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By Anita Rau Badami. 2000
Sripathi Rao lives in his crumbling ancestral home in India with his extended family. His daughter left years earlier to…
study in America and remained in Canada after marrying a Canadian man. Then Sripathi receives the news that his daughter and her husband have been killed and that his seven-year-old granddaughter must now come to live with him and the family in India. Canada Reads 2016. Bestseller. 2000.By Bernice Thurman Hunter. 2005
Seventeen-year-old Beryl, living in Toronto in 1943, is sick of being left behind, sad and lonely, while the boys go…
off to exciting adventures in wartime Europe. Her friends have lost boyfriends overseas, some to war, some to British girlfriends. Then her favourite cousin goes missing during a bombing mission in Germany. Based on the author's own memories of teen life during World War II. For junior and senior high readers. 2005.By Lesley Krueger. 2003
Jessie Barfoot is 15, precocious, witty, and wounded, and has just moved to Toronto with her mother and new stepfather.…
She becomes curious about their cranky neighbour Martha, originally from the Netherlands, who is not only a superb gardener but someone who has been ferociously guarding a secret since she was Jessie's age. Once Jessie charms her way into the garden, Martha's past slowly becomes revealed, threatening both their futures. Strong language. 2003.By Deborah Ellis. 2000
A story about loyalty, survival, families and friendship, set against the backdrop of an intolerable existence in war-torn Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old…
Parvana lives in Taliban-controlled Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. Masquerading as a boy, Parvana goes to work in the streets so that her family can eat. Parvana becomes the breadwinner. Grades 5-8. 2000.By Eric Walters. 2000
While the War of 1812 rages, Tom Roberts, fourteen, is left behind to look after the family farm. That all…
changes when he stops some American soldiers from robbing the local store. His quick thinking and bravery catch the eye of Lieutenant James FitzGibbon and lead to Tom joining the Bully Boys, FitzGibbon's unit. There Tom learns more about the fascination, and the horror, of war than he ever wanted to know. Junior high readers. 2000.By John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.By William Bell. 2006
Lee wants to be a Tarantula - a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when…
his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Lee's father sends him to live with his aunt. He initially resists Aunt Reena and the customers of her café, but slowly learns to open himself up to his new surroundings. When Lee strikes up an unlikely friendship he is suddenly confronted by the ravages of violence, and is forced to face the consequences of his own aggression. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.By Jaspreet Singh. 2004
In a series of linked short stories, two Sikh boys, named Adi and Arjun, come of age in an Indian…
army camp in Kashmir. Each story builds upon a minor character from another story, creating a portrait of the border community. Some of the people the boys meet include a boatman's daughter, a captured officer, a celebrity cricket umpire, and Parachute Aunty. Some strong language. 2004.By David Baldacci. 2007
Ex-CIA agent Oliver Stone gathers Camel Club members to help con artist Annabelle Conroy escape an enemy. But Stone soon…
learns he, too, is on a hit list--comprised of those involved in a long-ago assassination. Bestseller. 2007.By Xingjian Gao, Mabel Lee. 2000
A semi-autobiographical, philosophical novel by the Chinese Nobel laureate. The protagonist, in reprieve from death, wanders through the Chinese landscape…
in search of Lingshan (Soul Mountain), describing his interior and exterior quests. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2000. Uniform title: Ling shan.By Eric Walters, Roméo A Dallaire. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Ian decides to work at "The Club" for his community service - but it turns out to be a…
soup kitchen in a bad part of town, and he is nearly mugged going there. He's saved by a pipe-wielding homeless man, a former soldier named Jacques who was stationed in Rwanda. Can Ian help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish memories? Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2007 White Pine Award. 2006.By Bernard Cornwell. 2000
It is 1805 and Sharpe is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. His voyage home…
should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends - until an unlikely ally secures his escape onto a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. Sequel to "Sharpe's fortress" (DC28409). 2000. (Richard Sharpe ; 4)By Karleen Bradford. 1996
Theo, a passionate young knight, can't wait to embark on the Holy Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. Along with his friend…
Amalric, a fellow knight, and Emma, a servant girl, he is ready to fight. But for all their conviction, none of these young people is prepared for the realities of war - for its brutality, the ways it will divide them, and the life and death choices it offers. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "There will be wolves" (DC14007), followed by "Lionheart's scribe" (DC19721). 1996. (The Crusades ; 2)By Donald Percy Dickinson. 2000
It is 1958 in the tourist outpost of Wasagam, Saskatchewan. Robbie Hendershot, the eleven-year-old son of a World War II…
rear gunner and his British war bride, is embarking on a summer that will change his outlook on life forever. When his British granddad takes his mother and younger brother back to England, he is left behind to uncover the mysteries of family, religion, friendship and the price of war. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. c2000.By Martin Booth. 2000
Fifteen-year-old Ted Foley, a ship's boy on the HMS Nomad, is captured by the Germans after his boat is sunk…
during World War I. No one escapes from his prisoner of war camp, deep in the heart of Germany. Ted watches prisoners freeze to death during the winters and get shot for trying to escape, and decides that he must get away somehow. He'll need maps, money, and luck - but he thinks he knows a way out. For junior and senior high readers. 2000.By Johanna Lindsey. 1991
As the king of Cardinia lay dying, he made his son Stefan, the crown prince, promise that he would find…
and marry Princess Tatiana Janacek, to whom the prince is engaged. Stefan travels to America and finds her performing as a dancer in a Mississippi tavern. Unaware of her birthright, Tatiana is infuriated by Stefan’s passion for her and vows never to yield to his desire. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c1991.By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 2003
When the Armenians of Turkey are marched into the desert to die in 1915, Mariam is rescued by her Turkish…
friend Rustem, and lives with mixed acceptance as a guest in his father's harem. Kevork is shot and left for dead in a mass grave in the desert, but is rescued by nomadic Arabs and nurtured back to health. Both teens must choose between the security of an adopted home or the risk of death in search of family. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "The Hunger". For senior high readers. 2003.By Michael Crichton. 2006
Cancer survivor Frank Burnet and his daughter and grandson are targets of an unscrupulous drug company that wants to profit…
from their unique disease-fighting genes. Meanwhile other genetic-engineering experiments involving a boy/chimpanzee hybrid and a talking parrot have gone awry. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2006.By Tim F LaHaye, Jerry B Jenkins. 2007
With Lucifer securely locked away for a thousand years, the Lord Jesus Christ now reigns over a renewed earth. But…
despite the idyllic surroundings and Christ-friendly environment, a growing number of hedonistic youth join a band of rebels who reject Christ and long for Satan's return. Bestseller. Sequel to "Glorious appearing". 2007.By Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan. 1997
A Soviet youth imbibes his French grandmother's tales of Paris and the Soviet Revolution during his summer visits to her…
home on the steppes. His fascination with her and her stories transcends his Russian life and leads him eventually to France. Includes violence. Winner of top French literary awards: the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis. c1997. Uniform title: Testament français.