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The end of the line
Par Sharon E McKay. 2014
Five-year-old Beatrix looks on in horror as a soldier forces her mother off the tram. It is 1942 in Amsterdam,…
and everyone knows what happens to Jews who are taken away by the Nazis. The soldier turns his attention to Beatrix, when suddenly, the ticket-taker, Lars Gorter, blurts out that she is his niece. With his brother Hans, the tram conductor, they manage to rescue the child from the same fate as her mother. The two elderly brothers realize that they are now in charge of the little girl. They are at a loss -- after all, neither one has ever married, let alone has children. They know that harbouring a Jew could cost them their lives, but in desperation, they turn to a neighbour, Mrs. Vos, for help. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2015-16 Hackmatack Award for fiction. Winner of the 2016 Silver Birch Express Award. 2014.The gruffalo
Par Julia Donaldson. 1999
When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want…
to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with "terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws." But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo... is there? Grades K-3. 1999.The biggest poutine in the world
Par Andrée Poulin, Brigitte Waisberg. 2016
On his fifth birthday, Thomas’s mother left, and he hasn’t seen her since. The last thing he remembers is her…
making a delicious dish of poutine for his birthday, into which she stuck five green candles for him to blow out. On the day of this twelfth birthday, Thomas comes up with the idea of setting a Guinness world record for the biggest poutine in the world. Maybe then, his mother will come back and his emotionally distant father will pay attention to him. As he puts together all the pieces of his “Phenomenal Poutine Project,” Thomas not only learns why his mother disappeared, but he also comes to realize that Elie, the one person whose help he rejected, turns out to be his most devoted friend. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Express Award. 2016. Uniform title: La plus grosse poutine du monde.Shooter
Par Caroline Pignat. 2016
A lockdown catches five grade 12 students by surprise and throws them together in the only nearby unlocked room: the…
boys' washroom. There's Alice: an introverted writer, trapped in the role of big sister to her older autistic brother, Noah; Isabelle: the popular, high-achieving, student council president, whose greatest performance is her everyday life; Hogan: an ex-football player with a troubled past and a hopeless future; Xander: that socially awkward guy hiding behind the camera, whose candid pictures of school life, especially those of Isabelle, have brought him more trouble than answers. When Isabelle gets a text that says NOT A DRILL!! Shooter in the school!, suddenly, the bathroom doesn't seem so safe anymore. Especially when they learn that one of them knows more about the shooter than they realized. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Fiction Award, the 2018 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award and the 2017 John Spray Mystery Award. 2016.Rain shadow
Par Valerie Sherrard. 2014
Bethany knows that she is special. She doesn't learn things as easily as her classmates do and that sometimes makes…
them mean to her. They call her names - including the really "bad" name. Even mom and her sister Mira say unkind things at times. But Bethany has friends like her neighbour Mrs. Goldsborough as well as happy times with dad when he gets home from work. And now, Mira has promised to protect her from the bullies when the new school year begins. Then tragedy strikes, tearing Bethany's world apart in ways she could never have imagined, and she starts to wonder if there will ever be a place that feels like home again. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2016 Silver Birch Fiction Honour Book Award. 2014.OCDaniel
Par Wesley King. 2016
A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder, until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed…
Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for best juvenile novel. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Fiction Award and the 2018 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award. 2016.My heart fills with happiness
Par Monique Smith. 2016
The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you…
love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. Winner of the 2017 Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize. Grades K-3. 2016.Missing
Par Becky Citra. 2011
Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave behind…
the pain of Thea's mom's death. When her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she makes friends with Van, a local boy, and works hard to build the trust of an abused horse named Renegade. When Thea unearths the decades-old story of a four-year-old girl who disappeared from the ranch and was never seen again, she enlists Van to help her solve the mystery. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Fiction Honour Book Award. 2011.Minrs (Minrs Ser. #1)
Par Kevin Sylvester. 2015
Twelve-year-old Christopher Nichols and his family live on a new planet, Perses, as colonists of Melming Mining's Great Mission to…
save the earth. When Landers, as the attackers are called, obliterate the colony to steal the metal and raw ore, Christopher and a small group of survivors are forced into the maze of mining tunnels below the surface of Perses. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Fiction Honour Book Award. Winner of the 2017 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award Honour Book. 2015.I am not a number
Par Kathy Kacer, Jenny Kay Dupuis. 2016
Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, a young First Nations girl who was sent to a…
residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Express Honour Book Award. Winner of the 2018 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. Winner of the 2018 Red Cedar Information Book Award. 2016.Home invasion (Good reads)
Par Joy Fielding. 2011
A noise wakes Kathy Brown from a dream where she was about to kiss Michael, her high school boyfriend, who…
was much more exciting than her husband Jack is. Hearing whispers, she gets up only to feel a gun at her head - two men are in the house, forcing Kathy and her husband into a living nightmare where Kathy also faces her real feelings about her husband. The outcome surprises everyone, most of all Kathy herself. Some descriptions of violence. High interest/low vocabulary book. Winner of the 2013 Golden Oak Award. 2011.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.Any pet will do (Orca young readers)
Par Nancy Shouse. 2005
Jeremy wants a pet, but he needs to show his parents that he's responsible enough for one. So he sets…
up a pet sitting service for his neighbours, so he can look after all kinds of different animals. With his parents and best friend helping out, Jeremy tackles problems (like dog slobber!) while learning all about animals - and himself. Grades 2-4. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Express Award. 2005.Howard Wallace, P.I (Howard Wallace, P. I. Ser.)
