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The ghost of the Stanley Cup (Screech Owls series. #11.)
By Roy MacGregor. 2000
The spirit of former Governor General Lord Stanley seems to be haunting the festivities at the Little Stanley Cup Pee…
Wee Tournament in Ottawa -- literally! As the Screech Owls hockey team tour the nation's capital, they encounter his ghost everywhere. Then they start meeting some other ones, like Tom Thomson and Joe Hall, not to mention a former prime minister! But what are these historical figures trying to tell the players? Grades 4-7. (The Screech Owls series ; 11)Death spiral
By James W Nichol. 2009
Wilf McLauchlin, a celebrated WWII Canadian Spitfire fighter pilot, returns home to a hero's welcome. Almost immediately afterwards, a series…
of bizarre murders begin occurring, and Wilf finds himself trying to solve them - and wondering if he is somehow causing them. Wilf follows his own trail back to when he was shot down over Germany, and makes the shattering connection. 2009.Aram's choice
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 2006
After the Armenian genocide, twelve-year-old Aram is brought to Greece by his grandmother, but she is too poor to keep…
him. Along with other boys chosen to emigrate to Canada, Aram travels by cargo ship, ocean liner, and train to his new home, a farm in rural Ontario. Though missing his grandmother, Aram tries to keep the younger boys out of trouble while having many new adventures. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. 2006.Forfeit
By Dick Francis. 1968
Cold fear
By Rick Mofina. 2001
While camping with her family in Montana's Glacier National Park, a 10-year-old girl disappears. As a multi-agency task force launches…
a massive search, the little girl fights to survive in the wilderness while her mother enters her own life-and-death race to rescue her child. Because someone else who knows a dark secret from the past wants to find her daughter, too. 2001.Blind alley (Eve Duncan series. #5.)
By Iris Johansen. 2004
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan reconstructs a victim's face - one who eerily resembles Eve's adopted daughter Jane. While a serial…
killer targets Jane look-alikes, Jane's recurrent nightmares track the path of the murderer to her door. Bestseller. 2004. (Eve Duncan series ; 5)Almost zero: a Dyamonde Daniel book (Dyamonde Daniel book. #3.)
By Nikki Grimes. 2010
Dyamonde is angry at her mother for not buying her the shoes she wants, but when she finds out that…
a classmate is in a worse situation, she is determined to help. Sequel to "Rich". Grades 2-4. 2010. (Dyamonde Daniel book ; 3)Weep no more, my lady
By Mary Higgins Clark. 1987
Before testifying at the trial of the man accused of murdering her beloved sister, a distraught Elizabeth goes to a…
California spa. She is surprised to find the accused murderer there, and suspects she is being manipulated. Bestseller 1987.The 7 professors of the far north
By John Fardell. 2004
Sam's holiday with his friends Zara and Ben is interrupted when a bedraggled traveller blows in on a storm, reawakening…
a mystery from their Great Uncle Alexander's past. For thirty years, the remote Arctic island of Nordbergen has remained desolate and uninhabited, but now, strange aircraft have been seen landing and armed guards patrol the island's fringes. And Professor Murdo has returned to Nordbergen to complete his secret and deadly work. Sam, Zara and Ben embark on a desperate rescue mission to the frozen Arctic Ocean. To make the journey, they must discover one of the most extraordinary secrets in the world, and to survive, they must rely on their courage, their ingenuity and the assistance of strangers. Grades 4-7. 2004.Une plage trop chaude ((Ado ; 40) #Vol. 40)
By Chrystine Brouillet. 2008
"Natasha et son cousin pierre passent les vacances de Noël chez leurs grandsparents, en Floride. Ils se font vite des…
amis. Pierre tombe amoureux de Maia, tandis que Natasha s'éprend de Jeremy, si beau, si mystérieux. Mais les vacances prennent une drôle de tournure quand on repêche le cadavre d'un champion de natation. Soudain, les amis de Natasha et de Pierre deviennent très secrets, et même un peu étranges... Une plage trop chaude, une aventure policière brûlante oû Natasha prouve qu'elle n'a pas froid aux yeux." -- 4e de couv.Vi
By Kim Thúy. 2016
En vietnamien, " Vi " désigne ce qui est infiniment petit, microscopiquement petit. Dans ce livre, Vi est le prénom…
d'une fillette, la plus jeune sœur de trois grands frères, le " petit trésor " qui se retrouve malgré elle dans la grande Vie et ses tumultes. En quittant Saïgon pour Montréal, en visitant Suzhou et Boston, en grandissant aux côtés des héros ordinaires, elle est témoin de l'immensité de la mer, de la multiplicité des horizons, de l'unicité des tristesses, du luxe de la paix, de la complexité de l'amour, de l'infini des possibilités et de la violence de la beauté. Comme une bonne élève, elle regarde, apprend, reçoit. Mais saura-t-elle jamais vivre cette grande Vie? 2016.When the cherry blossoms fell (A cherry Blossom Book Ser. #1)
By Jennifer Maruno. 2009
Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birthday celebration. She doesn't know the government has ordered all Japanese-born…
men out of the province, or that ten days later, her family would join hundreds of Japanese-Canadians on a train to the interior of British Columbia. There are no paved roads, no streetlights and no streetcars, and their house is dirty and drafty. Michiko must face local prejudice, the worst winter in forty years, and her first Christmas without her father. Grades 2-4. 2009.Time flies when you're chasing spies: a Halifax mystery
By Allison Maher. 2012
Andrew's mother, Marion, works for a security company that makes high-tech spy gear to keep world leaders safe. When she…
goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and his best friend, both thirteen, are no strangers to danger, and they follow Andrew's instincts -- which run directly counter to the instructions his father gave him. When the two friends are nearly caught in a huge explosion at Citadel Hill, Andrew realizes his mother could be in even deeper trouble than he thought. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence. 2012.Crabs for dinner
By Adwoa Badoe. 1995
When Mum brings home big gray crabs from the African shop, the children only want to eat pizza and hamburgers.…
They won't eat potato fufu or palm nut soup...until their grandmother arrives from Ghana, and they learn that there is a lot to love in their family traditions, including big gray crabs. Grades K-3. 1995.The horror at Camp Jellyjam (Goosebumps. #33.)
