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Skybreaker (Airborn Ser.)
Par Kenneth Oppel. 2005
16-year-old Matt Cruse is the only person who knows the coordinates of The Hyperion, a legendary ghost ship rumoured to…
be full of riches. Soon Matt and his sweetheart Kate are on a dangerous treasure hunt, along with pilot Hal and Nadira, a gypsy girl who claims to have the key to the Hyperion's booby-trapped booty.. Sequel to "Airborn" (DC25448). Descriptions of violence. For Junior high readers. Winner of the 2006 Red Maple Award. 2005.Skellig
Par David Almond. 1998
With an ailing infant, Michael’s family is sad hearted as they settle into their new home. In the ramshackle garage…
Michael discovers Skellig, a sickly, winged man. As the boy and his intellectual next-door friend, Mina, nurse Skellig back to health, the mysterious man introduces them to life’s magical side. Grades 5-8. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. 1998.Since Daisy Creek
Par W. O Mitchell. 1984
Colin Dobbs, a salty-tongued, irreverent English professor is obsessed with acquiring the hide of the grizzly bear that mauled him.…
It is his deep disappointment in himself that has led him on this strange quest. Bestseller 1986. Runner-up for the 1986 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1984.Simple recipes: Stories
Par Madeleine Thien. 2001
A collection of seven stories on the theme of family relationships. It examines the experience of alienation and the conflict…
between generations and cultures. Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Some strong language. 2001.Six degrees of freedom
Par Nicolas Dickner, Lazer Lederhendler. 2017
Lisa is a young woman with an eccentric and absent mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend…
Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who ends up getting rich in Denmark before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious ship container Papa Zulu she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide. Winner of the French-language 2015 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2017. Uniform title: Six degrés de liberté.Silverwing
Par Kenneth Oppel. 1997
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in…
ways that prepare him for even greater journeys. Prequel to "Sunwing" (DC19512). Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Winner of the 1998 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. 1997.Silver city: a novel of the American West
Par Jeff Guinn. 2017
Cash McLendon, reluctant hero of the epic Indian battle at Adobe Walls, has journeyed to Mountain View in the Arizona…
Territory with one goal: to convince Gabrielle Tirrito that he's a changed man and win her back from schoolteacher Joe Saint. As they're about to depart by stage for their new life in San Francisco, Gabrielle is kidnapped by enforcer Killer Boots, who is working on orders from crooked St. Louis businessman Rupert Douglass. Cash, once married to Douglass's troubled daughter, fled the city when she died of accidental overdose--and Douglass vowed he'd track Cash down and make him pay. Now McLendon, accompanied by Joe Saint and Major Mulkins, hits the trail in pursuit of Gabrielle and Killer Boots, hoping to make a trade before it's too late. Sequel to "Buffalo trail". Winner of the Spur 2018 best western traditional novel award. 2017.Silent we stood: a novel
Par Henry Chappell. 2013
Weaves the tale of a small band of abolitionists working in secrecy within Dallas’s close-knit society. There’s Joseph Shaw, an…
undertaker and underground railroad veteran with a shameful secret; Ig Bodeker, a charismatic, melancholic preacher; Rachel Bodeker, a fierce abolitionist, Ig’s wife and Joseph Shaw’s lover; Rebekah, a freed slave who’ll sacrifice everything for the cause; Samuel Smith, a crypto-freedman whose love for Rebekah exacts a terrible cost; and, towering above them all, a near-mythical one-armed runaway who haunts area slavers and brings hope to those dreaming of freedom. c2013.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.Interweaves an account of the 1857 sinking of the SS Central America that carried a cargo of gold bullion and…
minted coins with the story of the shipwreck's discovery in 1988 by Tommy Thompson. Describes Thompson's feat of developing technology to locate and retrieve artifacts from a wooden-hulled ship in eight thousand feet of water. Winner of the 2000 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.Shavetail: a novel
Par Thomas Cobb. 2008
Arizona Territory, 1871. When seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne arrives for duty, Corporal Brickner, a conniving old mule driver, takes advantage of…
the young "shavetail", a name applied to untrained mules and soldiers. Outranked but not outwitted, Ned faces scorpions and Indians in a battle for survival. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Spur Award. c2008.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.Shakespeare's dog (New Press Canadian classic)
Par Leon Rooke. 1984
Shakespeare's dog, Hooker, tells the story of Will's youth in Stratford upon Avon. This is a bawdy and extremely funny…
tale in which Shakespeare is treated with a total lack of reverence. Strong language. Winner of the 1983 Governor General's Literary Award. 1984. (New press Canadian classics)Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda
Par Roméo A Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. 2003
As former head of the 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers,…
to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. Nothing like this number was supplied, and the result was an outright attempt at genocide against the Tutsis that nearly succeeded, with 800,000 dead over three months. Dallaire's argument that Rwanda-like situations are fires that can be put out with a small force if caught early enough will certainly draw debate, but the book documents in horrifying detail what happens when no serious effort is made. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2003.Shadow of a bull
Par Maia Wojciechowska. 1964
Everyone expects Manolo to become a great bullfighter like his father, but he wants to follow his own heart and…
become a doctor. As he prepares to fight his first bull, Manolo realizes that he is afraid. Grades 5-8. 1965 Newbery Award winner. 1964.Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Par Rosemary Sullivan. 1995
Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto…
poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Schindler's ark
Par Thomas Keneally. 1982
In 1939, Oskar Schindler, a young, wealthy, enterprising German interested in drinking and women is a less-than-exemplary Catholic. In this…
"nonfiction novel," Keneally tells the story of his transformation into a man who, at great personal risk, saves hundreds of Jews from death during World War II. 1982 Man Booker Prize. Includes violence and strong language. 1982.Salvage the bones: a novel
Par Jesmyn Ward. 2011
Mississippi, August 2005. Young black teenager Esch Batiste - pregnant, hungry, and rejected - helps her widowed father and three…
brothers prepare for the approaching hurricane. When the storm arrives, the family seeks refuge in the attic. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. National Book Award. 2011.Sand dance: by camel across Arabia's great southern desert
Par Bruce Kirkby. 2000
In the winter of 1999, three Canadians and three Omani Bedu set out across Arabia's great southern desert in an…
attempt to authentically recreate the 1947 crossing by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Here they share the adventures and misadventures they experienced while crossing the vast, desolate desert. Winner of the 2001 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award.Sarah Binks (New Canadian Library ; #44)
Par Paul Hiebert, A. Lloyd Wheeler. 1947
A critical, satirical biography of the mythical poet Sarah Binks, "the Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan". Binks found inspiration in everything…
from Ole, the hired man, to Rover the dog, and died a martyr to her poetic muse. Includes a wide selection of the poet's tenderest and most inspiring writings. Canada Reads 2003. Winner of the 1947 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. 1947.