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The great bike rescue (Orca young readers.)
By H. J Hutchins. 2013
The summer is off to a lousy start when Levi's bike is stolen from outside the corner store. But when…
his best friend Riley's locked bike is stolen the very next day, the boys are determined to get both bikes back. Upon discovering there have been a string of bike thefts in the area, the friends hatch several plans to find the culprit. There are so many potential suspects - Steve Morrow and his gang, the tattooed guy who sits at the bus stop, the owners of the secondhand bike store. There's also Emily Grimshaw, Levi's childhood nemesis, who keeps popping up and showing a peculiar interest in the thefts. Does she really want to help or is she involved somehow? Grades 2-4. 2013.The gargoyle at the gates (Lost gargoyle series. #3)
By Philippa Dowding, Allister Thompson. 2012
Christopher has a problem. He has just moved to Toronto; he’s now in a new school and has no friends.…
But even worse, the park next door is creepy: voices whisper in the bushes, and something throws apples at his window and howls at the moon. But what? Gargoyles! Grades 3-6. 2012.The giant-slayer
By Iain Lawrence. 2010
When her eight-year-old neighbour is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination…
as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines. Grades 3-6. 2010.The ghost of Avalanche Mountain
By Julie Lawson. 2000
When Ashley's famous aunt sends her the family goldstone necklace for a birthday present, Ashley is thrilled. She discovers that…
if she sleeps while wearing it, she dreams of the future. However, Ashley finds one particular dream disturbing. It is of a boy named Jonathan, whom she sees not only in her dreams, but in real life as well. The dreams grow more frightening until finally, an avalanche brings her face to face with the boy ghost, who has transcended the bounds of time to recover the goldstone and return its magic to the mountain where it was crafted. Grades 5-8. 2000.The ghost of Lunenburg Manor: a Tom Austen mystery
By Eric Wilson. 1981
The glass demon
By Helen Grant. 2010
The first death: seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard, and as she backs away in horror, she…
steps on broken glass ; the second death: blood and broken glass appears on Lin’s doorstep ; the third death: something terrible is found in the cemetery. As the attacks become more sinister, Lin doesn't know who to trust, but she's getting closer to the truth. But with each move the danger deepens, because someone won't stop until he's got rid of Lin and her family. For senior high readers. 2010.The girl who dreamed only geese, and other tales of the Far North: And Other Tales Of The Far North
By Howard A Norman. 1997
Ten stories from Inuit oral tradition include portrayals of tundra wildlife - puffins, a wolverine, a seagull, a narwhal, and…
geese. The Biblical Noah appears in "Noah Hunts a Woolly Mammoth." In the title piece, a young girl's ability to help maintain the village food supply by dreaming about geese is challenged by a shaman. Grades 4-7. 1997.The ghost of Five Owl Farm (An Archway paperback.)
By Mary Q Steele. 1966
When Ted learns that his twin cousins are arriving for a visit, he decides to frighten them with ghost stories.…
He is amazed to discover that there really is something happening in the barn! Grades 4-7. 1966.The ghost of Fossil Glen (Ghost Mysteries Ser. #1)
By Cynthia C DeFelice. 1998
Stuck on the face of a cliff while looking for fossils, sixth-grader Allie is guided to safety by a mysterious…
voice. Other strange happenings lead Allie to believe she is dealing with a ghost, of a girl not unlike herself. Grades 4-7. c1998.The ghosts
By Antonia Barber. 1969
The four seasons of Patrick
By Susan Hughes. 2013
It's the start of winter, and Patrick is beginning to feel crowded out of his own family. His father's friend,…
Linda, and her seven-year-old daughter, Claire, are coming for dinner again. By the time spring arrives, not only is Patrick's father planning to marry Linda, but she and Claire will be coming to live with them at the summer's end. That just won’t do. So Patrick comes up with a big idea. He'll build a tree house where he can stretch out his arms and breathe. Grades 3-6. 2013.The Friday Society
By Adrienne Kress. 2012
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that…
ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.The fire within (The last Dragon Chronicles Ser. #1)
By Chris D'Lacey. 2005
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea…
that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career. Grades 5-8. 2005, c2001.The Farmerettes
By Gisela Tobien Sherman. 2015
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on an Ontario farm as part…
of the Farm Services - doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages home to support her single mother; Peggy, a flirt with a secret she must keep; Binxie, whose rich family doesn't approve of her; Isabel, who pines for her fiance off fighting in Europe; and Jean, whose family farm has been taken over by the “farmerettes”, as they were known. Friendship, romance, hardship, and heartbreak shape their summer, all against the backdrop of the Second World War. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.The Fetch
By Laura Whitcomb. 2009
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose…
spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven. Junior and Senior High. 2009.The fashion committee: a novel of art, crime, and applied design
By Susan Juby. 2017
Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal…
sculptures in his garage and couldn't care less about clothes. But they share one thing in common: both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship. Told in the alternating voices of Charlie's and John's fashion journals which they're required to keep for the contest, this tale perfectly captures what it's like to have an artistic passion so fierce that nothing--not your dad's girlfriend's drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, a soul-crushing job at Salad Stop, or being charged with a teensy bit of kidnapping--can stand in your way. For senior high readers. 2017.The color of silence
By Liane Shaw. 2013
Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end. After being involved in an…
accident that killed her best friend, she doesn’t see why anyone would want her around and she refuses to talk. Ordered by a judge to do community service, she must spend time at a hospital with a girl named Joanie, who has minimal control of her body and no speech. Junior and Senior High. c2013.The end of the line
By Sharon E McKay. 2014
Five-year-old Beatrix looks on in horror as a soldier forces her mother off the tram. It is 1942 in Amsterdam,…
and everyone knows what happens to Jews who are taken away by the Nazis. The soldier turns his attention to Beatrix, when suddenly, the ticket-taker, Lars Gorter, blurts out that she is his niece. With his brother Hans, the tram conductor, they manage to rescue the child from the same fate as her mother. The two elderly brothers realize that they are now in charge of the little girl. They are at a loss -- after all, neither one has ever married, let alone has children. They know that harbouring a Jew could cost them their lives, but in desperation, they turn to a neighbour, Mrs. Vos, for help. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2015-16 Hackmatack Award for fiction. Winner of the 2016 Silver Birch Express Award. 2014.The face in the mirror (Harper Trophy Bks.)
By Stephanie S Tolan. 1998
Teenager Jared Kingsley's actress mother sends him to live with his father, a famous director, whom he has never known.…
His father, stepmother, and obnoxious half-brother are performing a play in a reputedly haunted opera house. There Jared discovers his innate acting ability - and a sinister ghost. Grades 5-8. 1998.The empty sleeve
By Leon Garfield. 1988
Peter Gannet is born on a wild, wintry Saturday in the midst of the noonday chimes, his brother, Paul minutes…
later. The old ship's carpenter is full of dire prophecy at such ill-luck and says that the "chime child" will "see ghosts and have communications with the devil". Junior High. 1988.