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Bubbly Troubly Polar Bear
Lisa Dalrymple, Elizabeth Pratt
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., Oct. 20, 2013)It's Bring Your Kids to Work Day and Dad is taking Nat and her polar bear to Mr. McDermott's Detergents and Soaps. Nat promises Bear will be no trouble until she hears that Floppery Flippery Slippery Slop sound, and she wonders just who else Bear has brought with him. Surely a big polar bear and all his pesky friends couldn't get into too much bubbly troubly in a soap factory, right?
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Turnip Top Pony
Catherine Simpson, Joanne Snook-Hann
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., Aug. 16, 1999)Newfoundland Ponies are little work horses used in Newfoundland outports during the fall and winter. In the summer they are given a break and permitted to roam free.
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Jasmine's Journey
Cathy Brown Murphy
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., Oct. 16, 2002)Jasmine is a well-loved house cat without a care in the world until a house fire destroys her owners' cottage. Unaware their pet survived the fire, her family returns home to Halifax, leaving the dazed and injured cat alone for the first time in her life
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Rebecca's Ducks
Angela Moore, Nancy Keating
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., March 1, 2007)Rebecca's Ducks tells the story of a little girl named Rebecca who moves from Toronto to Conception Bay North. She loves ducks and hopes to find a duck pond near her new home. When she finds a duck pond with no ducks, she is disappointed, but they are closer than she thinks. This delightful story will entertain young and old alike.
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Forget Me Not
Maxine Trottier, Nancy Keating
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., May 28, 2008)A poignant tale of how The Great War touched a country, and of how a man who was certain he had lost what was most important to him, finds it again through the friendship of a child. It is a story of honour and remembranceOne day in the summer of 1917, Bridget Keats sees something new. A stranger--Jake Wiseman--has come to their small Newfoundland outport. A mysterious soldier who will not show himself, he hides away on a nearby island in the old lighthouse keeper's cottage. Some say he was a coward. Some say he was wounded and came back horribly scarred. No one knows for sure. It is Bridget Keats, who must bring his food to him each day. And it is Bridget who learns the truth of what is inside the man when a terrible storm forces Jake Wiseman to make as hard a choice as he has ever made.
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There Are No Polar Bears Here!
Catherine Simpson, Catherine A. Simpson, Joanne Snook
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., Jan. 16, 1995)Children's more fantastic stories are usually explained away by well-meaning adults. Cathy Simpson has taken this common childhood frustration, and woven it into a lively tale -- set in rural Newfoundland -- of a little girl, a large bear, and a whole community that is very surprised when she is proven to be right
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At Ocean's Edge
Susan Chalker Browne, Mel DSouza
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., Aug. 30, 2003)At Ocean's Edge is based on the actual Cantwell family who lived at Cape Spear in 1861. It follows the dramatic events of two ships, which were anchored off Cape Spear whereby one broke apart on the rocks the next day.
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Beware the Fugitora
John Pippy
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd, June 1, 1989)An alien spaceship crashes near the small community of Bright Harbour, witnessed only by Bill and Steve. While investigating, they discover the ship's sole survivor, Otto, the son of a Valerian starship commander, in a nearby cave. Believing Otto to be in danger, the Valerian capture Steve and take him aboard a starship, while Bill manages to escape. But how to save Steve? Bill searches the crash site, and finds a strange device. Hoping to communicate with the aliens to plead for her friend's life, Bill activates this device...and finds himself off on an adventure of his own.
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The Land of a Thousand Whales
Susan Chalker Browne, Nancy Keating
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., Oct. 15, 2006)More than anything else, Sebastian wants to see the whales. One night he hides away on whaling ship headed for the New World.
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The Woman With the Eggs
Hans Christian Andersen
Hardcover (Breakwater Books Ltd, Jan. 1, 1987)None
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The Saltbox Sweater
Janet McNaughton
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., June 16, 2001)This realistic story of life in rural Newfoundland after the 1992 moratorium on northern cod stocks is written to appeal to newly independent readers.
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Buried Truth
Alice Walsh
Paperback (Breakwater Books Ltd., May 1, 2013)After her mother dies, fourteen year old Zoe is whisked away to Newfoundland to live with a father she has never met. In the tiny village of Port au Choix, she gets caught up in solving the mystery of finding the habitation site of the Maritime Archaic Indian, an ancient culture that lived in the area more than four thousand years ago. At the same time, Zoe has her own mystery to solve. Going through her mother's journals, she discovers secrets that baffle and confuse her. Could Zoe's life have been nothing more than an elaborate lie?
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