In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley dreams of being a writer and having adventures while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her sister in teaching school and secretly becoming friends with a neighbor who holds scandalous opinions on women's rights.
In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores.
Indians, settlers and the northern borderland of the American Revolution
Taylor, Alan
2006
Uses the story of the friendship between a young Mohawk Indian named Joseph Brant and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman, in eighteenth-century New England to highlight the interactions between Native Americans and colonists in the years following the American Revolution.
A graphic novel in which Lester, a recently orphaned boy, is sent to his uncle's farm in Southwestern Ontario, where he befriends a damaged former hockey star and the two escape to a private fantasy world.
Recounts how the National Unity Association, a group of African-Canadian citizens in Dresden, Ontario, challenged the racist attitudes of the 1950s and worked with Toronto civil-rights activists to influence Ontario government.
In a small Ontario town in the 1960s, a young girl's life is forever changed after she learns a dark family secret and learns the power of forgiveness.
