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After his girlfriend, Spike, becomes pregnant, 14-year-old Shane must prove to his parents that he is not irresponsible. But Shane's…
new sense of independence backfires, and before he knows it, he is in trouble again. For junior and senior high readers. (Degrassi Junior High). 1989.
A middle-aged woman, suddenly in possession of considerable wealth, leaves her surly husband and safe Canadian home to search for…
her Salvadoran foster-child, Jonatan, about whom she has had premonitions of disaster. 1986.
" J'aimerais ça lire quelque chose d'exactement pareil à ça genre style comme. C'était tellement bon ! " Combien de…
fois ai-je entendu cette phrase lorsque je signais des milliers de livres dans les Salons du livre de Paris, Moscou, New York, Singapour, Sorel ? Combien de fois ? Ah ! Que ne ferait pas un écrivain pour plaire à ses lecteurs ! Alors, voici enfin votre chance ! Elle est entre vos mains, saisissez-la (ainsi que le livre en même temps !). Grâce à ce bouquin, vous avez l'occasion inouïe et extraordinaire de lire la même histoire et ce, 77 fois plutôt qu'une ! Une chance qui ne se répétera pas de sitôt. Quel festin ! Ça sent déjà le chocolat ! Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2005.
" Pierre Landry nous guide d'un pas alerte sur cette voie royale connue sous le nom de Chemin du Roy,…
de Beaumont à Notre-Dame-du-Portage, tous les sens en éveil pour y débusquer farfadets, loups-garous, feux-follets et autres démons qui ont marqué l'imaginaire de la population de la Côte-du-Sud et parmi lesquels les troupes de Wolfe sont assurément les plus inquiétantes. Les textes colligés par Pierre Landry nous font réaliser à quel point l'histoire de la Côte-du-Sud est empreinte de vives douleurs comme d'une noble résilience. En témoigne cet épisode dramatique entre tous qui a vu ces Irlandais exsangues venir déverser leurs derniers espoirs dans les mouroirs de Grosse-Île... " -- 4e de couv.
Friday the 13th of October, 1307. King Philip of France arrests every Templar in the country, with a few escaping…
and smuggling the Temple Treasure away. In Scotland and training for a return to France, the Templars realize that they can never go back and that their Order is doomed. Their leader, St. Clair, decides to lead his men away in search of the fabled land that lies beyond the Western Ocean. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Standard of honor" (DC35723). c2009. (Templar trilogy ; 3)
A girl, Eevo, and her brother Sim live nearly 50,000 years ago in what is now the Middle East. When…
their parents go on a trip, they are cast out of their home cave by their tribe. Despite their young age and Sim's lameness, they learn to create fire, shape tools, tame wolves and survive. Nominated for the 2001 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Followed by "Just a Little Later With Eevo and Sim" (RC24291). 1999.
Exploring the nature of desire and betrayal, these stories describe the disappointments and reconciliation of women whose lives have been…
torn by the pain of adultery. Strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. c1996.
Élise Chapdelaine est née à Saint-Ours, sur le Richelieu, en 1878. Voici l'histoire de sa jeunesse : promenades à bicyclette,…
étés à la campagne, pique-niques sur le Mont-Royal, amours, c'est toute une époque qui revient à la vie, empreinte d'une telle douceur que l'on comprend pourquoi on l'a appelée la " Belle Époque ". 1989.
Cette anthologie couvre trois décennies de littérature québécoise. Les auteurs visent à la diversité, à une répartition équilibrée entre les…
générations et les genres, les divers milieux, tendances et écritures. Pour chaque auteur, une notice bio-bibliographique d'un peu plus d'une page. 1998.
When math teacher Mrs. Fibonacci tells the class "you can think of almost everything as a math problem," one of…
her students feels as if she's received a math curse. Now she can't think about anything without turning it into math! Grades 2-4. 1995.
In these short stories, characters often express their grief or heartbreak in unusual ways. In "Plow Man," a man channels…
his pain over the loss of his wife into a strange fixation with snow plows. In "My Husband's Jump", the wife of a famous ski jumper who inexplicably vanished in mid-air copes with her pain by finding God. Author Grant treats the disasters and mishaps that befall her characters not with ridicule but with a wry sense of humour and a considerable amount of sympathy. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004.
In this collection of short stories, a thirty-year-old woman who still lives at home anticipates the experience of a third…
date; a teenaged vegetarian supermarket cashier struggles to scan a package of offal; an inscrutable pelican in a crowded London park decides to try something different for dinner. 2010.
Eevo and Sim are reunited with their mother, Shim, and their father, Dedu, who have just returned from their long…
trip to the Wetlands Clan, the former home of Shim. They discover that together, Eevo and Sim have overcome many dangers. Together they return to the Wetlands, where again the brother and sister take on many challenges, make new discoveries, and even encounter the Great One: the much-feared crocodile of the Great River. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Once upon a time, long, long ago" (RC22037.) 2001.
Orphaned at 16, Annie is told that she should get married so that someone will look after her. Refusing to…
accept that advice, she embarks on a life of independence, struggling to find herself in a harsh world of tough people. 1995.
Fourteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon can't face another summer at home. She convinces her mother to let her spend July at her…
grandmother's cottage in Hawk's Creek, figuring she'll just live there forever to avoid all the family problems. But Hawk's Creek holds dark secrets, and Jennifer is soon drawn into the troubled world of Audrey Musquash, a native girl accused of stealing. Grades 5-8. 2006.
1088. Hugh St. Clair, a French nobleman, joins a mysterious society known as the Order. Soon Hugh is hip deep…
in the blood and gore of the First Crusade, which so scars him that he dedicates the rest of his life to serving God. But things don't go exactly according to plan, and soon Hugh is part of an elite band of monks whose religious devotion is matched by their skill at hand-to-hand combat. Some descriptions of sex and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by "Standard of honor" (DC35723). c2006. (Templar trilogy ; 1)
This collection of short stories presents characters ceaselessly questioning their choices throughout life: a widower bemoans his son's interest in…
meditation, rather than the more easily understood sex and drugs; a father remembers to pick up his child for soccer practice, as a school shooting plays out on television; a teacher repeats her literature lecture for her lover, who listens on his deathbed. Some strong language. 2003.