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Rivales (Vie compliquée de Léa Olivier. #8.)
By Catherine Girard-Audet. 2015
L'été tire à sa fin, et Léa se prépare pour sa dernière année de secondaire. La rentrée lui réserve toutefois…
des surprises avec l'arrivée de Bianca Gosselin-Gossante, la nouvelle élève qui possède tous les talents et la confiance du monde et qui la fait sentir aussi rayonnante qu'un petit pois. Non seulement elle devra apprendre à côtoyer sa nouvelle rivale, mais Léa se verra aussi forcée de travailler côte à côte avec Maude pour l'organisation du bal de finissants, de remonter le moral de Félix qui a le coeur brisé et d'appuyer Marilou alors que celle-ci entreprend une quête pour récupérer son ex. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. Suite de "Trou de beigne", suivi de "Résolutions". 2015.Rohingyas (Boréal inter ; #72)
By Elizabeth Turgeon. 2018
Zacharie, Mya et Ko Than sont en route vers le Myanmar lorsque les moteurs de leur avion tombent en panne.…
Le pilote n'a pas le choix : il doit faire un amerrissage forcé, en plein coeur de la mer d'Andaman. Les chaînes de télévision diffusent en boucle la nouvelle et annoncent qu'aucun rescapé n'a été retrouvé pour l'instant. Les parents des trois adolescents sont rongés par l'inquiétude. Reverront-ils leurs enfants vivants ? Alors que des équipes de recherche s'évertuent à localiser l'avion disparu, une barque de Rohingyas est ballottée par les vagues, à des kilomètres des côtes. Condamnés à l'exil par l'intolérance des hommes, les Rohingyas errent en mer en espérant des secours qui ne viennent pas. Avec cette nouvelle aventure, Élizabeth Turgeon transporte le lecteur vers l'Asie et expose, dans un récit touchant, la réalité méconnue des Rohingyas. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2018.Saint-Icitte du bout du monde (Boréal inter ; #68)
By Katrine Parent. 2016
Saint-Icitte est un petit village au bout du bout du monde où vivent des personnages hauts en couleur et parfois…
un peu étranges. Parmi eux, il y a Yvan Detoutte, qui gère le magasin général, le vieux Paléo Litic, le doyen du village, Laura Tatouille, la cuisinière, et Alexandrin, le jeune poète amoureux. Dans ce hameau où les choses ont toujours été les mêmes, l'arrivée d'une étrangère vient bouleverser le quotidien. C'est que personne n'est jamais venu d'ailleurs pour sinstaller à Saint-Icitte on ignorait même qu'il existait un ailleurs! Lorsque la vieille bergère débarque avec ses cent chèvres et élit domicile sur la petite butte qui surplombe le village, pas un habitant ne voit l'événement d'un bon œil. Pourtant, la bohémienne ne demande qu'à les aider. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2016.Rouge poison (Titan jeunesse ; #43)
By Michèle Marineau. 2000
Occupé par une affaire de meurtres en série sur des jeunes, le lieutenant-détective Pierre Ross, qui a la garde de…
sa fille Sabine pour la semaine, la confie à sa voisine dont le fils Xavier est un copain de celle-ci. L'ami du garçon, Mathieu, vient d'être tué, empoisonné à l'anticoagulant. Sabine ne peut se désintéresser de l'enquête sur laquelle son père travaille et qui, de plus, touche des gens qui lui sont proches. Elle entraîne à sa suite Xavier et Jérôme, le dernier à avoir vu Mathieu. Il refont ensemble la journée de la victime, s'informent sur les deux autres cas et essaient de trouver des points communs. Ils arrivent à une conclusion: les bonbons des distributrices. Pierre Ross, au courant des démarches de sa fille, la semonce vertement. Le criminel se signale. Malgré l'interdiction, Sabine reprend du service et découvre la façon d'opérer du criminel. Elle le piège, le suit et elle est prise, mais... Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire et plus. 2000.Route 175 (Frissons)
By Stéphanie Gervais. 2018
Clara va passer quelques jours chez son frère aîné qui habite Québec. Pour s'y rendre, elle décide de faire du…
covoiturage. Prendre la dangereuse route 175 de nuit et traverser une réserve faunique des plus sauvages en compagnie d’un jeune conducteur qu’elle ne connaît pas, recruté sur Internet, ne lui fait pas peur! Une heure après leur départ, Clara et son conducteur, Alex, sont plongés en plein cœur d’une tempête de neige infernale. La voiture tombe en panne. Les deux adolescents sont pris au piège. Pourquoi Alex et Clara ont-ils la désagréable impression qu’on les pourchasse dans ces bois terrifiants ? Qui peut bien vouloir s’en prendre à eux dans cet environnement hostile et sauvage? Les deux adolescents sortiront-ils indemnes de cette tempête ? Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2018.Run
By David Skuy. 2017
Terrified of being targeted by bullies for being overweight, Lionel tries to go through grade 8 attracting as little notice…
as possible. But Lionel discovers something about himself: he's fast. So Lionel takes up running. That leads to joining a running group, and being recruited for the school track team. But being on the track team and getting more attention brings him closer to the bullies he's been avoiding - and makes him a target. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Rookie season (Sports stories ; #42)
By Jacqueline Guest. 2000
Leigh Aberdeen is determined to win the hockey championship with her new all-girl team, the Chinooks. Then her dad, who's…
also the coach, adds a know-it-all boy to the team which makes Leigh furious, and her best friend Tina, the goalie, starts mysteriously dropping practices just as the Chinooks show they can win. Leigh realizes that the team will need to overcome their problems on and off the ice before they can get it together and win. Grades 4-7. 2000.Runner (Lorimer Sidestreets Ser.)
