<p>When eleven-year-old Pascale Chardon finds herself on a lifeboat drifting toward an uncharted island with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to get back to […]
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<p>Agnes’s neighbours think her penchant for vegetable gardening a bit odd. Why, she never seems to sit down to a fish pie or a bit of roast beef. But when […]
After reading about Amelia Earhart in her friend’s scrapbook, twelve-year-old Ginny Ross decides to become a pilot. But how will Ginny’s dream take flight when her mother—not to mention society in general—so fiercely believes a woman’s place is in the home?
Matt has two weeks left to enjoy summer with his best friends, Danny and Emma, but he has to include his younger cousin Adam. Matt’s summer takes on an unexpected adventure when he and Adam spot a burning, ghostly ship and become determined to unravel the mystery. Recruiting Danny and Emma, the four set out to find the ship, only to encounter other, very real dangers on the Northumberland Strait.
<p>”Get off of there, Craig!” shouted Shawn.<BR />
“I can’t! I’m slipping!” wailed Craig.<BR />
Shawn leaped back onto the ice. He took a breath and jumped over the widening crack, grabbing his little brother by the coat as he flew through the air. Both boys fell heavily to the ice on the other side. <BR />
The boys stared in horror as the crack widened to reveal an eddy of churning, foaming brown water. </p><p>Tony, Craig, and Shawn are trapped on an ice floe on the Petitcodiac River in the dead of winter, and the rapid current is pulling them toward the ocean. Twelve-year-old Petra arrives and the boys think they’re saved, but their dangerous journey is only just beginning.</p><p>The boys and Petra face peril at every twist and turn of the river in Chocolate River Rescue, an exhilarating adventure based on true events. They also learn that a river of chocolate is far better served warm, over ice cream, than cold on an ice floe!</p>arn that a river of chocolate is far better served warm, over ice cream, than cold on an ice floe!
<p> Jamie’s heritage project on Captain Nehemiah Butler quickly turns into a search for buried treasure, and he and his friends have to draw on their deductive, orientation, and science skills to find it. Tension mounts when an important clue goes missing at school. Will someone else beat them to the treasure? This mystery read for ages 9-12 is set on New Brunswick’s Deer Island.</p>
Prepare for adventure on the high seas! Elliot wants to catch the biggest fish that anyone has ever seen. After making a wish, he finds himself on the ocean with […]
<div><b>***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER***</b></div> <div>***<b>BRUNEAU FAMILY AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE LONGLIST***</b><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Errol the adventurous little mouse takes to the sky when he meets a young girl, […]
Ten-year-old Chloe Sutton arrives on Prince Edward Island from her home in Ontario after the tragic loss of her parents in a car accident. Her Aunt Laverne (Larry) is a doctor and her only relative able to take her in. Chloe isn’t sure what to make of her aunt’s big old house on the red cliff overlooking the Northumberland Strait, or the skinny, red-haired and heavily freckled boy who wants to be her friend. Her first night in her new home, Chloe is tormented by the loss of her mother and father and hides in the dark to speak to them. When she does, she unknowingly invites the attention of a ghostly boy who inhabits the oldest part of the farmstead. Terrified but intrigued by the encounter, Chloe decides to uncover his history, setting her off on a set of adventures. When she does finally find the ghost boy’s secret, she realizes he has been blaming himself for years for the death of his brother, much like she has been blaming herself for surviving her parents. With the wrong made right, Chloe is finally let go of her own grief and accepted her new life.
<p>Thirteen-year-old Iain Robertson is homesick for the Highlands of Scotland. It’s September 1773, and he has just arrived in Nova Scotia with his parents and little sister after the long, […]
Set in rural Newfoundland and Labrador, Jack and the Hurricane follows young, willful Jack on his adventure to save his cousin’s birthday party, no matter what Mother Nature has in […]
How much fun can you have with just one rubber boot?When one goes missing, Jack and his grandmother are forced to cancel their fishing trip. However, Jack has never been […]
