In The Face of Danger
by Joan Lowery Nixon |
Knight's Fee
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
The Shining Company
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
The Mark of the Horse Lord
by Rosemary Sutcliff |
The Blue Door
by Ann Rinaldi | 
Lord Kirkle's Money
by Avi |
A Family Apart
by Joan Lowery Nixon |
Sun Horse, Moon Horse
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
Victory
by Susan Cooper |
A Stitch in Time
by Ann Rinaldi |
Broken Days
by Ann Rinaldi | 
The Staircase
by Ann Rinaldi | 
The Borning Room
by Paul Fleischman | 
There Will Be Wolves
by Karleen Bradford |
Africaville
by Jeffrey Colvin | 
Fall On Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald | 
Rush Home Road
by Lori Lansens | 
Funny Boy
by Shyam Selvadurai | 
Cinnamon Gardens
by Shyam Selvadurai | 
The Jade Peony
by Wayson Choy |
Winner of the 2005 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award It is 1901 and Mable Riley dreams of adventure and of becoming a writer. When her older sister leaves home to become a schoolmistress in the small town of Stratford, Ontario, Mable is sent along too. Mable hopes her new world will be full of peril and romance. But life at the Goodhand Farm (where the sisters board), is as humdrum as the one she'??s left behind. Then Mable encounters the mysterious Mrs. Rattle, a peculiar widow with a taste for upsetting the townspeople with her strange opinions. Mrs. Rattle is a real writer, and Mable eagerly accepts her invitation to a meeting of the Ladies Reading Society. But the ladies are not discussing books at all, and Mable may soon have more peril than she'??d bargained for! Composed of the letters Mable sends home, the poems she writes for her classmates, and chapters from her own work-in-progress, Mable Riley is the funny, inspiring, (and reliable) record of a young girl finding her voice, and the courage to make it heard. From the Hardcover edition.