By mistake, Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a farm on Prince Edward Island in 1878 and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone.

Anne returns to Avonlea to teach in her former school and discovers the pleasures and puzzles of growing up.

In this abridged sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," sixteen-year-old Anne works as a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.

In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who was sent to live on a Prince Edward Island farm by mistake, wants to make it her home and must convince the elderly brother and sister that live there to keep her.

When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...

"The third book in an early-reader series inspired by Anne of Green Gables, starring the spirited Anne Shirley as she navigates her first days of school and the incorrigible Gilbert Blythe"--

Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.

Philomena y El tren de los hu?rfanos confluyen en esta desgarradora historia sobre el lazo irrompible entre una madre y su hija. Una novela inspirada en hechos reales. En el Quebec de los a?os cincuenta, los franceses y los ingleses se toleran a duras penas. Maggie es hija de un angloparlante y de una francocanadiense, y entre las ambiciones de su padre no existe la posibilidad de que su hija se case con Gabriel Ph?nix, un joven franc?s y de clase...

A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of...