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.
Amos, a sheep, is old and is tired of giving wool to Aunt Hattie every year. One year Aunt Hattie makes his wool into a sweater for Uncle Henry. Amos gets upset and finally succeeds in getting into the sweater to keep himself warm.
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.
After their mother falls ill and Pa says there will be no presents for the holiday, Lucy and Dan decide to make a special gift for their mother at Christmas.
Arabella Stevenson's father is arrested and sent to prison for rebelling against the British government in Toronto, leaving Arabella's mother destitute and forcing Arabella to work as a scullery maid in the home of one of her former classmates.
Recounts the tale of Laura Secord's journey to tell the British about an American plot to conquer them during the war between Great Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century.
When fifteen-year-old Mary journeys from Scotland to Canada in search of her cousin, she makes a tragic discovery and alienates the townsfolk who fear her psychic powers.
