Джин Литтл

Провести летние каникулы так, как хочется?Нет ничего проще - решают Сэм и Алекс и… меняются местами.Они летели в Торонто к знакомым своих родителей, но каждая хотела бы заниматься тем, что уготовано другой. Как долго продержался обман?И каковы будут его последствия?

Ten-year-old Min has had a long history of foster care since being abandoned in a public washroom at age three. When Min is dumped by her latest foster mother just before Christmas, Jess Hart, a former Children’s Aid doctor who knows min and sees past her hardened shell, decides to take her home for a couple of weeks to see how the two of them get along. Jess has long had thoughts of a becoming Mi...

Winner of the Canadian Library Association Children’s Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award Jeremy is not having a good summer. His best friends have moved away, and he has to stay at the cottage with only his little sister and Aunt Margery. His parents have remained in the city so his father can have an operation. When Jeremy finally sees him again, he finds out that his father has cance...

Born with cerebral palsy, nine-year-old Sally has spent the past five years at a special rehabilitation school. Her dreams of actually living with her family rather than just visiting them finally come true when a new school opens near her family’s home. Adjusting to her new life and the typical challenges of starting a new school and meeting new friends are heightened for Sally, through the uniqu...

When baseball season starts, Ryder finds it's hard to get his grandmother to pay attention to anything else. This affectionate book shows you don't have to be bats about baseball to appreciate our national pastime, or the special bond between a boy and his baseball-crazy grandmother. Full-color illustrations.

Based on the Jean's mother?s childhood. Winner of the IODE Violet Downie Award. For as long as she can remember, Flora Gauld has lived in Taiwan, but now her family is going home to Canada, a place she has only seen in pictures. At first she?s a bit intimidated by all the cousins she meets in Kippen, Ontario, but after a while she begins to feel at home. Then her parents explain that th...

After the death of her twin brother, a girl learns to look to the future in this gentle, absorbing story.

A charming story about a little Jewish girl that sees Santa Claus in a parade and can't help going home and drawing a picture of him. What she eventually discovers makes for a charming story about family, love, and the power of imagination.

When Emily's parents move to an eighteen-room house so that her four unpredictable cousins can live with them, life for Emily, an only child, is never again the same.