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Terror at Turtle Mountain
By Penny Draper. 2006
It's 4:00 am, April 29, 1903, and Nathalie lies awake in her coal town at the base of Turtle Mountain,…
listening for a train - the Spokane Flyer, bringing her cousin for a visit. Instead, Nathalie hears rocks tumbling down the mountain onto the town and the railway track. As she helps search for survivors, desperate questions fill her mind: how many have died? Will the men inside the mine be safe? And will the train be stopped in time? Grades 4-7. 2006.Shipwreck (Detective Murdoch mystery.)
By Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.Shadow warrior
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.Run
By David Skuy. 2017
Terrified of being targeted by bullies for being overweight, Lionel tries to go through grade 8 attracting as little notice…
as possible. But Lionel discovers something about himself: he's fast. So Lionel takes up running. That leads to joining a running group, and being recruited for the school track team. But being on the track team and getting more attention brings him closer to the bullies he's been avoiding - and makes him a target. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Rooting for Rafael Rosales
By Kurtis Scaletta. 2017
In the Dominican Republic, a boy who dreams of playing professional baseball in the United States crosses paths with a…
young environmentalist from Minneapolis who is passionate about saving bees. Grades 4-7. 2017.Rink rivals (Sports stories series ; #49)
By Jacqueline Guest. 2010
Evan and Brynley are twins, but they are very different. So when Brynley decides to take up hockey, which is…
Evan's sport, the boys find themselves facing off. Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2010.Me & Mr. Bell: A Novel
By Philip Roy. 2013
1908. Ten-year-old Eddie MacDonald shares Alexander Graham Bell's passion for solving problems and for taking long walks in the fields…
above Bras d’Or Lake. But whereas Bell is renowned by many for being the smartest man in the world, Eddie is just a local farm boy who struggles to learn to read and write. After a few chance encounters, the elderly Bell befriends the young boy, and takes an interest in his struggle, encouraging Eddie to take his successes and never give up. When Bell’s long ambition for manned flight culminates in Silver Dart soaring over Bras d’Or Lake, Eddie is inspired to find solutions to his own challenges. Grades 3-6. 2013.La fabuleuse entraîneuse (Charlotte ; #6)
By Dominique Demers. 2007
L'équipe de soccer de l'Anse-aux-Canards, dont fait partie Jérémie Jolivet, doit affronter celle de la Baie-des-Bleuets dans un match crucial.…
La pression est énorme et l'enjeu semble important - jusqu'à ce que débarque la nouvelle entraîneuse, l'ineffable mademoiselle Charlotte. Ses méthodes d'entraînement et son approche du jeu sont à l'opposé de tout ce que les jeunes joueurs ont vu jusqu'à ce jour: pas de cris, pas d'ordres, et surtout pas d'injures! Les jeunes doivent apprendre à perdre, à jouer pour le plaisir, à donner le meilleur d'eux-mêmes pour la joie pure que cela procure. Avec son originalité coutumière, un peu de "spling" et de "smalalamiam", Mademoiselle Charlotte inculque aux joueurs les vertus de la solidarité, de l'entraide, et leur fait comprendre que chacun d'eux est unique! Années 3-6. 2007.Halifax explodes! (Canadian flyer adventures. #17.)
