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Ten-year-old Ruby Goldberg is determined to win her school science fair - she’s snagged second place for the last two…
years. The only trouble is that Ruby has no ideas. When her grandfather’s beloved basset hound dies, Ruby thinks of the perfect thing that will cheer him up and win her first place - an innovative, not-to-be-duplicated Ruby Goldberg invention! Before long Ruby is so busy working on her idea that she ignores everything else in her life, including her best friend, Penny. And what started out as simple turns into something much more complicated! Can Ruby get her priorities - and the mechanisms of her project - in order before it’s too late? Grades 3-6. 2013.
The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet,…
a Capulet, fall in love they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune. For senior high readers. 2006.
Lucy DiCamillo is safely surrounded by her books, music, and art - but none of these reclusive comforts or even…
the protective efforts of her grandmother, Kitty, can shield her thoughts from the mother she can barely recall. Lucy senses her grandmother holds the key, but Kitty seems as eager to hide the past as Lucy is eager to find it. 2008.
In post-World War I Germany, veteran Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner has been baffled by the corpses of middle-aged women appearing…
around Berlin, all with signature designs carved into their backs. After a fifth body is discovered, Hoffner is shown a sixth at the morgue - that of the infamous Socialist revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg. Her corpse has similar markings with subtle differences, but the body is spirited away by the political police while Hoffner is launched into a perilous, labyrinthine inquiry. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2005.
Biography of John Diefenbaker, one of the most enigmatic public figues in Canadian history. The author charts Diefenbaker's career as…
a lawyer on the Prairies, his entry into politics, and his controversial years as Prime Minister. Some strong language. 1995.
9-year-old Rosie's adventure begins with a schoolyard snowball fight that is misinterpreted by the teachers as a racist quarrel. Vietnamese…
immigrant Piam Low describes to Rosalie what real war is like, while she deals with the disappearance of her new kitten, and the sickness of her close friend, Pierre-Yves. Grades 3-6. 1995. Uniform title: Rosalie s'en va-t-en guerre.
Historian Theo Sinclair is confronted by Alice Donovan, a young woman who is seeking information about her father, a soldier…
hanged for murder in 1945. Theo, then a child, had testified in the case. Theo and Alice, while searching for other witnesses, realize that the real murderer is still at large, and still dangerous. Some strong language. 1986.
Divided into four sections, these 51 entries showcase Wiebe’s diverse concerns. The first section includes tales of warriors, Chiefs, and…
the First Nations’ experiences prior to the imposition of restrictions on their land and freedom by the Crown. The other sections include stories on Mennonite history, Western Canada, and more personal character sketches. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.
When teacher and author Wayne Tefs was diagnosed with a relatively unknown form of cancer, he decided to chronicle his…
journey from the onset of the disease, his shock at the diagnosis, his spiritual struggle, and his eventual learning to live with it. Tefs also describes his encounters with a wide spectrum of people whose varied reactions gave him the necessary combination of hope and anger to carry on. Some strong language. 2002.
With violence, anti-social behaviour, bullying, and aggression among young children escalating, educator Mary Gordon devised the Roots of Empathy programme,…
which fosters each child's innate sense of caring and compassion. Bringing babies and children together in the classroom creates a symbiotic environment that reduces aggression while increasing tolerance and emotional literacy. 2005.
The breakup of her parents' marriage puts the family woollen mill in jeopardy, and so Rowan takes on the huge…
onus of trying to prevent its closure. Spurred on by the success of the textile baron who had enticed her mother away, she drags the mill from disaster to prosperity but at great cost to her own married happiness. Includes sex. 1988.
Caligula is dead, Rome is in the hands of a drooling fool - and Vespasian must fight to save his…
brother's life and find the Eagle of the Seventeenth. The Praetorian Guard have proclaimed Claudius Emperor - but his position is precarious. His three freedmen, Narcissus, Pallas and Callistus, must find a way to manufacture a quick victory for him - but how? Sequel to “False God of Rome”. Followed by “Masters of Rome”. 2014, c2013.
When Carter Ross left Texas to fight in the Civil War, he left his half brother, Johnny, in charge of…
his young family. Johnny was half Comanche, but Carter had always loved his little brother and his Comanche relatives. When the war was over, Carter came home, ready to put fighting behind him. He hadn't expected to find himself in the middle of another battle just as bloody and even more ruthless. 1999.
"Horse-breaker, mischief-maker, adventurer by instinct," Ronicky Doone loves a good fight, especially for an underdog. As a reward for helping…
Hugh Dawn and his daughter escape the savage revenge of gang leader Jack Moon, Doone is invited to share in the search for the gold Dawn is hunting. Some descriptions of violence. 1922. (Ronicky Doone)
Just when Evelyn Peerbaugh and her first tenants had found a calm cove of sisterhood, times changed and her boardinghouse…
had new vacancies to fill. Evelyn has high hopes that these new women will become a part of a new life-changing sister circle. Sequel to "The Sister Circle". 2003.
Fictionalized autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter Rose based on her diary and letters. Rose lived an unusually full and…
independent life in the man's world of the early twentieth century, and is the author of the best seller "Let the hurricane roar." 1977.
Richard likes to write, but he always has trouble with homework assignments. Now he has to create a composition showing…
how a proverb illustrates something in his life. Richard easily writes nine stories about his parents' divorce and moving into a new neighbourhood. Grades 4-7. 1998.
In the Dominican Republic, a boy who dreams of playing professional baseball in the United States crosses paths with a…
young environmentalist from Minneapolis who is passionate about saving bees. Grades 4-7. 2017.
Account of Rosa Parks's decision to stay in her bus seat in 1955 Alabama, in defiance of segregation laws. Explains…
the resulting bus boycott by civil rights activists that led to the Supreme Court ruling ending racial segregation on buses. Grades 3-6. Coretta Scott King Award, Caldecott Honor. 2005.