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Tess's family has moved to the Prairies and are just getting by. They can't afford much coal to heat their…
home, so during the spring and summer, Tess and her brother have to collect "malongo," cow patties, to burn. They also have to deal with their haughty neighbour, Mr. Wright. Grades K-3.
After learning that the creatures of the air had a grand celebration, Elephant, not to be outdone, decides to throw…
an even more glorious ball for the animals of the land. What follows is a story of food, festivities, and fantasy. Grades K-3. 2007, text originally published in 1807.
James falls out of his Scottish immigrant family's wagon during a snowstorm on the Canadian prairie and is rescued by…
a man who identifies himself only as Louis. Waiting out the blizzard in his small cabin, the two bake gallette, as the man calls it, or bannock, as James stubbornly insists it should be called. Three days later when the weather has cleared, Louis drops the boy off near his town but refuses to go closer. James later thinks back on the incident and concludes, "Bannock or gallette, between two friends there is no difference." Grades K-3 and older readers. 2006, c2000.
Born into a Jewish-Canadian family in 1911, Sara Schiller grows up on the prairies of Saskatchewan. As she matures and…
becomes a school teacher, she struggles to understand the love and hate, intolerance and compassion that exist in her community. c1988.
Western Canada, 1938. Ukrainian farmer Teodor Mykolayenko returns to his family, who have been living with his sister Anna, after…
a year spent in prison for the crime of trying to feed them. Channelling the great inner power that enabled him to survive drought, starvation, war, and Stalin, Teodor farms the land and watches his family heal and strengthen. But their hopes are short-lived when Anna's rogue husband returns with a plan that threatens to take away everything they've built. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2009.
In this third collection of short stories set in Hobbema, Alberta, Silas Ermineskin again relates his adventures with his friend,…
Frank Fencepost. In the title story, Frank turns a traditional gospel radio show into a comic hour in which prayers actually do come true. In "Bull," Frank outwits the Alberta Supreme Court in a case about artificial insemination. Some strong language. c1994.
Two pioneer women, as different as can be. Two secrets skillfully buried, but not forgotten. Two journeys to embrace the…
bittersweet bliss of the Canadian frontier. Sequel to "Seasons of Bliss" (DC31084). Followed by "Back roads to Bliss" (DC33742). 2003. (The Saskatchewan saga ; 5).2003.
This novel was published in 20 monthly installments during 1846-48 and in book form in 1848. It was a crucial…
novel in Dickens development, a product of more thorough planning and maturer thought than his earlier serialized books. The title character, Mr. Dombey, is a wealthy shipping merchant whose wife dies giving birth to their second child, a long-hoped-for son and heir, Paul. 1970.
Doctor Thorne is confronted with a delicate problem when his niece, the penniless Mary Thorne, considers marriage to Frank Gresham,…
heir to a great but impoverished estate. Shall Doctor Thorne disclose that Mary may herself become heiress to a huge fortune? Third in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. 1994.
Cytherea Gray, lady's maid, decides to marry the villainous Aeneas Manston after she discovers her true love, Edward Springrove, is…
already engaged. As soon as she is married she discovers that Aeneas's first wife is still alive. Her investigations into the situation have tragic consequences. 1975.
The story of Shane Morgan and of a stormy relationship with his father that builds to a dramatic climax at…
a local rodeo. Junior and Senior High. Followed by "Cowboys don't quit". 1984.
"What the European male fails to understand is that the American girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent", and, the…
confusion of Winterbourne is aggravated by the atmosphere in Vevey, a no-man's land half-way between the grimness of Geneva and the moral laxity of Rome. Winterbourne mistakes Daisy's frank manner for commonness, yet he is also aware of her delicate grace. 1986.
Portrays the life and people of a small Manitoba town during the Depression. They are seen through the eyes of…
Vanessa MaCleod, sometimes as a child, sometimes retrospectively as a grown woman. (New Canadian Library ; No. 96) 1974.
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds herself living alone, a young Finnish woman in…
a community of Swedes in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has disappeared, and the eighteen-year-old is an object of pity and charity in her community. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, Elena needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind. 2015.
Classic satire about a nineteenth-century New England factory worker who is knocked unconscious and transported back to the year 528.…
Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. For senior high and older readers. 1988, c1889.
Enfant abandonné, Oliver est confronté à la réalité de l'orphelinat et de la misère. Victime de mauvais traitements, il s'enfuit…
à Londres où il découvre l'univers de la délinquance. Fresque de l'enfance malheureuse qui dénonce la bourgeoisie de l'Angleterre puritaine du XIXe siècle. 1996, c1838.