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For those who need something to read while waiting for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Scholastic and Penguin Canada have created series meant to bring history alive for young readers.
Penguin's Our Canada series is aimed at girls 8-12, and features heroines like 10 year old Rachel who fled slavery in South Carolina, and found a new home in Nova Scotia in 1783. The writers of this series include Sharon E. McKay who won a Governor General's Award in 2000 for Charlie Wilcox, and Julie Lawson who has been on the Governor General's shortlist, and Kathy Stinson who won the IODE for red is best. Find out more at www.ourcanadiangirl.ca.
Scholastic's Dear Canada series, being launched on Sept. 17, is written in diary form. Notable author, Jean Little, is one of the authors who has written a story for the Dear Canada series. Little's story is called Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, and follows the life of one of the 60,000 "home children" sent to Canada from the London. Another award winning author, Sarah Ellis, wrote A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall, a pioneer girl living on a farm in the Canadian West.
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Children's Fantasy |
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The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander |
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The Silver Glove | Suzy McKee Charnas |
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Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
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Over Sea, Under Stone | Susan Cooper |
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So You Want To Be A Wizard | Diane Duane |
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Lord Brocktree | Brian Jacques |
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Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster |
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A Wrinkle in Time | Madeline L'Engle |
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Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
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The Magician's Nephew | C. S. Lewis |
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The Hunter's Moon | O. R. Melling |
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Silverwing | Kenneth Oppel |
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Sunwing | Kenneth Oppel |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Newt Scamander |
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Lemony Snicket | |
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Quidditch Through the Ages | Kennilworthy Whisp |
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Charmed Life | Dianne Wynne-Jones |
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Children's Fiction |
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Blubber | Judy Blume |
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Easy Avenue | Brian Doyle |
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Gordon Korman | |
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Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
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Mr. Tucket | Gary Paulsen |
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Louise Rennison | |
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Megan's Island | Willo Davis Roberts |