Jeremy lives in a small community where winters are long and stray dogs roam the streets. When peer pressure leads Jeremy into a bad prank, he is immediately struck with guilt - and that's when Jeremy's life changes forever. Trying to...
Grandfathers
- Author:Körner, MiriamSummary:
- Author:Lee, John B.Summary:
Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of...
- Author:Peacock, ShaneSummary:
Dylan is twelve years old and embarking on his first ocean kayaking trip with his parents. He has spent the last year convincing them that he is ready for the challenging-and very dangerous-adventure. In fact, he has been determined to...
- Author:Smith, RolandSummary:
When Jake, a teenager, takes his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf.
- Author:Badami, Anita RauSummary:
Sripathi Rao, the protagonist of Anita Rau Badami's second novel, is an ordinary, middle-aged man whose career and family have failed to meet his expectations. But when his daughter and her husband are suddenly killed in a car crash,...
- Author:Rose, SimonSummary:
Charles Kelly was the world's greatest comic book artist until he disappeared without a trace. Two years later, his grandson Sam discovers a mysterious pen in Kelly's attic studio. Sam is soon propelled into a deadly dimension, where...
- Author:Inglis, KateSummary:
Contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions, blackberry sploosh and many, many...
- Author:Yates, J. DylanSummary:
Jules Finn and Szaja Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply—so deeply it can drown the soul. Growing up in her parents' crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules's imaginative sense of humor is the weapon...
- Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:
This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them...
- Author:Anderson, CatherineSummary:
The fourth heartwarming novel in the New York Times bestselling series about unlikely pairs learning to open themselves up to love in Mystic Creek, Oregon. Crystal Malloy owns the beauty salon in Mystic Creek, Oregon. It took years of...
- Author:Bélanger, Pierre-LucSummary:
Un jeune homme, Cédric Poitras, accumule les mauvais coups depuis son entrée au secondaire : cours séchés, vols à l’étalage, alcool… rien ne semble l’arrêter. À bout de nerfs, ses parents l’expédient chez son grand-père paternel,...
- Author:Bowler, Tim.Summary:
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
- Author:Christopher, Danny, Akulukjuk, RoselynnSummary:
What creatures lurk beneath the sea ice? Putuguq and Kublu-two siblings who can't seem to get along-are about to find out! On their way to the shoreline, Putuguq and Kublu run into their grandfather, who has a stern warning for the pair...
- Author:Stewart, SallySummary:
When Anna Rasini sees a painting of a Mediterranean street scene in the window of an Oxford art gallery her curiosity is aroused, for her mother owns a very similar work, bearing the initials N.K.' Early enquiries suggest that both...
- Author:Hebert, Marie-FrancineSummary:
Poppy, the zany character from A Monster in My Cereal, A Ghost in My Mirror, and Witch’s Brew, is back. But this time, Poppy is miserable. Her grandpa has died, and Poppy is as angry as she is sad. Book 2 in the Poppy series by Marie-...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Andrea and her brother travel back to the most dangerous part of her grandfather's past, in Chicago.
- Author:Wilson, JohnSummary:
Steve Is off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept...
- Author:Polikoff, Barbara GarlandSummary:
As Horatio tries to adjust to the death of his father from lung cancer, O.P., Horatio's grandfather, mourns the loss of his dog Mollie.
- Author:Delaunoi, AngèleSummary:
Un jour, grand-papa arrive à la maison avec une boîte remplie de choses bizarres. C’était il n’y a pas si longtemps que cela. Hier à peine. Les dahlias de grand-papa pousseront année après année dans le jardin familial. Jusqu’au jour où...
- Author:Peacock, ShaneSummary:
Adam secretly lusts after Vanessa, the hottest girl in school, and when his dead grandfather's will stipulates that he go on a mission to France, Adam figures he has a chance to impress Vanessa and change his life from good to...