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Award-winning, bestselling chapter books for ages 8–11. Titles in this series include historical and contemporary stories with age-appropriate plots.

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A Different Game
By author: Sylvia Olsen
ISBN: 9781554691692
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 136
Price: $7.95
In this sequel to Murphy and Mousetrap, Murphy and his three friends are nervous about trying out for the soccer team at their new school, but a diagnosis of leukemia proves more challenging than anything they encounter on the field.
Addison Addley and the Things That Aren't There
ISBN: 9781551439495
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 96
Price: $7.95
Addison has to give a speech at school, but he'd rather be fishing or playing baseball that writing.
Addison Addley and the Trick of the Eye
ISBN: 9781554691890
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
690L
Pages: 96
Price: $7.95
Addison's mother wants to move, so Addison uses optical illusions and his own overheated imagination to convince her to stay in their old house.
Addy's Race
By author: Debby Waldman
ISBN: 9781554699247
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 136
Price: $7.95
Addy joins her school's running club and learns not only is she a great runner, but she can also be assertive and let others know there is more to her than hearing loss.
After Peaches
By author: Michelle Mulder
ISBN: 9781554691760
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
990L
Pages: 120
Price: $7.95
Rosario and her parents come to Canada as political refugees from Mexico. Rosario hates her heavily-accented English, but she breaks the language barrier to save a migrant farm worker's life.
Belle of Batoche
By author: Jacqueline Guest
ISBN: 9781551432977
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 144
Price: $7.95
Belle must put aside her struggle to become the church bell ringer when those she loves are threatened during the battle of Batoche, part of the Riel Rebellion.
Birdie for Now
By author: Jean Little
ISBN: 9781551432038
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 160
Price: $5.95
By helping a small, abused dog, Dickon transfoms himself.
Boot Camp
ISBN: 9781551436951
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 192
Price: $5.95
Nick and Kia learn that teamwork can be more important than talent.
Casey Little, Yo-Yo Queen
By author: Nancy Belgue
ISBN: 9781551433578
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 128
Price: $5.95
When a magical carnival sets up across the street from Casey Little's house, it turns out that she will have to overcome her deepest fear if she is to have any chance of making her dream come true.
Catching Spring
By author: Sylvia Olsen
ISBN: 9781551432984
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 128
Price: $7.95
In 1957, Bobby, a First Nations boy, longs to enter a fishing derby, but he has no boat, no money and he has to work on the day of the derby.
Chance and the Butterfly
By author: Maggie De Vries
ISBN: 9781554698653
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
670L
Pages: 136
Price: $7.95
Chance has problems fitting in at school and in his new foster home, but watching a caterpillar become a butterfly helps him let go of some of his anger.
Colette and the Silver Samovar
By author: Nancy Belgue
ISBN: 9781554693214
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
660L
Pages: 152
Price: $7.95
Colette's family is torn apart by events and attitudes she cannot control, but she is determined to find a way to mend the rifts that threaten to destroy the people she loves.
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