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Failed Hope 1Little Jane and the Nameless Isle 2Cherry Blossom Winter 3Second Chances 4You’re So Sweet 5The Baby Experiment 6Transmigration 7Oak Island Family 8Red River Rising 9

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The front cover image is taken from Nicolas Maes’s Transmigration. Shadow © PeskyMonkey, istockphoto; cat © 和也 小崎, istockphoto. See page 7 of the Spring 2012 Teen catalogue.

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FAILED HOPEThe Story of the Lost Peaceby John Wilson

96 pages, 8.25 x 9.536 b&w illustrations, maps, bibliography, index

paper $18.99, £12.999781459703452

pdf $18.99, £12.999781459703476

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Stories of CanadaHistoryAges 12+

August

In the same series:

Peace after the First World War inspires hope for a better life that's crushed by the advent of the Second World War.

Beginning with the Treaty of Versailles and the hope for the birth of a better world, Failed Hope follows the postwar rise of fascism, social unrest, Prohibition, the Great Depression, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, and the wars in Abyssinia, Spain, and China. The general strike in Winnipeg provides a Canadian perspective to the global labour turmoil of the period. The book ends with the failure of appeasement and the outbreak of the Second World War.

The information is presented in easily digestible segments, accompanied by pho-tographs. Informative sidebars provide background information or connect world events to activities in Canada.

Failed Hope links with John Wilson's two previous books, Desperate Glory and Bitter Ashes, covering the history of the 20th century from 1914 to 1945 and the effects of its world wars.

John Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the author of numerous books for young people. He has written other Stories of Canada titles, including Righting Wrongs and Discovering the Arctic, both of which were shortlisted for the Norma Fleck Award for children's non-fiction. He lives in Lantzville, British Columbia.

Bitter Ashespaper $20.95, £13.999781894917902

Desperate Glorypaper $20.95, £13.999781894917421

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Little Jane encounters treachery and adventure on her voyage to the Name-less Isle in search of her parents' buried treasure.

Only two people have ever survived the trip to the Nameless Isle: Long John Sil-ver and Bonnie Mary Bright, the parents of aspiring pirate girl Little Jane. They thought the volcanic caves would be great places to store their treasure. They thought wrong. Now the pirate hunter Fetzcaro Madsea and his crew are forcing Long John and Bonnie Mary to guide them across the island to the treasure. Hop-ing to use their secret knowledge of the island's dangers to thin out their foes, Long John and Bonnie Mary take a deadly risk.

Meanwhile, Little Jane and her friends rush to beat them to the treasure by taking a secret route. Do they have what it takes to brave the terrors of the island? Will they get to her parents in time to save them from the vengeful Madsea? And what strange horror lies in wait for them all in the peculiar orange birds' lair? Hold fast to your courage and read on!

Adira Rotstein has studied literature and film at the University of Toronto and screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She has lived in many lo-cations throughout England, the United States, and Canada. Her creative output includes novels, screenplays, films, paintings, comic books, and illustrations. Her first book in this series, Little Jane Silver, was published in 2011. She lives in Toronto.

LITTLE JANE AND THE NAMELESS ISLEA Little Jane Silver Adventureby Adira Rotstein

272 pages, 5 x 8

paper $12.99, £8.999781459704206

pdf $12.99, £8.999781459704213

epub $8.99, £5.999781459704220

FictionAges 12+

September

In the same series:

Little Jane Silverpaper $12.99, £8.999781554888788pdf $12.99, £8.999781459703605epub $8.99, £5.999781554888795

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After being outcast to a small community, 10-year-old Michiko's life gets bet-ter when a former baseball star becomes her teacher.

Ten-year-old Michiko wants to be proud of her Japanese heritage but can't be. Af-ter the bombing of Pearl Harbor, her family's possessions are confiscated and they are forced into deprivation in a small, insular community. The men are sent to work on the railway, so the women and children are left to make the trip on their own.

After a former Asahi baseball star becomes her new teacher, life gets better. Base-ball fever hits town, and when Michiko challenges the adults to a game with her class, the whole town turns out.

Then the government announces that they must move once again. But they can't think of relocating with a new baby coming, even with the offer of free passage to Japan. Michiko pretends to be her mother and writes to get a job for her father on a farm in Ontario. When he is accepted, they again pack their belongings and head to a new life in Ontario.

Jennifer Maruno is a long-time educator and writer of award-winning educa-tional materials. Her debut novel, When the Cherry Blossoms Fell, was shortlisted for the 2011 Hackmatack Award and the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award. Her second historical novel, Warbird, followed in 2010. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.

CHERRY BLOSSOM WINTERA Cherry Blossom Bookby Jennifer Maruno

136 pages, 5 x 8

paper $9.99, £6.999781459702110

pdf $9.99, £6.999781459702134

epub $9.99, £6.999781459702127

FictionAges 10+

September

In the same series:

When the Cherry Blossoms Fellpaper $9.95, £6.999781894917834

FINALISTHackmatack Award 2011

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A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of "peace, love, rock and roll," and the Vietnam War.

One summer can change everything.… It's the summer of 1971, and 15-year-old Darlene travels with her mother to cottage country. This year her wild cousin, Elizabeth, is staying with them in the hopes that time away from Toronto will straighten her out — but Elizabeth has other plans. She makes it her summer mis-sion to torment Darlene by manipulating her friends and seducing every eligible male in her path.

Meanwhile, Darlene is captivated by the mysterious strangers who rent the cot-tage down the road, particularly free-spirited Candy, who tells stories of traipsing across the United States with rock stars. Darlene also befriends a reclusive journal-ist who will stop at nothing to pen the anti-war story that wins a Nobel Prize. She, too, secretly dreams of becoming a writer, but knows that her controlling father will never allow it.

Brenda Chapman began her children's fiction career with Running Scared, the first in the Jennifer Bannon series. Hiding in Hawk's Creek was shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children. Where Trouble Leads and Trail of Secrets fol-lowed. Her first mystery for adults, In Winter's Grip, was published in 2010. She lives in Ottawa.

SECOND CHANCESby Brenda Chapman

240 pages, 5 x 8

paper $12.99, £8.999781459702042

pdf $12.99, £8.999781459702066

epub $8.99, £5.999781459702059

FictionAges 12+

September

By the same author:

In Winter's Grippaper $16.95, £11.999781926607054pdf $16.95, £11.999781459703827epub $8.99, £5.999781926607191

Trail of Secretspaper $9.95, £6.999781894917766

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As the second semester at the Vancouver International Ballet Academy ap-proaches, how will four maturing dancers face the new challenges that await them?

The Vancouver International Ballet Academy has opened its doors after the winter break, and everyone is back!

Julian is finding it difficult to concentrate on dance because of his family; his teachers think he could be great if he could just focus. Kaitlyn believes she's the best dancer, but her body type is getting in the way of her (and her mother's) dance ambitions, tempting her to lie. Alexandra is as focused as usual, but others don't seem to understand how much time and energy she has to give to ballet if she wants to be the best. While Taylor is still criticized at VIBA, she's getting a lot of positive attention from outside — especially from a recently retired Canadian bal-lerina who's taken an interest in her and Julian.

Who will get noticed in competition and the spring seminar? Whatever happens, someone's going to lose and someone's going to win.

Charis Marsh has been dancing for as long as she can remember and loves the people she meets in the dance world almost as much as the dancing. She has per-formed in many productions, including The Nutcracker. Her previous novel in the Ballet School Confidential series is Love You, Hate You. She lives in Vancouver.

