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By Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.By William Deverell. 1999
Fiery feminist trial lawyer Elizabeth Finnegan sets her sights on an arrogant Supreme Court judge, who has handed down a…
lenient sentence to a convicted rapist. When a woman comes to Finnegan claiming she was raped by the same judge, she jumps at the case. Her research looks damning, but is her client telling the truth? 1999.By Eric Walters. 2003
Winston is suspended from school and keeps running away from home, so his mother sends him to stay with his…
father, a well-known newspaper reporter who's covering the story of Terry Fox and his friend Doug Alward. Winston spends time with Terry and Doug, and their determination to achieve what seems like an impossible goal makes a big impression on him. But can Winston learn enough to deal with an article of his father's that characterizes Terry and Doug in an unflattering way, and with his own problems? Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 5-8. 2003.By David Lodge. 2008
When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not…
enjoying it. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort and househusband. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss. 2008.By Julie Lawson. 1996
Eleven-year-old Sam's first visit to the remote west coast of Vancouver Island is not what she expected. She's teased by…
her cousins for being a "city kid", when they're not ignoring her. Then, while exploring the woods on her own, she comes face-to-face with a wild cougar and her two cubs and her summer vacation gets much more exciting. 1996.By Julie Johnston. 1992
Twelve-year-old Keely Connor loves a challenge and is carefree and adventurous in her daily life in 1946 Canada. She faces…
a bigger challenge than she could have ever imagined, however, when her gifted older brother, Patrick, is paralyzed with polio and loses interest in living. Keely takes on the cause of healing Patrick's broken spirit and renewing his zest for life. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1992.By Rose Bevins. 2004
Gina isn't looking forward to the weekend - instead of spending it at her best friend's house, her mother's friends…
are visiting with their son, Ricky, who's blind. She'll be stuck in the house with him while the adults go to a high school reunion. How is she supposed to act around Ricky when she's never even met a blind person before? Grades 4-7. 2004.By Andrea Spalding. 1998
Fifteen-year-old Rowan is sent to spend a summer with her cousins in an isolated area in British Columbia while her…
parents are on assignment in Africa. In an attempt to keep herself busy she decides to camp out on a near-by island to study an endangered group of sea otters. With the help of her family, friends, journalists and a marine biologist Rowan fights for the protection of the otters. Grades 5-8. 1998.By Gail Anderson-Dargatz. 1998
As Augusta Olsen waits for news about the surgery of her beloved son-in-law, she reflects on a harsh, sometimes magical,…
life. Bereft after her mother's death, she marries Karl, her first suitor. Her marriage is difficult and she battles with Karl's father, but when they move to a farm of their own, she begins to find her independence. She is soon at work on her mother's old beekeeping equipment. 1998.By Sylvia McNicoll. 2004
Elizabeth's at it again - she's raising a puppy for the guide dog program. But this time, for sure, she…
won't fall in love. She's too busy, for one thing: it's her first year at high school, she's going to be an aunt, and she's engaged to be married - sort of, maybe, in sixteen years or so, if Scott's still around. Sequel to: "Bringing Up Beauty". For junior and senior high readers. 2004.By Rachna Gilmore. 1995
On holiday with her family, Nobby, short for Zenobia, meets Zilla, who is older than Zenobia but still lots of…
fun. Zilla is developmentally disabled but that doesn't matter to Nobby, because Zilla is a great friend and knows everything about birds and animals. Uncle Chad, however, doesn't seem to like Zilla. When he gets into trouble, will Nobby and Zilla help him out of danger? Grades 4-7. c1995.By Dean R Koontz. 2000
At the age of three, to stop a fast-spreading cancer, Bartholomew Lampion was blinded by eye surgery. Barty grows up…
a prodigy, and at the age of 13, he regains his sight and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.By E. L Konigsburg. 2000
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech. Only his…
friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened. Grades 5-8. 2000.By Lesley Beake. 1995
Mponyane can't hear or speak. He lives with the Saunderson family and is deeply troubled by the way the family…
is ostracized. He can only feel their unhappiness and fear, and he has to keep his thoughts locked up like a cageful of butterflies. Junior high readers.By W. R Philbrick. 1993
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his…
body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. Junior and Senior High.1993.By Sylvia Plath. 1963
This autobiographical novel traces the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant 19-year-old college student who spends a month in…
New York City as a contest-winning junior editor on a fashion magazine. c1963.By Laura Fay Robbie. 2006
A heart-warming account about laughter, tears, and the importance of facing life's obstacles with courage. A true story about a…
memorable vacation, one big brother who daydreams, an important epiphany, and a hilarious little boy named Chase. 2006.By Victor Hugo. 1996
By Louis Sachar. 2006
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit (from "Holes", BR67316), is turning his life around in Austin,…
Texas, with the encouragement of his ten-year-old neighbour, Ginny, who has cerebral palsy. Then his friend X-Ray comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme, he meets a celebrity teen singer, and life will never be the same. Grades 5-8. 2006.By L. R Wright. 1996
Karl Alberg finds his latest case one of his most troubling. Teenager Eliot Gardener has killed his parents and wounded…
his sister with a machete. The key is, why? Eliot won't talk to anyone about it, and Karl deals with his own sense of self-blame, even though no one could have foreseen the tragedy. Some violence and strong language.