Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Living in grim Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Frannie, Ivy Chalmers has never met her father.
Short-listed for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Book Award and for the 2003 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award and long-listed for the 2002 CBC Canada Reads People's Choice Book Kataryna Baliuk, a gifted fine arts student, is hoping to have a fresh start at Cawthra School for the Arts after a less-than-successful year at the neighbouring Catholic high school.
Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Annie Berkley, a schoolmate of Shelby's who has appeared in previous books, lives in a foster home and has become depressed.
Winner of the Esther Glen Medal for Junior Fiction 2015 Storylines Notable Book Award 2015 'Conrad Cooper is the most lovable fictional character I have come across since Frankie Parsons in The 10pm Question .
After a day of roly-poly fun and shenanigans, it's bedtime for maziks, the Yiddish word for pranksters or little mischief-makers, a name Jewish parents may lovingly call their rambunctious little ones.