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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)By Kevin Sylvester. 2016
Christopher, Elena, and the other survivors of the attack on their space colony know two things: their victory over the…
Landers will be short-lived, and a new wave of attacks is imminent. Sequel to "MiNRS". Grades 5-8. 2016.By Kevin Sylvester. 2015
Twelve-year-old Christopher Nichols and his family live on a new planet, Perses, as colonists of Melming Mining's Great Mission to…
save the earth. When Landers, as the attackers are called, obliterate the colony to steal the metal and raw ore, Christopher and a small group of survivors are forced into the maze of mining tunnels below the surface of Perses. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Fiction Honour Book Award. Winner of the 2017 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award Honour Book. 2015.By Richard Scrimger. 2016
Bullied by his brother and living in the shadow of his athletic best friend, Jonah is crippled by self-loathing and…
insecurity. Then a mysterious stranger hands him a disposable camera with the power to transport him into someone else's body-- and someone else's life. But with a limited number of shots and trouble mounting click by click, will this unhappy boy find a new life? Or will the secret he's been keeping follow him wherever he goes? Grades 5-8. 2016.By Caragh M O'Brien. 2010
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those…
who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city. Junior and Senior High. 2010.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.By Dick Francis. 1968
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.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)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.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.By Guy Bergeron. 2012
"Le clown tourna une petite clé située sur le côté de la boîte, avant de la poser au sol et…
d'en ouvrir le couvercle. Une musique triste se mit à résonner dans la pièce, et au centre de la boîte, la figurine d'une ballerine entièrement vêtue de blanc tournoyait au bras d'un clown multicolore. Jordan pencha la tête de côté, fredonnant la mélodie. Il se pencha de nouveau au-dessus de son sac, d'où il sortit une paire de pinces robustes mais aux bouts pointus. Mercado fronça les sourcils. Les clowns vengeurs ne faisaient pas dans la dentelle. Ils tuaient, exerçaient la vengeance sans perdre de temps. Pourquoi, alors, cette paire de pinces?... Un monde qui pourrait être le nôtre. Un avenir qui pourrait ne pas être si lointain. Dans une Quadri-métropole aux prises avec des luttes politiques importantes, les arcurides du gouvernement légitime pourchassent sans relâche les Odi-menvatts - les clowns vengeurs -, alors qu'un dangereux psychopathe s'est glissé parmi eux. " -- 4e de couv.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.By Benoît Moreault. 2005
Jérôme a contracté une maladie rare ou plutôt rarissime, car il serait le seul cas connu au monde. Tenez-vous bien,…
il a attrapé un virus informatique. Oui, vous avez bien lu ! Un virus informatique. Il est poursuivi par les Américains, obsédés par son cas. Comment va-t-il sy prendre pour se débarrasser du virus ?... Selon des spécialistes, seule la mort pourrait le délivrer. Avec Léa, Jérôme réussit à fuir. Les héros seront pourchassés par détranges appareils. Esprit de décision, maîtrise de soi et courage seront nécessaires pour mener à terme cette aventure. Un récit de science-fiction à la frontière de la réalité. À vous de juger ! -- 4e de couv.By Emmanuel Bourdier. 2010
Ce matin, comme tous les matins, je montre mon code-barres à monsieur Verzy, le concierge, pour rentrer dans l'école. Mais…
il refuse de me laisser passer. Interdit aux animaux !, clame-t-il. Rien à faire ! Car son ordinateur est formel : d'après mon code-barres, aujourd'hui, je ne suis pas un garçon... je suis une vache ! -- 4e de couv.By Caragh M O'Brien. 2012
Gaia succeeds in leading her people to Wharfton and the Enclave, but rebellion there threatens them all just when everything…
they have dreamed of seems to be at hand. Sequel to "Prized". For senior high and older readers. 2012.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.By Kevin Sylvester. 2018
The young survivors on the mining asteroid of Perses have come up against what they mistakenly thought was their rescue.…
Now they must find a way to return home to Earth and share the truth about what happened with their battle against Major Thatcher. Once again Christopher has to make some tough choices as cracks begin to appear in their group and they are unsure of what has happened to Earth in the meantime and what kind of home they might return to. Sequel to "MiNRS 2". Grades 5-8. 2018.By Caragh M O'Brien. 2011
Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a…
rumour to guide her. She is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again. For senior high readers. Sequel to "Birthmarked", followed by "Promised". 2011.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)