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|  | | Discovering Emily
Growing up in 19th century Victoria, eight-year-old Emily Carr is constantly getting into trouble and can’t seem to do anything right – until she discovers a love of art.
span style="font-family: Arial">span style="font-size: medium">Young Emily Carr has no interest in learning to be a lady. She loves animals and the outdoors, and she is begining to discover that what she loves most of all is drawing and painting. Has she finally found something she can be good at? And how will she ever find a way to develop her talent in the strait-laced world of nineteenth century Victoria, British Columbia?/span>/span>
| |  | | Dog House Blues
The class snob hates dogs, and Erika has three of them!
Erika is the target of the class snob and bully, who taunts her for smelling like her three dogs. When worry over making a new friend causes Erika to neglect her dogs, disaster almost strikes. For ages 8-12. | |  | | Flood Warning
The river is rising, and young Tom must help get his family's dairy cows to higher ground.
In the spring of 1948, the Fraser River is on the verge of flooding. Tom wants to help his father and the other men working at sandbagging the river banks to protect the town, but instead he must stay home and go to school. Tom feels left out of the action until the rising water threatens to flood the school and his family's dairy farm. Can Tom help save his family's cows? Perhaps with a little help from his dog, Amos, and a little inspiration from his favorite radio hero, the Lone Ranger.
This story is based on real events that happened in the farming community of Agassiz, Canada | |  | | Manga Touch
Manga is everywhere in Japan, but Dana still feels like an outsider.
Dana loves Japanese manga and anime and can hardly wait to get to Japan and away from the others on the exchange trip. She’s sure she’ll be less of an outsider in Japan, but discovers it’s just as difficult to fit in with a foreign culture as it is at school. A short, easy-to-read novel for ages 10-14. | |  | | Mystery of the Missing Luck
When the Lucky Cat statue goes missing from her grandmother's bakery, Sara hopes to find it and return the bakery's lost luck.
Sara loves her grandmother's bakery --for its delicious Japanese buns and pastries and for the time she spends there with Obaachan, her grandmother. But things aren't going well for the bakery. When Maneki Neko, the bakery's lucky cat statue goes missing, Sara wonders if the bakery's luck is gone for good. Then a mysterious night-time cat inspires a plan. With the help of school friend, Jake, Sara might be able to find the lucky cat and restore the bakery's lost luck. A chapter book for ages 6-8, illustrated by Leanne Franson.
| |  | | Siege
When Jason goes to summer camp with his cousin Sean, he doesn’t expect to be dodging ghosts and musket fire in the middle of a War of 1812 re-enactment.
span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Jason is not happy when he finds himself stuck at a War of 1812 re-enactment summer camp for two weeks. The historically accurate camp bans all trappings of modern life, including cell phones and electricity. Jason is not sure how he will survive without his cell phone and video games. But things start to get interesting after he learns to fire a musket and meets the cute girl who works in the mess tent. And what about the mysterious lights that appear inside the old fort late at night? Is the fort haunted by soldiers who | |  | | The Reunion
Jas and Mitsu think they are safe from the war on Vancouver Island. Even though Jas' family comes from India and Mitsu's from Japan, the girls are best friends. But then they have a fight, and before they can make up, all the Japanese-Canadians are taken away. Will the two friends ever see eachother again?
span style="font-size: medium">span style="font-family: Arial">When roller blades and a pair of striped socks threaten to break up Shannon and Rina's friendship, Rina's grandma, Jas, tells a story from her own childhood during WW II. After a fight between Jas and her best friend Mitsu, Mitsu's family and all the other Japanese Canadians in town are taken away by Mounted Police./span>/span>
span style="font-size: medium">span style="font-family: Arial">Will Jas's story help Sannon and Rina mend fences? And will the two girls find a way to bring Jas and Mitsu back together again | |  | | The Truth about Rats (and Dogs)
Conner loves animals and BMX bike stunts, but his parents don’t seem to notice. They wont let him get a dog, and they expect him to be good at math and piano like his older sister. Despite his parents’ no-pets rule, Conner smuggles home a pet rat.
span style="font-family: Arial">span style="font-size: medium">Unlike his perfect older sister, Conner hates piano lessons and gets bad grades at math. He loves animals, but his parents have a no-pets rule. When the local animal shelter gets over-crowded, everone in Conner's animal club agrees to take in a foster pet. Although he'd much rather have a dog, Conner takes home Oscar, the rat, and while keeping Oscar hidden, discovers there is more to rats than he expected. But what will Conner's family think if they find out about Oscar?/span>/span>
| |  | | Weeds and other stories
Navigating through a city where coyotes walk at night, crows sometimes give advice and storms can lead you in unexpected directions, the teens in these short stories find their own way while grappling with issues like bullying, peer pressure, teen pregnancy and drug addiction.
span style="font-family: Arial">span style="font-size: medium">From the book jacket:/span>/span>
span style="font-family: Arial">span style="font-size: medium">In i>Weeds and other Stories/i> you will find bullies and mystical coyotes, environmental warriors, loners, clowns, and the best of friends; and, of course, some fresh takes on teen relationships. With an ear tuned to teen dialogue, and an eye for precise emotional detail, Jacqueline Pearce cuts a wide arc within teen culture. The prevasive thread that runs through the collection is that wilderness touches everyone, a |
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