Quinn takes on a huge challenge when he enters his first ultra-marathon, the punishing Shin-Kicker 100 {u2013} a 24-hour race that will push him to the very limits of his endurance. As he struggles to complete the race, we find out why...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Carroll, DavidSummary:
- Author:Boateng, JohnnySummary:
KaLeah has just moved from Halifax to the small town of Trail, B.C. KaLeah's a natural at baseball, and it's what she loves to do most. But she is excluded and bullied by Nikki and her clique, the popular Valley Girls, because she is...
- Author:Green, JohnSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Andrea Talbot and her brother Tony take one more trip through time - Back in the tunnels, they have to solve a mystery that has troubled Grandpa Vance throughout his life: How did his friend Jack die, so many decades ago? Was it an...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Andrea and her ten-year-old brother Tony are drawn into the scary underground of 1920s Moose Jaw to rescue their friends from Mean-Eyed Max and his gang.
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarlekinSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Andrea, visiting Moose Jaw for her cousin's wedding, has quite an adventure in the mysterious tunnels where she finds herself reliving the past.
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Andrea travels once again to Moose Jaw, where she and her diabetic younger brother Tony soon get stuck in the perilous past in the now dangerous tunnels with Beanie, Vance and a gang of thieves.
- Author:Nash, ScottSummary:
When Duckie, a terry cloth duck, loses his brain and can no longer tell stories to the other toys, Tuff Fluff the private investigator must solve the case.
- Author:Andrews McMeel PublishingSummary:
Beep, Beep! Watch as monster trucks romp over hapless cars, fire engines perform daring rescues, and dump trucks drop tons of dirt in Trucks, a high-octane adventure for the preschool crowd. It's sure to keep little truckers entertained...
- Author:Hering, MarianneSummary:
When they step into the Imagination Station, kids experience an unforgettable journey filled with action-packed adventure. With each book, they're whisked away with cousins Patrick and Beth to embark on a new journey around the...
- Author:Ernst, KathleenSummary:
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing,...
- Author:Toro, Guillermo Del.Summary:
"You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk' They're patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you've paid so much attention to in mirrors' It's delicious to the right tongues, a...
- Author:Sandor, StevenSummary:
All Andy can think about is getting a chance to make the national swim team. He practises constantly to get his swim time down and he's saving money to pay the competition fees by working part-time at a comic book store. When a video of...
- Author:Calonita, Jen.Summary:
Things are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School. At least, that's what Gilly's heard through the Enchantasia rumor mill. Word is, notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management from Headmistress Flora, and he...
- Author:Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
For Percy, the loss of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during the last week before high school graduation.
- Author:Stewart, H. E.Summary:
The First Nations could hear the singing of the trees. The Sitka spruce, a giant among trees, grows in a rainforest in the Pacific Northwest. The Europeans arrive and clear the old forests. The ancient Sitka shatters. Hope dawns when an...
- Author:Charles, Norma M.Summary:
Ten-year-old Jeanie Leclare has just moved to the West Coast from Saskatchewan. She's desperately lonely and longs for a new friend. When the girl sitting in front of her at school seems friendly, she feels a little better. Then an...
- Author:Aslan, AustinSummary:
Twelve-year-old Mace Blazer gets the chance to pilot a state-of-the-art vehicle, that transforms at the touch of a button from racecar to jet plane to submarine, in the biggest race in the world.
- Author:Jenkins, EmilySummary:
Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.
- Author:Jenkins, EmilySummary:
Six stories relate further adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys, as they encounter a fearsome (possible) shark, enjoy a dance party, and deal with rejection by The Girl, who is growing up.