Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.

The Root Cellar

Janet Lunn

Puffin Books

This well-loved storybook has been reissued with enhanced reproduction and many newly created illustrations just in time for a warm Christmas read under a cozy quilt by the light of a flickering fire.Ten-year-old Lucy is a pioneer girl in the Upper Canada of 1800. Her imagination fired by the schoolmaster’s stories of Christmas memories, Lucy sets about making a special Yuletide gift — something her frail mother will be able to remember and cherish forever. But even with the unwelcome help of her little brother, Dan, making one hundred handmade candles to light on Christmas night is a daunting task. Limited supplies and resources make the job that much harder, but in the end it is Lucy’s own bossiness that nearly causes a disaster. Deeply disappointed in herself, Lucy accepts the sacrifice Dan offers to make, and together the children manage to create the most wonderful of all Christmases.One Hundred Shining Candles , written by one of Canada’s best writers for children, shows readers of all ages the true joy of giving from the heart. Delicate illustrations throughout perfectly depict this gentle story set against harsh times.

One Hundred Shining Candles

Children's Books

History

Oxford University Press

An engaging, highly moving young adult biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the beloved author ofAnne of Green Gables, theEmilyseries, and many more treasured stories. This year, 2002, marks the 60th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s death. Maud Montgomery was not yet two years old when she saw her mother for the last time. The journey from that day to the day Maud signed &ldquo;Lucy Maud Montgomery&rdquo; at the end of her first published story was long and often painful. In this compelling portrait of one of Canada&rsquo;s best-loved writers for young people, another beloved, award-winning young-adult author, Janet Lunn, vividly brings to life the spirit that was Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lunn shows us Montgomery&rsquo;s strict and lonely upbringing in rural Prince Edward Island, her eventual marriage to a man she did not love but who was deemed an ideal match, and her hard-won successes after many years of self-doubt and rejection. Throughout her life, Maud never stopped writing her journals and stories. L.M. Montgomery is undoubtedly Canada&rsquo;s most famous author. Today, sixty years after her death her books have been translated into nearly every language, and dozens of plays, musical plays, films and made-for-television series of her works have been produced. In 1975, a Canadian Anne of Green Gables postage stamp was issued, and in Japan, where her stories are hugely popular, there are two Anne theme parks. At the end of 1999, when lists of the last century&rsquo;s favourite writers were being compiled, the name Lucy Maud Montgomery led all others.

Maud's House of Dreams: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

Doubleday Canada, Limited

Strangely attracted to an antique doll, twelve-year-old twins buy the toy and soon find themselves haunted by powerful and tragic memories of ancestral twins who had also been owners of the doll.\n- an award-winning author 
- an award-winning, best-selling title

Twin Spell

Dell Publishing

The Story of Canada The Making of a Nation

Christopher Moore

Scholastic Canada, Limited

The Story of Canada: A Century of Change

scholastic

Le Chandail D'Amos

Kim LaFave

A collection of twenty-one short stories and poems about ghosts and other things supernatural by a variety of Canadian authors including Tim Wynne-Jones, Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Karleen Bradford, Janet Lunn, and L.M.Montgomery.

The Unseen: Scary Stories

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Stoddart Kids

In this fully updated edition, the authors relate the country's story through rich narrative, recreations of daily life, flok tales and fascinating facts. This book is one of the finest tools that young Canadians have ever received to assist them in their quest to reclaim Canada's past for themselves.

The Story of Canada

Americas

Key Porter Books Ltd ,Canada

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