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The crazy man
By Pamela Paige Porter. 2005
1965. After Emaline, 11, is crippled in a tractor accident, Daddy kills her beloved dog, Prince, and walks away from…
their Saskatchewan farm. Mom takes in Angus from the local mental hospital to help with the farm work, but the neighbours jeer and complain about the crazy man. Emaline sees Angus' kindness and strength, but it is only when he performs the ultimate act of heroism that others in the town finally recognize his worth as a human being. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Golden Oak Award. Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2005.The Beetle and me: a love story
By Karen Romano Young. 1999
At fifteen, Daisy, who is as obsessed with cars as the rest of her family, convinces her reluctant father to…
let her try to restore his purple 1957 Volkswagen Beetle. While she struggles to work on the car, Daisy experiences her first relationships with boys. For Junior and Senior high readers. 1999.Strawberry girl
By Lois Lenski. 1995
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved to the Florida backwoods and are struggling to make a living…
by raising strawberries. Making the new farm prosper is not easy, with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps to get through. Perhaps the most worrisome thing for the Boyers is the rowdy family on the adjoining farm, who are ready and waiting to start a feud. Grades 4-7. 1995.Rilla d'Ingleside (Collection Littérature d'Amérique #No. 8)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1992
La maison aux pignons verts dans lequel les enfants d'Anne et de Gilbert continuent à nous charmer par leur imagination…
fertile. La jeune Rilla s'avère aussi vive d'esprit que sa mère Anne. Un portrait saississant sur la Première Guerre mondiale vu par des enfants, de quoi faire réfléchir les adultes. Huitième roman de la populaire série Anne. Années 5-8. 1992, c1920. Titre uniforme: Rilla of Ingleside.Chroniques d'Avonlea II: nouvelles (Collection Litterature D'amerique Ser.)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1991
Dixième titre de la série Anne qui a conquis les publics de monde entier. Dans ces chroniques littéraires du merveilleux,…
l'auteure évoque comme toujours des personnages attachants qui évoluent dans les paysages ensorcelants de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard. c1991. Titre uniforme: Further chronicles of Avonlea.Chroniques d'Avonlea I: nouvelles (Collection Littérature d'Amérique)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1991
Romancière connue et lue dans le monde entier, Lucy Maud Montgomery poursuit dans ces 12 chroniques les aventures d'Anne Shirley…
et de ses amis. Qui dit chronique dit conte. Lire Lucy Maud Montgomery, c'est avoir envie de conter aux autres l'histoire des personnages et des paysages de notre vie. Douze invitations à s'émerveiller dans les paysages envotants de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard. Suivi de "Chroniques d'Avonlea II" (FD02524). 1991, c1912. Titre uniforme: Chronicles of Avonlea.La vallée Arc-en-ciel: roman (Collection Litterature D'amerique Ser.)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1991
Il y a une nouvelle famille à Ingleside, un pasteur veuf plus doué pour écrire ses sermons que pour élever…
ses enfants. Et il y a aussi une orpheline en fuite de sa famille d'accueil où on la maltraitait. Années 5-8. Suite de "Anne d'Ingleside" (FD02536). Suivi par "Rilla d'Ingleside" (FD02652). 1991. (Anne...La Maison aux pignons verts ; 7)L'étrange amour d'Edgar (Roman Jeunesse Ser.)
By Gilles Gauthier, Jules Prud'Homme. 1993
Voici de nouvelles aventures d'Edgar Alain Campeau, plus que jamais trouble par l'etrange similitude de son destin avec celui d'Edgar…
Allan Poe, un auteur de romans fantastiques auquel il s'identifie etroitement. A douze ans, Edgar experimente les joies et peines d'un drole de premier amour, un amour impossible avec Jezabel. Precede par "Edgar le bizarre". Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. c1993.Margy
By Margaret Smith. 1992
During the 1930s, 13-year-old Margy is sent from her father's Manitoba farm to live with two aunts in Ontario. Margy's…
irrepressible spirit carries her into many misadventures as she adapts to her new life. Grades 5-8. 1992.Ma soeur orpheline: au fil de ma plume, Victoria Cope (Cher journal)
By Jean Little, Martine Faubert. 2005
Chroniques inspirées du destin d'orphelins anglais envoyés au Canada, relatant le quotidien d'une famille pieuse royaliste ontarienne de Guelph, ayant…
accueilli une domestique anglaise de douze ans sous leur toit alors que la mère attendait un autre enfant. Le tout est raconté par leur fille Victoria Joséphine, du même âge, à travers son journal. En plus d'y suivre le déroulement des événements, y sont décrits les moeurs et coutumes de l'époque et le sort réservé aux orphelins à leur arrivée au pays, entre 1875 et 1930, la plupart du temps séparés de leurs frères et soeurs et n'ayant pour seul bagage qu'un coffre de bois étiqueté à leur nom. Années 4-7. 2005. Titre uniforme: Orphan at my door.Les aventures d'Huckleberry Finn (Folio junior. 230)
By Mark Twain, Suzanne Nétillard. 1999
Sans doute le chef-d'oeuvre de Mark Twain et celui de la jeune littérature américaine. Le roman raconte la fuite d'un…
enfant blanc et d'un esclave de race noire. Pour échapper à leurs poursuivants, les fugitifs descendent le Mississippi sur un radeau de fortune. Années 5-8. 1999, c1884. Titre uniforme: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Le livre de la jungle
By Rudyard Kipling, Louis Fabulet, Robert D'Humières. 1899
Les aventures de Mowgli, un jeune garçon élevé dans la jungle au milieu des loups et de ses amis l'ours…
Baloo, la panthère Bagheera et le serpent Kaa. Années 4-7. 1993, c1899.Hans Brinker or The silver skates (Recorded Books classics library)
By Mary Mapes Dodge. 1996
Diary of a pilgrimage (Jerome K. Jerome Ser.)
By Jerome K Jerome. 1891
Invited to the theatre on Monday next, Jerome discovers it is at Ober-Ammergau. He looked at his diary and saw…
that Aunt Emma was coming, calculated that he would miss her and decided that he would go! And so began an epic pilgrimage. 1891.Divided city
By Theresa Breslin. 2006
A young man lies bleeding in the street. It's Glasgow. The Orange Walks have begun. Graham doesn't want to be…
involved. He just wants to play football with his new mate, Joe. But when he witnesses a shocking moment of violence, suddenly he and Joe are involved. With Catholics, and with Protestants. With a young Muslim asylum-seeker, and his girlfriend. With all the old rivalries and fears. A gripping tale about two boys who must find their own answers - and their own way forward - in a world divided by differences. Junior High. 2006.Classic satire about a nineteenth-century New England factory worker who is knocked unconscious and transported back to the year 528.…
Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. For senior high and older readers. 1988, c1889.Treasure island (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her…
son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's work, published in 1883. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.The red badge of courage (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Stephen Crane, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated country boy, enthusiastic to serve his country, enlists with the Union forces at the beginning of…
the Civil War. At first, the shock of war causes him to retreat and his heroic vision of himself fades. In the next battle, however, his courage revives as he carries forward the regiment's colours in a crucial advance. Adaptation of the American classic by Stephen Crane, originally published in 1895. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.Frankenstein (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
The monster created by Dr. Frankenstein was supposed to be man's benefactor but, scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge…
on his creator and the human race. Adaptation of Mary Shelley's work, published in 1831. For junior and senior high readers. c1999.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Saddleback classics #Set Ii)
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.…
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first published in 1886. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.