Allinson, Beverly

Effie

Bouchard, David

That's Hockey

Street hockey high-jinx.

Boynton, Sandra

Pajama Time

Boynton, Sandra

Barnyard Dance

Calmenson, Stephanie

Good For You: Toddler Rhymes for Toddler Times

Campbell, Rod

Dear Zoo

Carle, Eric

Very Hungry Caterpillar

Dahl, Roald

James and the Giant Peach

Orphaned boy sets amazing adventure in motion when he accidentally spills magic crystals in the garden.

De Brunhoff, Jean

Story of Babar, The

Degen, Bruce

Jamberry

Dodd, Lynley

Slinky Malinki

Doyle, Roddy

Giggler Treatment, Roddy

Mean dad gets trick played on him.

Dr. Seuss

A Hatful of Seuss

Hill, Eric

Where's Spot

Howe, James

Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery

House dog Harold is suspicious of the new family pet.

Ingals Wilder, Laura

Little House on the Prarie

A look at pioneer life through the eyes of a little girl.

Jam, Teddy

Night Cars

Perfect picture book.

King, Thomas

Coyote Columbus Story

Picture book.

Martin, Bill

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

McDonald, Megan

Judy Moody

A girls art project changes her perception of herself.

Milne, A.A.

Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh

Moore, Liliam

I'm Small & Other Verses

Muncsh, Robert

Love You Forever

The heart-warming story of growing up.

Munsch, Robert

Paper Bag Princess, The

A lovely princess is torn from her beautiful life and embarks on a strange tale with a dragon.

Numeroff, Laura

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Pilkey, Dav

Adventures of Captain Underpants, The

Boys make their mean principle the star of their comic book.

Reid, Barbara

Two By Two

Reynolds, Marilynn

The Name of the Child

Fearful boy must save family.

Schwartz, Roslyn

The Mole Sisters

Spalding, Andrea

Solomon's Tree

Boy creates mask out of destroyed tree.

Stinson, Kathy

Red is Best

Toddler loves red, mother wants her to explore other colours.

Stinson, Kathy

The Bare Naked Book

Waddell, Martin

Can't You Sleep Little Bear

Weisner, David

Tuesday

Bizarre events take place on a regular Tuesday evening.

White, E.B.

Stuart Little

The beloved story of a mouse adopted by a human family.

Wood, D.

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry...

Colville, Bruce

Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher

Eager, Edward

Half Magic

Fitch, Sheree

There Were Monkey's in My Kitchen!

Willa Wellowby's got monkey's in her kitchen!

Gay, Marie-Louise

Stella, Star of the Sea

Stella and Sam take to the sea.

Gay, Mary-Louise

Stella: Fairy of the Forest

Hoeye, Michael

Time Stops for No Mouse

Hundal, Nancy

Camping

Ibbotson, Eva

Journey to the River Sea

Ibbotson, Eva

Secret of Platform 13

Kusugak, Michael

Baseball Bats for Christmas

The kids of Repulse Bay are bewildered when a pilot leaves six trees outside the HBC on Christmas Eve.

Lang, Aubrey

Nature Baby Series

Lee, Dennis

Alligator Pie

Classic Canadian poetry for kids.

Lesynski, Loris

Boy Soup, or, When Giant Caught Cold

Girl accidently gets kidnapped along with the boys by a Giant.

Levine, Karen

Hana's Suitcase

Levinson, Marilyn

Rufus and Magic Run Amoke

Lottridge, Celia

Berta: A Remarkable Dog

McMullan, Kate

New Kid at School, The

Murphy, Jill

Worst Witch

Musgrave, Susan

Nerves out Loud

Pullman, Phillip

Spring-Heeled Jack

Richler, Mordecai

Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang

Classic Canadian story of a young boy who is imprisoned on Slimer's Isle for mistakenly insulting a grownup.

Scieszka, Jon

Knights of the Kitchen Table

Yolen, Jane

Wizard's Hall

Batten, Jack

The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone

Berton, Pierre

Secret World of Og, The

Children's fable of a society of funny green people.

Blume, Judy

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Peter Hatcher is having trouble getting any of the limelight from his 2 year old brother Fudge.

Blume, Judy

Superfudge

Funny book about a young boy learning to cope with her younger brother.

Blume, Judy

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

Funny book about a young girl dealing with her phobias.

Carter, Anne Laurel

Bless This House: Elizabeth

Young girl moves from Connecticut to Nova Scotia to be a planter.

Coerr, Eleanor

Saddako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Young girl suffers from leukemia, a consequence of Hiroshima.

