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The hero's walk: a novel
By Anita Rau Badami. 2000
Sripathi Rao lives in his crumbling ancestral home in India with his extended family. His daughter left years earlier to…
study in America and remained in Canada after marrying a Canadian man. Then Sripathi receives the news that his daughter and her husband have been killed and that his seven-year-old granddaughter must now come to live with him and the family in India. Canada Reads 2016. Bestseller. 2000.The breadwinner (Breadwinner Ser. #1)
By Deborah Ellis. 2000
A story about loyalty, survival, families and friendship, set against the backdrop of an intolerable existence in war-torn Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old…
Parvana lives in Taliban-controlled Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. Masquerading as a boy, Parvana goes to work in the streets so that her family can eat. Parvana becomes the breadwinner. Grades 5-8. 2000.Summer gone: a novel
By David Macfarlane. 1999
A divorced father and his young son spend a summer in cottage country in an attempt to overcome the silence…
that has grown between them during a difficult divorce. The stories of the lost summers of an impenetrable and doomed camp counsellor, a girl in a blue bathing suit, and a wife who comes alive to the rhythms of the cottage. Some strong language. 1999.Strange neighbors (Sam, dog detective. #3)
By Mary Labatt. 2000
When three odd women move in next door, Sam, the sheepdog, is convinced that they're witches. They've arrived with all…
sorts of caged animals, all of which look sickly and miserable. Sam is sure the critters are under a spell, and suddenly she feels sick too. Her neighbour Jennie, the only person who can understand her, has the opportunity to observe the women up close when she stays with them while her mother works late. Can Sam, Jennie, and their friend Beth, discover the truth before it's too late? Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Spying on Dracula", followed by "Aliens in Woodford". 2000.Quicksilver: stories
By Nadine McInnis. 2001
A collection of short stories, exploring the intuitive and subconscious motivations that have the power to harm and heal. In…
one story, a young boy equates the dissolution of his parents' marriage with a natural disaster, in another, a grieving mother revives the memory of her daughter by imagining the ultimate sacrifice. Each characterizes the art and chaos of the modern relationship. Some descriptions of sex. 2001.Quid pro quo
By Vicki Grant. 2005
When fourteen-year-old Cyril MacIntyre's mother disappears, Cyril uses every skill at his disposal to find her. Since Mom is a…
recent law school graduate who forced Cyril to attend many classes with her, Cyril has more wits than most. Some strong language. Grades 5-8. 2005.Promise song
By Linda Holeman. 1997
In 1900, fourteen-year-old Rosetta faces unimagined hardships when she and her small sister Flora are sent from an English orphanage…
to Canada after surviving a perilous journey across the sea, only to have their dreams of a family crushed. Grades 5-8. c1997.Pluto rising: a Katy Klein mystery
By Karen Irving. 1999
Meet Katy Klein - a witty and opinionated psychologist turned professional astrologer, struggling to make ends meet for herself and…
her teenage daughter. Katy's life is changed forever when she meets Adam, a strange client who believes Katy can help him unravel the half-remembered terrors of his childhood. When she resists, bad things start to happen. Followed by "Jupiter's Daughter". 1999.Please: a novel
By Peter Darbyshire. 2002
A nameless young man drifts through a hallucinatory urban world filled with celebrity wannabes, addictive relationships, and easy money from…
bizarre jobs. The only thing he cares about is his ex-wife Rachel, who enters and exits his life randomly, driving all of the events of his life. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2002.Poor Tom is cold (A detective Murdoch Mystery Ser. #Vol.3)
By Maureen Jennings. 2002
Constable Oliver Wicken dies in what appears to be a suicide. However, when new evidence is discovered, Detective William Murdoch…
is asked to investigate further. During the investigation, he begins to suspect that the suicide is not what it seems. 2002.Pit pony (Jeanpac)
By Joyce C Barkhouse. 1990
Eleven-year-old Willie works in the coal mines of Cape Breton, rarely seeing the light of day. But he dreams of…
riding over the sand dunes of Sable Island on the back of a wild horse. Grades 3-6.Play the monster blind: stories
By Lynn Coady. 2000
Pilgrim
By Timothy Findley. 1999
In 1912 when Pilgrim, an aristocratic art historian, attempts to take his own life he is checked in to the…
Buurgholzi Psychiatric Clinic to be treated by the renowned Carl Jung. When Jung begins to probe Pilgrim's mind he discovers that he is treating a man who cannot die, a man who has traveled the world and met some of history's most notable figures. 1999.Parvana's journey (Breadwinner Ser. #2)
By Deborah Ellis. 2002
Parvana, a young girl who lives in Afghanistan during the Taliban years, leaves Kabul to search for her family. Disguised…
as a boy, she travels with other children - an infant boy, a nine-year-old girl who believes she has magical powers over land mines, and an obnoxious boy with one leg. As war breaks out, Parvana realizes that her family could be anywhere in the country, but she knows she has to find them. Sequel to "The breadwinner" . Grades 5-8. 2002.Out of the fire
By Deborah Froese, Rhea Tregebov. 2001
Life finally seems good to sixteen-year-old Dayle - instead of being the shy bookworm, she now has the perfect dream…
boyfriend and another boy interested in her as well. Her world is going along like a typical teenager's when a sudden moment of carelessness causes tragedy. Dayle, badly burned, must go through despair and triumph as she learns that her own resources go much deeper than appearances. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2001.Out of their minds
By Carol Matas, Perry Nodelman. 1998
Lenora and Coren are getting married at the court of Andilla where everyone lives in their imagination. Before the wedding…
can proceed, they have to head into the Andillan countryside to find a way to restore the Andillans' powers. They encounter the Skwoes, who have absolutely no imagination whatsoever, while Lenora is having a series of nightmares about the evil Hevak. For junior high readers. Sequel to "Of Two Minds" and followed by "More Minds" (DC18209). 1998.Orphan at my door: the home child diary of Victoria Cope (Dear Canada)
By Jean Little. 2001
Victoria Cope's family needs help because of her mother's illness, so they get a Home Girl, Marianna, to live with…
them. Home Children are British orphans, sent to Canada to work and start a new life. Soon the Copes realize that Marianna needs help too. Grades 4-7. 2001.Organize your corpses (A charlotte Adams Mystery Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Mary Jane Maffini. 2007
Charlotte Adams is a professional organizer whose life is a mess. She dumps her cheating fiancé and moves back home,…
taking a job cleaning out an old, inherited home for her former terror of a teacher, Miss Helen Henley. Instead of unearthing some important documents for Helen, she finds her dead under a pile of debris, with no shortage of suspects - starting with Charlotte herself. Some strong language. 2007.Once upon a time, long, long ago
By Henry Shykoff. 1999
A girl, Eevo, and her brother Sim live nearly 50,000 years ago in what is now the Middle East. When…
their parents go on a trip, they are cast out of their home cave by their tribe. Despite their young age and Sim's lameness, they learn to create fire, shape tools, tame wolves and survive. Nominated for the 2001 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Followed by "Just a Little Later With Eevo and Sim" (RC24291). 1999.One missing finger (Black belt series.)
By Don Trembath. 2001
Three boys struggle through a series of small-town adventures. Charlie meets "an older woman" after his dog tears a finger…
off her glove; Sydney falls for his karate sparring partner, Joey, whose mother has forbidden them to see each other; and Jeffrey's estranged father leaves a message for his mother about "something important". Grades 4-7. 2001. (The black belt series)