Product Description: After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Zoe is whisked away to Newfoundland to live with a father she has never met. In the tiny village of Port au Choix, she gets caught up in solving the mystery of finding the habitation site of the Maritime Archaic Indian, an ancient culture that lived in the area more than four thousand years ago...read more

Product Description: English professor Isobel Harding knew she’d meet opposition when she invited her aunt, Dr. Elizabeth Wilcox, to be the keynote speaker at Evangeline University’s literary conference, in Jacob’s Ladder, Nova Scotia. As the best-selling author of the controversial new book Analyzing Sylvia Plath, Dr...read more

Product Description: Thirteen-year-old Rabia, along with her mother and younger brother, flees Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban for Pakistan. Some months later, they take part in a program that is relocating refugee widows and orphans to America. However, their flight falls on the fateful morning of 9/11...read more

Product Description: When he was a young boy, Emile Benoit dreamed of having his own fiddle. All he had was a toy with some thread for strings. But on his twelfth birthday, he got a big surprise! His father had made a fiddle out of old violin parts. Soon he was amazing everyone by playing tunes he wrote himself...read more

Product Description: Anne Harvey has lived all her young life on the island off the rugged coast of Newfoundland and has seen what the raging storms can do to helpless ships caught in their path. It’s no surprise that Isle aux Morts means Island of the Dead...read more

Product Description: Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature Nominee, 2008CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2008 A compelling adventure story!In the early 20th century, an English doctor exposed the desperation of the people of the outports of Newfoundland and Labrador...read more

Product Description: First established in response to the need for live theatre in rural areas, Mermaid Theatre – based in Windsor, Nova Scotia – swiftly rose to international acclaim. Author Alice Walsh uses Mermaid’s productions, from The Happy Prince to Guess How Much I Love You, to tell the story of the company’s evolution in the history of Canadian theatre...read more

D'Arcy gets a hold of her uncle's false teeth while he is napping, but she accidentally drops them into the sea while showing them to her friends, where they end up in a large fish's mouth

Product Description: About the Drôles d'histoires series: Filled with humour and fantasy, this series is born of illustrator Michael Martchenko's wild imagination and those of several authors, including Robert Munsch. Absolutely irresistible, the situations in these books are always far-fetched and the illustrations explosive...read more