Product Description: Young Adult Fiction. In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his father yells at him, "Run Marco, run!" Marco manages to escape, and seeing no possibility of help in Colombia, he stows away on a freighter headed to Vancouver where a good friend of his father is living and who may be able to help...read more

Nell has been in foster homes all her life most of them have been horrible. She finally gets moved to a home she likes, and the ministry threatens to close it down unless an expensive renovation is made to the house. Nell and the two boys in the home, Billy and Tom, decide to raise the funds themselves. How do kids get large amounts of money quickly? By robbing banks, of course. Their first few heists are successful, but when they almost get caught on their sixth robbery, the friends start to fight about whether they should continue. The bank jobs that were meant to keep their family together just might tear it apart.

Product Description: In this fast-paced, on the road, YA novel, Norma Charles once again manages to include provocative social issues in an adventure story that will appeal to children from age ten and up. The novel opens with Toby, a young girl in a Bountiful-style community, being caught secretly reading at night...read more

Product Description: Runner-up for the 2009 Chocolate Lily Book Award and commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrive in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they’d move into hasn’t been built...read more

Product Description: A charming and insightful story of getting along with your hair, by bestselling author Norma Charles. Ruby's hair is making her miserable. The boy next door won't stop teasing her about it. What can she do? Her mom won't let her cut it off...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Twelve-year-old Megan is thrilled when her estranged father proposes a secret weekend reunion but she begins to have second thoughts about disappearing without a trace after he takes her and her sister to a remote Canadian island.

Slipping out of the convent school in Saskatchewan to which she has been sent, Toni discovers Jess--hungry, filthy, and showing all the signs of having been beaten--hiding in an abandoned barn

Product Description: Book by Charles, Norma