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Le torrent (Littérature)
By Anne Hébert. 1989
Ces contes écrits au cours de plusieurs années attirent le lecteur dans le monde claustrophobe d'Hébert. Quant aux personnages, s'ils…
réussissent à s'en échapper, leur liberté ne leur apporte pas la joie, mais une écrasante réalisation personnelle. La première nouvelle de ce recueil est un puissant récit. 1989, c1950.Le facteur émotif (Romanichels)
By Denis Thériault. 2005
Un facteur modèle s'adonne à des activités illicites. S'étant immiscé dans une correspondance amoureuse, le voilà forcé d'écrire des haïkus…
(lui qui n'en a jamais produit un seul !) et entraîné dans une aventure amoureuse qui se terminera d'une incroyable façon. 2005.Money boy
By Paul Yee. 2011
Chinese immigrant Ray Liu is having a tough time getting grades that please his father, speaking English, and connecting to…
the other Chinese kids at his school who seem to have adjusted more easily. When his father discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites, he’s kicked out and ends up in downtown Toronto, where he gets robbed, beaten up, and seduced. Soon Ray has to decide if, to survive, he could sell himself for sex. If no one gets hurt, why should anyone care? For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2011.Merci
By Daniel Pennac. 2004
Un court roman en forme de monologue. Un auteur à qui l'on vient de décerner un prix pour l'ensemble de…
son oeuvre doit prononcer une allocution de remerciement d'une durée d'un peu plus d'une heure. Mais il ne sait guère qui remercier - jury, parents, amis, lecteurs - et, tout compte fait, n'a guère envie de dire merci. Son laïus se transforme graduellement en un jeu de massacre qui ne laisse personne intact, pas même le discoureur. Habile, roublard et vif. 2004.Holding still for as long as possible
By Zoe Whittall. 2009
Trapped somewhere between growing up and being grown-ups, three twentysomethings hide behind excessive drinking and partying, and use text messages…
to relay their emotions. Meet Billy, a former teen pop starlet who suffers from severe panic attacks; Josh, a paramedic whose ability to patch up injured patients parallels his inability to repair his own emotional damages; and Amy, a rich kid trying to live the Bohemian indie life while dealing with her first broken heart. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.Totally Joe (The misfits Ser.)
By James Howe. 2005
As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of friendship, family, school,…
and the challenges of being a gay teenager. Grades 5-8. 2007, c2005.Willow and Twig
By Jean Little. 2000
When their mother breaks her parole and runs off, 10-year-old Willow and her four-year-old brother Twig are on their own.…
They journey from the mean streets of Vancouver to stay with their grandmother in rural Ontario. There, the children learn valuable life lessons about pride, a sense of belonging, and being true to who you are. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. 2000.Une nuit très longue (Roman+ #Vol. 41)
By Chrystine Brouillet. 1992
Disparition mysterieuse d'Isabelle au cours d'une fête d'Halloween organisée par l'école. Avec son cousin Pierre, Natasha mène l'enquête. Amour et…
intrigue policière sont au rendez-vous. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 1992.Une terrifiante histoire de coeur (Roman Noir Ser. #Vol. 5)
By Carole Tremblay. 2007
Yann aime les histoires d'horreur et a horreur des histoires d'amour. Quand, le jour de la Saint-Valentin, des phénomènes inquiétants…
commencent à survenir à son école, il est loin de s'imaginer qu'il va bientôt découvrir de nouvelles façons d'avoir des frissons! Des néons qui s'éteignent, des taches rouge sang, des objets qui se déplacent... Années 3-6. 2007.Voyages avec mes parents (Boreal Junior Ser. #Vol. 89)
By Marie-Louise Gay. 2006
Un petit garçon relate les vacances cocasses de toute sa famille. Alors que lui et son jeune frère ne rêvent…
que de vacances calmes, dans des lieux tout à fait convenus, leurs parents, eux, aventuriers et un peu anti-conformistes, préfèrent les destinations désertées par les voyageurs. Ainsi, ouragan, tempête de sable, alligators et même révolution sont au programme. Avec de telles destinations, les vacances promettent mille et une aventures inoubliables. Années 2-4. 2006.Une drôle de ministre (Charlotte ; #4)
By Dominique Demers. 2001
Après avoir été tour à tour maîtresse d'école, bibliothécaire et factrice, revoici mademoiselle Charlotte dans la peau d'une politicienne! On…
soupçonne que cette bonne vieille dame viendra brouiller les cartes à sa façon pour changer la vie des gens. Une fois de plus, la magie de Dominique Demers opère à merveille pour donner aux enfants un contact privilégié avec un monde imaginaire où il fait bon laisser libre cours aux rêves les plus fous. Années 3-6. 2004.Walking backward
By Catherine Austen. 2009
When twelve-year-old Josh loses his mother in a freak car accident, his grief therapist suggests he keep a journal. Josh…
describes his father's withdrawal into the basement where he's building a time machine, his younger brother running wild, and how he tries to find some meaning and order in all the chaos. For junior high readers. Some strong language. 2009.When everything feels like the movies
