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By Julia Donaldson. 1999
When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want…
to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with "terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws." But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo... is there? Grades K-3. 1999.By Rachelle Delaney. 2013
JR the terrier and his embassy friends Robert, Pie, and Beatrix are on their way to Prague! Having solved the…
mystery of the missing dogs in Moscow, JR is ready for a vacation with his human, George, and George’s Russian girlfriend, Nadya. And where better to distract themselves than in Prague, taking in the sights and meeting Nadya’s brother, a circus performer. But something is amiss at the circus - the animals are unhappy. The boxing kangaroo doesn’t want to box, the dancing chimpanzee doesn’t want to dance. Not only that, but a fancy new circus is coming to town, threatening to put everyone out of a job. It’s up to JR and the embassy dogs to save the show, with the help of some unlikely accomplices. Grades 3-6. Sequel to "The metro dogs of Moscow". 2013.By Anne Michaels. 2015
Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day. She is…
an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favourite mode of travel is "par avion." On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village, having many little adventures along the way. Grades 2-4. 2015.By Penny Draper. 2006
It's 4:00 am, April 29, 1903, and Nathalie lies awake in her coal town at the base of Turtle Mountain,…
listening for a train - the Spokane Flyer, bringing her cousin for a visit. Instead, Nathalie hears rocks tumbling down the mountain onto the town and the railway track. As she helps search for survivors, desperate questions fill her mind: how many have died? Will the men inside the mine be safe? And will the train be stopped in time? Grades 4-7. 2006.By Clive Cussler. 2010
Ten-year-old twins Casey and Lacey's adventures continue when they use their magical machine to turn a model speedboat into a…
life-size motorboat to enter a race in San Francisco, and catch the attention of a villain from their past. Sequel to “The adventures of Vin Fiz”. Grades 3-6. 2010.By Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.By Becky Citra. 2009
Sam, a nine-year-old boy, is devastated when his mother drops him off for two weeks on his grandfather's ranch. Grandpa…
has a lot of rules, and Sam isn't happy about having to stay with him, but it isn't all bad - he learns to ride a horse and also discovers some surprising things about his father, who died when Sam was a baby. When Sam is forced to overcome his fear of riding in order to help rescue Grandpa, Sam grows to appreciate both his grandpa and life on the ranch. Grades 2-4. 2009.By Gilles Tibo. 2008
Ritou n’aime pas du tout la pluie. Il tente par tous les moyens de ne pas l’entendre, mais rien n’y…
fait. Il décide donc de trouver une invention qui lui permettra de jouer sous la pluie sans se faire mouiller. D’invention en invention, Ritou réussira à trouver des solutions pleines d’imagination. Années 1-3. 2008.By James Marshall. 1991
Seven silly stories about some very unusual creatures. There are rats who can dance, a sheep who can't read, an…
owl who outwits a dinosaur, and a goose who mistakes her wolf neighbours for birds! Grades 2-4. 1991.By Dave Paddon. 2016
Inspired by a true story. A hilarious recitation about a dog that just won't give up. Along with his canine…
comrades, Ralph chases anything that moves, and usually catches it too. But when his aspirations go skyward, even his four furry friends - Nance, Lucky, Spot 1 and Spot 2 - wonder if Ralph's aiming too high. Will Ralph catch that big orange duck? Will pilot Greg ever get those crazy dogs out of his hair? And how did those mutts end up in the drink? Grades K-3. 2016.By Gabrielle Prendergast. 2016
When ten-year-old Journey Song hears that two pandas are being held in a warehouse in her neighbourhood, she worries that…
they may be hungry, cold and lonely. Horrified to learn that the pandas, originally destined for a zoo in Washington, might be shipped back to China because of a diplomatic spat between China and the United States, Journey rallies her friends and neighbours on the poverty-stricken Eastside. Her infectious enthusiasm for all things panda is hard to resist, and soon she's getting assistance from every corner of her tight-knit neighbourhood. Grades 3-6. 2016.By Wesley King. 2016
A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder, until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed…
Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for best juvenile novel. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Fiction Award and the 2018 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award. 2016.By Lynne Kositsky. 2009
Robin Starveling, aka Noah Vaile, is scooped off the streets of seventeenth-century Bristol, England, and dragged onboard a ship bound…
for Virginia by the murderous William Thatcher, who needs a servant with no past and no future to aid him in a plot to steal gold. Starveling fits the bill perfectly since he lives nowhere and has no parents. Aboard the ship, Starveling makes friends with a young cabin boy, Peter Fence. Beset by danger and villainy on every side, the boys finally discover the old man’s identity and unearth a treasure that is much rarer and finer than gold. Grades 5-8. c2009.By Jessica Scott Kerrin. 2012
Graeme knows every inch of his fishing community. When Graeme's dad catches a gargantuan lobster with antennae the size of…
bicycle spokes, Graeme is fascinated. His dad promises to put the creature up for auction at the town's annual lobster festival and, if it gets the highest bid, use the prize money to take Graeme to a marine research aquarium. But what if the right thing would be to set the lobster free? Followed by "A narrow escape". Grades 2-4. 2012.By Michelle Superle. 2010
When Sam finds a big black dog in her backyard she wants to keep him, but her mother can't find…
out so Sam hides him in the shed. Meanwhile, Stella wakes up in a strange room - she's had a stroke and can't move or talk, so how can she ask what happened to her dog? A story about a magical dog who changes Sam's life in ways she could never have dreamed. Grades 4-7. 2010.By Dave Atkinson. 2016
Kate is an odd duck - literally. When the full moon arrives, the rest of her family turns into wolves,…
but she is a happy wereduck. Relatively happy, that is. Her family has been uprooted from the wilds of New Brunswick to a placid farming community in Ontario, thanks to a fellow werewolf, Marcus, selling them out to sleazy tabloid journalist Dirk Bragg. When Kate discovers her great-great-grandmother's recipe "A Cure for Werewolf," she can't help but wonder - is it really possible? When Marcus's abandoned werewolf son, John, books a desperate train journey back to New Brunswick at the full moon, the ancient recipe is put to the test. Will Dirk Bragg finally corner Kate and John in their wereforms and expose them to the world, or will Cure for Werewolf keep them safe? Sequel to "Wereduck". Grades 4-7. 2016.By Cary Fagan. 2013
Young Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack,…
his wits - and the company of a poetry-spouting mole. Grades 4-7. 2013.By Sigmund Brouwer. 2012
Seventeen-year-old Webb's abusive stepfather has made it impossible for him to live at home, so Webb survives on the streets…
of Toronto by busking with his guitar and working as a dishwasher. When Webb's grandfather dies, his will stipulates that his grandsons fulfill specific requests. Webb's task takes him to the Canol Trail in Canada's Far North. With a Native guide, two German tourists and his guitar for company, Webb is forced to confront terrible events in his grandfather's past and somehow deal with the pain and confusion of his own life. For junior and senior high readers. 2012.By Nancy Shouse. 2005
Jeremy wants a pet, but he needs to show his parents that he's responsible enough for one. So he sets…
up a pet sitting service for his neighbours, so he can look after all kinds of different animals. With his parents and best friend helping out, Jeremy tackles problems (like dog slobber!) while learning all about animals - and himself. Grades 2-4. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Express Award. 2005.By Joe Schreiber. 2014
When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now…
trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. And if he succeeds, who will save Pete from his massive crush on Callie Midwood? Grades 5-8. 2014.