Juvenile Fiction, Imagination & Play
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Charlie's Riddle
by Julia Bartley
Join Charlie on her quest to discover the answer to her riddle. Charlie feels unprepared until her imagination turns the objects left in her backpack into valuable tools that help her along the way. She is able to overcome her obstacles with the...
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The Messenger Bird and the Missing Frog
by Rhonda Lee
Meet Chloe—a spirited adventurer who loves hide and-seek, Nana’s cookies, and catching frogs! During a backyard frog hunt with her brother Noah, his friend Mateo, and his loyal messenger bird, Luna, an unexpected surprise turns their day into a...
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How My House Felt
by Linda M. Ambrose
A grandmother looks back at the story of the house where she grew up, remembering what it was like to live there over the years. She imagines that the house felt what she felt when she was small. Happy and sad moments, pleasures and fears, joys...
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The Dusty Cat
by Jaimie Clarke
Dusty the cat was a dusty cat. People often stared at her and made rude comments about how dusty she was. Sawyer and his mom, Dusty’s family, loved her anyway and told her she was special. One day Dusty had a big sneeze, and her dust turned into...
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The Old Mango Tree
by Lisa Fay
The Old Mango Tree stands tall and strong, It has witnessed the changing seasons and the lives that have passed beneath its branches. Along the way, it gathered a diverse and cherished group of friends. Among them is Kairi, a precocious and...
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Shimmerlaroos and The Great Kookenama
by Jack Smalley
An adventure story with quirky characters and strange habits. A band of buddies go on a quest for the ultimate meal and in the process find new friends. This story is about the use of our senses. How we look at our world with sight, touch, taste,...
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Where Is My Sock?
by Jennifer Brown
Much to the dismay of a wee child, Chaussette—a small, soft, and striped sock—doesn't come back from the laundry one day. But what happens to our favourite socks when they disappear? Chaussette discovers the answer to that mystery: the world of...
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Mabel's Little House in the Park
by Carol Gall
Mabel is a little girl with a big imagination, and there’s one thing she’s always wondered about—the old house in the park with its shutters tightly closed. What could be inside? Every time she passes by, Mabel dreams of secret rooms and...
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Spaghetti Steve
by Tasha Turko
Steve loves spaghetti. Steve loves the snow. Steve loves eating spaghetti in the snow! One day a green snowflake that looks like spaghetti noodles lands on Steve’s glove. Of course, he eats it—and is instantly transformed into a superhero....
