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Millie is determined to celebrate Christmas as usual even though her father is overseas fighting in World War I. She finds this more and more difficult as children from different backgrounds join her family for Christmas and want to celebrate with their own traditions.

Millie convinces her mother to let her take the radial railway to stay with her friend Molly, who is living with a farm family north of Toronto, where she saves a runaway boy from the Don River.

Millie, a Toronto girl, spends the summer of 1914 at Stoney Lake in Ontario's Kawartha Lakes region, learning of another way of life and about herself as she meets her cousins whose mother is an Ojibwa Indian, helps make a canoe from birch bark, lights the lighthouse light and ge...

In September 1914 ten-year-old Millie's father goes to England to join the war effort and she is sent to a new school where she'll be expected to learn languages, dancing, and lady-like deportment. She also gets involved in the new Girl Guide movement and learns about suffrage an...

"The story of Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian ornithologist and undercover Abolitionist, who helped spread word among enslaved men and women in the American South about the Underground Railroad."-- Provided by publisher.

Damson loves her home with its flowers, animals and trees. Then a great flood threatens to wash away everything she cares for. A beautiful story of courage and renewal in the face of adversity.

In ancient central Asia, thirteen-year-old Kallisto, a superb equestrian, and her friend must warn their families and protect the Ferghana horses from invading Chinese armies.

Aaron loves animals, but his allergies make it difficult for him to find a pet that won't make him ill, until his mother gives him a surprise.

Meg is new to the city, having just arrived from the Carribean, and nothing feels familiar. However, she soon develops some unexpected friendships, and rescues a swallow brought down by an early snowstorm.

When a village carousel requires painting and repairs a little girl and her grandfather paint a favorite horse specially to remind them of the little girl's lovely grandmother.

Lavender Moon quits her job, buys a bus and travels, ending up at the beach where she takes up painting.

Six years ago Maggie was torn from her twin sister and sent to Canada as a Barnardo Home child. Orphaned and completely alone, she found herself living with the Howards, a falling-apart family with a falling-apart farm. Now, just 14 years old, Maggie is already responsible for al...

In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.