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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), School stories
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The Unteachables--the misfits, delinquents, and losers in room 117 kept isolated from the student body--never thought they'd find a teacher…
with a worse attitude than theirs. Then they met Mr. Kermit. Grades 5-8. 2019.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Fantasy
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Sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange kingdom called the Woodlands, living there for six years…
before returning to post-WWII England. Ev desperately wants to return to the Woodlands, and Philippa just wants to move on. When Ev goes missing, Philippa must confront the depth of her sister's despair and the painful truths they've been running from. Junior and/or Senior high. 2018.
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Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows…
moving to Austin, Texas won't be easy. He decides to label people before they can label him, but he may have more in common with the loner and cheerleader than he thinks. For junior and senior high readers. 2019.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Fantasy
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Nineteenth-century England. After her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her…
most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem. Winner of the 2018 Governor General’s Award for Young People's Literature. Grades 4-7. 2018.
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Family stories, General fiction
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Nix starts out as the whimsical story of a woodland fairy who is up to no good but has the…
best of intentions. He brings to mind Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream—he is wonderfully awful and charmingly mischievous, and, for some reason, we know we won’t be able to resist delighting in his misdoings, even as members of his enemy party: people.Nix himself narrates the story of his experience with a human intruder in the fairies’ forest, describing the impish tactics and spiteful threats he uses while attempting to drive the “tallish and oldish and baldish” man away. The truth is, though, that Nix lacks in the wicked magic he professes to have, and he fears the fairy queen who has left him in charge of the forest. The sordid tricks Nix uses to deceive the cottage-dweller into believing he does possess charms never sit well with him, and we begin to see that Nix is not exactly like Puck. He dreams of glory and feigns an overblown pride, but he has an empathic heart of gold and a deep-seated fear that we cannot help but want to quell. Eventually, we learn that not only is Nix not foul, but that he may not be a fairy at all.