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By Jan Hudson. 1984
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from…
a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father. C.L.A. Book of the Year for children. Grades 5-8. 1984.By Darcy Woods. 2016
As the daughter of an astrologer, Wilamena Carlisle knows the truth lies within the stars, so when she discovers a…
rare planetary alignment she is forced to tackle her worst astrological fear--The Fifth House of Relationships and Love. But Wil must decide whether a cosmically doomed love is worth rejecting her mother's legacy for, when she falls for a sensitive guitar player. For senior high readers. 2016.By Larry Verstraete. 2003
Think about your worst fears - being attacked by a wild animal, swept away by a killer storm, trapped in…
a wrecked car or a burning building. Here are 29 stories of real people who survived life-threatening situations. Each section includes Survival Tips that give readers essential information about what to do in dangerous circumstances. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Bestseller 2005. 2003.By Laurie Thompson, Åke Edwardson. 2005
Erik Winter is the youngest Chief Inspector in Sweden; he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for…
jazz, and is about to become a father. In addition, he is dealing with aging parents while trying to solve a gruesome murder. The city of Gothenburg is preparing to celebrate the millennium and the particularly lurid double murder leads Winter into the world of Goths and the possibility that someone on the force is involved. Followed by “Never end”. 2005. Uniform title: Sol och skugga.By Stephanie S Tolan. 2002
Kicked out of several public schools, Jake winds up being home schooled with an eccentric family of artists at the…
Applewhite's Creative Academy. When the whole clan becomes involved in producing The Sound of Music, Jake discovers a few positive traits and talents of his own. A Newbery Honor Book. Grades 5-8. 2002.By E. B White. 1945
The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest…
friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden. Winner of the 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. Grades 3-6. (A Harper trophy book)By Kenneth Oppel. 1999
While Shade continues to search for his father he finds a strange Human building that holds a huge forest. Thousands…
of bats live in the building where the forest is as warm as a summer night and food is plentiful. Then some of the bats start to go missing and Shade and Marina want to know where they have disappeared to. Their search takes them on a long journey and brings them closer to finding Shade's father. Sequel to "Silverwing." Winner of the 2001 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 4-7. 1999.By Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.By Tamas Dobozy. 2012
In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World…
War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. This collection of thirteen linked stories is about this terrible time in history, and of the legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.By Sydney Smith, JonArno Lawson. 2015
A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether…
the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. Originally a wordless picture book, with additional picture descriptions by the author. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature (illustration). Grades K-3. 2015.By Rana Dasgupta. 2010
Ulrich is a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria, wondering if he has any wisdom to leave to the…
world before he dies. He embarks on an epic armchair journey through the twists and turns of his country's turbulent century - and through his own lifetime of lost love and failed chemistry - and finds his way to an astonishing epiphany of redemption and enlightenment. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2009.By Peter Robinson. 2017
After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling mystery,…
and corner a killer hiding in plain sight. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. 2017.By Elle Wild. 2016
Arriving in Dawson City, Yukon, journalist Jo Silver investigates the suicide of a local politician, a suicide that begins to…
look more and more like a murder. Before long, Jo becomes a suspect. Winner of the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. 2016.By John D Nesbitt. 2009
When he was a boy, Edward Dawes saw his grandfather murdered. Now, after a chance meeting, Dawes knows the murderer…
is alive and nearby, and he won't rest until the killer pays for his crime. Some descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and violence. 2009.By Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.By Lois Lenski. 1995
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved to the Florida backwoods and are struggling to make a living…
by raising strawberries. Making the new farm prosper is not easy, with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps to get through. Perhaps the most worrisome thing for the Boyers is the rowdy family on the adjoining farm, who are ready and waiting to start a feud. Grades 4-7. 1995.By Mike McCormack. 2017
It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing,…
relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the "vortex of his being," surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires. Winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. 2017.By Marcia Brown. 1947
When three hungry soldiers in a strange land ask some villagers for food, they are told there is none. So…
the soldiers decide to show the townspeople how to make soup from water and three round stones. Grades K-3. Caldecott Honor Book. 1947.By B. P Nichol. 1983
Consists of two strands of text: the spare dialogue of a couple exploring their broken relationship and the lyrical evocation…
of a perfect landscape and a perfect house. Strong language. Winner of the 1982 Pulp Press Annual Three-day Novel-writing Contest. 1983.By Glen Huser. 2003
When Travis transfers to a new school, he becomes a big target for his old nemesis Shon and his thug…
friends. Maybe it's because Travis lives in a trailer park with his gentle aunt, his uncle Miserable Mike, and lots of little cousins while his country-and-western singer mother is on the road. Or maybe it's because he loves to sew, wants to be a professional puppeteer, and his best friend is a girl, Chantelle, who comes from an even stranger family than he does. Some strong language. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2003.