A six-year old girl lives in the popular resort town of Banff, Alberta, Canada. She is continually asked what it is like to live in Banff and after special consideration, she writes a book to tell everyone what Banff is like.

Twelve-year-old genius, Jordana Simkins, has decided to be a teacher. Luckily, Jordana is unusually tall for her age and has very supportive parents and a best friend named Emily to help her prepare for her first day of substitute teaching. While overcoming first-day jitters and kindergartners with wet pants, Jordana must deal with a vice-superintendent, Luella Trites, who believes Jordana is too young to teach. Ms. Trites does her best to ruin Jordana's career by insisting on extra supervision and dropping by Jordana's classroom to complain about her methods. How will Jordana make it through...

Emma Woodhouse is one of Jane Austen's most beloved heroines. She is smart, well-dressed and rich. But what about Jane Fairfax, her poor, orphaned nemesis? Would the story be so light and sparkling from Jane's point of view? Suspiciously Reserved in Jane's story, set in present-day Canada. Jane has felt uncomfortable living off the goodwill of her wealthy benefactors, the Campbells. Now that their daughter has found the man of her dreams, Jane wonders what her future holds. She feels the necessity of returning to her grandmother and Aunt Hetty. Before she goes, however, she will spend one...

19-year-old Laura Moore is living in Saskatoon with her boyfriend, Ian Matthews, against the wishes of their parents. Life in Saskatoon is dismal. Laura and Ian live in a dank basement apartment and work at dead-end jobs. When Ian decides he has had enough and leaves Laura to move back home, Laura has a very literary reaction. Defacing Poetry is a novella by Canadian author, Samantha Adkins, who has added nine short stories to create this haunting collection.

Cara has never met her father. Now, on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, her mother gives her a mysterious book which will answer the questions she's held onto for years. The tells the stories of four very different young women. One of the women is her mother, but Cara is left to uncover which narrative is hers.