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All fall down: the landslide diary of Abby Roberts (Dear Canada)
By Jean Little. 2014
After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the…
mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with Down Syndrome, and learning Morse code at the telegraph office. When the devastating Frank Slide buries much of the town, Abby must do all she can to help. But a long-buried family secret emerged just before the disaster — and now she will have to wait for the dust to settle before getting the answers she so desperately wants. Grades 4-7. 2014.Amos's sweater (Meadow Mouse Paperback Ser.)
By Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn. 1988
Amos the sheep is old and cold and tired of giving up all his wool. When Aunt Hattie shears him…
again to make a sweater for Uncle Henry, Amos decides to take back his wool. Grades K-3. 1988.A trio of tolerable tales
By Margaret Atwood. 2017
In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Ramsay runs away from his revolting relatives and makes a new friend with…
more refined tastes. The second tale, Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, features Bob, who was raised by dogs, and Dorinda, who does housework for relatives who don’t like her. It is only when they become friends that they realize they can change their lives for the better. And finally, to get her parents back, Wenda and her woodchuck companion have to outsmart Widow Wallop in Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery. Grades 4-7. 2017. Uniform title: Short stories.A world below
By Wesley King. 2018
Mr. Baker's eighth grade class thought they were in for a normal field trip to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico,…
but their journey takes a terrifying turn when an earthquake hits and the students are plunged into a frigid underground lake, forcing them to fight for survival and find their way back above ground. Grades 5-8. 2018.A family is a family is a family
By Sara O'Leary. 2016
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are…
all different in many ways, but the same in the one way that matters most of all. Grades K-3. 2016.A boy named Queen
By Sara Cassidy. 2016
Evelyn befriends Queen, the new boy in town, who does not seem to get fazed by bullies and lives by…
his own rules, and soon begins to learn new things about the world and herself. Grades 3-6. 2016.A day of signs and wonders
By Kit Pearson. 2016
Emily dreams of birds. She feels constrained by nearly everything--her overbearing sisters, the expectation to be a proper young lady,…
and even her stiff white pinafore. Kitty feels undone. Her heart is still grieving a tragic loss, and she doesn't want to be sent away to a boarding school so far away from home. When the two girls meet by chance, on a beach on the outskirts of Victoria, BC, in 1881, neither knows that their one day together will change their lives forever. Grades 3-6. 2016.26 tips for surviving grade 6
By Catherine Austen. 2011
Forget social studies, math, and science - this is about surviving some of the real problems tween girls face in…
the sixth grade. Follows eleven-year-old Becky Lennox over the course of the school year as she figures out how to survive friendships, first crushes, embarrassing parents and annoying older brothers. Winner of the Quebec Writer's Federation Prize, 2012. Winner of the 2013 Hackmatack Award for fiction. Grades 5-8. 2011.Sophie Quire and the last Storyguard: a story (Peter Nimble. #2.)
By Jonathan Auxier. 2016
Twelve-year-old Sophie knows little beyond the four walls of her father's bookshop, where she repairs old books and dreams of…
escaping the confines of her dull life. But when a strange boy and his talking cat/horse companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she finds herself pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read. Sequel to "Peter Nimble and his fantastic eyes". Grades 4-7. 2016.The night gardener: a scary story
By Jonathan Auxier. 2014
When orphaned Irish siblings Molly and Kip arrive to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house, they…
discover that the house and its inhabitants are not what they seem. Soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger, and the secrets of the cursed house will change their lives forever. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2015 Silver Birch Fiction Award. Winner of the 2015 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award. Winner of the 2016 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award Honour Book. 2014.Under my skin (Wildlings. #1.)
By Charles De Lint. 2012
For the past six months, something has been happening to young people in Santa Feliz. Week after week, there’s news…
of another teen changing shape, transforming from human into wild animal and back again. Josh Saunders has seen the news reports, but he’s still astonished when it happens to him. For senior high and older readers. 2012.Hockey sur le lac
By David Ward, Isabelle Allard. 2008
"Owen et Holly passent une journée fantastique à jouer au hockey sur le lac jusqu'à ce que leur rondelle tombe…
dans un trou, creusé dans la glace par un pêcheur. Ils croient bien que la partie est terminée, mais leur père décide de leur montrer comment les jeunes se débrouillaient dans le bon vieux temps. Il coupe une rondelle dans un tronc d'arbre et avec l'aide du pêcheur, il la trempe dans l'eau glacée. Après quelques minutes, la rondelle, recouverte d'une mince couche de glace, glisse à merveille sur la patinoire et la partie peut continuer!" -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The hockey tree.The Lotterys plus one
By Emma Donoghue. 2017
Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a…
big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay. Grades 4-7. 2017.Slacker
By Gordon Korman. 2016
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his…
parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or not. Grades 4-7. 2016.Je suis fou de Vava ((Collection Taxi).)
By Dany Laferrière, Frédéric Normandin. 2006
Vieux Os aime jouer avec les fourmis. Passer laprès-midi sur le balcon avec sa grand-mère, Da. Regarder vivre les habitants…
de Petit-Goâve. Mais ce quil aime le plus, cest Vava dans sa robe jaune. Cela lui donne la fièvre, encore plus que la bicyclette rouge quil désire tant. Quand on a aimé Vava à dix ans, cela dure... toute une vie! -- 4e de couv.Le pays sans musique ((Tourne-pierre).)
By Angèle Delaunois, Pierre Houde. 2005
Il était une fois, dans un lointain pays, un sultan qui avait banni le bruit de son royaume. Même la…
musique était interdite! Mais un jour, alors qu'il faisait sa promenade, il entendit les oiseaux chanter, les feuilles bruisser, les ruisseaux murmurer...À vos hameçons, prêts, pêchez! (Clafoutine et ses amis)
By Nadia Bazinet, Nancy Bélanger, Catherine Sévigny. 2007
Un cadeau pour Sophie: conte et chansons
By Gilles Vigneault. 2007
Neuf chansons de Gilles Vigneault autour dun grand conte qui parle damitié, de vieillesse et de mort, de printemps, de…
corneilles et de retrouvailles. Sophie et Émilio noublieront jamais le bonhomme Tom, celui qui a su leur faire entrevoir le monde à travers le prisme des trésors du cœur. Pour dessiner, il faut savoir regarder, cest ce message tout simple que nous livre Un cadeau pour Sophie. Années 1-3. 2007.Voleurs de sucre: roman
By Éric Dupont. 2004
"À ce point de la souffrance, il m'arrive de mordre le grand érable du jardin dans l'espoir que sa sève…
apaise ma douleur. J'accepterais n'importe quelle saleté à n'importe quel prix. On vendrait son chat, on se couperait un doigt avec un couteau à beurre pour une réglisse desséchée. Certains ignares inexpérimentés pensent qu'ils peuvent dormir leur purgation. Erreur. Le sommeil serait une libération, un répit. Fable gourmande et hédoniste, Voleurs de sucre est un éloge du glucose et de ses dérivés. Eric, un gaspésien de 3 ans raconte l'évolution de sa dépendance au sucre et la collusion éternelle des êtres qui ne vivent que pour le plaisir. Baigné dans la douce lumière de l'enfance, le narrateur raconte comment il arrive à se procurer son doux poison. Le récit se veut un pied-de-nez aux forces policières, aux autorités médicales, aux légumes bouillis et autres contrariétés." -- 4e de couv.Valse macabre ((Les clowns vengeurs).)
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.