Jocelyn, Marthe

Playful text and bold illustrations introduce young readers to the hard-to-grasp concepts of few, some, and many.

Ten-year-old Billie finds a bag of makeup in Central Park whose contents render her invisible.

In a parallel narrative, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates her unhappy experiences as a servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he leaves his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.

Nat's summer of work and hanging out with friends is suddenly changed when her sister, Claire, is hit by a car and ends up in a coma.

When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, but to reach their goals they will have to do some serious lying and Annie will have to stand up for herself.

Sixth grader Billie finds her life complicated when a cute boy from Montreal transfers to her school and her enemy Alyssa accidentally uses her vanishing powder.

In 1884, after being sold as a servant by her parents to a harsh school mistress, tiny twelve-year-old Josephine, who stands less than twenty-nine inches tall, finds refuge in the Museum of Earthly Astonishments in New York City.

Presents short stories about secrets, including funny secrets, frightening ones, harmful ones, and ones that heal, by twelve woman authors from Canada and the U.S.

Ten-year-old Billie finds a bag of makeup in Central Park whose contents render her invisible.

Despite her mother's edict against pets in the apartment, eleven-year-old Billie is unable to resist a homeless puppy and enlists the help of her scientific friend Jody in making the little dog invisible.