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  • From Anna

    by Jean Little ...
    Jean Little's classic celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new look for a new generation!Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family — somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the chalkboard at school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her "Awkward Anna."When Papa announces that the family is moving from Germany to Canada — he's ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Exiles from the War

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    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 back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is being waged across the Atlantic, Charlotte begins to feel its danger, as her brother George defies their parents and enlists in the Navy. After months ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Listen for the Singing

    by Jean Little ...
    A companion to the beloved classic From Anna!Just as Anna is about to enter a new school, she hears news on Papa's radio — Canada is at war with Germany. What will that mean for the Soldens, who immigrated from Germany just a few years ago?She soon finds out. Customers stop shopping at Papa's store, a teacher in her school bullies any students with German surnames, and Rudi is threatening to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Birdie for Now

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Orca Young Readers
    Dickon wasn't happy in his old home or his old school. He hopes that in his new neighborhood he will meet children who never knew his old, hyper self, who will like him for who he is now. And he hopes for a dog of his own. Dickon's mother calls him Birdie. She feeds him milk from a teddy bear mug. She worries if he's out of her sight for a moment and she knows how filthy and vicious dogs can be. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Anna

    Illustrated by Joan Sandin ...
    Jean Little's classic celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new look for a new generation!Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family — somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the chalkboard at school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her "Awkward Anna."When Papa announces that the family is moving from Germany to Canada — he's ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Birthday Girl

    by Jean Little ...
    Illustrated by June Lawrason ...
    Series series Orca Echoes
    Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true. Everyone in her household is busy and wants her out from underfoot and no one is willing to help her find her lost cat. In the end she finds more than a cat and she makes her own wishes come true with the help of a row of tall, bright, smiling sunflowers. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Canada: All Fall Down

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    A young girl survives the deadliest landslide in Canadian history — but a family secret could call into question everything she thought she knew about her life before the disaster.After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Dancing Through the Snow

    by Jean Little ...
    Jean Little's poignant novel about an abandoned girl, and the dog who helps teach her how to trust again.Ten-year-old Min has had a long history of foster care since she was abandoned at age three. Now, let go by yet another foster family, Min continues to build a protective wall around herself. Her newest caregiver, a former Children's Aid doctor, sees past Min's hardened shell and tries to find ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Mine for Keeps

    Puffin Classics Edition

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Canada Puffin Classics
    Away at school, Sally Copeland has always dreamed of going home, but now that she’s there, she feels frightened and unsure of herself.Will her brother and sister accept her? Will she be able to do things for herself? And what will it be like to go to a regular school and be the only one with cerebral palsy? ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Harry's Hiccups Read-Along

    by Jean Little ...
    Illustrated by Joe Weissmann ...
    Harry tries and tries to get rid of his hiccups.He tries drinking a glass of water upside down, he tries putting an ice-cold key down his back, he gleefully tries eating a spoonful of sugar. But nothing works!In this charming picture book, written by children's literature legend Jean Little and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Joe Weissmann, Harry is afflicted with a case of the hopeless ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door

    The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dear Canada: If I Die Before I Wake

    The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor, Toronto, Ontario, 1918

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Fee uses her diary to record all of her fears when the Spanish Flu rages through Toronto. It comforts her when she almost loses her twin sister, and when it actually takes their older sister Jemma. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD