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R.I.P. Eliza Hart by Alyssa Sheinmel
R.I.P. Eliza Hart is a novel that explores the pain and stigma of mental illness through the contrasting experiences of two young teens. The story is told using the dual narratives of Ellie Sokoloff...
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DVD: Breathe
Breathe portrays the remarkable story of Robin Cavendish who contracted poliomyelitis in 1958 at the age of twenty-eight years old. As a result of this illness he was paralyzed from the neck down and...
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Shooting Kabul by Naheed Hasnat Senzai
It is July 2001, and eleven-year-old Fadi Nurzai's family are fleeing their home country of Afghanistan. Fadi along with his father Habib,his mother Zafoona, his older sister Noor and younger sister...
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Interlude by Chantele Sedgwick
Interlude is a classic story of a boy and a girl thrown together unexpectedly, each struggling with their own problems but who fall in love. The novel opens with eighteen-year-old Mia Cox in her...
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A Troubled Peace by L. M. Elliott
A Troubled Peace is the sequel to Under A War Torn Sky and tells what happens to Henry Forester when he returns to the United States after serving as pilot, being shot down, travelling through war torn...
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Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Blood Water Paint tells the story of painter Artemisia Gentileschi, today considered one of Italy's most talented artists. Artemisia's story, told in free verse is juxtaposed between the stories of the...
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The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden
The Kitchen Madonna, written in 1967 by renowned author Rumer Godden tells the story of a young boy's love for his family's Ukrainian housekeeper and his determination to make her feel at...
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Love and War by Melissa De La Cruz
Love and War picks up months after the marriage of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton. It is April 1781 and the War of Independence is raging. Elizabeth is living at the Pastures, her parents'...
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Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli by Kyo Maclear & Julie...
Bloom tells the story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli who was most famous for her creations during the interwar decades of 1920 and 1930's. Elsa was responsible for many significant contributions...
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Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
Jeanne Bendick was a well known author of many books, most of them focused on science. Jeanne was born in 1919 in New York City. Her career as an illustrator began while attending the Parsons School of...
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Flamingo Boy by Michael Morpurgo
When Vincent Montague was young, he had two pictures in his bedroom. One he painted in his Primary art class after his teacher, Miss Weatherly had them "paint a story". Vincent painted an "old...
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Mary's Monster: Love, Madness,and How Mary Shelley Created FRANKENSTEIN by...
Mary's Monster by Lita Judge explores the life of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Written in free verse accompanied by the author's impressive black and white illustrations, Judge tells the story...
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Daughter of Nomads by Rosanne Hawke
Daughter of Nomads is the first of two novels set in the Mughal Empire in 1662 about a young girl struggling to find her destiny. The novel opens in Sherwan, a village in the Kingdom of Hazara. Jahani...
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus is a story about three teens with serious disabilities forming an unlikely friendship as they struggle to cope with everyday life. Aven Green is a...
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Kiska by John Smelcer
In early June, 1942, thirteen-year-old Kiska, only a few days from her fourteenth birthday, watches as the hunters in their baidarkas (kayaks) return home from seal hunting. Kiska has been collecting...
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Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
"Once upon a time, there was a tree, living on the shores of a green-glass lake, breathing in hot desert air. Its black branches grew green leaves and snowy flowers, and bees lived in the blossoms. The...
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Among The Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz
Among The Red Stars relates the experiences of two young, fictional Soviets, one in the Red Army, the other as a member of the famous female bomber regiment that earned the nickname "the night...
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The Man Who Loved Libraries by Andrew Larsen
The Man Who Loved Libraries is about an American philanthropist who built 2,500 libraries all over the world, but mostly in the United States and Canada. Andrew Carnegie, a self-made millionaire was a...
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The Leopard Princess by Rosanne Hawke
The Leopard Princess is the sequel to Daughter of Nomads, concluding the story of fourteen-year-old Jahani. The novel picks up where the first ended with Jahani having refused Azhar's offer to fly to...
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Capturing Joy: The Story of Maud Lewis by Jo Ellen Bogart
Not many Canadians have heard of Maritime folk artist Maud Lewis. Maud was born in 1903 in the town of Yarmouth, in Nova Scotia to John and Agnes Dowley. She was born with several disabilities...
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