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The game: Haunting Teen Fiction
Par Peter Carver, Teresa Toten. 2001
Dani Webster had played the Game with her sister Kelly for as long as she could remember - they had…
been on a quest to vanquish evil. But everything is hazy now as she recovers from substance abuse at a psychiatric hospital for 'teens with problems'. Dani must confront a deeper emotional trauma - one which she can neither explain nor recognize - to face her family's deep dysfunctions and eliminate the Game for her life forever. For senior high students. Some strong language. 2003.The gravesavers
Par Sheree Fitch. 2005
When 12-year-old Minn has to spend a summer with her sour grandmother, she soon gets caught up in an old…
mystery of a tragic shipwreck, and plans to preserve the graves of the victims. While discovering romance and some intriguing information about her grandmother, Minn's plan for the graves unleashes some shocking events. And much depends on her finding the courage to face a terrible secret of her own. For junior high readers. 2005.The girl she used to be
Par David Cristofano. 2009
After 20 years in the Witness Protection Program and eight aliases, Melody Grace McCartney hardly knows who she is. On…
the run since she and her parents stumbled on a gruesome murder by mobster Tony Bovaro when she was six, Grace saw her parents killed 12 years later, and is being relocated again. But then Tony's son, Jonathan, tracks her down to present an alternative: protection from his family, and a life of more safety and freedom than she has ever known. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2009.The good mayor
Par Andrew Nicoll. 2009
A love story that is also about loss, magic, friendship, wonderful food, a brass band, an Italian witch, a large…
lawyer, an occasional dog and a car chase at a walking pace. In the little town of Dot in a forgotten part of the Baltic, Tibo Krovic is the good and honest mayor, in love with his secretary, the beautiful, lonely - and married - Mrs. Agathe Stopak. In the quiet, respectable town there is nothing Tibo can do about this, until the day Agathe accidentally drops her lunch into a fountain, changing their lives forever. c2008.The girl without anyone
Par Kelli Deeth. 2001
Eleven stories following a girl called Leah growing up in a dysfunctional family in the suburbs. They bear witness to…
a girl standing on the edge, between girl and woman, between self and self-loathing, in search of love and acceptance. Despite all their failings, Leah and her family continue to have hope that love will triumph. 2001.The first quarter of the moon
Par Michel Tremblay. 1994
Marcel and his cousin experience the mystical arrival of summer on the final day of exams at Ecole Saint-Stanislas. While…
Marcel is in the class for "slow learners," his cousin is part of the "gifted" program. It is only towards the end of exams that Marcel's cousin recognizes Marcel's own special type of genius. Sequel to "The fat woman next door is pregnant." 1994. Uniform title: Premier quartier de la lune.The healing time of hickeys
Par Karen Rivers. 2003
Sixteen-year-old Haley is in her last year of high school, and she likes to think she's just a normal girl,…
plagued with all the normal teenage problems. But then disaster strikes: she comes down with the chickenpox and no one will speak to her. Worse still, her hippie dad is in trouble with the law. Junior and senior high readers. 2003.The Halifax connection: A Novel Of Canada And The American Civil War
Par Marie Jakober. 2007
1862. As the American Civil War heats up, Southern Confederates flood into Montreal and Halifax, planning secret missions against the…
Union, missions they hope will provoke a war between England and the United States. Erryn Shaw, a British aristocrat banished to the colonies, is convinced to spy for the British. On a mission to Montreal, he gets wind of a sinister plot - and he can't seem to find a way to stop it. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.The green library
Par Janice Kulyk Keefer. 1996
Eva has carefully constructed her world in a bid to make herself invisible. The structure falls to pieces when a…
stranger gives her a photograph of a boy identical to her own son, but who lived in the 1930s in another place. The photograph sets Eva on a journey to trace her family's unknown history. 1996.The devil's waltz (MIRA historical romance)
Par Anne Stuart. 2006
Christian Montcalm was a practical, if destitute, scoundrel, but his plan to bed and wed the delectable Miss Hetty Chipple…
