Jan Andrews

• Jun-1991
• / General Fiction
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When Danya, Rachel, and Sean discover that their busy divorced mother has turned into a pumpkin, they decide to manage on their own until she turns into herself again, but continue to make the pumpkin the center of their home life...

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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For the past few years, Ephraim's father's potato crop has failed almost entirely. But this year there is hope. However, a good crop cannot ensure a good market. Since no one has any money to spend on potatoes, Ephraim's father must turn to logging t...

• Jun-2001
• / General Fiction
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In this dramatically illustrated book, master storyteller Jan Andrews takes folk tales from old cultures and retells them in new ways for modern audiences. Transformed tales from the motherland include: �"Pinkoya’s Child,” from Chile, now set on ...

• Feb-2003
• / General Fiction
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Eva Padlyat lived in an Inuit village on Ungava Vat in northern Canada. In winter, when people wanted mussels to eat, they searched along the bottom of the seabed. Eva had often walked on the bottom, helping her mother, but today �" for the very fir...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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Patterned on the popular carol, The Twelve Days of Summer takes readers on a joyous journey into summer, from the first discovery of three eggs in a sparrow�s nest to the day when those eggs hatch. Readers will pore over the pictures, searching for t...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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Hurt and angry that his grandfather is selling the family farm, Todd has come to help him prepare for the auction that will take place the following day. Deep into the night, Gramps recounts the treasured stories of his life there, stories Todd kn...

• Oct-2010
• / General Fiction
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Meet Mr. Mosquito, drawn from a Gypsy story. He's cantankerous and nasty enough to raise belly laughs along with the eyebrows of the polite. In a story inspired by Australian bush tales, we meet Ella and Bella, two hilarious (and flatulent) sisters. ...

• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction
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A USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor Book and a nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children AwardIn these t...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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It's all going wrong. Keri's Gran is dead, her Dad's working far away. Keri and her mum are fighting. Keri wants to reach back into the family's past; she wants to do something brave and heroic. When she and her brother find a whale washed up on the ...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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Jan Andrews draws on folk stories from around the world to build her newest collection of tales, rife with humor and tingling with action. Cleverly threaded together by verses describing the arrival of unbidden stories that enter boldly through the d...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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When no one listens, what's the point of talking?Kyle McGinley doesn’t say a word. Fed up with being shuttled from one foster care home to another, he has stopped speaking. But at the home of Scott and Jill Wardman, with the help of a crow, and a s...

• May-2016
• / Historical
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Sophie Loveridge's family is uprooted from the comfort of their home in England when her eccentric father -- inspired by the new novel, Robinson Crusoe -- decides to move the family to the New World so he can write an epic poem about surviving th...

• Feb-2019
• / General Fiction
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In her deeply-affecting final novel, acclaimed children's writer and storyteller Jan Andrews gives us Edie Murphy―an indomitable and engaging heroine on the cusp of womanhood. The novel moves from Edie's remote Newfoundland outport to St. John's an...

• Jun-2022
• / General Fiction
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A spare and beautiful story of resilience. It’s a normal day, at first, for a girl on her family farm. But then the wind starts. It blows harder and harder and harder. Her mother grabs her baby brother. Her father opens the root cellar door. They p...