YOU'RE SO SWEETby Charis Marsh

224 pages, 5 x 8

paper $12.99, £8.999781459704176

pdf $12.99, £8.999781459704183

epub $8.99, £5.999781459704190

Ballet School Confidential FictionAges 12+

July

In the same series:

Love You, Hate Youpaper $12.99, £7.999781554889617pdf $12.99, £7.999781459700659epub $9.99, £4.999781554889624

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THE BABY EXPERIMENTby Anne Dublin

160 pages, 5 x 8

paper $9.99, £6.999781459701359

pdf $9.99, £6.999781459701373

epub $9.99, £6.999781459701366

FictionAges 12+

June

Of related interest:When 14-year-old-Johanna learns that her orphanage is experimenting on babies, she kidnaps one of them and sets off for Amsterdam.

Johanna is a 14-year-old Jewish girl who lives in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 18th century. She feels stifled by the daily drudgery of her life and dreams of see-ing what lies outside the confines of the Jewish quarter. Johanna lies about her identity and gets a job as a caregiver at an orphanage. Until it's too late, she doesn't realize a secret experiment is taking place that results in the deaths of babies.

Deciding to kidnap one of the orphanage's babies, Johanna sets off for Amsterdam. She faces many dangers on her journey, including plague, bandits, storms and, not least of all, anti-Semitism. Johanna has a lot of courage and determination, but will it be enough to save the baby and reach her destination? Will she finally find a place where she can be free?

Anne Dublin is an award-winning author of historical fiction and biographies for young people. Her books include Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything, winner of the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the Canadian Jewish Book Award, and The Orphan Rescue, finalist for the U.S. National Jewish Book Award. She lives in Toronto.

Picturing Alyssapaper $12.99, £7.999781554889259pdf $12.99, £7.999781554889266epub $8.99, £5.999781459703612

Trouble on the Voyagepaper $10.95, £7.999781926607108

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What do you do when you're being watched at every turn by creatures plot-ting to take over the world?

Simon Carpenter is a normal 16-year-old living in Vancouver. Or is he normal? Any type of music drives him crazy. When walking by a homeless person, he can see the world through the drunken man's eyes. And when visiting a pet shop he hears a rabbit speaking to him. To solve these mysteries, he takes the rabbit home, only to discover that a foreign "presence" lives inside it. To make matters worse, this "presence" belongs to an army of souls that has plans to supplant the human race.

Who are these creatures? How do they plan to accomplish their goal? How is Simon connected to them? And if they can watch his every step, how can he stop them? These are questions he must answer … quickly. Nothing is what it seems to be and failure will lead to worldwide disaster.

Nicholas Maes is a high school history teacher and teaches classics at the Universi-ty of Waterloo. His previous novels for young people are Crescent Star, Locksmith, and Laughing Wolf, which was nominated for the Snow Willow Award. Maes is also the author of Robertson Davies: Magician of Words. He lives in Toronto.

TRANSMIGRATIONby Nicholas Maes

288 pages, 5 x 8

paper $12.99, £8.999781459702318

pdf $12.99, £8.999781459702332

epub $8.99, £5.999781459702325

FictionAges 12+

August

By the same author:

Laughing Wolfpaper $12.99, £7.999781554883851pdf $12.99, £7.999781770703872epub $8.99, £4.499781770706026

Locksmithpaper $11.99, £6.999781550027914pdf $11.99, £6.999781770703162

FINALISTSnow Willow Award 2010

CCBCBest Books

2009

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OAK ISLAND FAMILYThe Restall Hunt for Buried Treasureby Lee Lamb

120 pages, 8 x 850 b&w illustrations

paper $19.99, £12.999781459703421

pdf $19.99, £12.999781459703438

epub $8.99, £5.999781459703445

HistoryAges 12+

June

Of related interest:For 200 years people have sought the treasure buried on Oak Island on Cana-da's East Coast. Bob Restall got his chance, but it ended in tragedy.

A fabulous treasure lies buried deep within an island on Canada's East Coast. Or so they say. For more than 200 years treasure hunters have come to Oak Island seek-ing its cache. They worked long and hard, spent fortunes, and left empty-handed.

But when Bob Restall and his family got their chance to search for treasure on Oak Island, they knew this time would be different. For nearly six years the Restalls lived and worked on the island, driven by their quest for riches and fame, encour-aged by small successes, toughened by minor frustrations and major setbacks, but continuing to press on — until their quest suddenly ended in tragedy.

