"I dove into the frigid river, the sudden shock leaving me gasping. By the time that I was two-thirds across the river, my strength was fading . . . Somehow, I managed to reach the shore—the unoccupied zone of France and my entry into freedom."
A huge loveable black dog appears in Sam's backyard. She doesn't know where he came from, but he is definitely the dog of her dreams.
"I had always liked to play make-believe, but somehow they made me understand that this game was real. I never gave away my secret."
"The more we felt the Germans' heavy boots in our lives, the more I knew I had to leave . . . but I was scared. Where was I going to go? What would I live on?"
After Uter Pendragon kills her father, Morgan le Fay is exiled to Ireland where she learns the black arts of magic and sorcery.
Trying to get to grips with her own terrible secret, Roxy sets about unraveling the mysteries that enshroud her family history.
An anthology of short contemporary fiction by emerging writers and established authors.
Funny poems to capture the hearts of boys and girls, teachers and parents by the winner of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry.
When Lawrence's father goes overseas with the Canadian Army during the Second World War, the young Cree boy struggles to grow up while wrestling with the meaning of war.
"The mountains were almost 3,000 metres high . . . We had to climb to the peaks, where it was frozen and slippery. One single misstep could mean certain death."
"I asked myself, Am I a criminal doomed for execution? I was determined to run away . . . that thought never left my mind."
With purple hair and '90s retro clothes, Ash Perrault is a modern-day Cinderella, but she has a problem Cinderella didn't have—a dangerous problem that keeps getting worse.
Young children will love this simple rhyming story. Come along on a rollicking rainy-day walk!
Mythology, adventure
