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Terror at Turtle Mountain
By Penny Draper. 2006
It's 4:00 am, April 29, 1903, and Nathalie lies awake in her coal town at the base of Turtle Mountain,…
listening for a train - the Spokane Flyer, bringing her cousin for a visit. Instead, Nathalie hears rocks tumbling down the mountain onto the town and the railway track. As she helps search for survivors, desperate questions fill her mind: how many have died? Will the men inside the mine be safe? And will the train be stopped in time? Grades 4-7. 2006.OCDaniel
By Wesley King. 2016
A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder, until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed…
Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for best juvenile novel. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Fiction Award and the 2018 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award. 2016.Minerva's voyage
By Lynne Kositsky. 2009
Robin Starveling, aka Noah Vaile, is scooped off the streets of seventeenth-century Bristol, England, and dragged onboard a ship bound…
for Virginia by the murderous William Thatcher, who needs a servant with no past and no future to aid him in a plot to steal gold. Starveling fits the bill perfectly since he lives nowhere and has no parents. Aboard the ship, Starveling makes friends with a young cabin boy, Peter Fence. Beset by danger and villainy on every side, the boys finally discover the old man’s identity and unearth a treasure that is much rarer and finer than gold. Grades 5-8. c2009.Cure for Wereduck
By Dave Atkinson. 2016
Kate is an odd duck - literally. When the full moon arrives, the rest of her family turns into wolves,…
but she is a happy wereduck. Relatively happy, that is. Her family has been uprooted from the wilds of New Brunswick to a placid farming community in Ontario, thanks to a fellow werewolf, Marcus, selling them out to sleazy tabloid journalist Dirk Bragg. When Kate discovers her great-great-grandmother's recipe "A Cure for Werewolf," she can't help but wonder - is it really possible? When Marcus's abandoned werewolf son, John, books a desperate train journey back to New Brunswick at the full moon, the ancient recipe is put to the test. Will Dirk Bragg finally corner Kate and John in their wereforms and expose them to the world, or will Cure for Werewolf keep them safe? Sequel to "Wereduck". Grades 4-7. 2016.Danny, who fell in a hole
By Cary Fagan. 2013
Young Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack,…
his wits - and the company of a poetry-spouting mole. Grades 4-7. 2013.Devil's pass (Seven the series)
By Sigmund Brouwer. 2012
Seventeen-year-old Webb's abusive stepfather has made it impossible for him to live at home, so Webb survives on the streets…
of Toronto by busking with his guitar and working as a dishwasher. When Webb's grandfather dies, his will stipulates that his grandsons fulfill specific requests. Webb's task takes him to the Canol Trail in Canada's Far North. With a Native guide, two German tourists and his guitar for company, Webb is forced to confront terrible events in his grandfather's past and somehow deal with the pain and confusion of his own life. For junior and senior high readers. 2012.Game over, Pete Watson
By Joe Schreiber. 2014
When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now…
trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. And if he succeeds, who will save Pete from his massive crush on Callie Midwood? Grades 5-8. 2014.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.The 7 professors of the far north
By John Fardell. 2004
Sam's holiday with his friends Zara and Ben is interrupted when a bedraggled traveller blows in on a storm, reawakening…
a mystery from their Great Uncle Alexander's past. For thirty years, the remote Arctic island of Nordbergen has remained desolate and uninhabited, but now, strange aircraft have been seen landing and armed guards patrol the island's fringes. And Professor Murdo has returned to Nordbergen to complete his secret and deadly work. Sam, Zara and Ben embark on a desperate rescue mission to the frozen Arctic Ocean. To make the journey, they must discover one of the most extraordinary secrets in the world, and to survive, they must rely on their courage, their ingenuity and the assistance of strangers. Grades 4-7. 2004.Viminy Crowe's comic book
By Marthe Jocelyn, Richard Scrimger, Tara Walker. 2014
When chubby, geeky Wylder Wallace spills lunch on cool and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto's Comicon, she dashes to the…
bathroom, leaving behind the latest issue of her uncle Viminy's steampunk comic hit, “Flynn Goster In Gold Rush Train”. Wylder, a fan of the Flynn comics, opens this new one eagerly, astounded to see the girl who was just yelling at him inside the comic. Fascinated, he follows Addy into the bathroom, and our adventure begins. Is there a personality conflict? Oh, yes. Addy wants to go home; Wylder wants to stay and explore the world of Viminy Crowe's comic book. Do things go wrong? You bet they do. Grades 5-8. 2014.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 call of the wild (Penguin classics #Set I)
By Jack London, Stephen Feinstein. 1999
The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin classics #Set Ii)
By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Saddleback classics #Set I)
By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
Walking with the dead
By L. M Falcone. 2005
Twelve-year-old Alex's dad is about to open a museum of oddities, including a corpse from ancient Greece. When a surge…
of electricity awakes the corpse and it starts running around town, Alex steps in to help. He ends up on a classic hero's journey to the underworld, where Alex and his friend Freddie must outwit a host of monsters from Greek mythology. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Award. 2005.The assassin's curse (Blackthorn key. #3.)
By Kevin Sands. 2017
When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris…
to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne. And when they learn an ancient treasure is promised to any assassin who succeeds, they realize the entire royal family is at stake—as well as their own lives. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2018 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. 2017.The skeleton tree
By Iain Lawrence. 2016
Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast with his…
uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they've got to find a way to forage, fish and scavenge supplies from the shore. Chris likes the company of a curious friendly raven more than he likes the prickly Frank. But the boys have to get along if they want to survive. Winner of the 2017 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the 2017 TD Fan Choice Award. Grades 5-8. 2016.Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library #1)
By Chris Grabenstein. 2013
Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello,…
with other students, but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape. Grades 5-8. 2013.The emerald atlas: the books of beginning (Books of beginning. #1.)
By John Stephens. 2011
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to…
protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy. Grades 5-8. 2011. (The books of beginning ; 1)The hunt of the unicorn
By Chris Humphreys. 2011
Despite strange dreams and her ailing father's firm belief in the family lore of a long-ago ancestor's connection to the…
mythical unicorn, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Elayne remains skeptical. Then, during a school visit to the unicorn tapestries in the Cloisters, she finds herself entering a tumultuous world where she must fulfill the legacy of her ancestors by taming the unicorn and bringing a tyrant to justice. For junior high readers. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2011.