Dundurn imprint: 1894 books
by Nicholas Maes
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
It is the year 2213. Fifteen-year-old Felix Taylor is the last person on Earth who can speak and read Latin. In a world where technology has defeated war, crime, poverty, and famine, and time travel exists as a distinct possibility, Felix's language skills and knowledge seem out of place and irrelevant.
But...
Sophie's Friend in Need
A Sophie Alias Star Girl adventure
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Short-listed for the Chocolate Lily Book Award, 2005
It’s summer 1950, and for 11-year-old French Canadian Sophie LaGrange, Camp Latona on British Columbia’s Gambier Island promises to be pure bliss. But then Sophie has to buddy up with a strange, unfriendly Jewish refugee girl named Ginette...
Weird Stories Gone Wrong 2-Book Bundle
Jake and the Giant Hand / Myles and the Monster Outside
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.
Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies and mysterious monsters in the dark.
Includes
Jake...
by Tom Henighan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Fifteen-year-old Rigg, son of Leif Eriksson, loves mystery and adventure. In the early eleventh century, he finds both of these in abundance when his father sails away and leaves him behind in Vinland, the Vikings' precarious foothold on the wild Newfoundland coast. Soon, rigg makes an amazing discovery....
Sophie Sea to Sea
A Sophie Alias Star Girl adventure
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award
Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with her family. In 1949, the year Newfoundland joins Confederation, Sophie soars over flooded prairies,...
Criss Cross, Double Cross
A Sophie Alias Star Girl adventure
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Star Girl flies again in this sequel to the bestselling, award-winning Sophie Sea to Sea. Starting her new classes at the new French school in British Columbia, Sophie is happy to escape the old Alderson Avenue School where stuck-up Elizabeth Proctor and her friends rule. But trouble develops when...
by Lynne Kositsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Arien holds the key to healing her planet.
Planet Kondar has a light side that faces the sun and a dark side in eternal night. Lightsiders have never met those on Darkside, known as Oscura. Arien lives in Kattannya on Lightside. When her parents fall through thin ice and drown, she is sold...
Hiding in Plain Sight
A Shelby Belgarden Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2005
With school over, Greg visiting relatives, and Betts on vacation with her family, it’s looking like it will be a quiet summer for Shelby Belgarden. Until, that is, she finds out that Betts and her family have returned home suddenly, and Betts’s mom faces criminal charges in the theft of a computer...
Searching for Yesterday
A Shelby Belgarden Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Annie Berkley, a schoolmate of Shelby's who has appeared in previous books, lives in a foster home and has become depressed. Shelby is concerned and eventually wins over Annie's trust in order to find out what's bothering her.
Annie's mother disappeared several years ago, leaving with her boyfriend...
Stealing Time
A Jonah Wiley Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
Thrown back in time by a mysterious pocket watch, Jonah and his stepbrother, Toby, are forced to overcome their differences and work together to return to the present.
Jonah Wiley is having a tough time. First, his parents divorced, and now his mom is going to a conference and leaving him...
None So Deadly
A Cullen and Cobb Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2019
Book 4 in the Cullen and Cobb series of western crime novels that teams up a former cop with an investigative journalist
A crime series set in Calgary, a booming city often overlooked in genre fiction
Author has written 25+ books and has a high profile, particularly in western Canada
Author is also...
David A. Poulsen's Young Adult Fiction 3-Book Bundle
And Then the Sky Exploded / Numbers / Old Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Prolific young adult author David A. Poulsen "handles heavy material with sophistication" (Publishers Weekly). The teens in these three novels confront a teacher who denies the Holocaust, the devastation of atomic bombs, and emotional fallout from the Vietnam War.
Includes:
And...
Hate Cell
A Casey Templeton Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2009
Thirteen-year-old Casey Templeton has recently moved with his family to the southeastern Alberta town of Richford. One night Casey seeks refuge from a snowstorm in an abandoned farmhouse and stumbles upon his nearly frozen, unconscious science teacher, Mr. Deverell. Casey attempts to revive his teacher...
Ann Alma Children's Library 2-Book Bundle
Skateway to Freedom / Under Emily's Sky
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2016
Critically acclaimed children's author Ann Alma presents two beloved books for young people, gathered together in this special bundle.
Shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award
Includes:
Under Emily’s Sky
During a camping trip, 11-year-old Lee finds herself on a rough...