Can a high-seas, whale-saving adventure repair the hurt between two friends? How do you decide where your heart lies when it’s being tugged at from so many sides? When Robin and Zo-Zo discover that their beloved lake has become a toxic sludge – the result of an algae bloom – they know they have to do something to fix it. But trouble begins when the two friends develop a crush on the same boy during a community meeting to save the lake. To h ...
Is Robin brave enough to do what’s right when everyone thinks she’s wrong? No one is more passionate about rescuing hurt animals than Robin, except maybe her best friend Zo-Zo, who helps Robin run the family’s animal shelter, The Wild Place. When the two of them discover that a neighbour’s chicken farm is really a factory farm, they both want to stop it. Zo-Zo argues that radical action is required, but Robin is worried about getting into troubl ...
Max und Mux sind die besten Freunde, die man sich nur vorstellen kann. Sie leben im Fabelwald, seit sie denken konnen – Max im rechten Baumhaus und Mux im linken. Wenn dem einen mal langweilig ist, geht er den anderen einfach besuchen. Doch eines Tages zieht es sie hinaus in die Welt hinter ihren Baumhausern – auf der Suche nach dem geheimnisvollen Wunschpilz. Und so packen sie ihre Siebensachen, vier Leberwurstbrote und eine Thermoskanne voll T ...
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabe Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, a ...
Fifteen-year-old Zoe is many things, but confident is not one of them. Perhaps that’s why she prefers the company of animals. A self-professed advocate for their rights, Zoe is not above taking matters into her own hands. But the stakes are raised when she finds herself at the centre of a dangerous conspiracy involving the disappearance of animals from a shelter. She turns to street-savvy Alex Fisher, her troubled Social Studies partner, to help ...
It’s not easy having your own father for a teacher, but that’s only one of twelve-year-old Nikki’s problems. Her beloved dog has died, leaving a gaping hole in her life, which is thrown into further turmoil by the arrival of her long-lost eccentric grandmother from Australia. Life is pretty tense around Nikki’s house, but Nikki relaxes by taking long rides on her horse and visiting a nearby secluded pond inhabited by a rare species of turtle. Th ...
Ostern steht vor der Tur. Der Hase Pinselpfote hat durch Putzi den Hahn Goldspohr mit seiner Familie in den Wald gebeten, um gemeinsam alle Ostervorbereitungen zu besprechen. Nun beginnt fur alle eine arbeitsreiche Zeit; denn auch Putzi, die eine besondere Vorliebe fur bunte Farben hat, kommt dem Hasen Pinsepfote mit einem ungewohnlichen Vorschlag zu Hilfe. Aber bis zum Ostermorgen geschieht noch viel Aufregendes im Walde … ...
Short-listed for the 2001 Silver Birch Award, How did we get to be US? Who are WE? This story for the younger reader, set in the period some 50,000 years ago when an almost explosive change in people's behaviour occurred, addresses these questions. From this period on, people, the Cro-Magnon or Homo sapiens sapiens who are considered to be our ancestors, became what we term human. This recreated story presents a sister and brother in a s ...
Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British Columbia. Desperate for a summer project, she camps on a neighbouring island to monitor the progress of an endangered group of sea otters, further threatened by the development plans of a real estate ...
