For as long as she can remember, Jane Stuart and her mother have lived with her controlling grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead, so she was shocked to receive an invitation to stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island. But from their very first meeting, Jane fell in love with her charming father and his whimsical cottage. During her stay with him, she even found herself daring to dream that there could be such a house back in Toronto - a house where she, Mother, and Father could live together without Grandmother directing their lives - a house that she could come to call home.

In 1962 Ottawa, eleven-year-old Rex Norton-Norton faces several confusing mysteries, including his father's troubling secrets from World War II, the problems of a beautiful but unhappy woman named Natasha, what to do about his mean and vindictive teacher, and whether or not he should even be concerned about these things.

In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him.In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him.

Thirteen-year-old Jessie Wheller is a girl who knows her heart and will do everything that she can to follow it. With her Newfoundland pony, Raven, and Newfoundland dog, Blizzard, Jessie is never at a loss for faithful companions. Jessie's grandmother is always pushing her to be a "lady," but if being a lady means leading a life without adventure, Jessie will have none of it. When Jessie realizes that a little girl named Clara is being neglected, Jessie knows that she has to help. And when Jessie discovers a herd of wild ponies captured in the woods, she knows that she and her friends must come to the rescue. But going head-to-head against the town's bully to save Clara and the ponies is no small feat, and Jessie will need more than just a little bit of luck. The rugged shores of Newfoundland in 1965 set the scene for award-winning author Joan Hiatt Harlow's tale of a girl and her boundless affection for ponies.

After her mother marries a Canadian Indian man, fourteen-year-old Josie finds herself living on a reserve outside of town and becomes a target of bullies for being white.

Owen Skye's true love, Sylvia Tull, has moved away, and Owen distracts himself in a number of different ways, among them running for class president, adopting a dog, and braving a haunted house.

When his father is killed in the war in Afghanistan and the family is forced to move into the home of their great-grandmother in a distant prairie town, Jack realizes that he must become head of the family in order to maintain some type of family life for his younger siblings in the midst of constantly changing circumstances.

Although they are still managing to maintain a comfortable life during the Great Depression because of her father's blacksmithing trade, everything falls apart when Millie's mother suddenly dies, her father falls into a major depression, and people begin to arrive at the house to threaten what remains of the loving family she once had. Original.

Flora Gauld faces the challenges of taking care of her younger brother, William, and living with her aunt and uncle in Canada, while her parents return to Taiwan as missionaries.

Heather is horrified when her grandmother, as a part of an elderly women's group who protest against logging in the area, poses for a semi-nude calander, and things get even more complicated when the whole group is arrested.

Saara is excited to go to Finland to finally meet her grandparents and extended family, but when the ship she is on--the Empress of Ireland--sinks, all she can think about is the safety of her mother and younger brother.

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When her adoptive mother takes off to 'find herself', Poppy goes to live with her adoptive father, his new wife, Calypso, and their toddler, Sandeep, but restless, Poppy begins to search for her birth mother.

When Angus and Jack complain about moving into a smaller house, their mother invites the dogs, neighbors, and relatives over for a sleepover, and when they leave, suddenly the boys realize the house is just right. By the author of A Salmon for Simon.

In 1789, with tensions still running high in the aftermath of the American Revolution, twelve-year-old Ned Seamen and his family make an arduous journey toward Canada, hoping to join other Americans who had remained loyal to Great Britain.

The continuing adventures of the six Mitchell children now living at Friendly Gables, their house in the Montreal suburbs, as they welcome twin brothers, make new friends, and try, often unsuccefully, to keep out of mischief.

When their father takes a job in Montreal, the six Mitchell children experience a variety of adventures living in a ski hut, the only house the family could find. (view table of contents)