Roddy Smith and his brother Lenny are tough. They run things on the Metro Cats, a hockey team in Toronto's East End.

At first, Ryan Cooper thinks a new pulp and paper mill in East Harbour will be a good thing, providing employment for the residents of his home town. But Ryan's girlfriend Alana is more worried about the mill's environmental impact.

Tom Poulos is looking forward to a summer of baseball. But instead of playing catcher for the Jarvis Badgers, Tom finds himself on a plane to Winnipeg, where he'll spend the summer with an uncle he doesn't even know.

Imaginative and very funny, with an English text by Canada's premier literary translator, My Life as a Crow will amuse young readers and entertain their parents.

Carl's faithful companion, Mooch, ends up in the dog pound.

Maddie dreams of being a hockey goalie. So she tries to convince the all-boys team to let her play.

Maddie would do anything to have her own walkman.

Daniel likes dreaming. He plays goal for his hockey team, and lately they have been losing. If only life were more like his dreams....

Snake thought he'd be king of the castle in grade nine, but it didn't turn out that way. He wishes for a magic solution, but finally has to sort the mess out for himself.

When Corey gets caught opening the boys' washroom window to let smoke out, he's resigned to being called a troublemaker.