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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.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.By Kevin Sylvester. 2016
Christopher, Elena, and the other survivors of the attack on their space colony know two things: their victory over the…
Landers will be short-lived, and a new wave of attacks is imminent. Sequel to "MiNRS". Grades 5-8. 2016.By Kevin Sylvester. 2015
Twelve-year-old Christopher Nichols and his family live on a new planet, Perses, as colonists of Melming Mining's Great Mission to…
save the earth. When Landers, as the attackers are called, obliterate the colony to steal the metal and raw ore, Christopher and a small group of survivors are forced into the maze of mining tunnels below the surface of Perses. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Fiction Honour Book Award. Winner of the 2017 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award Honour Book. 2015.By Richard Scrimger. 2016
Bullied by his brother and living in the shadow of his athletic best friend, Jonah is crippled by self-loathing and…
insecurity. Then a mysterious stranger hands him a disposable camera with the power to transport him into someone else's body-- and someone else's life. But with a limited number of shots and trouble mounting click by click, will this unhappy boy find a new life? Or will the secret he's been keeping follow him wherever he goes? Grades 5-8. 2016.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.By Caragh M O'Brien. 2010
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those…
who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city. Junior and Senior High. 2010.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.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)By Guy Bergeron. 2012
"Le clown tourna une petite clé située sur le côté de la boîte, avant de la poser au sol et…
d'en ouvrir le couvercle. Une musique triste se mit à résonner dans la pièce, et au centre de la boîte, la figurine d'une ballerine entièrement vêtue de blanc tournoyait au bras d'un clown multicolore. Jordan pencha la tête de côté, fredonnant la mélodie. Il se pencha de nouveau au-dessus de son sac, d'où il sortit une paire de pinces robustes mais aux bouts pointus. Mercado fronça les sourcils. Les clowns vengeurs ne faisaient pas dans la dentelle. Ils tuaient, exerçaient la vengeance sans perdre de temps. Pourquoi, alors, cette paire de pinces?... Un monde qui pourrait être le nôtre. Un avenir qui pourrait ne pas être si lointain. Dans une Quadri-métropole aux prises avec des luttes politiques importantes, les arcurides du gouvernement légitime pourchassent sans relâche les Odi-menvatts - les clowns vengeurs -, alors qu'un dangereux psychopathe s'est glissé parmi eux. " -- 4e de couv.By Benoît Moreault. 2005
Jérôme a contracté une maladie rare ou plutôt rarissime, car il serait le seul cas connu au monde. Tenez-vous bien,…
il a attrapé un virus informatique. Oui, vous avez bien lu ! Un virus informatique. Il est poursuivi par les Américains, obsédés par son cas. Comment va-t-il sy prendre pour se débarrasser du virus ?... Selon des spécialistes, seule la mort pourrait le délivrer. Avec Léa, Jérôme réussit à fuir. Les héros seront pourchassés par détranges appareils. Esprit de décision, maîtrise de soi et courage seront nécessaires pour mener à terme cette aventure. Un récit de science-fiction à la frontière de la réalité. À vous de juger ! -- 4e de couv.By Emmanuel Bourdier. 2010
Ce matin, comme tous les matins, je montre mon code-barres à monsieur Verzy, le concierge, pour rentrer dans l'école. Mais…
il refuse de me laisser passer. Interdit aux animaux !, clame-t-il. Rien à faire ! Car son ordinateur est formel : d'après mon code-barres, aujourd'hui, je ne suis pas un garçon... je suis une vache ! -- 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.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.By Caragh M O'Brien. 2012
Gaia succeeds in leading her people to Wharfton and the Enclave, but rebellion there threatens them all just when everything…
they have dreamed of seems to be at hand. Sequel to "Prized". For senior high and older readers. 2012.By Kevin Sylvester. 2018
The young survivors on the mining asteroid of Perses have come up against what they mistakenly thought was their rescue.…
Now they must find a way to return home to Earth and share the truth about what happened with their battle against Major Thatcher. Once again Christopher has to make some tough choices as cracks begin to appear in their group and they are unsure of what has happened to Earth in the meantime and what kind of home they might return to. Sequel to "MiNRS 2". Grades 5-8. 2018.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.By Caragh M O'Brien. 2011
Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a…
rumour to guide her. She is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again. For senior high readers. Sequel to "Birthmarked", followed by "Promised". 2011.By Kenneth Oppel. 2020
The first book in bestselling author Kenneth Oppel’s explosive new trilogyIt was just rain.But after the downpour, odd black plants…
begin to shoot up.Suddenly—They. Are. Everywhere.They take over fields and twine around houses. They bloom and throw off toxic pollen—and feed.Strangely, three Salt Spring Island teens seem immune. Anaya, Petra and Seth. What’s their connection? What’s their secret? A week ago, they wouldn’t have thought they had one. But they’d better figure it out fast—the invasion has already begun.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?