Hurled into the past by their clairvoyant neighbour, two stepsisters come to terms with their own lives and one another after assisting slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. Together, they go on to face modernday peer pressure in this fastpaced timetravel adventure. A CanadianAmerican story.

Dark of the Moon (Middle Reader series)

Children's Books

Haworth-Attard, Barbara

Literature & Fiction

Roussan Publishers

Salt and Pepper are a team. Their vacation together in London takes a turn when they notice every window in the manor is garlanded with garlic - except theirs. Sure enough, a teenage vampire shows up that night, but asking for their help? When they refuse, little brother Hal is kidnapped. So begins their involvement in a vampire gang war.

The Vampire's Visit (The Salt & Pepper Chronicles)

Poulsen, David A.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Home Child

The year is 1914. Thirteen-year-old Arthur is a "home child" who has just been sent from an orphanage in England to work on a Canadian farm. Sadie, a year younger, surreptitiously develops a friendship with Arthur despite her mother's warnings to keep away from him. Then Arthur saves the house from a fire she carelessly started. Will Sadie reciprocate by taking a stand for Arthur against her mother's rules? 
Home Child explores how Home Children - and their American counterparts on the Orphan Train - experienced being displaced, enslaved and ostracized.

Sleuths Christine "Salt" Bellamy and Pepper McKenzie are embroiled in yet another mystery when a Hollywood movie company comes to town. But the producer and his assistant act more like gangsters than film moguls. And the stars! They appear to be hypnotized. Like zombies. Or robots! Could it have something to do with the weird apparatus Salt spotted at the film headquarters?

The Hunk Machine (The Salt & Pepper Chronicles) (Salt & Pepper Chronicles, Number 2)

When Kaylin arrives on Earth, she needs Mark's help -- a Detsaw shuttle is stranded, and the evil Sloof are closing in.

Alien Rescue (Out of this World series)

Gaetz, Dayle Campbell