Orchard
In Anything but Hank! Lebowitz and Wells combine the whimsical humour of Lewis Carroll with the adventure-narrative balladeering of Robert Service to spin an unforgettable tale of a baby--and a pig!--in search of a name. Their quest takes them from the city to the mountains, ... Read more
Arrow through the Axes
By Patrick Bowman
Arrow through the Axes concludes the "Odyssey of a Slave" trilogy that began with the Red Maple?nominated Torn from Troy, retelling Homer's Odyssey. The slave Alexi, now free of his Greek captors, infiltrates the Greek strongholds of the Bronze Age in search of his sister. In ... Read more