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The Gryphon project
Par Carrie Mac. 2009
In the future, the Chrysalis Corporation can bring people back to life, called a "recon", when they fall victim to…
an early death. Due to a premature birth and a drowning accident at the age of six, teenager Phoenix has already been brought back to life twice, leaving her with only one more recon and a jaded perspective on life, death, and the people around her. When Phoenix's beloved brother Gryphon has a suspicious accident and may not be reconned, she races to solve the mystery of Gryphon's death and save his life. For junior and senior high readers. Some strong language. c2009.The baby project
Par Sarah Ellis. 1986
Eleven-year-old Jessica and her family are not prepared for the changes a new baby makes in their lives. Then tragedy…
strikes and the family must find new strengths. Grades 4-7. 1986.Shattered
Par Eric Walters, Roméo A Dallaire. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Ian decides to work at "The Club" for his community service - but it turns out to be a…
soup kitchen in a bad part of town, and he is nearly mugged going there. He's saved by a pipe-wielding homeless man, a former soldier named Jacques who was stationed in Rwanda. Can Ian help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish memories? Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2007 White Pine Award. 2006.Pour rallumer les étoiles (Tous Continents Ser.)
Par Dominique Demers. 2006
Les liens du sang sont indéfectibles... Depuis seize ans, depuis qu'elle a donné son fils en adoption, Marie-Lune ressent toujours…
la même brulure : elle ne sait pas ce qu'il est devenu et ce vide la consume. Car ce garçon qu'elle n'a pas vu grandir, elle est persuadée qu'il a besoin d'elle. Maintenant. Comme elle-même a besoin de lui. Désespérément. Malgré la peur de faire fausse route, de blesser son amoureux, Jean, et les membres de la famille adoptive de Gabriel, malgré sa peur du rejet, il perce chez Marie-Lune un incontrôlable désir de foncer à sa rencontre, coute que coute. Le désir d'en finir avec les regrets et les non-dits, d'aller de l'avant, et de tourner la page... pour rallumer les étoiles. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. Suite de "Marie-Tempête" (FD04682). 2006.Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran
Par Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 2001
L'histoire d'une amitié entre un jeune Juif de douze ans et un vieil épicier arabe. Un récit très simple, salubre…
en ces temps de haine et de racisme, avec un petit côté "La Vie devant soi" qui n'est pas vraiment gênant. De l'humour et de l'émotion. Deuxième volet de la Trilogie de l'Invisible. Années 5-8. 2001.Magnus
Par Sylvie Germain. 2005
Franz, le héros de Magnus, est né avant la guerre en Allemagne. De son enfance, il ne lui reste aucun…
souvenir, sa mémoire est aussi vide qu'au jour de sa naissance. Il lui faut tout réapprendre, ou plutôt désapprendre ce passé qu'on lui a inventé et dont le seul témoin est un ours en peluche à l'oreille roussie : Magnus. Prix Goncourt des lycéens, 2005. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2005.Back (Orca soundings)
Par Norah McClintock. 2009
Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. And if his friends come back…
too, they have a way of making it hard on people who decide to press charges against Jojo. Most people just wish Jojo would go away and never come back, but there are people who have hate in their hearts. Those people wish something bad would happen to Jojo, something really bad - and Ardell Withrow is one of those people. For junior high readers. 2009.A thief in the house of memory
Par Tim Wynne-Jones. 2004
Declan Steeple is a sixteen-year-old who has it all. He gets great grades in school, has dreams for the future,…
a loyal and wise best friend, a step-mother who keeps her distance, and an independently wealthy father. But when he decides to hitch a ride home from school one day, he sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything. Senior high readers and older. 2004.(megan) 2
Par Mary Hopper. 1999
The sequel to "(megan)" (EB67567), in which a fifteen-year-old discovered she was pregnant. Following the birth of her child, this…
book describes what Megan decides to do with the baby and also how she copes in her first six months as a young mother, as her life is completely turned around. Senior high and older readers.What every girl (except me) knows: a novel
Par Nora Raleigh Baskin. 2002
Like most 12-year-old girls, Gabby focuses on becoming a woman, but she's not really sure what that means. Her mother…
died when Gabby was three and she's been researching the question for herself. She feels doubly cheated because, unlike her older brother Ian, she has no memory of her mother, and her father won't talk about her. Finally, in an attempt to trigger her memory about her mother's death, she is determined to take a train to New York City to see the apartment where they lived at the time. Grades 5-8. 2002.What's your problem?
Par Sherry Ashworth. 1999
River boy
Par Tim Bowler. 1997
It didn't start with the river boy. It started, as so many things started, with Grandpa, and with swimming. It…
was only later, when she came to think things over, that she realized that in a strange way the river boy has been part of her all along, like the figment of a dream. And the dream was her life.Shiloh season (The shiloh Quartet Ser.)
Par Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 1998
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how…
deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal. Sequel to "Shiloh". Grades 4-7.Searching for David's heart: A Christmas Story
Par Cherie Bennett. 1998
Darcy and her brother are soul mates. But then David is killed in a terrible accident and their parents decide…
to donate his heart for transplant. Darcy believes if she can find his heart, even if it is beating in someone else's body, she will have found her brother and in some way he will still be alive. And so the search for David's heart begins. For junior high readers.Alone at ninety foot
Par Katherine Holubitsky. 1999
When Pamela's mother commits suicide Pamela is left to deal with her feelings on her own. Her father prefers not…
to talk about his wife's death, and her friends just don't know what to say. Pamela must figure out how to continue with her life and how to keep her mother's memory alive. Junior and senior high readers. 1999.Watership Down
Par Richard Adams. 1972
Only a few rabbits escape with their lives when men destroy their warren. Many dangers have to be faced as…
they search for a safe place to establish a new one. Followed by "Tales from Watership Down". Grade 5-8. 1972.This side of the sky
Par Susan Ouriou, Marie-Francine Hébert. 2006
On this side of the sky, Mona and her kid sister, Bird, hide in the woods each day because it's…
far better than being home. The other side is what Bird dreams of while in the tall trees she climbs to get away from a life devoid of love. Then the sisters witness something terrible in the woods, and suddenly life changes forever. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006. Uniform title: Ciel tombe à côté.The little blue house
Par Sandra Comino, Susana Wald, Beatriz Hausner. 2003
In the little town of Azul in rural Argentina, there is magical house that is always white in colour, except…
for one day a year when it turns blue. Twelve-year-old Cintia likes to spend time in the magical house even though she has been forbidden to go there. When her refuge is suddenly threatened, Cintia must protect the house. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2003.Touch of the clown
Par Glen Huser. 1999
13-year-old Barbara and her little sister, Livvy, live with their father and grandmother, both alcoholics, in an inner-city neighbourhood. One…
afternoon, Barbara meets Cosmo, a young man who teaches clown workshops for teenagers and invites her to participate. The workshop and Cosmo's friendship provide an escape for Barbara from her problems at home. Some descriptions of violence. For Junior and Senior High readers. 1999.The flying canoe
Par Sheila Fischman, Roch Carrier. 2004
Retelling of the classic Quebec folklore "La chasse-galerie". On New Year's Eve, 1846, 11-year-old Baptiste finds himself far from his…
friends and family and has come to the woods of Ottawa Valley to live and work among some lumberjacks. As the New Year approaches, they grow more and more homesick. Grades 3-6. 2004. Uniform title: Chasse-galerie.