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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.How to outfox your friends when you don't have a clue (My life is a zoo. #3.)
By Jess Keating. 2015
As her thirteenth birthday nears, Ana is very happily making a behind-the-scenes documentary at the zoo her parents run, and…
delighted that her best friend, Liv, is visiting from New Zealand, but things start to fall apart when she brings her old and new friends together. Sequel to "How to outswim a shark without a snorkel." Grades 5-8. 2015.Flood warning (Orca echoes)
By Jacqueline Pearce. 2012
Tom loves running through cow fields with his best friend, Peggy, and his dog, Amos, especially when he's pretending to…
be his favorite radio hero, the Lone Ranger. But when Tom learns the nearby Fraser River is about to flood, he may have to become a real-life hero and help save his family's herd of dairy cows. This story is based on real events that happened in the farming community of Agassiz, British Columbia, during the Fraser River flood of 1948. Grades 3-6. 2012. (Orca echoes)Hawk
By Jennifer Dance, Allister Thompson. 2016
Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his…
identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, “a fish hawk,” mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees his life-or-death struggle echoed by the young bird. Slipping in and out of consciousness, Hawk has visions of the osprey and other animals that shared his childhood home: woodland caribou, wolves, and wood buffalo. They are all helpless and vulnerable, their forest and muskeg habitat vanishing. Hawk sees in these tragedies parallels with his own fragile life, and wants to forge a new identity - one that involves standing up for the voiceless creatures that share his world. But he needs to survive long enough to do it. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.Game face (Sports stories)
By Sylvia Gunnery. 2013
Jay Hirtle's back in Rockets territory and he's determined to help his former teammates win the basketball championship. But some…
of his teammates aren't very welcoming, including Colin, Jay's former best friend and last season's MVP. When Jay wins out in a close vote for team captain, Colin's behaviour becomes even more hostile. Jay has to think of a way to fix their strained relationship -- and the effect it has on the team's showing -- even if it means giving up the captaincy. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.Howard Wallace, P.I (Howard Wallace, P. I. Ser.)
By Casey Lyall. 2016
Twelve-year-old Howard Wallace lives by his list of rules of private investigation. He knows more than anyone how to work…
with what he's got: a bathrobe for a trench coat, a makeshift office behind the school equipment shed, and not much else--least of all, friends. So when a hot case of blackmail lands on his desk, he's ready to take it on himself...until the new kid, Ivy Mason, convinces him to take her on as a junior partner. As they banter through stakeouts and narrow down their list of suspects, Howard starts to wonder if having Ivy as a sidekick--and a friend--is such a bad thing after all. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2018 Red Cedar Fiction Book Award. 2016.Flickers
By Arthur Slade. 2016
Far from the isolated prairie ranch where they were born, orphaned twins Isabelle and Beatrice Thorn are living a glamorous…
1920s Hollywood life as wards of Mr. Cecil, a mysterious and influential director. Isabelle is a silent film starlet, destined for greatness in the very first talking picture--a horror flick that will showcase her famous scream, often seen but never before heard by audiences. Meanwhile, Beatrice spends her days hidden away on the Cecil estate with her books and her insect collection, scarves covering her birthmarks and baldness. But Beatrice's curiosity about Mr. Cecil, the death of her parents, the appearance of scorpion hornets--creatures that should not exist on this earth--and the unsettling fates of two people who visited his estate is getting the better of her, and she's starting to realize the director has truly dark designs for this movie. Grades 5-8. 2016.How to fix a lie
By Nancy Wilcox Richards. 2012
Everyone is getting excited about Pioneer Day in Abby's Grade Three class, except for Abby. She has been partnered up…
with Gracie, an unpopular girl who is known as a bit of a liar. Abby tries her best to extend her friendship, but Gracie continues to tell one tall tale after another, leaving Abby unable to tell when Gracie is actually telling the truth. Grades 3-6. 2012.How to outrun a crocodile when your shoes are untied (My life is a zoo. #1.)
By Jess Keating. 2014
When twelve-year-old Ana's zoologist parents move the whole family into the zoo, the Sneers--the clan of carnivorous female predators in…
her class--have even more ammunition to make her life miserable, although she tries to act like a chameleon and fade into the background. Followed by "How to outswim a shark without a snorkel". Grade 4-7. 2014.Holding still for as long as possible
By Zoe Whittall. 2009
Trapped somewhere between growing up and being grown-ups, three twentysomethings hide behind excessive drinking and partying, and use text messages…
to relay their emotions. Meet Billy, a former teen pop starlet who suffers from severe panic attacks; Josh, a paramedic whose ability to patch up injured patients parallels his inability to repair his own emotional damages; and Amy, a rich kid trying to live the Bohemian indie life while dealing with her first broken heart. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.Dominion (Molly Stout adventure. #1.)
