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The hill
By Karen Bass. 2016
Jared’s plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking…
up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop - with no cell service - the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something - a creature that should only exist in legend - is hunting them. For senior high readers. 2016.Red Wolf
By Jennifer Dance. 2014
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s,…
both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find? For junior high readers. 2014.Le torrent (Littérature)
By Anne Hébert. 1989
Ces contes écrits au cours de plusieurs années attirent le lecteur dans le monde claustrophobe d'Hébert. Quant aux personnages, s'ils…
réussissent à s'en échapper, leur liberté ne leur apporte pas la joie, mais une écrasante réalisation personnelle. La première nouvelle de ce recueil est un puissant récit. 1989, c1950.La héronnière: nouvelles
By Lise Tremblay. 2003
Les histoires de "La Héronnière" mettent en scène un village en perdition où, sous les mensonges du quotidien, se cachent…
des drames croisés qui viennent bousculer la vie des habitants. Dans un décor de chasse, de marais et de pourvoiries, les armes de la vie peuvent-elles défendre les habitants contre leurs propres démons? 2003.I am not a number
By Kathy Kacer, Jenny Kay Dupuis. 2016
Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, a young First Nations girl who was sent to a…
residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Express Honour Book Award. Winner of the 2018 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. Winner of the 2018 Red Cedar Information Book Award. 2016.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.Tomahawk (White Indian series. #6.)
By Donald Clayton Porter. 1982
Renno’s son, Ja-gonh, sets out to kill Huron brave Gray Fox, who murdered Renno’s father. But Gray Fox kidnaps Ja-gonh’s…
betrothed and offers her to the French king, Louis XV, as mistress. While Ja-gonh pursues them, Renno battles illness at home. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. Sequel to "Renno" (DC13362). Followed by "War cry". 1982. (The White Indian series ; 6)Une vraie lune de miel: nouvelles ((Terres d'Amérique). #Vol. 6141535)
By Kevin Canty. 2010
[...] Ici, ce sont des hommes - pères, maris, fils, amants - qui évoquent l'amour. Canty saisit tant la noirceur…
et l'amertume de la défaite des sentiments que la tendresse et l'humour qui parfois les illuminent. Inquiétantes, baroques ou ironiques, ses nouvelles sont une formidable exploration des relations humaines. -- 4e de couv.A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and…
how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind. Followed by "When a ghost talks, listen". Grades 3-6. 2013.The mask that sang
By Susan Currie. 2016
When Cass's estranged grandmother unexpectedly leaves her house and savings to Cass and her mom, it is just the thing…
they need to change their lives. Cass is being bullied at school, and her mom just lost her job—again—so they pack up and move in. Cass finds an intriguing and powerful mask in her new room, and she is inexplicably drawn to it. A strange relationship grows between Cass and the mask; it sings her songs, shows her visions of past traumas and encourages her to be brave when facing bullies. The mask eventually leads her to discover her own Cayuga heritage and leads her into the arms of a community that's been waiting for them. Winner of the Second Story Press Aboriginal Writing Contest. Grades 3-6. 2016.These are my words: the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens (Dear Canada)
By Ruby Slipperjack. 2016
Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the…
first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences--the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make. Grades 4-7. 2016.Tales of court and castle
By Joan Bodger. 2003
Presents the author's wonderful retellings of seven English, Irish, and Welsh tales. Tristan, Iron John, Burd Janet and Tamlane and…
others come to life with language that speaks to the stories' origins, but will engage modern readers. Grades 4-7. 2003.Caught off guard: twelve tales of surprise
By Bernard Jackson. 1990
Éclats de lieux: [nouvelles] ((Réverbération).)
By Aude. 2012
" Éclats de lieux ouvre sur la nouvelle Les fileuses . Depuis des siècles, trois femmes président à la destinée…
humaine. Elles filent, dévident et coupent la fibre soyeuse de la vie dont elles font don aux hommes. Elles veillent ainsi à lharmonie du monde. Or, elles viennent de décider que la folie des hommes a dépassé toutes les limites du fanatisme, de la cupidité, de la barbarie et de lindifférence. Les trois fileuses ont une vision densemble, den haut , sur ce qui se passe en bas dans les sociétés et dans le coeur des humains. Les autres nouvelles du recueil nous plongent justement en bas, sur le terrain, dans ce monde en plein chaos. Elles nous font pénétrer dans lintimité de ce qui sy vit en divers lieux de la planète. Certains sont marqués par la guerre, linstabilité sociale, le totalitarisme. D'autres lieux sont en apparence paisibles et sécurisants, mais la vie y implose aussi chaque jour, minée par une violence silencieuse et privée. Pourtant, on fait tout pour y rester debout, digne. " -- 4e de couv. 2012.Selected stories
By Alice Munro. 1996
Short story by the world-famous Alice Munro, which won her Canada's most prestigious literary prize: the Governor General's Award. Munro's…
stories look beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promise, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women.Powwow Summer (Young Adult Fiction)
By Nahanni Shingoose. 2019
Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. Teased about…
her Indigenous heritage as a young girl, she feels like she doesn't belong and struggles with her identity.Now eighteen and just finished high school, River travels to Winnipeg to spend the summer with her Indigenous father and grandmother, where she sees firsthand what it means to be an "urban Indian."On her family's nearby reserve, she learns more than she expects about the lives of Indigenous people, including the presence of Indigenous gangs and the multi-generational effects of the residential school system. But River also discovers a deep respect for and connection with the land and her cultural traditions. The highlight of her summer is attending the annual powwow with her new friends.At the powwow after party, however, River drinks too much and posts photos online that anger people and she has her right to identify as an Indigenous person called into question.Can River ever begin to resolve the complexities of her identity — Indigenous and not?The warning: a short story
By Sophie Hannah. 2015
Single mom Chloe leaves her nine-year-old daughter's audition music in the car. They are rescued when a bicyclist offers to…
retrieve it. After Chloe brings him a thank-you gift at his work, she receives an odd warning from the receptionist about how dangerous he is. Strong language. 2015Poirot investiga (Hercule Poirot Mystery Ser. #3)
By Agatha Christie. 1925
Eleven mystery stories solved by the ingenious Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Includes "La Aventura de la Tumba Egipcia," "Tragedia en…
Marsdon Manor," "El Rapto del Primer Ministro," and "La Aventura del Noble Italiano." Spanish language. 1925Vingt-quatre mille baisers: nouvelles
By Françoise Luca. 2008
"Les neuf nouvelles de Vingt-quatre mille baisers explorent la genèse de l'amour. Des petits abandons de l'enfance aux femmes enchanteresses…
en passant par les amours littéraires qui font voyager, ces textes brefs offrent un cours d'histoire de l'amour. Ce livre nous offre les talismans du cœur et une grande question hypnotique: Comment devient-on qui on est? avec en filigrane la chanson italienne: Jenny Luna, Marino Marini et Luciano Tajoli. Un baume pour le myocarde." -- 4e de couvRed Dog
By Louis De Bernieres. 2011
Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his…
habit of travelling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over thousands of miles, settling in places for months at a time and adopting new families before heading off again to the next destination and another family - sometimes returning to say hello years later. While visiting Australia, Louis de Bernieres heard the legend of Red Dog and decided to do some research on this extraordinary story. After travelling to Western Australia and meeting countless people who'd known and loved Red Dog, Louis decided to spread Red Dog's fame a little further. The result is an utterly charming tale of an amazing dog with places to go and people to see.