Health & Daily Living
Manik's Nosey Finger
The Cuddles Club series of books revolve around a group of children who live on Willow Lane. Alli, Ella, Harley, Manik and Giarldo are all going to kindergarten together and sharing the usual ups and downs of childhood. Each of them have their favorite hobbies and sports, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses. In The Cuddles Club books they …
Miracle for Maggie
Maggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes. Maggie's father, a doctor, is greatly saddened by his brother's death, and soon has to deal with his own daughter's diagnosis with the dread disease. Various remedies are tried, including starvation diet popular at the ti …
Miracleville
Sixteen-year-old Ani lives in the tiny Quebec town of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, where her family runs Saintly Souvenirs, a tourist shop catering to the many pilgrims who come to the town seeking a miracle. The bane of Ani's existence is her hyperactive, over-sexed younger sister, Colette. Ani and her mother, Therese, are devout Catholics; Colette and he …
Name of the Child
During the flu epidemic of 1913, Lloyd has been sent to relatives in the country. He is frightened of coyotes, illness and independence, but finds himself bundled into a wagon on a stormy night, a tiny nameless baby thrust into his arms. He must get the baby to safety, but will he be able to overcome his fears sufficiently to drive the wagon along …
Uncle John stumbled out of the bedroom with the baby in his arms.
"Alice is terribly sick," he said. "And there's no milk for the baby."
Lloyd stared at him. "Do you think it's influenza?" he whispered.
Slowly Uncle John nodded. His face was as white as paper. His forehead was covered with drops of sweat. "You and the baby have to get away from here or you'll catch it," he said.
No Ordinary Day
Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willlow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors’ Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards: Young Adult/Middle Reader Award, the Governor General's Literary Awards: …
Out of Sight
Goalkeepers don't wear glasses...
Lately, the star goalkeeper on Linh-Mai's soccer team has been acting a little strange -- missing easy saves, passing to the wrong teammates, not noticing Linh-Mai's new glasses... Linh-Mai thinks the goalkeeper needs glasses of his own, but the problem may turn out to be more serious.
[Fry Reading Level - 4.6]Shortl …