By Shane Arbuthnott. 2017
Molly grew up hearing the tales of Haviland Stout, her ancestor who discovered the dangerous magical spirits that inhabit the…
far corners of the world. Now, on the edge of the New World, in the British Dominion of Terra Nova, Molly and her family collect spirits aboard their airship, the Legerdemain. But when Molly captures a spirit that can speak and claims to have been Haviland's friend, her entire life is upended. What if everything she knows about the spirits, and her own history, is a lie? Grades 4-7. 2017.Attitude (Orca limelights)
By Robin Stevenson. 2013
When Cassie comes to Vancouver from Australia for an intensive summer program at a prestigious ballet school, she finds it…
hard to fit in. A clique of girls who have been at the school a long time don't want the newcomers to get any attention. At first Cassie tries to go along to get along, but when she realizes that some of the visiting summer students are being bullied and threatened, and that she herself is being sabotaged, she finally speaks out—and finds out how far some girls will go to succeed. For junior high readers. 2013.And then the sky exploded
By David A Poulsen, Shannon Whibbs. 2016
While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a…
member of the Manhattan Project, the team that designed and created the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War. On a school trip to Japan, Chris meets eighty-one-year-old Yuko, who was eleven when the first bomb exploded over Hiroshima, horribly injuring her. Christian is determined to do something to make up for what his great-grandfather did. But after all this time, what can one teenager really do? For Junior and senior high readers. 2016.Dragon seer's gift
By Janet McNaughton. 2011
Bored by homework and bullied at school, twelve-year-old Gwyn Rae reluctantly takes on a Heritage Fair project to boost his…
history mark – he investigates the papers of his ancestor, Daniel Rae, with help from his older sister, Maddie. Together they discover a notebook filled with writing only they can see and an iron key that seems to react to their touch. When the key unlocks a secret door in an old church, Gwyn and Maddie are launched into the adventure of their lives. Junior High. 2011.Deadly voyage: RMS Titanic (I am Canada)
By Hugh Brewster. 2011
Fourteen-year-old Jamie Laidlaw is returning to Canada from England aboard the Titanic, and during his four days on board, he…
busies himself with new friends, finding ways to explore the ship's forbidden areas, and generally landing himself in trouble. When disaster strikes, Jamie is on the front lines, struggling to help free the lifeboats and get people on board them. When a huge wave washes over the ship's sloping deck, it's time for Jamie to take action - and take his fate into his own hands. Grades 5-8. 2011. (I am Canada)Duff's monkey business (Formac First Novels Ser. #12)
By Budge Wilson. 2000
When Duff tells everyone he's found a monkey in the family barn no one believes him. They think he's telling…
a tall tale, just like the time he said he found an elephant. But then a circus comes to town minus its star monkey, and everyone wonders if maybe Duff's telling the truth after all. Grades 2-4. 2000.Born with: Erika & Gianni (One-2-one book)
By Lorna Schultz Nicholson. 2016
Meet Erika and Gianni: One is a fifteen-year-old girl who loves to dance and sing and make people laugh. Being…
in three dance numbers in the school production of Grease is a big job, but with the help of her Best Buddy, Gianni, Erika knows she can be a star. The other is a Grade 11 boy with a secret. Like his Best Buddy, Erika, who was born with Down Syndrome, Gianni loves to sing and dance. He also knows that he was born different from the other boys in his school -- but is he that different from the cool, attractive male lead in the school play? Or is he just imagining that the sparks between them are mutual? And will the rough gang of guys at school also pick up on who he really is? For junior and senior high readers. 2016.Big or little?: and three other stories (Toddler Ser.)
By Kathy Stinson. 1982
A boy tells when he feels big and when he feels little. Grades K-3. 1983. Recorded with: “Teddy rabbit”. On…
the trip to the Teddy Bears' Picnic on Centre Island, Andrew loses Rabbit. Grades K-3. 1988. Recorded with: “Mom and dad don’t live together any more”. A little girl explains how her parents' separation has affected her life. Grades K-3. 1984. Recorded with: “Red is best”. Young Kelly's mom doesn't understand about red. Red mitts make better snowballs, red boots take bigger steps, and juice tastes better in a red cup. No doubt about it, red is best. Grades K-3. 1982.Clutch
By Heather Camlot. 2017
It's 1946. A poor Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal where a few dollars equal a fortune, and no matter where you…
go, you'll find the best home cooking anywhere on earth. It's also a million miles away from the posh mansions on the other side of town. But a 12-year-old boy can hope. Just across town something incredible is happening. Jackie Robinson is playing for the Montreal Royals. And he's going to change the world. If Jackie can do it, then so too can a poor Jewish kid from The Plateau. Grades 5-8. 2017.Beyond blonde (Blonde Trilogy Ser.)
By Teresa Toten. 2010
16-year-old Sophie Kandinsky's world has erupted - Papa leaves home to get sober, Mama retreats into herself, her first love…
Luke is forced to get married, and even her refuge in basketball is threatened. Luckily, Sophie's adored Blondes and audacious Aunties are there to help her navigate the catastrophes and shocking secrets. Sequel to "Better than blonde" (DC31822). For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2010.