In this story told mainly with words that begin with the letters “a,” ”b,” and “d,” Bashful Bob, abandoned and raised by dogs, meets Doleful Dorinda, who deals with dirty dishes, and the two become fast friends and eventually heroes.

Based on the CBC television series of hockey: People’s history

Simon and the wind, Simon and the snowflakes, Simon welcomes spring and Simon in summer.

 After the death of his beloved older brother hector in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in Canada to enlist in Hector’s battalion, where he attempts to come to terms with what has happened.

Olivier, 12-year-old boy, is helping his very odd step-step-stepgramma with her yard sale. When some mysterious customers show up, along with a troublesome wind, Olivier flees the scene, ends up in the Dark Woods. Olivier meets strange creatures in the woods.

Growing up in Mennonite community on the Canadian prairie in the late 1960s, Elsie, 12, blames herself when Mom is once again hospitalized for depression. Elsie confesses God about her guilt. The story has two adventures; Elsie loses faith and then finds it again.

Thirteen-year-old Rosalind Kemp, the youngest in a family of sisters lives in a small-town Ontario in late 1941.  Rosalind shockingly learns she has special “gift” that seems to be superstition and prophecy to her.

 Fresh from their victory over the Kaspar Snit, who was last seen trying to steal the fountains of Rome in The Fortress of Kaspar Snit; the Blande family have earned a rest.

Summer, 1956

While the veterans of the two great wars struggle to shelve their memories and pick up whre they left off, women with new-found independence work to rekindle their marriages, and teenagers with too much freedom live the secret lives of youth.

Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.