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By Glen Huser. 2014
When Carolina Giddle moves into the Blatchford Arms, no one knows what to make of her sequin-sprinkled sneakers and her…
trinket-crusted car. But the parents are happy there’s a new babysitter around, and Carolina seems to have an uncanny ability to calm the most rambunctious child with her ghostly stories. Armed with unusual snacks (bone-shaped peppermints, Rumpelstiltskin sandwiches) and candles to set the mood, she entertains the children with good old-fashioned storytelling and, at the end, a great Halloween party. It turns out that Carolina has a timeworn connection to the Blatchford Arms, and to the ghost who still haunts the building - especially its old-fashioned elevator. Grades 3-6. 2014.By Linda Bailey. 2015
Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family…
with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers that it's already occupied -- by the ghosts of seven dead pirates. Worse, the ghosts expect him to help them re-take their ship, now restored and on display in a local museum, so they can make their way to Libertalia, a legendary pirate utopia. The only problem is that this motley crew hasn't left the house in almost two hundred years and is terrified of going outside. Grades 4-7. 2015.By Joanne Levy. 2012
After being hit by lightning, twelve-year-old Lilah, who has a crush on classmate Andrew Finkel, discovers that she can communicate…
with dead people, including her grandmother who wants Lilah to find a new wife for Lilah's divorced father. Grades 5-8. 2012.By Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.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.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.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.By Deborah Toogood. 2016
Matt Simmons has two weeks left of summer before starting grade six. He wants to enjoy that time with his…
best friends, Danny and Emma, but has to include his younger cousin Adam who is visiting. Trapped on a sandbar in the middle of the night, Matt and Adam see a ghostly, burning schooner before a silent old man rescues them. Matt is determined to unravel the mystery and reluctantly lets Adam join in. With Danny and Emma, they visit Danny’s grandpa, a retired sea captain. He warns them to leave the ghosts and mysteries of the sea alone, but the four friends ignore him. Setting out on a midnight boat trip to find the phantom ship, even little Adam proves a useful part of the team. But how dangerous is the ship, and who else is lurking in the waters of the Northumberland Strait? Grades 4-7. 2016.By Arthur Slade. 2016
Far from the isolated prairie ranch where they were born, orphaned twins Isabelle and Beatrice Thorn are living a glamorous…
1920s Hollywood life as wards of Mr. Cecil, a mysterious and influential director. Isabelle is a silent film starlet, destined for greatness in the very first talking picture--a horror flick that will showcase her famous scream, often seen but never before heard by audiences. Meanwhile, Beatrice spends her days hidden away on the Cecil estate with her books and her insect collection, scarves covering her birthmarks and baldness. But Beatrice's curiosity about Mr. Cecil, the death of her parents, the appearance of scorpion hornets--creatures that should not exist on this earth--and the unsettling fates of two people who visited his estate is getting the better of her, and she's starting to realize the director has truly dark designs for this movie. Grades 5-8. 2016.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.By Jonathan Auxier. 2014
When orphaned Irish siblings Molly and Kip arrive to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house, they…
discover that the house and its inhabitants are not what they seem. Soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger, and the secrets of the cursed house will change their lives forever. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2015 Silver Birch Fiction Award. Winner of the 2015 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award. Winner of the 2016 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award Honour Book. 2014.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.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.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.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.By Catherine Leblanc, Roland Garrigue. 2010
Les fantômes ont lair effrayants et invincibles Mais en réalité, si on connaît les recettes secrètes, on peut très facilement…
les vaincre ! Et pour commencer, saviez-vous que la seule vision dun enfant suffit à les terrifier ? Surprenant, non ? Découvrez aussi des astuces inédites pour déjouer les désagréments de leur présence inquiétante... -- 4e de couv.By Bram Stoker, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, visits Count Dracula in his Transylvania castle to transact some business. He soon learns that…
Dracula is not the ordinary man he appears to be. Abridged. 1999.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.By Bill Richardson. 2001
Waiting for Gertrude is a love story, a whodunit, and a comic fantasy set in Paris's Pére-Lachaise cemetery, the final…
resting place of many celebrated personages. The story is told in a series of letters and portraits, written in the voices of Oscar Wilde, Isadora Duncan, Chopin, La Fontaine, Marcel Proust, and Alice B. Toklas, whose souls now inhabit the bodies of cats in the graveyard. 2001.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.