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Janey's girl
Par Gayle Friesen. 1998
As fourteen-year-old Claire and her mother drive across the country, Claire tries to unravel some of the mysteries about her…
family. But families have more secrets than Claire realizes, and real-life relationships are more complicated than a young girl's dreams. Winner of the 1999 Red Maple Award. For Junior high readers. 1998.From ant to eagle
Par Alex Lyttle. 2017
"My name is Calvin Sinclair, I'm eleven years old and I have a confession...I killed my brother". It's the summer…
before grade 6 and Calvin Sinclair is bored to tears. He's recently moved from a big city to a small town and there's nothing to do. It's hot, he has no friends and the only kid around is his six-year-old brother Sammy who can barely throw a basketball as high as the hoop. So Cal occupies his time by getting his brother to do almost anything: from chasing wasps to tromping through rose bushes. And Sammy is all too eager-- as long as it means getting a "Level" and moving one step closer to his brother's Eagle status. But when Cal meets Aleta Alvarado, a new girl who shares his love for Goosebumps books and adventure, Sammy is pushed aside. Cal feels guilty but not guilty enough to change. At least not until things at home start falling apart and he's left wondering whether Sammy will ever complete his own journey. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Fiction Award. 2017.Interpreter of maladies: stories
Par Jhumpa Lahiri. 1999
Nine tales of brief encounters with lasting effects, set in India and America. Each emphasizes cultural transition and loss. In…
the title piece, while American-born Mr. and Mrs. Das and their three young children are tourists in India, Mrs. Das confides a disquieting secret to their guide. Pulitzer Prize. Bestseller 1999.Inside out & back again
Par Thanhha Lai. 2012
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her…
brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. Grades 4-7. National Book Award. 2012.Catching the light
Par Susan Sinnott. 2018
The kids call her Lighthouse: no lights on up there. In a small town, everyone knows when you can't read.…
But Cathy is just distracted by the light and lines and artistry of everyday life. She is a talented artist growing up in tiny Mariners Cove and yearns for acceptance. She dreams of enrolling in art school, but getting there will be a struggle. Hutch Parsons is everything Cathy is not: charismatic, popular, smart. Overflowing with energy, he is confident in his plans for the future. But one icy evening his world is upended and those plans are swept away. Now he must face a different life and his own struggle. Winner of the 2014 Percy Janes First Novel Award for an unpublished manuscript. 2018.Cammie takes flight
Par Laura Best. 2017
Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised…
by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's abusive, alcoholic father to sober up but nearly killing Evelyn in the process, Cammie convinces her aunt to send her to the Halifax School for the Blind. Cammie navigates life at her new school, armed with an envelope with her estranged mother's address on it. Unsure if she can trust her new friend, Nessa, Cammie enlists her help in tracking her mother down. Will Cammie finally learn why she was abandoned and be able to start her new life? Or will she find too many secrets to count, and realize that she might never put the past behind her? Sequel to "Flying with a Broken Wing". Grades 4-7. 2017.Duel: a mystery
Par David Grossman, Beṭsi Rozenberg. 2004
Jerusalem, 1966. Twelve-year-old David's best friend is 70-year-old Heinrich Rosenthal, who is accused of stealing a valuable drawing from Rudy…
Schwartz, who challenges Heinrich to a duel with pistols. David has until the following afternoon to prevent a tragedy, find the real thief, and straighten out a mess that involves three countries, several love affairs, a stolen picture worth millions, and two World War I pistols. Grades 4-7. 2004, c1998. Uniform title: Du-kerav.Calvin: Just Because You See Something Doesn't Mean It's Really There
Par Martine Leavitt. 2015
Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has…
conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Young People's literature. 2015.All good children
Par Catherine Austen. 2011
It's the middle of the twenty-first century and the elite children of New Middletown are lined up to receive a…
treatment that turns them into obedient, well-mannered citizens. Maxwell Connors, a fifteen-year-old prankster, misfit and graffiti artist, observes the changes with growing concern, especially when his younger sister, Ally, is targeted. Max and his best friend, Dallas, escape the treatment, but must pretend to be "zombies" while they watch their freedoms and hopes decay. When Max's family decides to take Dallas with them into the unknown world beyond New Middletown's borders, Max's creativity becomes an unexpected bonus rather than a liability. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2013 White Pine Fiction Honour Book Award. Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award 2012. 2011.Forward, Shakespeare! (Orca young readers)
Par Jean Little. 2005
Seeing Eye dog Shakespeare from "Rescue Pup" (DC30998) is about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to…
begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match for Shakespeare. Grades 4-7. 2005.Flux
Par Beth Goobie. 2004
Twelve-year-old Nellie lives on her own. When loneliness opens her mind to flux, the ability to alter her vibratory state…
in the molecular field, she learns to travel to other levels of reality. Some descriptions of violence. Followed by "Fixed". Junior and Senior High. 2004.Caged eagles
Par Eric Walters. 2000
Fourteen-year-old Tadashi his family are forced to abandon their fishing village on the northwest coast of British Columbia and move…
into an internment centre in Vancouver with other Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. For Tadashi, detention becomes both an adventure and a dilemma as he struggles to understand the undercurrents of racism and injustice that have overtaken his life and those of his community. Ruth Schwartz Book Award. Sequel to "War of the eagles." Grades 5-8. 2000.Fishtailing
Par Wendy Phillips. 2010
When Natalie moves to a new high school, she drags three unwitting victims into her spider-web of manipulations, lies and…
deceit. Their lives are revealed through the poetry and assignments of an English class: Natalie, whose alcoholic parents, years of neglect and ultimate rape by her father's friend has shaped her into a cruel and manipulative teen; Tricia, dealing with her blended family while being drawn into Natalie's forbidden world of partying and rebellion; Kyle, a would-be musician in love with Tricia; Miguel, who lusts for Natalie while hiding the secrets of his family. Senior High. Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for 2010. 2010.Beauty returns (Beauty Ser.)
Par Sylvia McNicoll. 2006
Liz is irresistibly drawn to Kyle, and Kyle is drawn to Liz - dragged to her, actually, by Beauty Two,…
his guide dog who is so glad to see her old friend that she starts to forget her training. More problems soon get in their way: Kyle's teacher loads him down with work; Liz's parents think she's too young; and Beauty needs correction or she'll be taken away. Sequel to Bringing up Beauty. For junior high readers. 2006.Everything beautiful is not ruined
Par Danielle Younge-Ullman. 2017
Then Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia. Life was beautiful and bright, and every day…
soared with music. Now Ingrid is on a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens: addicts, runaways, and her. She's fighting to survive crushing humiliations, physical challenges that push her to her limits, and mind games that threaten to break her. Then when the curtain fell on Margot-Sophia's singing career, they buried the past and settled into a small, painfully normal life. But Ingrid longed to let the music soar again. She wanted it so much that, for a while, nothing else mattered. Now Ingrid is never going to make it through this summer if she can't figure out why she's here, what happened to Margot-Sophia, and why the music really stopped. Winner of the 2018 White Pine Fiction Award. 2017.Criminal destiny (Mastermind series. #2.)
Par Gordon Korman. 2016
After their narrow escape from their "perfect" hometown, Eli, Tori, Amber, and Malik are finally in the real world and…
determined to expose the leaders of Serenity. They decide to track down Tamara Dunleavy, the mysterious billionaire and founder of Project Osiris. Evading capture by breaking laws and sneaking into houses, hotels, buses, and cars - are they becoming the criminals they were destined to be? What they discover will change everything, leading them straight into the Plastic Works and the heart of the experiment, in order to uncover the deadly criminals they're cloned from - and any evidence that will convince the outside world to believe the truth. But the outside world isn't exactly what they expected - strangers aren't just unfriendly, they're dangerous. And the wrong move could send them right back into the arms of Dr. Hammerstrom, and trapped in Serenity for good. On a breakneck journey from Jackson Hole to a maximum security prison, Eli, Tori, Amber, and Malik will stop at nothing to take Project Osiris down. Sequel to "Masterminds", followed by "Payback". Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ellis Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book Award. 2016.Freedom over me: eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life
Par Ashley Bryan. 2017
Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of…
life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away. 2017 Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Grades 4-7. 2017.Greenglass House
Par Kate Milford. 2015
At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing, but…
soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for best juvenile novel. 2015.Boy in the black suit
Par Jason Reynolds. 2015
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighbourhood and, while…
attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man. 2016 Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Grades 5-8. 2015.Howl's moving castle (Howl's moving castle. #1.)
Par Diana Wynne Jones. 2008
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her…
fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman, and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl. Grades 4-7. Followed by "Castle in the air". 2008.