Michelle Monteith

13-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. She spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which borders her back garden, and just happens to be the home of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. Soon October befriends the five kids and together, using October's smarts and the dead kids' ability to walk through walls, they form The Dead Kid Detective...

Jennie has been a widow for two years. Her twelve-year-old son thinks it's about time she started dating, and so does her best friend, Angela. So with Angela's help, Jennie signs up to an online dating site. Within hours, she has several dates lined up for the week. Surely there will be one Prince Charming in the bunch. And if not, it's only one date, right? How bad could it be?

After twenty years Max Binder is still in love with his fiery wife, Maggie, and is determined to get her the perfect fortieth birthday gift. But Max's singular desire - to make his wife happy - leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family's life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city. Set over the course of a single year, Once More With Feeling tells the story of a community through intersecting moments...

Harriet is eleven, going on thirty. Her mixed media paintings are a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to fund her escape, she runs errands for the seniors who inhabit the Shangrila, the decrepit apartment building that houses her fractured...

Franklin, Bear and Mr. Turtle as they navigate the great blue seas of the Caribbean in an underwater submarine adventure!