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Sable Island—Imagine! (Porcupine Chapter Books)
By Janet Barkhouse. 2010
Sable Island is home to hundreds of wild horses, and thousands of seals and birds. Yet fewer than ten people…
live there. Because it is far from the mainland, people rarely have a chance even to visit this amazing Canadian island made of sand. Imagine you are one of those rare visitors! Grades K-3.Larkin on the Shore
By Jean Mills. 2019
Larkin Day is a messed up 15-year-old. She just escaped a nasty Grade 10 year to spend summer with her…
grandmother in seaside Nova Scotia. It's the perfect setting to seek healing by putting all her energies into a local caf? project. If you're hurting, she learns, one of the best solutions is to invest yourself in something that can make you feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself. But when an arsonist attempts to destroy the project, Larkin is forced to figure out a way to expose the criminal while keeping her life from coming off the rails again.Talking to the moon /
By Jan L. Coates. 2018
Katie Dupuis Pearson wants to find her real mother; her only clues are her Lavender Lady, a piece of amethyst,…
and a bookmark from Lunenburg. While spending a month in lovely Lunenburg with her foster mother, Katie makes friends with estranged sisters, Aggie and Jessie Langille. Katie becomes fascinated by stories about their ancestor, Catherine Marguerite Langille, one of the original Foreign Protestant Lunenburg settlers in 1753. Like Katie, Catherine was friends with the Moon. Like Katie, Catherine was uprooted, forced to transplant herself. Will Katie find her own roots buried deep within the Lunenburg soil? Or will she be uprooted yet again? Grades 5-8. 2018.Catching the light
By Susan Sinnott. 2018
The kids call her Lighthouse: no lights on up there. In a small town, everyone knows when you can't read.…
But Cathy is just distracted by the light and lines and artistry of everyday life. She is a talented artist growing up in tiny Mariners Cove and yearns for acceptance. She dreams of enrolling in art school, but getting there will be a struggle. Hutch Parsons is everything Cathy is not: charismatic, popular, smart. Overflowing with energy, he is confident in his plans for the future. But one icy evening his world is upended and those plans are swept away. Now he must face a different life and his own struggle. Winner of the 2014 Percy Janes First Novel Award for an unpublished manuscript. 2018.The town that drowned
By Bethany Gibson, Riel Nason. 2011
1960’s. Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough, falling through the ice at a skating…
party and nearly drowning is embarrassing, but having a vision and telling everyone just solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw that day was her entire town floating underwater. Then the residents of Haverton discover that a massive dam is being constructed and that most of their homes will be swallowed by the rising water, and suspicions mount, tempers flare, and secrets are revealed. For junior high readers. c2011.Rainbow Valley (Canadian favourites)
By L. M Montgomery. 1923
Anne of the island: an Anne of Green Gables story (Anne of Green Gables. #3.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1962
Anne's world is changing -- childhood friends are marrying and Anne herself leaves P.E.I. for college. She hopes for love,…
but it seems to elude her. Sequel to "Anne of Avonlea" (DC14239). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (DC00862). Grades 5-8. 1962. 1915. (Anne of Green Gables ; 3)Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables. #6.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1988
Anne now is the mother of six lively children whose childhood adventures are described in this book. Sequel to "Anne's…
house of dreams" (BR60788). First published in 1939. Grades 5-8. 1988. (Anne of Green Gables ; 6)Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables. #2.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1989
Anne discovers that life as a student teacher is full of surprises and romance. Sequel to "Anne of Green Gables"…
(BR71099, BR65070). Followed by "Anne of the Island" (BR71098). Grades 5-8. 1989, originally published in 1909. (Anne of Green Gables ; 2)Last summer in Louisbourg
By Claire Mowat. 1998
While working a summer job in the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, fifteen-year-old…
Andrea learns a family secret as well as Canadian history. For junior high readers. 1998.Make or Break Spring
By Janet McNaughton. 1998
In the spring of 1945, fifteen-year-old Evelyn McCallum finds herself competing with her best friend, Peter Tilley, and Stan Dawe,…
the golden boy of her school, for the scholarship that bears her father's name. Although he has been missing in action for three years Evelyn clings to the hope that her father might somehow still be alive. As the war ends in Europe and her final year of high school draws to a close her life alters in ways that will change her forever. Sequel to "Catch me once, catch me twice" . Junior and Senior high school readers. 1998.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 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 hand of Robin Squires
By Joan Clark. 1981
Les vacances de Jane
By L. M Montgomery. 1990
Seeing red
By Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.Not suitable for family viewing
By Vicki Grant. 2009
Thanks to her mother, famous talk show host Mimi Schwartz, Robin's got the money, the means and the connections to…
do anything she wants. With the discovery of an old high school ring, Robin ditches New York for a tiny Nova Scotian fishing village. She discovers love, the truth of her own background - and the shocking secret that helped make her mother a star. For senior high readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2011 Red Maple Fiction Award. c2009.The summer the whales sang (A Time of our lives book)
By Gloria Montero. 1985
The doctor's sweetheart and other stories
By L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.The golden road
By L. M Montgomery. 1910
Life is full of surprises for a group of Prince Edward Island youngsters. Imaginative Sara is usually at the centre…
of things, whether publishing a gossipy magazine or spending a spooky night with the local witch. Sequel to "Story girl" (DC13160). Grades 5-8. 1986, c1910.