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The case of the slippery soap star (Wright & Wong. #4.)
By Melinda Metz, Laura J Burns. 2005
When his mother is accused of stealing jewelry at a charity dinner, Orville and his friend Agatha team up to…
find the real thief - and their prime suspect is a famous soap opera actor. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2005. (Wright & Wong ; 4)The case of the trail mix-up (Wright & Wong. #3.)
By Melinda Metz, Laura J Burns. 2005
Class bully Stu Frysley is missing in the woods on the seventh-grade camping trip. Sleuths Orville Wright, who has Asperger's…
syndrome, and Agatha Wong follow Stu's trail in case the legendary ghost, Ax Jack, has snatched him. Sequel to "The Case of the Nana-Napper" (DC29486). Grades 4-7. 2005. (Wright and Wong ; 3)The case of the Nana-napper (Wright & Wong. #2.)
By Melinda Metz, Laura J Burns. 2005
Agatha and Orville love to hang out with Nana Wong, but when they arrive at her house one day, they…
find that Agatha's fun, photo-snapping granny is nowhere to be seen. It appears that Nana Wong has been kidnapped! Luckily, Wright and Wong are on the case. For grades 3-6 and older readers. 2005. (Wright & Wong mystery ; 2)The chicken cat and Leon's song
By Stephanie Simpson McLellan. 2001
Guinevere the hen looks after Merlin, an abandoned kitten. Even though she gives him up so he can be cared…
for properly, she never realizes that he will return one day to help her realize her dreams. Grades K-3. 2001. Taped with: Leon's song by Stephanie Simpson McLellan. Leon is an old frog who longs to sing beautifully. But when his friends are in danger, the old frog's bravery reveals talents that bring him more fame than he's ever dreamt of. Grades K-3. 2004.The burning girl: a novel
By Claire Messud. 2017
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling…
limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship. 2017.The break
By Katherena Vermette. 2016
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break…
- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. Winner of the 2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the 2017 Evergreen Award and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. 2016.The candymakers
By Wendy Mass. 2011
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in…
the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process. Grades 5-8. 2011.The cheating curve (Griot audio)
By Paula T Renfroe. 2010
The Chili Queen (Lone Star audio)
By Sandra Dallas. 2009
On a train bound for Nalgitas, New Mexico, hookhouse proprietor Addie French encounters Emma Roby, a prim and proper lady…
seeking a new life with a man she's never met. But when they reach Nalgitas, all that awaits the bride-to-be is a "Dear Emma" note left with the stationmaster. Alone and forlorn, Emma seeks lodging at Addie's Chili Queen, a bordello she assumes is a boarding house. At first, the residents enjoy the delicious irony of Emma's naiveté. And yet as the yarn unravels, it's unclear who will have the last laugh. 2009.The book borrower
By Alice Mattison. 2003
Two young mothers meet in 1975, while their children play in a park. Deborah lends Toby a memoir of the…
1920s trolley strike, which she reads and forgets. But years later, her encounter with the book’s now elderly central figure helps Toby come to terms with Deborah’s death. 2003.The borderland
By Edwin Shrake. 2001
Doc Swift - half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer - seeks the supernatural creature who guards the…
treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had reportedly encountered the beast deep in the lands of Comancheria. 2001.The breakwater house
By Lazer Lederhendler, Pascale Quiviger. 2010
Paris. Two girls, Lucie and Claire, are born five days apart and become inseparable. One night, Lucie's mother Aurore starts…
telling what becomes a ten-year long family story to the girls, and when the girls turn 15, Aurore tells the final tale and disappears. Several years later, Lucie gives birth to a little girl, Odyssée, and she and Claire take turns telling stories to the child. But one day something unspeakable happens. Some descriptions of sex. c2010. Uniform title: Maison des temps rompus.The brightest star in the sky
By Marian Keyes. 2009
At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But…
no one is aware of it yet. One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most unexpected of ways. 2009.The butterfly lion
By Michael Morpurgo. 1996
Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They become inseparable but then Bertie is sent to…
boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to the circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see each other again. Grades 4-7. 1996.The boy in the striped pyjamas
By John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The blue roan child
By Jamieson Findlay. 2002
Syeira lives in Haysele, a land of horses and horse-sensitives. When the wild mare Arwin's tow colts are taken from…
her, Syeira decides to help Arwin rescue them, even if she must risk her life to do so. But their mission proves harder than they imagined. For junior high readers. 2002.The blue girl
By Charles De Lint. 2004
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy…
who haunts the school, after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. For senior high readers. 2006, c2004.Taqawan: roman (Collection Polygraphe)
By Éric Plamondon. 2017
Il avait démissionné, une jeune Mi'gmaq se trouvait sous sa protection, deux hommes étaient morts et une partie du Québec…
voulait qu'on en finisse une fois pour toutes avec les Indiens. Cette histoire commence en Gaspésie, le 11 juin 1981. Cette histoire commence il y a des millénaires, avant les Vikings, avant les Basques, avant Cartier. Cette histoire commence avec les Mi'gmaq. Pour eux, c'est la fin des terres, Gespeg. Pour d'autres, c'est le début d'un nouveau monde. Alors que trois cents policiers de la Sûreté du Québec débarquent sur la réserve de Restigouche pour saisir les filets des pêcheurs mi'gmaq, un agent de la faune change de camp, une adolescente affronte ceux qui ont humilié son père, un vieil ermite sort du bois, une jeune enseignante s'apprête à retourner dans son pays - pendant que le saumon devenu taqawan, au retour de son long périple en mer, remonte la rivière jusqu'au lieu de sa naissance. 2017.Station Bonaventure (Les secretaires. #3.)
By Marylène Pion. 2015
1966. L'année s'annonce mouvementée pour Claire, Alice et Muguette, les dévouées secrétaires qui se côtoient quotidiennement à la Place Ville…
Marie. Après de multiples remous dans les bras du séduisant Romain, Claire a envie de bâtir une relation durable avec Laurent, son ami de toujours. L'arrivée de sa soeur Lisette comme colocataire, en remplacement de Muguette - désormais mariée -, s'opère avec plus d'harmonie que prévu, favorisant un rapprochement certain entre elles. 2016.Soleil, nuages et autres cadeaux du ciel (Chick lit. #5.)
By Amélie Dubois. 2013
" La colocation de groupe officiellement terminée, les chemins de nos quatre consœurs se dispersent un peu, les conduisant vers…
de nouveaux horizons tantôt ensoleillés, tantôt sombres et orageux ! Tandis que l'arrivée imminente d'un poupon illuminera l'univers consœurial, une grande perte aura tôt fait de l'ennuager brutalement... " -- 4e de couv.