would take care of that sticky wicket. Annelise Kempton desired nothing more than to come between this despicable rogue and the fortune (and virtue) of her young charge. All that stood in her way was a man whose rakish charm could tempt a saint to sin, or consign a confirmed spinster to sleepless nights of longing. Explicit descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2006.The disappeared
Par Kim A Echlin. 2009
Anne Greves, a motherless 16-year-old student, meets a Cambodian refugee, Serey, in late-1970s Montreal. Serey's family got him out of…
Pol Pot's Cambodia, although he is waiting to be able to return and find them; Anne's father, a successful engineer of prosthetics, does not approve of Anne's exotic, older boyfriend. When, as her father predicted, Serey leaves her, disappearing for 11 years, Anne journeys to Phnom Penh to find him. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2009.The bone cage
Par Angie Abdou. 2007
Digger, a wrestler, and Sadie, a speed swimmer, stand on the verge of winning a gold medal at the Olympics.…
Both are nearing the end of their athletic careers, and are forced to confront the question: what happens to athletes when their bodies are too old and injured to compete? Their relationship is tested in the months leading up to the Olympics, which they know will be the realization or the end of a life's dream. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Canada Reads 2011. 2007.The bridegroom: a Stone Creek novel (Stone Creek novel. #5)
Par Linda Lael Miller. 2009
Lydia Fairmont will lose everything if she doesn't honour her betrothal to a heartless banker. Unless she marries someone else…
instead, whether it's a love match or not. Determined to honour his own decade-old promise to help Lydia, undercover agent Gideon Yarbro carries her off to Stone Creek, Arizona, and makes her his reluctant wife. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. c2009. (Stone Creek novel)The bridal quest
Par Candace Camp. 2008
Lady Irene Wyngate has sworn she'll never marry, keeping suitors at bay with her caustic tongue. But there is one…
man she can't scare: Gideon, long-lost heir to the Earl of Radbourne, who was kidnapped as a child and grew up tough on the London streets. Matchmaker Francesca Haughston asks for Irene's help to civilize Gideon for marriage, and as she reluctantly begins to yield to love, wicked family secrets come to light, with devastating consequences for the reluctant lovers. Strong language, descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. 2008.The boy in the striped pyjamas
Par John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The blue roan child
Par Jamieson Findlay. 2002
Syeira lives in Haysele, a land of horses and horse-sensitives. When the wild mare Arwin's tow colts are taken from…
her, Syeira decides to help Arwin rescue them, even if she must risk her life to do so. But their mission proves harder than they imagined. For junior high readers. 2002.Seras-tu là?
Par Guillaume Musso. 2006
Et si l'on nous donnait la chance de revenir en arrière? Elliott, médecin réputé, père comblé, ne s'est jamais consolé…
de la disparition d'Ilena, la femme qu'il aimait, morte il y a trente ans. Un jour, par une circonstance extraordinaire, il est ramené dans le passé et rencontre le jeune homme qu'il était alors. Les années 1970 battent leur plein à San Francisco, Elliott est un jeune médecin passionné et plein d'ambition. Fera-t-il cette fois le geste décisif qui pourrait sauver Ilena? Saura-t-il modifier son implacable destin? 2006.The best of me
Par Nicholas Sparks. 2011
Oriental, North Carolina. As high school seniors from different sides of the tracks, Dawson and Amanda had a doomed romance.…
Twenty-five years later they return home when Tuck, an old man important to both of them, dies--and leaves behind a letter describing his own life's magical love. Bestseller. 2011.The battle for Duncragglin
Par Andrew H Vanderwal. 2009
Twelve-year-old Alex, whose parents disappeared on a trip to Scotland many years ago, is spending the summer there. He and…
three newfound friends want to discover the secret of a sealed cave along the coast. The secret is far more powerful than anything they could have imagined, as they're catapulted back to the late 13th century to find the Scottish rebel William Wallace fighting a guerrilla-style war against the British. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. c2009.The assassins of Tamurin
Par S. D Tower. 2003
Orphan Lale grows up abused, unloved, and resented - until, at age 11, she enters Three Springs, a place where…
the wards of Mother Midnight are trained to become perfect spies and cold-blooded, ruthlessly efficient killers. At age 20, Lale stands poised to play her role and claim vengeance, but she falls in love with the man she must destroy. 2003.