Drowning Days

Lands and People (Q & A)

Manners: Please

Melinda Zone, The

Shimmy

The Barn

A Little Wicked

Hodder English GOLD

 Runner-up for the 2009 Chocolate Lily Book Award and commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens  In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrive in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they'd move into hasn't been built. So the Godins have to make due with living in a railway boxcar with three other families. Luc's father and the many other newcomers to the Fraser Valley have come to work in the lumber industry. Their new home still has vestiges of the wilderness, and Luc and his family find find pioneering life difficult, especially as French speakers in a world of English. Luc's father, who becomes a teamster in one of the many lumber mills, is old-fashioned. Horses are what he knows, while Luc has an eye for the modern, particularly the new-fangled bicycles and occasional automobiles. However an accident with a bicycle has profound consequences for Luc and highlights the clash between the old and the new, the settled East and the brash frontier.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Drowning Days

Muriel Ellis Pritchett, 2022

Lands and People (Q & A)

Philip Steele, 2009

Manners: Please

Sudha Gupta, 2017

Melinda Zone, The

Margaret Willey, 1993

Shimmy

Anne Cateaux, 2021

The Barn

Avi, 1994

A Little Wicked

Janet R Macreery, 2014

Hodder English GOLD

John Rowley, 1999