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By Janette Oke. 1996
A young Blackfoot girl comes of age in 19th century Alberta in this tortured love story. She is chosen along…
with the chief's son, Silver Fox, to attend a Catholic boarding school in Calgary, and runs up against loneliness and despair when Silver Fox shows more interest in white man's God than her. Sequel to "A gown of Spanish lace". 1996. (Women of the West ; 12)By John Wilson. 2003
Jim Hay is 15, thinks war is a glorious adventure, and cannot wait for his turn to fight. But when…
he does at last join up, what he discovers in the trenches of France is enough to dispel any romantic view of war. While his longing for adventure is replaced by a basic need to survive, the final tragic outcome is one he never dreamed of. Descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2003.By Nancy Huston. 2001
Sean Farrell, the poet 'with a gift for instilling discomfort,' is the host of a Thanksgiving dinner in a small…
town in the northeastern United States. Among his dozen guests are poets and writers and professors, former lovers, a secretary, and a young woman with an infant and a haunting past. With God as narrator, we enter the thoughts of the characters to reveal an exploration of mortality that is a celebration of life, and a universal plea that we never let go of our friends and never lose their stories. Descriptions of violence, strong language and descriptions of sex. 2001. Uniform title: Dolce agonia.By Andrew Kaufman. 2003
All Tom's friends really are superheroes - he even married one, the Perfectionist. At their wedding, she was hypnotized to…
believe that Tom is invisible, so she is now moving to Vancouver, believing that he has abandoned her. Tom, flying with her (though she only sees an empty seat), spends the flight desperately working out how to get his wife back. Some strong language, and some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.By Robert Davies, Susan Murray. 1998
14-year-old K.C. Flanagan, budding archeologist and detective, joins her father on his many travels. In Mexico, she helps a wayward…
American archeologist escape the clutches of treasure thieves, while discovering the majesty of the Chichén Itzá pyramids and the Temple of the goddess Ixchel. Junior High. Sequel to "Panic in Puerto Vallarta" .1998. (A K. C. Flanagan, girl detective adventure ; 2)By Jean Little. 2002
Dickon Fielding, named for a character in his mother's favourite book, "The secret garden", moves to a new neighbourhood. He's…
not as hyper as he used to be, and hopes to make new friends. And maybe, with the Humane Society right on the other side of his backyard, he can get the dog he's always dreamed of having. Grades 2-4. 2002.By Beth Goobie. 2000
Having survived a brain aneurysm two years earlier, 15-year-old Adrian is caught between the land of the living and the…
spirit world. While working at her Aunt Erin's summer camp, she struggles to understand the message delivered by the spirits - a message that seems to hold the key to the secret that haunts her aunt. For junior and senior high readers.By Julie Lawson. 1996
Eleven-year-old Sam's first visit to the remote west coast of Vancouver Island is not what she expected. She's teased by…
her cousins for being a "city kid", when they're not ignoring her. Then, while exploring the woods on her own, she comes face-to-face with a wild cougar and her two cubs and her summer vacation gets much more exciting. 1996.By Meredith Andrew. 1998
Patrick Irving, an ecology activist, and Gina Ferrara, a sports columnist, go camping near Lake Nipissing on the spring-swollen Speller…
River with simple intentions. Patrick has an interest in the mushrooms that grow there, and Gina wants to white water canoe so that she can write about her experiences in her column. However, tragedy strikes quickly. 1998.By Barbara Greenwood. 2001
Aunt Rachel isn't happy when brothers Tim and Roy head off to the Klondike to find gold, but with times…
being tough, the possibility of striking it rich is hard to resist. Despite blizzards, exhausting work, and bitter feuding, the brothers are determined to make it to Dawson and find gold. Includes stories, factual information about the gold rush, and activities. Grades 3-6. 2001.By Kenneth Oppel. 1992
This futuristic novel follows a boy's search for his missing brother into the Dead Water Zone, where a micro-organism designed…
to destroy pollution mutates into something far more dangerous. Junior high and older. 1992.By Jennifer Wynne Webber. 2000
When Miranda was left by her fiancé on top of Whistlers Peak in Jasper, Alberta, it looked like another dispiriting…
trip back home to heal her wounds and wonder what went wrong this time. Instead, a chance encounter with a mysterious young guide set in motion a dramatic and moving voyage of emotional and spiritual self-discovery. 2000.By Susan Currie. 2001
When Sam hears Helen play the piano, he is entranced. Knowing that his mother could never afford music lessons, Sam…
tries to persuade Helen to teach him; but Helen, the daughter of a famous conductor, is not going to waste her talent on a shabby creature like Sam. It isn't until Helen's haughty manner attracts the attention of the class bullies that Sam comes up with an offer that she is forced to accept, and the two strike a bargain that will change both their lives forever. Grades 5-8. 2001.By Allan Stratton. 2004
S6-year-old Chanda Kabelo has secrets. She loves school and dreams of winning a scholarship one day, but people are dying…
around her. Everyone is afraid to say why, but Chanda knows it's because of AIDS. To make matters worse, Chanda's mother is not herself, her little sister is out of control, and her best friend is in serious trouble. Junior and Senior High. Followed by "Chanda's wars" . 2004.By Judith Elaine Cowan. 2001
A collection of seven stories set in Trois-Rivières, Québec. They feature an erratic cast of ordinarily forgotten folks who have…
fallen through the cracks. These include a woman called Raymonde, who is anxiously awaiting guests to her lover's book launching, and Jacques, a man of simplicity, observing the often unnoticed and underappreciated aspects of daily life. 2001.By K. D Miller. 1999
This collection of short stories traces the life of Daisy Chandler from the age of five to fifty. She struggles…
to understand herself, her family, her friends, and her lovers. Each of the stories are strongly linked and they take the reader from the 1950s forward to the new millennium. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1999.By Margaret Atwood. 1992
By Karen Dudley. 1998
When Robyn Devara goes into the field to research spotted owls near the remote logging town of Marten Valley she…
really doesn't expect any trouble. Then she discovers the body of a murdered logging foreman in the woods and things start to get scary. Robyn must deal with angry townspeople, her attractive male colleague, and the suspicion that she herself may have been involved in the murder. 1998.By Graeme Gibson. 1969
Two guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald - one a professor, the other his student - are caught…
in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional web-spinning and sexual torments. Their mortifications and their resistance to all things WASP, themselves included, are captured in stream-of-consciousness prose. 1969.By Sylvia McNicoll. 1999
Moving into a new house is a big adjustment for Nicholas. There is the graffiti on his bedroom wall, the…
smell of chlorine at night, and the old woman who talks to herself in the cemetery next door. The woman keeps calling him "Sasha", which puts his nerves on edge. Can Nicholas unravel this mystery before tragedy strikes? Grades 4-7. 1999.