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The butterfly ward
Par Margaret Gibson. 1976
Collection of compassionate short stories by an award-winning Canadian writer. Delves into the personalities of those who are considered "insane"…
by those of us who consider ourselves "normal." Gibson attempts to show that one person's so-called madness us another person's reality. Some strong language. 1976.The black room (The lost trilogy ; #2)
Par Gillian Cross. 2005
What has happened to Robert? He's told his friend Tom a wild story of surviving danger and death in an…
underground cavern. Tom doesn't believe it - but he still gets caught up in Robert's desperate search for a girl called Lorn. Robert says that she saved his life - and if they don't find her before winter, she will die. For junior and senior high readers. Sequel to "The dark ground" (DC33236). Followed by "The nightmare game". 2005. (The lost trilogy ; 2)Slash
Par François X Côté. 2006
Le narrateur, qui est devenu homme tronc à cinq ans, suite à une rencontre malencontreuse avec une souffleuse, tente de…
trouver à travers l'écriture un exutoire à ses rêves. Prix Robert-Cliche 2006.The birds on the trees
Par Nina Bawden. 1971
The Aspern papers
Par Henry James. 1986
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of…
a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers. 1986.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Par Mordecai Richler. 1959
The awkward age
Par Henry James. 1987
Nineteen-year-old Nanda Brookenham is about to be introduced to London society by her forty-year-old mother. Nanda soon finds herself in…
love with thirty-four-year-old Vanderbank, who happens to be Mrs. Brook's lover. She is further caught between her respect for maintaining the ideals of her elders and her desire to get away from the confines of society, most of all from its restrictions on women. 1987.The attack on the mill and other stories (The World's classics)
Par Douglas Parmee, Émile Zola. 1984
The 11th hour
Par Kristine Scarrow. 2018
One day, after weeks of secret planning, seventeen-year-old Annika Dietty leaves home at dawn to run away with her boyfriend,…
the charming and popular Dylan Sopick. She tried telling her friends and family how amazing Dylan is, but after they all seem set against the relationship, she's decided their only chance is to run away together. But not everything goes according to plan, and Dylan seems to be having more and more trouble dealing with every obstacle they encounter. At first Annika is sympathetic, knowing that he's had a harder life than she has, but very soon Dylan's behaviour becomes unsettling, and Annika realizes that her safety is at stake. She finally admits to herself that Dylan needs help she can't provide. She wants to get him to help--if she'll get the chance. For senior high readers. 2018.Tattoo girl (Littératures)
Par Brooke Stevens, Anne Mornet. 2001
Une jeune fille tatouée des pieds à la tête est découverte sans connaissance et muette. Elle sera adoptée par une…
femme obèse issue d'un cirque. Commencera alors une course-poursuite car la jeune fille est en danger. Au-delà de l'anecdote, un roman grave. 2003, c2001. Titre uniforme: Tattoo girl.Séraphin Verre: roman
Par Christian Pernath. 2002
Un viel artisan français transmet à un orphelin autistique les techniques du métier de souffleur de verre. Un officier allemand…
remarque la qualité artistique du travail du jeune homme. Cadre: une région rurale du nord de la France (Picardie) avant, pendant et après (1921) la Première Guerre mondiale. Intérêt humain. Bon niveau psychologique et sociologique. 2002.Tangerine
Par Edward Bloor. 2001
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer…
despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. For junior high readers. 2001.Sylvia's lovers (The World's classics)
Par Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Andrew Sanders. 1982
In a rough whaling-port in Yorkshire, Sylvia grows from a wilful, imaginative girl into an alert woman who has been…
matured through suffering. 1982 (Text follows the one-volume fourth edition, published in December 1863)Summer of discovery
Par Eric Wilson. 1984
Frightened, over-protected and confined to a wheelchair, Ian is away from home for the first time when he goes to…
camp. But Ian becomes part of the gang when they come across abandoned buildings haunted by ghosts. Grades 5-8. c1984.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.Stranded
Par Ben Mikaelsen. 1996
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents…
when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys. Grades 5-8. 1996.Star gazing
Par Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.Solomons seal
Par Hammond Innes. 1980
With the once-great family fortune dwindling, Perenna Holland feels that she must sell their house on the English seacoast to…
provide for her paralyzed brother Tim's care. When an inventory turns up an album of curious old stamps among Tim's possession, an estate agent pursues the background of the stamps and unravels an age-old dark secret. 1980.Sketches by Boz (Penguin classics)
Par Charles Dickens, Dennis Walder. 1995
Dickens' first book, published when he was a twenty-four-year-old reporter at the House of Commons, contains a rich mixture of…
reportage, observation, fancy, and fiction centred on the great metropolis of London in the 19th century. 1995.Sidetracked
Par Diana Harmon Asher. 2017
Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman is friendless and puny, with ADD to boot. He spends most of his time avoiding the class…
bully and hiding out in the Resource Room. But the Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school cross country team, and he meets Heather, a new student who's tough and athletic and refuses to be pushed around by anybody. For junior high readers. 2017.