Family
Shorelines
A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned ...
Amaryllis & Little Witch
In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children ...
The Bears Sleep at Last
Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn’t come.
The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do ...
Quiver
“She doesn’t care about me; she doesn’t even want to see me; she just pretends she does. ”
Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn’t expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. ...
Late Company
One year after the suicide of their teenage son Joel, Debora and Michael Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with their son’s bully and his parents. Closure is on the menu, but accusations are the main ...
My Family and Other Endangered Species
Nine-year-old Phineas interprets the world through his encyclopedic knowledge of animals, but some human behaviour is just too puzzling. Take for example his mom, who insists he learn to fall asleep on ...
The Patron Saint of Stanley Park
Siblings Josh and Jennifer are coping with the loss of their father, who disappeared in a float plane accident on Christmas Eve one year ago. While Josh scours the Internet for proof that his father is ...
Skin & Liars
Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s. Faced with racial discrimination, Phiroza, Jennifer, and Tuan must navigate the choppy waters of high school, ...
Night
Life is different when you live in twenty-four-hour darkness. But for Piuyuq, a teenager in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, the pressing darkness and bone-chilling winter winds are the least of her worries. Daniella, ...
Seesaw
Charla is the new girl at school, nervous about her shabby clothes and mourning her parents' break-up. Paige, Charla's new friend, is only concerned with fashion, gossip, and her good-looking boyfriend, ...