Cook, Lyn

Pegeen and the Pilgrim

Creech, Sharon

Ruby Holler

Duncan, Lois

Hotel for Dogs

Girl starts secret shelter for stray dogs

Goobie, Beth

Sticks and Stones

Lowry, Lois

Zooman Sam

Funny book about a young boy who wants to grow up to be a zookeeper

Priest, Robert

Secret Invasion of Bananas

Wilson, Gina

Ignis

Wright, Betty Ren

Too Many Secrets

Children taking care of dog in a haunted house.

Wood, Douglas

Quiet Place

Yee, Paul

Ghost Train

Adaptation of the traditional Chinese ghost story.

Alexander, Lloyd

Book of Three

Bellairs, John

House With a Clock and Its Walls

Blume, Judy

Freckle Juice

Blume, Judy

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Eleven year old girl adjusting to life.

Cooper, Susan

Dark is Rising

Currie, Susan

Basket of Beethoven

Sam finds the love of music.

Dahl, Roald

Matilda

Young girl exhibits curious abilities, much to the chagrin of her parents.

Dahl, Roald

BFG

Orphan befriends the Big Friendly Giant.

Dahl, Roald

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Young boy wins the "Golden Ticket" to visit Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

Duane, Diane

So You Want to be a Wizard

Funke, Cornelia

Theif Lord, The

Two young brothers meet up with a group of Venetian runaways led by the "Theif Lord."

Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Secret Garden, The

An orphan takes on the task of restoring a run-down garden.

Hoffman, Alice

Indigo

Two boys run away from home and embark on a journey that will lead them on a journey back to their own, true natures.

Hoffman, Alice

Aquamarine

Best friends have one last summer adventure.

Horvath, Polly

Everything on a Waffle

Young girl will not believe that her parents perished at sea.

Jones, Diana Wynne

Witch Week

Juster, Norton

Phantom Tollbooth, The

L'Engle, Madeleine

A Wrinkle in Time

Sister and Brother embark on an out of this world adventure.

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Wizard of Earthsea

Lewis, C.S.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Lewis, C.S.

Chronicles of Narnia

Stories of the fantastical land beyond the wardrobe door.

Little, Jean

Orphan at my Door

Canadian girl helps English girl rescue her orphaned brother.

Lowery Nixon, Joan

Ghost Town

Wild West ghost stories

Lowry, Lois

Giver, The

12 year old boy is training to be the Receiver of Memory for his utopian community, but the truth behind this perfection is a horrible burden.

Montgomery, Lucy Maude

Anne of Green Gables

Imaginative orphan arrives in PEI on the doorstep of and elderly brother and sister.

Pearson, Kit

A Handful of Time

As her parents marriage collapses, Patricia is sent to spend the summer with a relative, where she finds a mysterious watch that allows her to see her mother as a young girl.

Reid Banks, Lynn

Indian in the Cupboard

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter: Box Set

Harry's continued adventures at Hogwarts.

Scrimger, Richard

Of Mice & Nutcrackers

Jane Peeler is in charge of directing her class play.

Silverstein, Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Snicket, Lemony

Bad Beginning

Stenhouse, Ted

Across the Steel River

Teenagers defy the seperation between their small town and the Blackfoot reservation.

Stewart, Paul

Curse of the Gloamglozer

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Hobbit, The

Bilbo Baggins amazing adventure involving Dwarfs, Elves, Wizards and a dragon-guarded treasure.

White, E.B.

Charlotte's Web

A spider and a pig weave the classic tale of un-boardered friendship.

White, T.H.

Sword in the Stone

Bell, William

Stones

High school boy makes a delivery and ends up tangled in a horrifying event.

Johnston, Julie

In Spite of Killer Bees

Parentless sisters go in search of their inheritence.

Lawrence, Iain

Buccaneers

A 17 year old boy's adventure in the West Indes.

Mcclintock, Norah

Scared to Death

Teenaged girl tries to solve her friend's murder.

Melling, Or

Lightbearer's Daughter, The

Young girl is drawn into the fairy world.

Skrypuch, Marsha

Hope's War

Teenage girl defends her grandfather, who has been charged with war crimes from WWII.

Spalding, Andrea

White Horse Talisman, The

Canadian brother and sister visit England and fight the forces of Evil.

Soto, Gary

Taking Sides

Basketball player dealing with cultural differences in his community

Taylor, Cora

On Wings of a Dragon

Fantasy tale of dragons and heroes.

Walters, Eric

Tiger in Trouble

Brother and sister fight to save a tiger.

Adams, Richard

Watership Down

Community of rabbits who come together when they are forced out of their homes.

Avi

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Historical narrative of the journey of a 13 year old peasant boy.