Par Casey Lyall. 2016
Twelve-year-old Howard Wallace lives by his list of rules of private investigation. He knows more than anyone how to work…
with what he's got: a bathrobe for a trench coat, a makeshift office behind the school equipment shed, and not much else--least of all, friends. So when a hot case of blackmail lands on his desk, he's ready to take it on himself...until the new kid, Ivy Mason, convinces him to take her on as a junior partner. As they banter through stakeouts and narrow down their list of suspects, Howard starts to wonder if having Ivy as a sidekick--and a friend--is such a bad thing after all. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2018 Red Cedar Fiction Book Award. 2016.26 tips for surviving grade 6
Par Catherine Austen. 2011
Forget social studies, math, and science - this is about surviving some of the real problems tween girls face in…
the sixth grade. Follows eleven-year-old Becky Lennox over the course of the school year as she figures out how to survive friendships, first crushes, embarrassing parents and annoying older brothers. Winner of the Quebec Writer's Federation Prize, 2012. Winner of the 2013 Hackmatack Award for fiction. Grades 5-8. 2011.Willow and Twig
Par Jean Little. 2000
When their mother breaks her parole and runs off, 10-year-old Willow and her four-year-old brother Twig are on their own.…
They journey from the mean streets of Vancouver to stay with their grandmother in rural Ontario. There, the children learn valuable life lessons about pride, a sense of belonging, and being true to who you are. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. 2000.The night gardener: a scary story
Par Jonathan Auxier. 2014
When orphaned Irish siblings Molly and Kip arrive to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house, they…
discover that the house and its inhabitants are not what they seem. Soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger, and the secrets of the cursed house will change their lives forever. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2015 Silver Birch Fiction Award. Winner of the 2015 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award. Winner of the 2016 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award Honour Book. 2014.Je suis fou de Vava ((Collection Taxi).)
Par Dany Laferrière, Frédéric Normandin. 2006
Vieux Os aime jouer avec les fourmis. Passer laprès-midi sur le balcon avec sa grand-mère, Da. Regarder vivre les habitants…
de Petit-Goâve. Mais ce quil aime le plus, cest Vava dans sa robe jaune. Cela lui donne la fièvre, encore plus que la bicyclette rouge quil désire tant. Quand on a aimé Vava à dix ans, cela dure... toute une vie! -- 4e de couv.The secret of the village fool
Par Rebecca Upjohn. 2012
Based on a true story. Milek and his brother, Munio, live in a sleepy village in Poland. Anton, an odd…
neighbour, speaks to animals, feeds the flies, and only eats vegetables, so most people call him the village fool. When the war brings Nazi soldiers to town rounding up Jewish boys like Milek and Munio, Anton worries about them and comes up with a plan to hide the whole family in his own home, putting his own life at risk. The back of the book outlines what happened to Anton and the others after the war. Winner of the 2014 Silver Birch Express Award and the 2014 Golden Oak Award. Grades 3-6. 2012.The mask that sang
Par Susan Currie. 2016
When Cass's estranged grandmother unexpectedly leaves her house and savings to Cass and her mom, it is just the thing…
they need to change their lives. Cass is being bullied at school, and her mom just lost her job—again—so they pack up and move in. Cass finds an intriguing and powerful mask in her new room, and she is inexplicably drawn to it. A strange relationship grows between Cass and the mask; it sings her songs, shows her visions of past traumas and encourages her to be brave when facing bullies. The mask eventually leads her to discover her own Cayuga heritage and leads her into the arms of a community that's been waiting for them. Winner of the Second Story Press Aboriginal Writing Contest. Grades 3-6. 2016.