Oak Island Family, written by Bob Restall's daughter, describes the family's adven-ture through personal anecdotes and numerous, never-before-published photographs. Those who love history or a good human interest story shouldn't miss this book.

Lee Lamb was born in Somerset, England, and came to Canada when she was two years old. She has been a secretary, a project coordinator, a hospital social worker, and a high school teacher. Her previous book was Oak Island Obsession. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.

Betrayedpaper $10.95, £7.999781894917919

Minerva's Voyagepaper $12.99, £7.999781554884391epub $8.99, £4.499781770705586

CCBCBest Books

2011

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Angus and his family are sent from Scotland in 1813 on a voyage to start a new life in the strange and cruel new land of western Canada.

In 1813, cleared out from their beloved Scottish Highlands, 15-year-old Angus, his mother, father, small brother Rabbie, and 100 others sail for Canada to seek a better life with assistance from Lord Selkirk. Angus, his family, and their friends the O'Hares, with their aloof, unsmiling daughter Maggie, share the hardships and terror of the sea voyage only to be dumped onto the shore of a forbidding land. There they spend a brutal winter.

With bitter determination and help from the Native population, the settlers man-age to reach the Red River. They are eager to finally begin their new life but meet obstacles even more dangerous when they are caught up in a struggle between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, powerful fur-trading rivals. Despite this hard transition, Angus falls in love with this new land and takes his place beside the brave men who risk their lives to protect it.

B.J. Bayle's Battle Cry at Batoche was a Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, while Perilous Passage, about explorer and mapmaker David Thompson, was nominated for a Red Maple Award. Also the author of Shadow Riders, about the RCMP's early history, she lives in Cochrane, Alberta.

RED RIVER RISINGby B.J. Bayle

296 pages, 5 x 8

paper $12.99, £8.999781459702288

pdf $12.99, £8.999781459702301

epub $8.99, £5.999781459702295

HistoryAges 12+

August

By the same author:

Shadow Riderspaper $12.99, £7.999781554887248pdf $12.99, £7.999781459704831epub $8.99, £4.499781770705968

Battle Cry at Batochepaper $11.99, £6.999781550027174pdf $11.99, £6.999781459703018epub $8.99, £5.999781554884964

CCBCOur Choice

2001

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THE BOY FROM LEFT FIELDby Tom Henighan

Fiction | Ages 12+ | 216 pages | paper $12.99, £7.99, 9781459700604 | pdf $12.99, £7.99, 9781459700628 | epub $8.99, £4.49, 9781459700611

Hawk, a poor, half-Native boy who lives on the street in Toronto, is eager to go back to school and to please both his divorced parents. When Mr. Rizzuto, his baseball coach, tells him how Babe Ruth, playing on nearby Toronto Island, hit his first professional home run, the question arises: what happened to the baseball?

CAPTAIN FITZFitzGibbon, Green Tiger of the War of 1812by Enid Mallory

Canadians at War | Ages 12+ | 176 pages | 30 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography, index | paper $19.99, £13.99, 9781459701182 | pdf $19.99, £13.99, 9781459701205 | epub $9.99, £4.99, 9781459701199

The name James FitzGibbon struck terror in the hearts of U.S. soldiers crossing the border to attack Canada during the War of 1812. This is the dramatic story of his life and that of the daring exploits of his Green Tigers, his 50 specially trained, hand-picked men from the 49th Regiment of the British Army in Upper Canada.

