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Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the…
forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. When Luna approaches her thirteenth birthday, her magic begins to emerge on schedule--but Xan is far away. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Soon, it is up to Luna to protect those who have protected her. Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal. Grades 5-8. 2016.
Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise…
tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. Bestseller. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2013.
Cowboy Hewey Calloway loves to ride the open range like a solitary sailor on an endless sea. So when barbed…
wire and newfangled contraptions threaten his world, he's dead-set against progress--until he meets a pretty little teacher. Sequel to “Six bits a day". Followed by "The smiling country". Spur Award. 2007.
Just shy of her fifteenth birthday, Gabriela is cast out of the house for tarnishing the family honour. Furious at…
her father and desperate to find Gabriela, her older sister Lucy leaves their small Mexican town, coming face to face with the dark underbelly of Mexico City. Back home, Lucy's parents, brothers, and devious brother-in-law struggle with their own complicity in Gabi's fate. Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. 2016.
When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival.…
Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. Followed by "Sons". Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Originally published in 1931, 2005. (Good earth trilogy ; 1)
Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.
How can a lie possibly be good? This question presses on Paul Wakefield following a kayaking accident on the ocean…
surrounding the city of Victoria. His wife and child are threatened by the repercussions that follow the accident, and Paul must decide how to confront the accusations facing him. Knowing the truth will destroy them all, he scrambles for the one thing certain to save a select few: the good lie. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, and strong language. 2007.
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy and…
the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives, but Stuart is determined to embark on a moral apprenticeship, which is to cause nothing but trouble and be both funny and at times, very moving. 1985.
Rajkumar, an orphaned Indian boat boy, is only eleven when he is stranded in Burma as the British invade in…
1885. His meeting with ten-year-old Dolly, one of the queen's attendants, in the Glass Palace is so memorable that it dominates his life. Some descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.
An account of the conflagration that levelled much of Chicago in 1871. Chronicles events from the fire's outbreak and rapid…
spread to its extinguishment by rain, as reported by survivors and in documents of the period. Examines the origins, circumstances, and official failures that contributed to the disaster. Grades 5-8. A 1996 Newbery Honor Book. c1995.
Galadriel, named out of Tolkien, is a tough, clever, angry 11-year-old and victor of many a foster home and despair…
of the social services lady! This time she meets her match. Newbery Honor book. Grades 5-8. 1979.
Jonas's world is perfect - every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve he is…
singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life, and now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth. Winner of the Newbery Award. Grades 5-8. 1993.
These eleven stories portray life behind convent walls as the life of Claire Delaney unfolds. Her development from an earnest…
novice to a nun and teacher explores the themes of friendship, loneliness, ambition, and personal faith. Followed by "Strange bodies on a stranger shore" (DC12944). 1989.
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up between vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in the blind grandmother's factory.…
They try to fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved uncle, and their incumbent grand-aunt. They learn that things can change in a day and that lives can twist into new shapes. Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. 1997.
In the early hours of the morning three Arab guerrillas make their way across northern France to Boulogne. Their mission…
is to assassinate a senior Israeli nuclear scientist, due to arrive in London in three days time. 1976.
The last time Johnny had been in Ethiopia was in 1942: his MI6 cover had been blown and he had…
been given 48 hours to get out of the country. Now, five years later, he is back, ostensibly an ace photographer but his past is still remembered; by his old employers as well as the Ethiopians. Deadly enemies hatch plots more subtle and lethal than anywhere else in Africa. 1984.
When fourteen-year-old Beth's entire family is killed in a car accident, she has to live with her aunt and uncle…
and spoiled cousin Terri in another state. Beth misses her family and friends terribly, but with help she learns to cope while never forgetting. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.
It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's…
days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "The Birchbark House" (DC21985). c2005.
Fred Fairly, a serious young physics don at Cambridge, falls in love with Daisy, a nurse. Dilemmas arise: tradition versus…
modernity; passion versus reason; selflessness versus self-preservation. Includes strong language. 1990.