Close to the Heel
At the request of his late grandfather, Rennie goes to Iceland to right an old wrong, and gets drawn into investigating a murder.
At the request of his late grandfather, Rennie goes to Iceland to right an old wrong, and gets drawn into investigating a murder.
When Sid leaves his foster family on their remote island home in search of the mother he doesn't remember and a brother he's never met, he's ill-prepared for the surprises he finds.
Poe, a homeless young teen, struggles to keep his living situation a secret.
When Thea's father gets a job at a guest ranch in the Cariboo, Thea earns the trust of an abused horse, solves an old mystery and makes a new friend.
When Aaron's long-absent father returns, Aaron must cope with bullying at school, his grandmother's illness and his father's pregnant new wife.
Thirteen-year-old Liza gets involved in activism and takes on the oil industry.
A young biracial man, who suddenly finds himself homeless, struggles to maintain his dignity and to make his own place in the world.
Elsie's father has gone to search for work as the Depression wears on, and the family is desperate for money. But is a dance marathon any way to solve a family's problems?
In this sequel to Murphy and Mousetrap, Murphy and his three friends are nervous about trying out for the soccer team at their new school, but a diagnosis of leukemia proves more challenging than anything they encounter on the field.
Travis and his friends train and race horses at a harness-racing track. When someone starts hacking off the horses' tails, Travis must solve the mystery before he loses everything he has worked for.
Sixteen-year-old Jason is a recent immigrant from China living in a close-minded town. Holding on to his friendship with a Native boy, also an outsider, Jason finds he needs to fight to belong and to find a new home.
Tansy's mother is at a clinic being treated for depression, her father is busy at work and her new babysitter is old, wrinkly and meditates while she does calligraphy.
Kaz, troubled by his father's absence and a learning disability, discovers the real consequences of crime when he steals a watch from an elderly woman.
When a gunman is seen in the school, Adam and Zoe try to make it out alive.
Amid racism and ignorance, Vince and Raedawn try to find out what happened to a missing classmate.
Orphan Ahwak is determined to become a hunter and to find a place in an often hostile and terrifying world.
In a new school, Kevin must choose between falling in with a rough crowd or doing the right thing.
During the Depression, Henry Dafoe makes his way across the prairies, guided only by an old hobo and a series of secret signs.
Julie is presented with a perfect opportunity to get back at her tormentor.
At the height of the Depression, Mary is unlikely to receive new shoes for Christmas but is deeply disappointed to receive a doll crudely sewn from a horse's nosebag instead.
Lawrence cannot bear Joe's teasing about his dimples, but nothing he does will make it stop.