CHASING THE WHITE WITCHby Marina Cohen

Fiction | Ages 10+ | 160 pages | paper $12.99, £7.99, 9781554889648 | pdf $12.99, £7.99, 9781459700710 | epub $8.99, £4.49, 9781554889655

Teased by her older brother, bullied by popular girls at school, and plagued by an unsightly pimple on her nose, 12-year-old Claire Murphy finds a mysterious book of spells that may soon

HOWLby Karen Hood-Caddy

Fiction | Ages 12+ | 256 pages | paper $9.99, £6.99, 9781926607252 | pdf $9.99, £6.99, 9781459701038 | epub $8.99, £4.49, 9781459701021

Can a 12-year-old make a difference for animals? After moving to a rural town, Robin is depressed. But when her pregnant dog plunges into the frozen lake, she saves the dog and hence the puppies, then begins rescuing wild animals. Soon she's running an illegal animal shelter. When she's found out, she mounts a campaign to save her shelter.

Fall 2011 Teen Roundup

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LEGEND OF THE PAYMASTER'S GOLDby Jo Shawyer

Fiction | Ages 12+ | 136 pages | 6 maps | paper $12.99, £8.99, 9781554889907 | pdf $12.99, £8.99, 9781554889969 | epub $8.99, £4.49, 9781554889914

Legend has it that a paymaster lost his gold on Commissioners Road near London, Ontario, during the War of 1812, and Sam, Eadie, and Ben are determined to find it. Even though it's been 200 years, the trio makes some progress, only to discover the mystery may be harder to solve than they anticipated.

LOVE YOU, HATE YOUby Charis Marsh

Fiction | Ages 12+ | 224 pages | paper $12.99, £7.99, 9781554889617 | pdf $12.99, £7.99, 9781459700659 | epub $9.99, £4.99, 9781554889624

Love You, Hate You follows four young dancers in their first semester at the Vancouver International Ballet Academy, showing the highs and lows of working toward careers as professional ballet dancers.

TALKING ABOUT FREEDDOMCelebrating Emancipation Day in Canada

by Natasha L. Henry

History | Ages 12+ | 208 pages | 30 b&w illustrations, 1 map | paper $19.99, £9.99, 9781459700482 | pdf $19.99, £9.99, 9781459700505 | epub $9.99, £4.99, 9781459700499

Talking About Freedom explores the history and significance of emancipation festivals in Canada. Discover the main features of Emancipation Day celebrations, learn about the people of African ancestry's struggle for freedom, and the victories achieved in the push for equality into the 21st century.

THE TIME THIEFby Angela Dorsey

Fiction | Ages 10+ | 144 pages | paper $9.99, £6.99, 9781926607276 | pdf $9.99, £6.99, 9781459701106 | epub $8.99, £4.49, 9781459701090

Twelve-year-old Mika hears a cat yowl and goes to rescue it. With the cat Mika calls Angel safe at her home, strange things begin to happen. Someone seems to be watching the house, and a dark presence stalks her in the woods. Does Mika have the courage to take on Angel's darkly gifted, cruel owner?

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TITLE AUTHOR PAGE

Baby Experiment Anne Dublin 6Boy from Left Field Tom Henighan 10Captain Fitz Enid Mallory 10Chasing the White Witch Marina Cohen 10Cherry Blossom Winter Jennifer Maruno 3Failed Hope John Wilson 1Howl Karen Hood-Caddy 10Legend of the Paymaster's Gold Jo Shawyer 11Little Jane and the Nameless Isle Adira Rotstein 2Love You, Hate You Charis Marsh 11Oak Island Family Lee Lamb 8Red River Rising B.J. Bayle 9Second Chances Brenda Chapman 4Talking About Freedom Natasha L. Henry 11Time Thief Angela Dorsey 11Transmigration Nicholas Maes 7You're So Sweet Charis Marsh 5

Title Index

AUTHOR PAGE

Bayle, B.J. 9Chapman, Brenda 4Cohen, Marina 10Dorsey, Angela 11Dublin, Anne 6Henighan, Tom 10Henry, Natasha L. 11Hood-Caddy, Karen 10Lamb, Lee 8

AUTHOR PAGE

Maes, Nicholas 7Mallory, Enid 10Marsh, Charis 5, 11Maruno, Jennifer 3Rotstein, Adira 2Shawyer, Jo 11Wilson, John 1

Author Index


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