Dundurn: 2215 books
by Marina Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
2011 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted
Fourteen-year-old Sam McLean is less than thrilled with the prospect of moving to a collection of old mansions on the northern fringe of a small town called Ringwood. A nobody at his old school, Sam is desperate to be accepted by the cool kids and latches...
The Wild Place Adventure Series 3-Book Bundle
Howl / The Truth About Brave / Saving Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
All three books of Karen Hood-Caddy’s critically acclaimed Wild Place series are now available in this ebook bundle! Join Robin from the very beginning as she opens her secret animal shelter, The Wild Place, and learns to stand up both for herself and the animals she protects.
Shortlisted...
by Eleanor Creasey
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions.
Who are the people who offered their lives in war?
Why do we remember them?
How do we honour their memory?
For children learning about remembrance and the human toll of war, there can be hard questions...
by Philippa Dowding
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Christopher has a problem. He has just moved to Toronto. He has a new school and no friends. But even worse, the park next door is creepy: voices whisper in the bushes, and something throws apples at his window and howls at the moon. But what? Gargoyles! Their names are Gargoth and Ambergine, and...
Oak Island Family
The Restall Hunt for Buried Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012
A fabulous treasure lies buried deep within an island on Canadas East Coast. Or so they say. For more than 200 years, treasure-hunters have come to Oak Island, spent fortunes, worked long and hard, and left empty-handed.
When Bob Restall and his family got their chance to search for treasure...
Canadian Heroines 2-Book Bundle
100 Canadian Heroines / 100 More Canadian Heroines
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In this special two-book bundle you’ll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures. Discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud...
The Story of the Three Buddhist Monks
Based on a Traditional Chinese Folk Tale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
A story of three Buddhist monks based on a traditional Chinese folk tale about cooperation.
Without cooperation, one monk can fetch two buckets of water, two monks will only be able to fetch one bucket of water, and three monks will fetch no water at all.
Sophie Mallory Series 3-Book Bundle
Sophie's Rebellion / Sophie's Treason / Sophie's Exile
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Follow Sophie Mallory’s adventures during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1838 as she’s taken prisoner by rebels and must save her imprisoned father. Three acclaimed chapter books by historian and author Beverley Boissery are collected in this special three-book bundle!
Includes:
Sophie’s...
Doing Canada Proud
The Second Boer War and the Battle of Paardeberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
In the fall of 1899, Britain entered the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa confident that its army would make short work of a collection of armed farmers. However, initial confrontations quickly changed attitudes. Following a series of humiliating defeats, Britain quickly sought additional troops....
Hold the Oxo!
A Teenage Soldier Writes Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Canada was young during the First World War, and with as many as 20,000 underage soldiers leaving their homes to join the war effort, the country's army was, too. Jim, at 17, was one of them, and he penned countless letters home. But these weren't the writings of an ordinary boy. They were the letters...
by Marion Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
It is Christmas 1912, and Charlotte McEwan is 15 years old. The coal-mining town of Extension, British Columbia, on Vancouver island has hit hard times. When the opportunity to work in a local dynamite factory presents itself, Charlotte braves the disapproval of her mother for the chance to bring...
Truths I Learned From Sam 2-Book Bundle
Truths I Learned From Sam / In Search of Sam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
When Dani sets out to uncover her father’s past, she also discovers her own future.
Raised by her mother, eighteen-year-old Dani Lancaster only had six weeks to get to know her father, Sam, before he lost his battle with cancer. It was long enough to love him, but not long enough to get to...
by Shelley Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) — Commended
2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection
A teen girl’s quest to find her mother leads her to the big city, and gives her the courage to fulfill her dream of becoming a jockey.
Evangeline “Evie” Gibb lives a seemingly charmed...
The Hemingway Caper
A Joe Barley Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he's investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway.
What is...