EPL Picks - Kids - Canadian Chapter Books
Annotation:When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents , or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Grade 4-7
Place a Hold
Annotation:Twelve-year-old Emily wants to trace her family's roots, so she journeys far back in time with the help of a magical mirror. Grade 4-6
Annotation:Belle, a young Metis girl, is caught up in the turmoil of the advancing forces of General Middleton and his troops as they surround Batoche in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Grade 3-6
Annotation:Jane is 12 years old, and she isready for adventures, to move beyond the world of her siblings and single mother and their house by the sea, and step into the know-not what. Grade 3-7
Annotation: In Afghanistan, which is ruled by the Taliban, eleven-year-old Parvana must masquerade as a boy to gain access to the outside world so she can support her family. Grade 5-7
Annotation:Arthur Slade's newest title combines his comic genius and his ability to make your heart freeze with terror. Walter Biggar Bronson and his friend Cindy meet a ghost one night after school and the fun begins! Grade 4-8
Annotation:Jeremy is going on more amazing voyages, this time with both Canadian explorers Samuel de Champlain and Jacques Cartier, and also on what could be a deadly boat race in modern-day Australia. Grade 3-5
Annotation:Matthew loves his art class, but he hates trying to find a way home without running into the neighbourhood bully, Big Mike. Later, as Matthew watches his favourite wrestling show, he sees a tag team dressed like artists. It gets him thinking. Grade 1-3
Annotation:Robyn feels The Raft, the class play, is unfair because it's three roles go to the boys known as the 3"G's. So Robyn starts her own play, The Monster that Ate the World. Grade 2-5
Annotation:Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but he finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. Grade 3-6
Annotation:Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. So when she is sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert at Green Gables farm, she thinks she has found one at last. Grade 5 Up
Annotation:Prequel to Anne of Green Gables. Before she arrived at Green Gables, Anne Shirley had a difficult early life. Orphaned as a baby, she is sent from one foster-home to the next, caring for other people's children though but a child herself. Grade 5 Up
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Recommended books by Canadian authors in a variety of genres. EN/MNJ
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