By Frieda Wishinsky, Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall. 2011
Matt and Emily, using their magic time-travelling sled the Canadian Flyer, land on Citadel Hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during…
World War I, just as the Mont Blanc, a ship full of ammunition, explodes in the harbour! In the chaos that follows, the two friends find Tim, a dazed young soldier, and try to help him. Grades 2-4. 2011. (Canadian Flyer adventures ; 17)Flying feet (Orca sports)
By J. Alfred McCann. 2010
After losing yet another tae kwon do tournament, Jinho gives in to his anger and breaks his opponent's fingers. While…
this gets him barred from competing at his dojang, it also gets him scouted by Austin, a trainer for an underground mixed martial arts club. At first the prospect of fighting without boundaries appeals to Jinho, but the more involved he gets, the more disturbing he finds it and the harder it is to find a way out. Senior High. 2010.Flood warning (Orca echoes)
By Jacqueline Pearce. 2012
Tom loves running through cow fields with his best friend, Peggy, and his dog, Amos, especially when he's pretending to…
be his favorite radio hero, the Lone Ranger. But when Tom learns the nearby Fraser River is about to flood, he may have to become a real-life hero and help save his family's herd of dairy cows. This story is based on real events that happened in the farming community of Agassiz, British Columbia, during the Fraser River flood of 1948. Grades 3-6. 2012. (Orca echoes)Game face (Sports stories)
By Sylvia Gunnery. 2013
Jay Hirtle's back in Rockets territory and he's determined to help his former teammates win the basketball championship. But some…
of his teammates aren't very welcoming, including Colin, Jay's former best friend and last season's MVP. When Jay wins out in a close vote for team captain, Colin's behaviour becomes even more hostile. Jay has to think of a way to fix their strained relationship -- and the effect it has on the team's showing -- even if it means giving up the captaincy. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.Deadly voyage: RMS Titanic (I am Canada)
By Hugh Brewster. 2011
Fourteen-year-old Jamie Laidlaw is returning to Canada from England aboard the Titanic, and during his four days on board, he…
busies himself with new friends, finding ways to explore the ship's forbidden areas, and generally landing himself in trouble. When disaster strikes, Jamie is on the front lines, struggling to help free the lifeboats and get people on board them. When a huge wave washes over the ship's sloping deck, it's time for Jamie to take action - and take his fate into his own hands. Grades 5-8. 2011. (I am Canada)Clutch
By Heather Camlot. 2017
It's 1946. A poor Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal where a few dollars equal a fortune, and no matter where you…
go, you'll find the best home cooking anywhere on earth. It's also a million miles away from the posh mansions on the other side of town. But a 12-year-old boy can hope. Just across town something incredible is happening. Jackie Robinson is playing for the Montreal Royals. And he's going to change the world. If Jackie can do it, then so too can a poor Jewish kid from The Plateau. Grades 5-8. 2017.All fall down: the landslide diary of Abby Roberts (Dear Canada)
By Jean Little. 2014
After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the…
mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with Down Syndrome, and learning Morse code at the telegraph office. When the devastating Frank Slide buries much of the town, Abby must do all she can to help. But a long-buried family secret emerged just before the disaster — and now she will have to wait for the dust to settle before getting the answers she so desperately wants. Grades 4-7. 2014.A day of signs and wonders
By Kit Pearson. 2016
Emily dreams of birds. She feels constrained by nearly everything--her overbearing sisters, the expectation to be a proper young lady,…
and even her stiff white pinafore. Kitty feels undone. Her heart is still grieving a tragic loss, and she doesn't want to be sent away to a boarding school so far away from home. When the two girls meet by chance, on a beach on the outskirts of Victoria, BC, in 1881, neither knows that their one day together will change their lives forever. Grades 3-6. 2016.An Easter story
By Brian Wildsmith. 1993
Hockey sur le lac
By David Ward, Isabelle Allard. 2008
"Owen et Holly passent une journée fantastique à jouer au hockey sur le lac jusqu'à ce que leur rondelle tombe…
dans un trou, creusé dans la glace par un pêcheur. Ils croient bien que la partie est terminée, mais leur père décide de leur montrer comment les jeunes se débrouillaient dans le bon vieux temps. Il coupe une rondelle dans un tronc d'arbre et avec l'aide du pêcheur, il la trempe dans l'eau glacée. Après quelques minutes, la rondelle, recouverte d'une mince couche de glace, glisse à merveille sur la patinoire et la partie peut continuer!" -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The hockey tree.Ça, c'est du hockey!
By David Bouchard, Michèle Marineau. 2003
"Dominique passe la fin de semaine chez son cousin Étienne, qui, avec ses amis, l'initie au hockey bottine. Le hockey…
bottine, c'est beaucoup plus drôle que le hockey sur glace. La seule et unique règle est de s'amuser, en marquant le plus de buts possible. Alors Dominique apprend petit à petit le rituel de ces garçons... Juste pour les garçons? Un album qui fleure bon la glace fraîche et les copains." -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: That's hockey.Vingt-quatre heures d'une femme sensible: [roman]
By Constance De Salm. 2007
"Nous sommes en 1814. Au sortir d'un spectacle, notre héroïne, une veuve amoureuse d'un jeune homme sans ressources, entrevoit celui-ci…
qui, dans la foule, quitte les lieux en compagnie d'une autre jeune femme. Tout au long des vingt-quatre heures qui vont suivre, elle adresse à son amant une succession de quarante-six lettres, reflets du tourbillon des émotions qui l'étreignent, tour à tour déchirée de jalousie, d'amour et de désespoir. Quarante-six lettres qui expriment en une langue d'un raffinement et d'une précision inouïs l'exaspération amoureuse, la violence de sentiments nés en définitive d'un quiproquo, car ce jeune amant par lequel cette femme sensible s'était crue trahie, allant même jusqu'à contempler l'éventualité du suicide, œuvrait en secret à la possibilité de leur union... " -- 4e de couv.