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Surviving the Applewhites (Applewhites Ser. #1)
Par Stephanie S Tolan. 2002
Kicked out of several public schools, Jake winds up being home schooled with an eccentric family of artists at the…
Applewhite's Creative Academy. When the whole clan becomes involved in producing The Sound of Music, Jake discovers a few positive traits and talents of his own. A Newbery Honor Book. Grades 5-8. 2002.Stuart Little (A Harper trophy book ; J56)
Par E. B White. 1945
The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest…
friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden. Winner of the 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. Grades 3-6. (A Harper trophy book)Sunwing (Silverwing Saga #Bk. 2)
Par Kenneth Oppel. 1999
While Shade continues to search for his father he finds a strange Human building that holds a huge forest. Thousands…
of bats live in the building where the forest is as warm as a summer night and food is plentiful. Then some of the bats start to go missing and Shade and Marina want to know where they have disappeared to. Their search takes them on a long journey and brings them closer to finding Shade's father. Sequel to "Silverwing." Winner of the 2001 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 4-7. 1999.Seeing red
Par Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.Siege 13: Stories
Par Tamas Dobozy. 2012
In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World…
War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. This collection of thirteen linked stories is about this terrible time in history, and of the legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.Solo
Par Rana Dasgupta. 2010
Ulrich is a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria, wondering if he has any wisdom to leave to the…
world before he dies. He embarks on an epic armchair journey through the twists and turns of his country's turbulent century - and through his own lifetime of lost love and failed chemistry - and finds his way to an astonishing epiphany of redemption and enlightenment. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2009.Sleeping in the ground: an Inspector Banks novel (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #24.)
Par Peter Robinson. 2017
After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling mystery,…
and corner a killer hiding in plain sight. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. 2017.Strange things done
Par Elle Wild. 2016
Arriving in Dawson City, Yukon, journalist Jo Silver investigates the suicide of a local politician, a suicide that begins to…
look more and more like a murder. Before long, Jo becomes a suspect. Winner of the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. 2016.Stranger in Thunder Basin
Par John D Nesbitt. 2009
When he was a boy, Edward Dawes saw his grandfather murdered. Now, after a chance meeting, Dawes knows the murderer…
is alive and nearby, and he won't rest until the killer pays for his crime. Some descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and violence. 2009.Street of riches
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.Strawberry girl
Par Lois Lenski. 1995
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved to the Florida backwoods and are struggling to make a living…
by raising strawberries. Making the new farm prosper is not easy, with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps to get through. Perhaps the most worrisome thing for the Boyers is the rowdy family on the adjoining farm, who are ready and waiting to start a feud. Grades 4-7. 1995.Solar bones: a novel
Par Mike McCormack. 2017
It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing,…
relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the "vortex of his being," surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires. Winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. 2017.Stone soup: an old tale
Par Marcia Brown. 1947
When three hungry soldiers in a strange land ask some villagers for food, they are told there is none. So…
the soldiers decide to show the townspeople how to make soup from water and three round stones. Grades K-3. Caldecott Honor Book. 1947.Still (3-day Bks.)
Par B. P Nichol. 1983
Consists of two strands of text: the spare dialogue of a couple exploring their broken relationship and the lyrical evocation…
of a perfect landscape and a perfect house. Strong language. Winner of the 1982 Pulp Press Annual Three-day Novel-writing Contest. 1983.Stitches
Par Glen Huser. 2003
When Travis transfers to a new school, he becomes a big target for his old nemesis Shon and his thug…
friends. Maybe it's because Travis lives in a trailer park with his gentle aunt, his uncle Miserable Mike, and lots of little cousins while his country-and-western singer mother is on the road. Or maybe it's because he loves to sew, wants to be a professional puppeteer, and his best friend is a girl, Chantelle, who comes from an even stranger family than he does. Some strong language. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2003.So wild a dream (Rendezvous. #1.)
Par Winfred Blevins. 2010
Escaping his life in 1820's Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group…
of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier. Followed by "Beauty for ashes". Spur Award. 2010.Soul mountain: [Ling shan]
Par Mabel Lee, Xingjian Gao. 2002
Staying on: a novel
Par Paul Scott. 1977
Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife elect to stay on in one of India's hill-stations after the British have left…
in 1947. Life gradually begins to change. 1977 Booker Prize winner. 1977.Some of the kinder planets
Par Tim Wynne-Jones. 1993
Collection of nine short stories takes the reader into an alternate universe of the mind. In "The Night of the…
Pomegranate," Harriet spends too much time outside looking at Mars instead of working on her solar system project. "The Hope Bakery" tells the tale of Sloane and his younger brother, Todd, and their strange trips into the woods. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1993.Snowbound
Par Richard S Wheeler. 2010
After his 1847 court-martial, Colonel John Frémont, known as the Pathfinder, resigns from the army and embarks on an expedition…
to survey a proposed railway between St. Louis and San Francisco. Trapped in the Colorado mountains during winter, his team battles starvation and freezing temperatures. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel. c2010.