It is 1900, and 14-year-old Bertie McCross is a newspaper boy in downtown Toronto. Bertie’s family has fallen on hard times and can use every penny he brings home from hawking newspapers on the frigid streets. However, in order to do that Bertie has to keep out of the clutches of the Kelly Gang, a family of slightly older Cabbagetown toughs who are shaking down «newsies.» On Christmas Eve, Bertie is almost cornered by the Kellys but is saved by ...
It's the summer of 1988 and 15-year-old aspiring artist Adam Zapotica has a big problem. He's crazy about dinosaurs, and a team of paleontologists and scientists at Milk River Ridge near Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta has recently unearthed a major cache of dinosaur eggs. They need volunteers to assist them at the dig, but there's a catch – you have to be 18! Adam soon figures a way to get around that, and fa ...
The year is 2099. North America is in chaos, ruined by years of war, terrorism, and ecological destruction. Marauding motorcycle gangs roam the land, while a secret society of mutants who practise devilish rites terrorize the innocent. Young Toby Johnson lives with his father, one of the Old Believers, a religious sect that clings to stern moral values. Although embarrassed by his father's quaint ways, Toby is horrified when a motorcycle ga ...
Commended for the 2006 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Selection The year is 2014. Dylan Gibson is 16 and knows there is something unusual about him, but he doesn’t know what – aside from his fascination for things like insects, opera, old Japanese sci-fi movies, playing the didgeridoo, and the Loch Ness monster. After being dumped by his girlfriend, Caroline, who thinks he’s too strange, Dylan meets Robyn, who’s something of an ou ...
"Startled, Mishbee gasped, frozen with horror. She was staring down the barrel of a musket and was familiar with the sound those weapons made. The young girl knew muskets meant death." At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Newfoundland, the Beothuks, a First Nations people, have been decimated by disease, and their numbers dwindle further as they are hunted and persecuted relentlessly by European settlers. Young Mishbee, her olde ...
Short-listed for the 2010 Saskatchewan Young Reader’s Choice Award – Snow Willow and for the 2010 Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award It is the year 2213. Fifteen-year-old Felix Taylor is the last person on Earth who can speak and read Latin. In a world where technology has defeated war, crime, poverty, and famine, and time travel exists as a distinct possibility, Felix’s language skills and knowledge seem out of place and irrelevant. But ar ...
Рассказы Леши Эскимосова – это истории взросления. Леша любопытен и наблюдателен. Он познает мир через семью и друзей, праздники и происшествия, обращаясь к внутреннему «я» и мечтая. Истории героя – это зарисовки из жизни мальчика, в которых нашлось место и постоянно занятому папе, и маме «со странностями», излишне заботливой бабушке и нежданному сердечному чувству. Леша не просто рассуждает обо всем, что его окружает, но и старательно это запис ...
Главный герой всех рассказов – самый обыкновенный мальчик Миша Воробьёв. Он похож на всех мальчишек на планете: иногда шалит, иногда спорит со взрослыми, фантазирует, стремится познавать окружающий мир. А ещё Миша постоянно рассказывает истории о себе, своих родных и друзьях-сверстниках. Эти истории получаются у него удивительно увлекательными.
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Книга "Макароны в тюбике" представляет собой цикл рассказов, объединённых одним героем. Герой – он же рассказчик, Мишка Воробьёв – юный, несколько наивный, но уже вполне себе умный сорванец. Его вечно тянет куда-то: то на ходулях ходить, то в разведку, то в суровое пиратское плавание на гордом корабле-плоту «Нырок». У Мишки есть любящая семья и вполне себе нормальные друзья, жить ему не просто, но интересно. Окружающий мир главного героя полон т ...