By Raziel Reid. 2014
School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty…
desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in; he's not part of any of those. As the director calls action, Jude is the flamer that lights the set on fire. Before everything turns to ashes from the resulting inferno, Jude drags his best friend Angela off the casting couch and into enough melodrama to incite the paparazzi, all while trying to fend off the haters and win the heart of his favourite co-star Luke Morris. It's a total train wreck! But train wrecks always make the front page. For junior and senior high readers. 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature. Canada Reads 2015. 2014.The magic boot
By Rémy Simard. 1995
Pipo's feet are so enormous that he can win races without even moving, but he keeps outgrowing his shoes. Luckily…
a good fairy decides to give him magical red boots that will grow with watering. But these boots quickly change hands - Pipo loses them to an ogre, Pipo's jealous neighbour steals them from the ogre and then buries them. One is found by Pipo's sister, who does something very interesting with it! Grades K-3. 1995. Uniform title: Bottine magique de Pipo.Boy meets boy
By David Levithan. 2003
High school sophomore Paul lives in a present-day gaytopia, where boys come out of the closet to become class president,…
and the Gay-Straight Alliance has more members than the football team. When Paul meets artistic Noah in the bookstore, they pass notes rife with meaningful detail; paint in Noah's psychedelic, art-covered room; and fall in sweet, realistic teenage love, unencumbered by gay bashing, sexual-identity crises, and parental rejection. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.The shaman's apprentice: a tale of the Amazon rain forest
By Lynne Cherry, Mark J Plotkin. 2001
Kamanya dreams of becoming his tribe's next shaman, and spends his time following the current shaman into the forest and…
learning the secrets of the plants. But local plants can't cure the new diseases brought to the area by strangers, and the pills the strangers bring with them cause the native people to lose faith in the ability of their shaman. Eventually a woman named Gabriella, who comes to study the properties of the rain forest plants, restores the tribe's faith. Grades K-3. 2001. c1998.Selected stories
By Alice Munro. 1996
Short story by the world-famous Alice Munro, which won her Canada's most prestigious literary prize: the Governor General's Award. Munro's…
stories look beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promise, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women.The Fabulous Zed Watson!
By Kevin Sylvester, Basil Sylvester. 2021
The literary scavenger hunt of a lifetime, starring an endlessly endearing non-binary tween Zed Watson loves a few things: their…
name (which they chose themself!), their big rambunctious family, and—oh yeah—monsters. When Zed discovered the mystery surrounding an unpublished novel called The Monster’s Castle, they were completely hooked. Now Zed is a member of a small but dedicated legion devoted to finding the long-buried text. When a breakthrough discovery leads Zed to the route that they are sure will take them to the treasure, they know it’s time for a road trip. And with the help of their shy, flora-loving neighbour, Gabe, and his sister, Sam, a geologist who is driving back to college in Arizona, Zed and company are soon off on a wild adventure following cryptic clues. But it’s not all fun and games. Gabe doesn’t like Zed’s snacks, Sam is a bossy driver with total command of the ancient Impreza’s stereo, and Zed is often misgendered. It’s a good thing they also encounter kind strangers, potato-themed dance-offs and lots and lots of ice cream along the way. If Zed and Gabe can combine their strengths, survive Sam’s wrath and best the greedy historian who’s also hot on the book’s trail, they just might find the greatest treasure of all. Co-authored by child-parent duo Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester, this is a vibrant and enormous-hearted story about friendship, identity and belonging. It features illustrations by celebrated author and illustrator Kevin Sylvester, and an Own Voices perspective based on Basil’s experience.On the Line
By Eric Walters, Paul Coccia. 2022
Après Céleste: roman (Collection principale #61)
By Maude Nepveu-Villeneuve. 2021
Après avoir perdu son bébé en cours de grossesse, Dolores se réfugie à Moreau, le village de son enfance. Dans…
le bungalow d'à côté, madame Labelle se remet d'une fracture en buvant du thé au milieu de son salon Tiki. En face, Olivia, huit ans, tourne en rond pendant que son père travaille. Entre deux parties de cartes, une vieille série policière et l'étrange apparition d'un oiseau à l'aile cassée, elles prendront soin les unes des autres. Et la forêt, tout autour de ce village où il n'y a aucun chat et presque plus d'habitants, prendra soin d'elles. Comme un conte pour enfants qui auraient grandi trop vite, Après Céleste explore les sentiers du deuil, de l'amitié, de la mémoire et, surtout, de la guérison