Juvenile Fiction, Historical
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Falling
by Dawn Davis
A worthy follow-up to her 2015 debut, Falling whisks us back to the summer of 1813 and the brief American occupation of Queenston where it explores the events leading up to Laura Secord’s historic walk of June 21. In this prequel to The Tree of...
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The Storks Came Back
A boy grows up in Denmark under Nazi occupation by Afiena Kamminga
In April 1940 when his country, Denmark, is invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, seven year old Morten has no idea how his life and that of his family and all other people in Denmark is about to change. School is interrupted. Danish Resistance...
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Fishing for Friends
by Julia Gibson
We are Canadian citizens and in Canada we show peace. For Canada’s 150th anniversary we created a book with our teacher about Canadian citizenship and reconciliation that featured our art work. Lucas and Peter go to school. At school Peter gets...
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When Dinosaurs go Dancing
by Judy Cook
When Dinosaurs go Dancing has everything to delight three to eight year old palaeontologists-from fossils to foxtrot. Where else can you tango with triceratops, minuet with pachycephalosaurus, and then bow to apatosaurus before tap dancing across...
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The Yellow Star
Shines Like A Candle In The Dark by Aaron Seth
What is life worth, when nothing is left? Young Aharon, no more than twelve, tells us his struggles during the Holocaust. Despite the atmosphere and religious differences, he was able to relive the Passover Seder with a gentile friend. How can a...
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Kimbal Creek Secrets
by Marg Sharp-Eagle
It’s 1865, and word of the booming gold rush in British Columbia, brings 13 year-old Jamie Stewart and his older brother, Oliver, to Barkerville, then up into the mountains to Kimbal Creek. When they pull out a good amount of gold and some large...
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Full Moon Lagoon
by Monica Nawrocki
Best friends, Maddy and Cat spend their summers looking for action on magical Cortes Island, but they get more than they bargained for when they go lagoon-diving at midnight with Cat’s twin brother, “Draggin”. The three twelve year-olds emerge...
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The Tree of Life
by Dawn Davis
Charlotte lives with her grandfather in a house with a secret: The Tower Room. It is the one room in which she’s been forbidden to snoop. Charlotte, however, is eleven years old and has a mind of her own, and when she and her friend Henry hide...
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The Shiny House
by Faye Rempel
What secrets lurk inside the house of mystery? And what is its connection to the Louis Riel Rebellion of 1885? The gigantic historical house sits forlornly on the Saskatchewan prairie, its windows boarded and heavy locks securing the doors daring...
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Laura's Story
by Julie Larade
Laura's Story is a beautiful and enduring tale of a heroic Acadian woman struggling to survive in rural Nova Scotia from the 1930s through the following decades. Life's surprises weave throughout the book, and the resilience of the characters is...
