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By Sylvia McNicoll. 2017
Outdoor art is disappearing all over the neighbourhood! From elaborate Halloween decorations to the Stream of Dreams fish display across…
the fence at Stephen and Renée's school, it seems no art is safe. Renée's brother, Attila, has been cursing those model fish since he first had to make them as part of his community service. So everyone thinks Attila is behind it when they disappear. But, grumpy teen though he is, Attila can do no wrong in Renée's eyes, so she enlists Stephen's help to catch the real criminal. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "The best mistake mystery", followed by "The snake mistake mystery". 2017.By Alan Silberberg. 2013
A weird web site provides Kilgore Junior High students and best friends Matt and Craz the opportunity to make their…
cartoons become real, which has some unexpected and dire consequences. Grades 4-7. 2013.By Eric Walters. 2016
Graham Fox is reeling after breakings up with his girlfriend and moving to a new city, and school, in his…
senior year, but he soon finds himself playing wingman to Ethan Frost, who seems to have the art of meeting girls down to a science. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.By Susan White. 2012
Thirteen-year-old Rachel is bad news, or so her foster care worker tells her - she's been shuttled from one rotten…
foster family to another ever since her mother and brother died in a car accident five years ago. When she gets caught shoplifting, she’s sent to a farm run by a disfigured recluse named Amelia Walton. Rachel settles into life at the farm, losing herself in her daily chores and Amelia's endless trivia, and trying to forget her past and the secret she's holding inside. But when a letter arrives for her out of the blue, Rachel soon realizes that you can't hide from your past - or your future. For junior high readers. 2012.By Kristine Scarrow. 2018
One day, after weeks of secret planning, seventeen-year-old Annika Dietty leaves home at dawn to run away with her boyfriend,…
the charming and popular Dylan Sopick. She tried telling her friends and family how amazing Dylan is, but after they all seem set against the relationship, she's decided their only chance is to run away together. But not everything goes according to plan, and Dylan seems to be having more and more trouble dealing with every obstacle they encounter. At first Annika is sympathetic, knowing that he's had a harder life than she has, but very soon Dylan's behaviour becomes unsettling, and Annika realizes that her safety is at stake. She finally admits to herself that Dylan needs help she can't provide. She wants to get him to help--if she'll get the chance. For senior high readers. 2018.By Wade Albert White. 2017
Anne and her best friends Penelope and Hiro are tasked with an unwanted quest that could start a war between…
the Hierarchy and the dragon clan, and so to avoid disaster and save the world, the three friends must face dragon trials, defeat robots, and circumvent bureaucracy. Sequel to "The adventurer's guide to successful escapes". Grades 5-8. 2017.By Heather Smith. 2017
Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe house, with a mother who is a…
compulsive hoarder. Bun has had little contact with the outside world - what she's learned about life comes from the random books and old VHS tapes that she finds in the boxes and bags her mother brings home. When Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's, Newfoundland. Fortunately, the first person she meets is Busker Boy, a street musician who senses her naivety and takes her in. Together they live in a house with an eclectic cast of characters: Chef, a hotel dishwasher with culinary dreams; Cher, a drag queen with a tragic past; Big Eyes, a Catholic school girl desperately trying to reinvent herself; and The Landlord, a man who Bun is told to avoid at all cost. Through her experiences with her new roommates, and their sometimes tragic revelations, Bun learns that the world extends beyond the walls of her mother's house and discovers the joy of being part of a new family. For senior high readers. 2017.By Alisha Sevigny. 2018
Summer is here and Julia Ducharme is ready for another season at the campground her family owns and runs. But…
when a wealthy developer wants to turn the only home she's ever known into a casino, Julia is desperate to find a solution that doesn't mean leaving behind the lake or the business her family has nurtured for decades. Afraid for the future, Julia looks to the stars to give her some perspective. Taking her telescope down to the dock one night, she has a chance encounter with a guitar-playing boy who offers her a friendly ear and some helpful advice. But Julia is blindsided when she discovers the handsome stranger is none other than the developer's son, Nick Constantine. Nick doesn't agree with his father's aggressive business tactics and conspires to help Julia thwart the sale. But can she trust him with her heart? For junior and senior high readers. 2018.By Kate Blair. 2018
It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an…
uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night Ursa is on Beta Earth her world goes out of control when she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth. If Ursa and her people can't find out what's really going on in the forest, their already fragile society won't survive. For senior high readers. 2018.By Shelley Hrdlitschka. 2000
Slowly getting to know each other after being separated at birth and only recently reunited, fifteen-year-old twins, Alex and Tanner,…
