Juvenile Fiction, Holidays & Celebrations
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Quarantine: Keep Out!
by Trudy Cowan
It is 1919. A terrible influenza epidemic has made people around the world very sick. Many did not recover. Leah, Joseph and Jacob’s mother has a bad case of “the flu.” The doctor took her away from their prairie homestead farm and placed her in...
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The Travels of Santa's Button
by Carol Merton
Santa’s button is very frightened. It needs to get back home because it has a very important and special job to do. The Travels of Santa’s Button is a story about helping hands both young and old and the magic of Christmas.
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A Surprise For Santa
by Carol Merton
Max visits Santa and discovers that Santa is missing something very important. A Surprise For Santa is a delightful story about how Max’s friends and family help him return a special surprise.
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The Christmas Choice
by Fred Phillips
The Christmas Choice is a story about two brothers who ambush Santa Claus on Christmas Eve and the aftermath of their unkind act. After realizing what they have done, the boys take immediate action to rectify matters. It is a heartwarming story...
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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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Little Drip Takes Another Trip
by Debbi Keil
Little Drip was written as a 4th Grade assignment. Little Drip depicts a love for travel, yet always in the end, coming back to the comfort and safety of home. This book is for all the little adventurers in all of us.
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The RAM Club and the Ratha Yatra Rubies
by Vrinda devi dasi
Meet the RAM Club... ten-year-old Radha, her best friend Angel, and her little sister Madhavi. They visit Vancouver for the Ratha Yatra festival, and find adventure as well! Can the RAM Club solve the mystery of the Ratha Yatra Rubies?
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Thirty Bucks
by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
Mr. Hermit’s perfectly ordered life is thrown into disarray when two shepherds and an angel come to his door one cold winter night with a stray kitten and a desperate request. By opening his door to the neighbourhood, Mr. Hermit embarks on an...
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Peppy the Christmas Tree
by Mike Kennedy
This is the story of a Christmas tree named Peppy that nobody wanted to buy from the Christmas tree farm. Peppy wonders if he’ll ever be a Christmas tree and, after many years, finally finds a family that loves him and thinks he’s the best...
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Gnorman The Gnorwegian Gnome
Hope for the Gnew year by Jim Prock
Poor little Gnorman, the Gnorwegian Gnome has a problem. Living way up Gnorth at the base of Mount Gnewtontoppen in Svalbard, Gnorway, he’s always at the end of Santa’s route. Why, there’s hardly ever anything left for Gnorman! All he ever gets...