By Peter McPhee. 1999
Kyle's fourteen-year-old sister has run away; haunted by the idea that her disappearance is his fault, he sets off to…
track her down. His search takes him to an underworld of abandoned buildings and after-hours bars, street kids and a way of life he never knew existed. As Kyle uncovers clues to his sister's whereabouts, he realizes her life is in grave danger. A dark, suspenseful look at Calgary's street scene. 1999.Rocket blues
By David Skuy. 2014
Being cut from the Huskies, the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years, Bryan Rockwood (aka "Rocket")…
reluctantly joins a AA team, the Blues, at his best friend Maddy's insistence. Things only get worse when Rocket sees that the Blues don't take hockey seriously. Facing the Huskies in the round robin will give Rocket the chance to prove his skills, but in order to keep his hockey dreams (and his friends) Rocket will have to realize that while hockey is his passion, it is not his entire life. Grades 4-7. 2014.Rob loves Stell
By Audrey O'Hearn. 1989
When Rob falls hopelessly in love with the mysterious Stell, he is caught in a violent world that includes Morgan,…
a street fighter who considers Stell his personal property. For junior and senior high readers. 1989.Rink rivals (Sports stories series ; #49)
By Jacqueline Guest. 2010
Evan and Brynley are twins, but they are very different. So when Brynley decides to take up hockey, which is…
Evan's sport, the boys find themselves facing off. Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2010.Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables. #8.)
By L. M Montgomery. 2004
Anne’s children are almost grown up, expect for fourteen-year-old Rilla. Pretty and high-spirited, Rilla’s first dance was on August 4,…
1914, the day that England entered World War I. Over the next four years Rilla grows from a happy, carefree girl to a strong, proud woman as she shares the sufferings and hardships of a country at war. Sequel to "Rainbow Valley." Junior and Senior High. 2004.Rez runaway (SideStreets)
By Melanie Florence. 2016
Raised on a reserve in northern Ontario, seventeen-year-old Joe Littlechief tries to be like the other guys. But Joe knows…
he's different -- he's more interested in guys than in any of the girls he knows. One night Joe makes a drunken pass at his best friend Benjy and, by the next morning, everyone on the rez is talking about Joe. His mother, a devout Christian, is horrified, and the kids who are supposed to be his friends make it clear there's no place for him in their circle, or even on the rez. Joe thinks about killing himself, but instead runs away to the city. Alone and penniless on the streets of Toronto, Joe comes to identify with the Aboriginal idea of having two spirits, or combining both feminine and masculine identities in one person. He also begins to understand more about how his parents have been affected by their own experiences as children in residential schools -- something never discussed on the rez. And he realizes he has to come to terms with his two-spiritedness and find people who accept him for who he is. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.Restart
By Gordon Korman. 2017
Chase does not remember falling off the roof; in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he…
gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids. Trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life? Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.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.Recipe for hate (The x Gang Ser. #1)
By Warren Kinsella. 2017
Rebellion: a novel of Upper Canada
By Marianne Brandis. 1996
Adam Wheeler is a fourteen-year-old who emigrates from England to Canada with his uncle in 1837. It isn't long before…
Adam and his uncle argue and Adam is left to fend for himself. Through his job at the paper mill he becomes involved in William Lyon Mackenzie's rebellion and befriends the de Grassi sisters who are spies for the government. For junior and senior high readers. 1996.Quête d'éternité (Filles de Lune. #4.)
By Elisabeth Tremblay. 2013
'Le temps est à l'orage dans l'univers de Darius et les événements se précipitent. Alors que Saül découvre le secret…
d'Ulphydius et déploie les races sous sa gouverne à la conquête des mondes parallèles, Roderick crie vengeance et Alejandre savoure sa nouvelle puissance. Le sire Canac sallie les Salamandres et marche vers Ramchad dans l'espoir de s'approprier le commandement des milliers de mécréants qui reposent depuis des siècles sous les sables du désert entourant la cité. Suite de "Le talisman de Maxandre", suivi de "L'héritier". Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2013.Quid pro quo
By Vicki Grant. 2005
When fourteen-year-old Cyril MacIntyre's mother disappears, Cyril uses every skill at his disposal to find her. Since Mom is a…
recent law school graduate who forced Cyril to attend many classes with her, Cyril has more wits than most. Some strong language. Grades 5-8. 2005.Rabbit ears
By Maggie De Vries. 2014
Kaya, who is adopted and multiracial, has just been released from a Youth Detention Centre and is carrying a painful…
secret: she was sexually abused by a neighbour for years. Kaya keeps away, repeatedly disappearing into a life of sex work and addiction. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, uses food and a rediscovered love of magic tricks to escape her own troubles. Though both girls struggle through darkness and pain, they eventually find their way towards a moment of illumination and healing. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.