enjoy their summer vacation together but find themselves once again in danger from the same criminal gang that threatened them in the past. For junior and senior high readers. 2000. Sequel to "Disconnected" . 2000.By Karen Nesbitt. 2017
Declan's life in small-town Quebec is defined by his parents' divorce, his older brother's delinquency and his own lackluster performance…
at school, which lands him with a tutor he calls Little Miss Perfect. He likes his job at the local ice rink, and he has a couple of good buddies, but his father's five-year absence is a constant source of pain and anger. When he finds out the truth about his parents' divorce, he is forced to reconsider everything he has believed about his family and himself. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 QWF Prize for Children’s Literature. 2017.By Joel A Sutherland. 2017
As his final year of high school crawls to an end, Jacob receives a postcard with a picture of Tokyo's…
skyline on the front. On its flipside are two simple words: "I'm sorry." Although it's unsigned, Jacob immediately knows who sent it. There's no doubt it's from his best friend, Ichiro, who abruptly moved to Japan with his mother before they started high school. Jacob couldn't blame them for packing up and moving. He wished he could've done the same. The summer vacation before high school should have been filled with fun and relaxation, but instead it was plagued by tragedy. What follows is Jacob's account of that terrifying summer. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 Red Maple Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.By Jennifer Gold. 2014
When fifteen-year-old Elizabeth finds an antique doll in a garage sale, she thinks it would be a good gift for…
her dad who's about to ship out for Afghanistan. She doesn't realize that the doll might be a missing (and valuable) historical artifact. With the help of Evan, the cute guy who works at the local used bookstore, Elizabeth discovers that the doll is THE soldier doll: the inspiration for a famous World War I poem. Elizabeth becomes the newest link in an epic history of more than a century of war, her story ingeniously interwoven with a cast of characters who we follow from World War I to Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a Czech concentration camp during World War II, Vietnam in 1970, and the aftermath of September 11th. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.By Linda Bailey. 2015
Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family…
with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers that it's already occupied -- by the ghosts of seven dead pirates. Worse, the ghosts expect him to help them re-take their ship, now restored and on display in a local museum, so they can make their way to Libertalia, a legendary pirate utopia. The only problem is that this motley crew hasn't left the house in almost two hundred years and is terrified of going outside. Grades 4-7. 2015.By Trilby Kent. 2011
South Africa. Corlie Roux’s farm life is not easy: the Transvaal is beautiful, but it is also a harsh, hot…
place, and when her father dies, she is left with a mother who is as devoted to her sons as she is cruel to her daughter. Corlie finds solace in her friend, Sipho, and in Africa itself, but her world is about to vanish - the British are invading and driving Boer families like hers from their farms. Will Corlie’s resilience and devotion to her country sustain her through the suffering and squalor she finds in the camp at Kroonstad? That may depend on a soldier from faraway Canada and on inner resources Corlie never dreamed she had. For senior high readers. Includes violence. 2011.By Joanne Levy. 2012
After being hit by lightning, twelve-year-old Lilah, who has a crush on classmate Andrew Finkel, discovers that she can communicate…
with dead people, including her grandmother who wants Lilah to find a new wife for Lilah's divorced father. Grades 5-8. 2012.By Tanya Lloyd Kyi. 2017
When her dreams of being a ninja are ended after an arranged marriage, Chiyome must wait until the opportunity arises…
for her to create her own network of women spies in sixteenth-century Japan. Grades 5-8. 2017.By Beth Goobie. 2005
Sophie is in a lot of trouble. She is on probation for stealing and is doing poorly at school. Her…
mom doesn't really talk to her, and the other adults in her life are pressuring Sophie to talk about her bruises. Sophie worries that if she tells, she will be sent to live in a group home. Her friend Jujube is the only person who knows the truth, and now Jujube, too, wants Sophie to speak up. For junior high readers and older. 2006, c2005.By Mary Labatt. 2000
When three odd women move in next door, Sam, the sheepdog, is convinced that they're witches. They've arrived with all…
sorts of caged animals, all of which look sickly and miserable. Sam is sure the critters are under a spell, and suddenly she feels sick too. Her neighbour Jennie, the only person who can understand her, has the opportunity to observe the women up close when she stays with them while her mother works late. Can Sam, Jennie, and their friend Beth, discover the truth before it's too late? Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Spying on Dracula", followed by "Aliens in Woodford". 2000.By Susin Nielsen-Fernlund. 1989
After his girlfriend, Spike, becomes pregnant, 14-year-old Shane must prove to his parents that he is not irresponsible. But Shane's…
new sense of independence backfires, and before he knows it, he is in trouble again. For junior and senior high readers. (Degrassi Junior High). 1989.