Budge Wilson Books In Order

Lorinda’s Diary

As if Lorinda doesn’t have enough to worry about! Her Body is changing, her boy friends are turning into boyfriends, her Science teacher is mad at her, and her mother’s driving her crazy. Then her grandfather comes to visit for six months. At first Lorinda thinks he might be an ally. Then he starts to complain about everything. And it’s up to Lorinda to find out what’s really bothering him…

Oliver’s Wars

It seems that everywhere twelve year old Oliver Kovak turns, there’s a battle to be won or lost. When his father, a nurse, is assigned to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, Oliver, his mom, and his twin brother, Jerry, move East to live his grandparents. There, not only must he learn to get a long with his grouchy grandfather, but he must cope with the cruel put downs of a gym teacher and the taunts of new schoolmates. But his biggest ‘war’ is a personal one Oliver, who always looks as if nothing bothers him, must learn to let people know when he is hurting…

Sharla

Sharla is terribly angry with everyone her parents for moving to Churchill, Manitoba, the teachers in her new school, the tourists who flock the polar bears even Collette and Theo who are better friend than she’ll admit. When it seems like nothing in this small, cold town could be of interest, in walks Jake, attractive, older and looking for someone to help on his photography shoot. Against her better judgement, and what would be her parents’ wishes if they knew Sharla agrees to work for him. Suddenly she feels alive again until a magnificent, terrifying polar bear threatens their lives. In a matter of moments Sharla is faced with new and revealing realities.

Before Green Gables

Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all in one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads just press play! ‘A must read for generations of book lovers, this remarkable prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L. M. Montgomery’s heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel. Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley’s life before her arrival at Green Gables a heartwarming tale of a precocious child whose lively imagination and relentless spirit help her to overcome difficult circumstances and of a young girl’s ability to love, learn, and above all, dream. Published in 1908, L. M. Montgomery’s coming of age classic Anne of Green Gables has enchanted generations of readers, both children and adults. The story of the spunky red haired orphan from Prince Edward Island is known to millions, and copies of the eight titles in the series have never gone out of print. But when readers first meet Anne, she is only eleven and has just been sent from an orphanage to meet her new family. No one ever knew the events of Anne’s life before she arrived at Green Gables. Until now. For the millions of readers who devoured the Green Gables series, Before Green Gables is an irresistible treat: the account of how one of literature’s most beloved hero*ines became the girl who captivated the world.’

Cassandra’s Driftwood

Set in a beautiful Nova Scotia village, this is the story of a girl and the things she fears. A perfect beginning chapter book for children aged 8 10. Written by the Ann Connor Brimer Award winner, Budge Wilson.

Duff the Giant Killer

Duff and his best friend Simon do everything together they get chickenpox together, miss school together, and now that they’re mostly better, they convalesce together. Convalescing to them means spending the day in the playground acting out Jack the Giant Killer, a play they’ve seen on TV. But when a neighbour looks out the window to see one truant boy chasing another with a sword, she immediately thinks the worst. Soon the police and ambulance are on the scene, and the whole neighborhood is in an uproar. Duff the Giant Killer is a lively, humorous tale that traces the effects of too vivid imaginations, in children and adults alike.

Long Wait

Deirdre did not have a sleek and velvet coat. She did not have a lean and graceful body. She did not walk like a queen with her head in the air. But to the Wilsons, Deirdre was a very special cat. Whenever they came home, she was always there, waiting on the braided mat in the front hall. Then, one year a terrible thing happened.

Duff’s Monkey Business

Duff’s dad thinks his son has an over active imagination: one day their neighborhood is menaced by flying saucers, the next by stray elephants or boa constrictors. So when Duff announces he’s found a monkey in the barn, no one believes him. No one, that is except his best friend Simon. The harder Duff and Simon try to convince people that the monkey is real, the less they’re convinced. Simon’s mom takes her worries to the rabbi; Duff’s priest preaches sermons about the dangers of lying. When Mr. Antonio comes to town looking for the star performer of his Mountie Monkey Act, however, people think twice about what Duff and Simon said, and about how they responded to it. Duff’s Monkey Business is a hilarious story about the importance of honesty, and of keeping an open mind to the truth.

The Fear of Angelina Domino

Angelina Domino loved animals, especially cats. So, for her fifth birthday, her parents gave her a kitten. His name was Boris and he was as wild as an African lion. He scared the daylights out of Angelina and soon she was afraid of all animals, even gerbils. It would take patience, courage and a very special purr to chase that fear away.

Manfred the Unmanageable Monster

Budge Wilson has created a heart warming monster story that proves things are not always the way they appear. Manfred’s parents are afraid he’s not scary enough but Manfred knows that it’s okay to be different and he figures out a way to break the stereotypes that monsters face.

A Fiddle for Angus

Angus family is musical. Everyone has their own instrument and everyone knows how to make music. But Angus can only hum along to his family’s playing, and humming isn t good enough. Angus wants to join his family s orchestra. When Angus father tells him the family will give him an instrument, he can t choose until he hears the fiddle at a ceilidh. But fiddling is hard; he can t make the music he wants. With patience, practice, and lots of lessons, Angus fingers learn how to play, and the music inside him finds a way out. Budge Wilson s story will ring true for every young musician and is a fitting tribute to the music makers of Cape Breton. From the Hardcover edition.

Harold and Harold

Another wonderful chapter book for young readers.

The Cat That Barked

When Stephanie Henderson moves to Nova Scotia, she leaves behind her friends. But her mother gets her a cat to help with the lonliness. And this is a special cat he barks!

The Imperfect Perfect Christmas

Andrea Doucette lives in a fishing village in Nova Scotia. It’s Christmas Eve and everyone in her house is feeling excited and happy except for Andrea who is feeling very gloomy. Then, a number of things take place that make Andrea wonder weather this Christmas is going to be quite fine or maybe end up being the worst disaster of all.

The Leaving

In these eleven short stories, Budge Wilson, the popular author of Lorinda’s Diary and Thirteen Never Changes, explores growing up in a colorful but imperfect world from a female point of view.

A pen pal halfway around the world, starting a diary, a favorite teacher s romance with metaphors, the intricacies of family relationships, a high school, reunion, the bittersweet taste of first love are all fodder for stories that will be read over and over again, and to treasure for a lifetime.

The Courtship

The Courtship is a collection of short stories with characters from the very young to the elderly who seem uncannily familiar to us in their pain, delight, and love. In The Dress a child’s birthday party turns into a bizarre psychodrama. In The Courtship seventy-seven-year-old Mrs. Knickle romantically pursues eighty-year-old Mr. Van Buskirk with some hesitation, however, as she has come to enjoy her afternoons of peanut butter sandwiches and reading. And in Elliot’s Daughter a writer, not only unrequited in love but unpublished, confesses his frustrations to his diary.