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The luck of Ginger Coffey
Par Brian Moore. 1972
Way home
Par Elizabeth Hathorn. 1996
Holes
Par Louis Sachar. 1998
Stanley Yelnats IV finds himself in a detention centre for possessing stolen property that he didn't take. While digging holes…
under the summer Texas sun, he sees a fellow inmate running away--and follows him. Legends, loyalty, and buried treasure are revealed as Stanley learns to survive. Newbery Medal winner. Grades 5-8.Skellig
Par David Almond. 1998
Michael's baby sister is ill, and the whole house is sick with her. While his parents spend time at the…
hospital he explores their new home. In the old derelict garage he finds something sinister; a strange creature, part owl, part angel. Is it something good or something evil? Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award. Grades 5-8. 1998.The stone diaries
Par Carol Shields. 1993
Daisy Goodwill drifts through childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her role,…
she attempts to tell her story in a novel. Pulitzer Prize winner, winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1993, and winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Fiction.Golden god
Par Jeanne DuPrau, Ken Hamilton. 1981
Just as rebels take over the government, archaeologists find a golden statue. They must carry the statue across the desert…
to safety. High interest, low vocabulary book. For junior and senior high readers. (Talespinners I)Karen Kain: born to dance
Par Anne Monaghan. 1986
After seeing a performance of "Giselle", Karen Kain decided to be a ballerina. She began to study ballet at the…
age of 9 and became a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada. (Operation literacy series II ; reading level B)After Hamelin
Par Bill Richardson. 2000
On the morning of her eleventh birthday, Penelope wakes to discover she can no longer hear. On the same day,…
the Pied Piper returns to Hamelin to entrap the children and lead them into the world of dreams as an act of revenge upon the townspeople. Spared because she is deaf to the Piper's bewitching tune, Penelope grieves the loss of her friends and sister until Cuthbert, the wise man of the village, reveals that Penelope possesses the special gift of deep dreaming. Now she must enter the land of sleep on a quest to rescue the missing children. Winner of the 2001 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. 2000.Blackout (Warner forever)
Par Annie Solomon. 2006
Washington, D.C. Accused of murdering top spy Frank Temple, bookseller Margo Scott cannot remember the past month. Undercover federal agent…
Jake Wise, sent by Frank to watch Margo, tries to confirm her identity. Rita Award winner. 2006.The gathering: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) (Booker Prize Winner)
Par Anne Enright. 2007
Veronica - once an attention-deprived middle child among 12 siblings, and now an unfulfilled wife and mother - has come…
to London to claim the body of her beloved yet estranged brother Liam, who drowned himself at sea. As the nine surviving members of the Hegarty clan converge in Dublin for Liam's wake, Veronica wants to protect the past - and the secret of what transpired in her grandmother's house during the winter of 1968. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2007 Man Booker Prize. 2007.Missing May
Par Cynthia Rylant. 1992
Orphaned at six and raised by an elderly West Virginia aunt and uncle with more devotion than money, Summer is…
twelve years old when Aunt May dies. While Summer's grief is profound, Uncle Ob seems absolutely unable to go on living without his beloved May; that is, until he decides that her presence lingers nearby and that somehow he can contact her. Disappointed in his efforts, Uncle Ob comes to choose living over mourning. 1993 Newbery Medal winner. Grades 5-8. 1992.Dear Mr. Henshaw
Par Beverly Cleary. 1983
In his letters to his favourite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the…
new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. Newbery Medal winner. Grades 4-7. 1983.The ivory swing
Par Janette Turner Hospital. 1982
While on sabbatical with her husband in India, Julia must decide whether to stay with David or return to Montreal…
and her former lover. But India embraces her, trapping her between two worlds. Winner of the Seal First Novel Award.The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Par Mark Haddon. 2003
This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and…
has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. Winner 2003 Whitbread Prize. Some strong language. 2003.