Village of the Small Houses by Ian Ferguson

This book is a fictionalized autobiography ("a memoir of sorts") of the author Ian Ferguson's (of How to Be a Canadian fame) childhood growing up in Fort Vermillion, in northern Alberta just below the Arctic Circle. It's a sweet, sometimes poignant, always funny account of the vagaries of life In The North.

This is an extremely enjoyable book with a brilliant cast of characters! You'll laugh, you'll go "awww!", you'll keep reading on to see what happens next. This book stops when the author/protagonist is 15, and I think if Ferguson can keep up this tone as he leaves childhood, there is definitely room for a sequel!