Valerie Sherrard is the author of more than thirty books for children and teens, including the multi-award-nominated Birdspell and the novel-in-verse Standing on Neptune. Her work has won or been shortlisted for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ann Connor Brimer Award, the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children, and numerous readers’ choice programs including the Forest of Reading, the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards, the Red Cedar Book Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Awards, the Willow Awards, and the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award. The New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for High Achievement in the Arts named Valerie the 2024 Literary Arts Laureate. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she now lives in Miramichi, New Brunswick.
Taking on odd jobs cleaning messes nobody else wants to touch, Nick, Khenan, and their helper Florrie are raking in cash this summer — until they dig up a buried secret that shocks the whole town, stirring up a much bigger mess than any of them could’ve expected.
Ethan’s father has been lying about taking “business trips,” using them as cover for a clandestine — and potentially illegal — operation. To catch a liar, Ethan must become a liar, but what if the truth can throw his whole life off balance?
A twelve-year old boy copes with his mother’s mental illness with the help of a talking—and possibly magic—bird, and friends he finds in unexpected places.
The way you express yourself matters! You are constantly communicating wherever you go. That’s what this book will help you do – communicate effectively and with confidence by giving you essential tips and tricks. Communicating just might turn out to be your superpower!
In fractured vignettes, Brooke Palinder describes the week she spends wondering if she’s pregnant after realizing her period is late. Her boyfriend is unable to offer support and Brooke can’t even tell her best friend. Feeling isolated, she reexamines her life and readies herself to take a pregnancy test.