Byars, Betsy

The Summer of the Swans

Newberry Winner - A 14 year old girl dealing with her family life.

Carlsson, Janne

Camel Bells

Young boy living in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion

De Saint Exupery, Antoine

Little Prince, The

A stranded pilot awakens in the desert to find an extraordinary little man who teaches him what is important in life.

Hinton, S.E.

Outsiders, The

The tale of Pony Boy and his greaser friends as they battle the wealthy Socs.

Pullman, Phillip

His Dark Materials

Trilogy about brother and sister from different worlds.

Smith, Betty

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A family's struggle to survive in poverty through the eyes of the daughter.

Smith, Dodie

I Capture the Castle

An aspiring writer chronicles the life of her eccentric family in 1930's Suffolk.

Spinelli, Jerry

Stargirl

How much hatred does it take to extinguish a star?

Walters, Eric

Ricky

Young boy enjoys animals.

Adams, Richard

Watership Down

Community of rabbits who come together when they are forced out of their homes.

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Catalyst

Anderson, MT

Feed

Anonymous

Go Ask Alice

The graphic diary of teenage desperation and addiction.

Block, Francesca Lia

Weetzie Bat

Girl who lives on the coast.

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

Story of an intellectual young woman, brooding older man, and a crazy lady in the attic.

Brooks, Martha

Being With Henry

Buffie, Margaret

Dark Garden

Cole, Brock

The Facts Speak for Themselves

A teenagers struggle to survive despite her vacant mother.

Cooney, Caroline B.

Face on the Milk Carton

Girl is shocked to see her own face on a milk-carton, and questions her identity.

Ellis, Sarah (ed.)

Girl's Own

An anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers.

Farmer, Nancy

House of the Scorpion, The

Frank, E.R.

America

Froese, Deborah

Out of the Fire

Teenage girl goes through many hardships that determine who her real friends are.

Goldring, Ann

Spitfire

Girl enters a boys-only soap-box derby.

Goobie, Beth

Lottery, The

Girl is selected to be the outcast for the year.

Holeman, Linda

Raspberry House Blues

Hornby, Nick

High Fidelty

Mid-aged slacker assesses life via top ten lists.

Hughes, Monica

Maze, The

Bullied girl finds a magic box that transports her to a maze-like world.

Kogawa, Joy

Obasan

Japanese Canadians during World War II

Korman, Gordan

Son of the Mob

Teenaged mob son falls for teenaged daughter of FBI agent.

Lawrence, Iain

The Lightkeeper's Daughter

Moore, Christopher

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff

Moriarty, Jacyln

Feeling Sorry for Cecilia

Morrison, Toni

Beloved

Life of a women who does anything to keep her children from the life of slavery which she endured.

Nelson, Peter

Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice

Newth, Mette

Dark Light, The

13 year old girl in 19th century Norway contracts leprosy.

Nye, Naomi

Shihab 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

Oberman, Sheldon

Wisdom Bird

Oberman, Sheldon

By the Hanukkah Light

Oppel, Kenneth

Firewing

Sequel to Silverwing & Sunwing - bat adventures

Partridge, Elizabeth

This Land Was Made For You And Me

Paulsen, Gary

Brian's Winter

Newbery Honor Author's story about a boy stranded in the Canadian Wilderness

Paulsen, Gary

Hatchet

Newbery Honor Winning Adventure story

Peacock, Shane

Bone Beds of the Badlands

Series-Dylan Maples adventure-thriller

Rawls, Wilson

Where the Red Fern Grows

The love between a boy and his puppies.

Rees, Celia

Witch Child

Original diary entries of a young witch from 1659

Rennison, Lousie

Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging

Bridget Jones for the teenage set.

Sachar, Holes

Holes

Young man wrongly incarcerated in juvenille detention center.

Schwartz, Virginia

If I just Had Two Wings

Young girl dreams of a life outside of slavery.

Senna, Danzy

Caucasian

A daughter's struggle between her bi-racial parents.

Shaw-MacKinnon

Tiktala

Siamon, Sharon

Night Horse

Young girl spends time at ranch in Rocky Mountains

Slade, Arthur

Tribes

Young man following his fathers footsteps to become anthropologist.

Veciana-Suarez

Flight to Freedom

True story about a family's flight from post-revolutionary Cuba to Miami.

Sydor, Colleen

Smarty Pants

Wieler, Diana

Ran Van: Magic Nation

Wiesel, Elie

Night

Nobel Prize Winning Author's autobiographical account of his time in a concentration camp as a youth

Wierler, Diana

Drive

Wiseman, Eva

My Canary Yellow Star