By R. L Stine. 1995
While Wendy and Elliot are on a boring car trip with their parents, they ask if they can ride in…
the trailer. But the trailer comes loose, and Wendy and Elliot crash into an unusual summer camp. Camp Jellyjam's motto is "only the best," and the children are encouraged to win. But Wendy's roommate wins and then disappears. And all of the counsellors seem to be in a trance. Sequel to "The Barking Ghost". Followed by "Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes". Grades 4-7. 1995. (Goosebumps ; 33)Stand on the Sky
By Erin Bow. 2019
A gripping new read from Erin Bow, acclaimed and bestselling author of Plain Kate and The Scorpion Rules! She had…
always heard that the eagle chooses the eagle hunter. She wanted that. She wanted her eagle to come to her. To choose her. It goes against all tradition for Aisulu to train an eagle, for among the Kazakh nomads, only men can fly them. But everything changes when Aisulu discovers that her brother, Serik, has been concealing a bad limp that risks not just his future as the family's leader, but his life too. When her parents leave to seek a cure for Serik in a distant hospital, Aisulu finds herself living with her intimidating uncle and strange auntie -- and secretly caring for an orphaned baby eagle. To save her brother and keep her family from having to leave their nomadic life behind forever, Aisulu must earn her eagle's trust and fight for her right to soar. Along the way, she discovers that family are people who choose each other, home is a place you build, and hope is a thing with feathers. Erin Bow's lyrical middle grade debut is perfect for fans of original animal-friendship stories like Pax and Because of Winn Dixie.Music for Tigers
By Michelle Kadarusman. 2020
Kadarusman’s award-nominated Tasmanian conservation story with four starred reviews, now in a quality paperback edition Shipped halfway around the world…
to spend the summer with her mom’s eccentric Australian relatives, middle schooler and passionate violinist Louisa is prepared to be resentful. But life at the family’s remote camp in the Tasmanian rainforest is intriguing, to say the least. There are pig-footed bandicoots, scary spiders, weird noises and odors in the night, and a quirky boy named Colin who cooks the most amazing meals. Not the least strange is her Uncle Ruff, with his unusual pet and veiled hints about something named Convict Rock. Finally, Louisa learns the truth: Convict Rock is a sanctuary established by her great-grandmother Eleanor—a sanctuary for Tasmanian tigers, Australia’s huge marsupials that were famously hunted into extinction almost a hundred years ago. Or so the world believes. Hidden in the rainforest at Convict Rock, one tiger remains. But now the sanctuary is threatened by a mining operation, and the last Tasmanian tiger must be lured deeper into the forest. The problem is, not since her great-grandmother has a member of the family been able to earn the shy tigers’ trust. As the summer progresses, Louisa forges unexpected connections with Colin, with the forest, and—through Eleanor’s journal—with her great-grandmother. She begins to suspect the key to saving the tiger is her very own music. But will her plan work? Or will the enigmatic Tasmanian tiger disappear once again, this time forever? A moving coming-of-age story wrapped up in the moss, leaves, and blue gums of the Tasmanian rainforest where, hidden under giant ferns, crouches its most beloved, and lost, creature.Yara's Spring
By Jamal Saeed, Sharon E. McKay. 2020
Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has…
long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s charismatic brother, Ali, Yara must try to find a way to safety. With danger around every corner, Yara is pushed to her limits as she discovers how far she’ll go for her loved ones—and for a chance for freedom. Crafted through the focused lens of Jamal Saeed’s own experiences in Syria and brought to life with acclaimed author Sharon E. McKay, Yara’s Spring is a story of coming of age against all odds and the many kinds of love that bloom even in the face of war. Black-and-white interior drawings by award-winning illustrator Nahid Kazemi lend vivid detail to the novel. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionHaunted Hospital (Orca Currents)
By Marty Chan. 2020
Xander thinks the George Wickerman Hospital would be the perfect setting for Spirits and Specters, a role-playing game where players…
go on “missions” to find evidence of paranormal activities. According to local legend, tuberculosis patients were used as test subjects in medical experiments that ended tragically, and their disfigured ghosts walk the hallways of this now-abandoned building. What better location to go ghost hunting? Even though they didn’t really believe the rumors, Xander and his friends soon begin to suspect that they are not alone. Is this place actually haunted by ghosts? Or something even more terrifying?Sorry For Your Loss
By Joanne Levy. 2021