Winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature — TextWinner of the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book AwardFirefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop.

This morning, I woke up on the ceiling …So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons.Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she’s an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school....

”I'm Mann, just Mann.”The world is slowly recovering after environmental collapse, and the children of the automated, domed city of Oculum have begun to awaken. Miranda, William and the 998 other children wake to tend the fruit trees and gardens behind the thick, opaque walls of their world. Some speak quietly of Outside, which is forbidden. Until William finds a door ...The children outside the dome of Oculum — Mann, Cranker and others raised by Grannie — live amo...

“A new friend is a scary thing, sometimes. You may have to change and adapt a little to make your friendship work …”So says Bat to her new friend Mr. Byrd on one perfect summer twilight. They’ve both landed, quite unexpectedly, on the same branch of the same red maple tree at the same time, and this story begins …They agree to meet at twilight all summer long. Soon, they realize they are more alike than different, and friendship takes many forms. Together, they dis...

The first in a series of scary tall tales from award-winning children’s novelist Philippa Dowding.Why is Grandpa acting so weird? And why are there so many giant flies?Jake spends every summer on his grandpa’s farm. But this year, things are a little weird. First, there are huge flies everywhere. Second, Grandpa is acting kind of funny. And third, Jake’s friend Kate keeps trying to scare him with creepy stories. Last year’s tale about the swamp cre...

The explosions come in the night.Miranda1, Mannfred, Grannie, and the one thousand children of Oculum must flee their farm, chased by the UnRuly. But there is hope: an old friend sends word of a book that may hold the secret to their survival.Just as they begin their journey through the wasteland, Echo1 wakes from an eighty-three-year sleep and is given a mission to find the four domes of the children of Oculum, and to find the First One, whatever the cost.

This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth. He ends up being adopted by her family, but all is not well since his nemesis, the cruel The Collector, is lurking – he once owned Gargoth and wants him back. The story continues in The Gargoyle Overhead, in which Gargoth is reunited with his oldest friend, Ambergine. Finally, in The Gargoyle at the...

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are five spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.Jake and the Giant Hand—Book #1Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begin...

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are three spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.IncludesJake and the Giant HandJake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s ...

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are six spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.Jake and the Giant Hand—Book #1Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begins...

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies and mysterious monsters in the dark.IncludesJake and the Giant HandJake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s f...

The Night Flyers glide effortlessly over the rooftops of their small town in a strange, magical escape from the pressures of high school. Meet Gwendolyn and Everton in this two-book collection of The Night Flyer's Handbook series.The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn GoldenGwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until … one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendol...