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The game: Haunting Teen Fiction
By Peter Carver, Teresa Toten. 2001
Dani Webster had played the Game with her sister Kelly for as long as she could remember - they had…
been on a quest to vanquish evil. But everything is hazy now as she recovers from substance abuse at a psychiatric hospital for 'teens with problems'. Dani must confront a deeper emotional trauma - one which she can neither explain nor recognize - to face her family's deep dysfunctions and eliminate the Game for her life forever. For senior high students. Some strong language. 2003.The ghost of Avalanche Mountain
By Julie Lawson. 2000
When Ashley's famous aunt sends her the family goldstone necklace for a birthday present, Ashley is thrilled. She discovers that…
if she sleeps while wearing it, she dreams of the future. However, Ashley finds one particular dream disturbing. It is of a boy named Jonathan, whom she sees not only in her dreams, but in real life as well. The dreams grow more frightening until finally, an avalanche brings her face to face with the boy ghost, who has transcended the bounds of time to recover the goldstone and return its magic to the mountain where it was crafted. Grades 5-8. 2000.The ghost of Lunenburg Manor: a Tom Austen mystery
By Eric Wilson. 1981
The ghost of the Stanley Cup (Screech Owls series. #11.)
By Roy MacGregor. 2000
The spirit of former Governor General Lord Stanley seems to be haunting the festivities at the Little Stanley Cup Pee…
Wee Tournament in Ottawa -- literally! As the Screech Owls hockey team tour the nation's capital, they encounter his ghost everywhere. Then they start meeting some other ones, like Tom Thomson and Joe Hall, not to mention a former prime minister! But what are these historical figures trying to tell the players? Grades 4-7. (The Screech Owls series ; 11)The gravesavers
By Sheree Fitch. 2005
When 12-year-old Minn has to spend a summer with her sour grandmother, she soon gets caught up in an old…
mystery of a tragic shipwreck, and plans to preserve the graves of the victims. While discovering romance and some intriguing information about her grandmother, Minn's plan for the graves unleashes some shocking events. And much depends on her finding the courage to face a terrible secret of her own. For junior high readers. 2005.The girl who dreamed only geese, and other tales of the Far North: And Other Tales Of The Far North
By Howard A Norman. 1997
Ten stories from Inuit oral tradition include portrayals of tundra wildlife - puffins, a wolverine, a seagull, a narwhal, and…
geese. The Biblical Noah appears in "Noah Hunts a Woolly Mammoth." In the title piece, a young girl's ability to help maintain the village food supply by dreaming about geese is challenged by a shaman. Grades 4-7. 1997.The French Isles
By Claire Mowat. 1994
Andrea Baxter's summer in Anderson's Arm, a fishing village in Newfoundland, turns to unexpected adventure, when she, her cousin, and…
her uncle are arrested for illegal scallop dragging by the St. Pierre et Miquelon coast guard. Once they're rescued from the police station, Andrea ends up staying on St. Pierre, finding mystery, adventure, and romance. Grades 5-8. 1994.The Friday Society
By Adrienne Kress. 2012
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that…
ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.The first stone
By Don Aker. 2003
Reef is an embittered young offender, hardly able to contain his anger at the world over the death of his…
grandmother, the only person who had shown him any love. Seventeen-year-old Leeza is mourning the death of her older sister. A stone hurled in rage shatters both their lives and throws them together in the most unexpected way - and offers them a chance at healing. Followed by "The fifth rule" (DC41432). For junior and senior high readers. Descriptions of violence, explicit strong language. 2003.The Farmerettes
By Gisela Tobien Sherman. 2015
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on an Ontario farm as part…
of the Farm Services - doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages home to support her single mother; Peggy, a flirt with a secret she must keep; Binxie, whose rich family doesn't approve of her; Isabel, who pines for her fiance off fighting in Europe; and Jean, whose family farm has been taken over by the “farmerettes”, as they were known. Friendship, romance, hardship, and heartbreak shape their summer, all against the backdrop of the Second World War. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.The fifth rule
By Don Aker. 2011
Reef is back in Halifax, which brings back memories of Leeza and the terrible way their relationship ended - with…
a restraining order. Leeza is feeling stifled by her mother's "concern" and wishes she was studying out of town. Despite Reef's best efforts to stay away, circumstances quickly unfold to push him and Leeza ever closer together, so Reef must face his demons and make some tough choices - or else risk losing everything, including the only girl he has ever loved. Sequel to "The first stone" (DC41431). For junior and senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. c2011.The fashion committee: a novel of art, crime, and applied design
By Susan Juby. 2017
Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal…
sculptures in his garage and couldn't care less about clothes. But they share one thing in common: both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship. Told in the alternating voices of Charlie's and John's fashion journals which they're required to keep for the contest, this tale perfectly captures what it's like to have an artistic passion so fierce that nothing--not your dad's girlfriend's drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, a soul-crushing job at Salad Stop, or being charged with a teensy bit of kidnapping--can stand in your way. For senior high readers. 2017.The fault in our stars
By John Green. 2013
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis, until a chance meeting with a boy…
at a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. For senior high readers. 2013.The color of silence
By Liane Shaw. 2013
Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end. After being involved in an…
accident that killed her best friend, she doesn’t see why anyone would want her around and she refuses to talk. Ordered by a judge to do community service, she must spend time at a hospital with a girl named Joanie, who has minimal control of her body and no speech. Junior and Senior High. c2013.The end of the world as we know it
By Lesley Choyce. 2007
16-year-old Carson hates the world, stuck in a private school for kids who have repeatedly flunked out everywhere else. Then…
Carson meets Christine, who has been abandoned by her parents and struggles to get by living in a trailer. Confronted by her sadness, Carson starts to care for her, and once focused on someone other than himself, begins to notice what's going on around him. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. 2007.The faces of fear
By Monica Hughes. 1997
After Joan is paralyzed in an accident she begins to live vicariously through a character in an experimental computer game.…
But Joan and her new friend Whizkid (a.k.a. Steve) discover that the game is becoming all too real, and dangerous. The only way out is to face their real life fears. Grades 5-8. 1997.The encyclopedia of me
By Karen Rivers. 2012
The darkhouse
By Barbara Radecki. 2016
A teenage girl living in a small island community in New Brunswick discovers that her father, an amateur scientist, has…
been conducting experiments on humans, and may be responsible for the death of the twin sister she never knew she had. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.The darkest corner of the world
By Urve Tamberg. 2012
Who can you turn to when the only choice is between two evils? In 1941, fifteen-year-old Madli hopes that the…
Soviet occupation is temporary, but when the neighbours are deported, she knows that lives are in danger. Days later, the Nazis invade her country. Friends and family find themselves divided as they try to choose which dictator they'd rather live under: Hitler or Stalin. Madli is horrified by either choice, but how long can she remain neutral? Every day brings new dangers and unimaginable decisions. In order to survive, Madli knows she can't fight the enemy, so she is determined to outwit them. For senior high readers. 2012.The education of Mr. Whippoorwill: a country boyhood
By David Zieroth. 2002
The tales that come with growing up on a prairie farm, and then leaving it for the big city, are…
recounted. Included are such happenings as a calf getting hit by lightning, a bag of squirming kittens, and the aftershocks of war passed down through the generations. For junior high readers. 2002.