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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.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.By Andrew P Mayer. 2011
In 1880 women aren’t allowed to vote, much less dress up in a costume and fight crime, but twenty-year-old socialite…
Sarah Stanton still dreams of becoming a hero. Her opportunity arrives in tragedy when the leader of the Society of Paragons, New York's greatest team of gentlemen adventurers, is murdered right before her eyes. To uncover the truth behind the assassination, Sarah joins forces with the amazing mechanical man known as The Automaton. Descriptions of violence. 2011. (Society of steam ; 1)It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be - time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton,…
the king's agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection - black diamonds rumoured to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, explicit violence. 2011.By Philippa Dowding. 2010
What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle, and what if he just happened to be in terrible…
danger? Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle named Gargoth of Tallus who lives in her backyard. Gargoth has lost the only creature on the planet who can help him, Ambergine, his greatest friend. What Katherine and Gargoth don't know is that Ambergine is searching for Gargoth too - but so is his greatest enemy. Sequel to "The Gargoyle in My Yard". Grades 5-8. 2010.By Becky Citra, Kathryn Cole. 2016
Twelve-year-old Will Poppy has always been fascinated by writing, but when his mother dies and he has to live with…
his crabby aunt, he finds himself unable to write a word. When he is sent a mysterious package that includes an old picture of his grandparents and a piece of cloth with the words "The Griffin of Darkwood" on it, his aunt takes him to a run-down castle with servants who are up to no good. Now Will must find his way in this new world, and discover the magic all over again. Grades 3-6. 2016.By Vicki Blum. 2005
Pursued by their own herd and by human enemies, two young dragons embark on a dangerous journey. Ember and Brand…
must fly over mountains, desert and sea to save the life of a young boy - and the future of the Dragon Lords. Grades 3-6. 2005.By Ruth Stiles Gannett. 1951
By Greg Trine. 2006
Melvin Beederman's a pretty good superhero, even though it always takes him five or six tries to get launched and…
flying. His weakness (every superhero has one) is bologna, which makes it hard to go into a deli. Still, Melvin, with the help of his friend Candace, manages to keep the city of Los Angeles free of nasty villains like the evil McNasty brothers - once he's airborne (crash!) Grades 2-4. 2006. (Melvin Beederman ; 1)By Andrée Poulin, Brigitte Waisberg. 2016
On his fifth birthday, Thomas’s mother left, and he hasn’t seen her since. The last thing he remembers is her…
making a delicious dish of poutine for his birthday, into which she stuck five green candles for him to blow out. On the day of this twelfth birthday, Thomas comes up with the idea of setting a Guinness world record for the biggest poutine in the world. Maybe then, his mother will come back and his emotionally distant father will pay attention to him. As he puts together all the pieces of his “Phenomenal Poutine Project,” Thomas not only learns why his mother disappeared, but he also comes to realize that Elie, the one person whose help he rejected, turns out to be his most devoted friend. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Express Award. 2016. Uniform title: La plus grosse poutine du monde.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 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.By Becky Citra. 2009
Sam, a nine-year-old boy, is devastated when his mother drops him off for two weeks on his grandfather's ranch. Grandpa…
has a lot of rules, and Sam isn't happy about having to stay with him, but it isn't all bad - he learns to ride a horse and also discovers some surprising things about his father, who died when Sam was a baby. When Sam is forced to overcome his fear of riding in order to help rescue Grandpa, Sam grows to appreciate both his grandpa and life on the ranch. Grades 2-4. 2009.By Yolanda Ridge. 2012
It's the end of grade six and Bree plans to spend the summer hanging around her townhouse complex in Vancouver.…
But her parents have other plans for her; she is going to Ontario to stay with her grandma who lives on a farm "in the middle of nowhere", a farm about to be destroyed by a superhighway unless Bree can stop it. Sequel to "Trouble in the trees". Grades 3-6. 2012.By François Gravel. 2005
David n'a pas peur des cimetières. Il sait que les morts sont enfermés dans les cercueils. Ils ne peuvent pas…
sortir. Mais ce soir, David a peur. Il doit accompagner son père au salon funéraire. Et si le mort se réveillait ? Et si son cauchemar devenait vrai ? Cette fois, David n'affrontera pas ses terreurs tout seul. Avec sa jeune cousine, il trouvera le courage de participer à cette réunion de famille un peu particulière. Années 1-3. 2005.By Alexandre Jardin. 2005
Dois-je avouer que, soudain, j'en ai eu assez de me cacher publiquement en écrivant des romans de bon garçon ?…
Que mes petites épopées sur l'extase conjugale m'ont paru, la quarantaine venue, bien pâlichonnes au regard des folies de ma famille ? Bon sang, me suis-je dit : jusqu'à quand auras-tu peur d'être un Jardin ? Il faut admettre que le sang des Jardin est un breuvage à haut risque. Une gorgée, et bas les masques ! Cap sur les sentiments incorrects ; sur des fièvres bizarres, loufoques, grisantes ; sur ces hurluberlus qui font ma tribu et qui embellirent leur vie de magnifiques audaces... Le résultat est là : dans ce roman vrai, je perce mes abcès de silence. Je vagabonde enfin au sein de ce clan qui, à lui seul, incarne la fantaisie, l'irrégularité en tout et un moment d'incroyable liberté. Pour la première fois, je redeviens un Jardin. Suis-je digne de ces grands fouleurs de principes ? Je leur dois, en tout cas, la meilleure part de ce que je suis.By Sophie Plowden. 2015
Jack is not happy when his family moves to the dull suburban town of Curtly Ambrose. But everything changes when…
Jack finds a magic feather inside a book. Jack's magic feather makes whatever he draws come to life. But his grand plans (for a dog, a car and loads of chocolate) don't go quite right and he ends up on the run from the Mayor and taking a sea lion on the bus. Even worse, Jack is constantly being pestered by Coco, the girl next door who is very annoying and possibly insane. Jack needs to get better at drawing or it's going to be a complete disaster! Grades 2-4. 2015.By Alex Lyttle. 2017
"My name is Calvin Sinclair, I'm eleven years old and I have a confession...I killed my brother". It's the summer…
before grade 6 and Calvin Sinclair is bored to tears. He's recently moved from a big city to a small town and there's nothing to do. It's hot, he has no friends and the only kid around is his six-year-old brother Sammy who can barely throw a basketball as high as the hoop. So Cal occupies his time by getting his brother to do almost anything: from chasing wasps to tromping through rose bushes. And Sammy is all too eager-- as long as it means getting a "Level" and moving one step closer to his brother's Eagle status. But when Cal meets Aleta Alvarado, a new girl who shares his love for Goosebumps books and adventure, Sammy is pushed aside. Cal feels guilty but not guilty enough to change. At least not until things at home start falling apart and he's left wondering whether Sammy will ever complete his own journey. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Fiction Award. 2017.By Pamela Porter. 2011
In a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else's business, so everyone knows that the Loney family…
has been barely hanging on - the father, George, has been reduced to drink and despair since the loss of his farm and the death of his wife, Margaret, and the four children do not get along with George's second wife, the pious, bitter Effie. When George dies and Effie runs off, the children find a way, under the watchful eye of their ghostly parents, to survive. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2011.By Cary Fagan, Selçuk Demirel. 2011
Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich - he lives in a huge house, goes to the best schools, and takes lessons…
in etiquette, ballroom dancing, painting, and classical piano. Jeremiah does all this because he wants to please his parents, but one day he hears the captivating strains of a banjo, and the music stirs something him. When his parents forbid him to play one, he decides to learn anyway - even if he has to make the instrument himself. Grades 4-7. 2011.