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By Iris Howden. 2003
Amy and Aneeta are best friends in their Design course. When they are asked to sew squares for a quilt…
to hang in the town hall, they think it will be boring. But after local riots break out, the quilt takes on a new meaning. This book is part of the Livewire youth fiction series. Livewire youth fiction is a series of exciting stories about the issues, dramas and challenges of being young. They provide teenagers/adult interest level fiction and non-fiction for those with reading ages below 10, or adult students learning English as a second language. This is a high interest, low reading age book for reluctant readers with a reading age of 7+ and interest age of 11+. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2003.By Andrew McNab. 2006
Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he'd like a night out. He's not talking about…
a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He's going to attempt to pull off a daring bank roberry single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown. For junior high readers. 2006.By Donald Percy Dickinson. 2000
It is 1958 in the tourist outpost of Wasagam, Saskatchewan. Robbie Hendershot, the eleven-year-old son of a World War II…
rear gunner and his British war bride, is embarking on a summer that will change his outlook on life forever. When his British granddad takes his mother and younger brother back to England, he is left behind to uncover the mysteries of family, religion, friendship and the price of war. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. c2000.By Alyssa Logan. 1997
Beth Harris knows that wishing doesn't just make things happen. As a single mother running her own business, she can't…
afford to believe in dreams. But when she meets a clown whose greatest joy comes from making children smile, can he help her find the magic of love? 1997.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.By Stephen Crane, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated country boy, enthusiastic to serve his country, enlists with the Union forces at the beginning of…
the Civil War. At first, the shock of war causes him to retreat and his heroic vision of himself fades. In the next battle, however, his courage revives as he carries forward the regiment's colours in a crucial advance. Adaptation of the American classic by Stephen Crane, originally published in 1895. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.…
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first published in 1886. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
By Jane Diehl. 1996
At 24, Janet is on her own in the big city, working her way through school at an ice cream…
store. With sadness in her past, Janet wonders how to make it through the hard times. It really depends on her, but it may also involve an ice cream store customer she calls "Mr. Vanilla." 1996.By Gladys E Neale. 1999
By Ed Mansfield Rachel. 1994
Short, personal stories written by adults in literacy programs. The stories were written to inspire future students, and include descriptions…
of what it can be like for those who can't read or write. 2004.By Christine Anne Wenger. 1997
Against her father's wishes, the lonely young lady Caroline Trask returns to her family's Wyoming ranch. What she finds is…
not what she expected. Can Raven, a handsome, dark-haired cowboy, help her sort things out? The two struggle to reconcile their growing love with the question of who owns the ranch. 1997.By Gladys E Neale. 1995
By Rosanne Keller. 1992
Four short stories about people with problems to solve. Rosa and Manuel want to get married, but Rosa's father disapproves,…
while the Granny Group tries to help people in need. Makeda meets a man who wants to take pictures of her, and Paco leaves his wife. Love and friendship help them all see things in a different way. 1992.By Macie Miller Stadelhofen. 1990
Becky Horn, a slave, wants to escape to Canada and be free. A white man says he will help her,…
but Gregory, the man Becky loves, does not trust him. Can the stranger get Becky past the slave-catchers and all the way to freedom? Followed by "Last chance for freedom" (EI00143). 1990.By Kate Ferris. 1997
Nathan and Pozzi have stolen something sacred, and the spirits are angry. At any moment, waves could sweep them out…
of their boat. There's something more -- both are in love with Alice, who is also in the boat. And there are only two life jackets. 1997.By Kate Ferris. 1997
By Kate Ferris. 1997
Helen Turner is a young and beautiful woman, married to a much older man. With one letter to a stranger,…
a bush pilot, she is about to begin a crisis in her life, forcing her to choose between the man she married and the man she loves.By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
By Don Sawyer. 1997
There is one thing Luke wants more than anything else in the world -- the British Columbia bull riding champion's…
buckle. But things change when he lands in Okalla Prison. Can he break the demons from his past?