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Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
Par Chelsea Vowel. 2022
Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is…
a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, "Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?" Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo explores science fiction tropes through a Metis lens: a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries to solve a murder in her community and joins the nehiyaw-pwat (Iron Confederacy) in order to successfully stop Canadian colonial expansion into the West. A Metis man is gored by a radioactive bison, gaining super strength, but losing the ability to be remembered by anyone not related to him by blood. Nanites babble to babies in Cree, virtual reality teaches transformation, foxes take human form and wreak havoc on hearts, buffalo roam free, and beings grapple with the thorny problem of healing from colonialism. Indigenous futurisms seek to discover the impact of colonization, remove its psychological baggage, and recover ancestral traditions. These eight short stories of "Metis futurism" explore Indigenous existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Metis. Expansive and eye-opening, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo rewrites our shared history in provocative and exciting ways.Heartbreak Homes
Par Jo Treggiari. 2022
CCBC Experts' Pick: October 2022 A gripping locked-door YA murder mystery told from multiple perspectives from Governor General's Award –…
and Crime Writers of Canada Award – nominated author of The Grey Sisters and Blood Will Out. The back-to-school blowout filled with drinks and drugs isn't Frankie's scene, but she would do anything for her childhood best friend, Jessa, whose recent ugly duckling transformation has her hanging with a new crowd and vying for pretty boy Malcolm – the popular senior throwing the all-out rager on his father's deserted development property. Martin hasn't heard from his old friends since his father lost everything and moved them across town. Until the party invitation. Between working double-shifts and avoiding his father's sad-guilty routine, Martin decides to blow off some steam. But the party house is a monument to the bad real estate deal that left half the town in financial ruin – and the heart of all that has gone wrong for him and his family. Cara and her crew of lost girls have been squatting in a model home on the property, stealing for their survival. The party is the perfect mark – privileged kids, abundant alcohol, and dark corners. The girls score big with their haul, but the celebration is short-lived when they learn their temporary home is at risk of discovery. They could be split up and forced back onto the unsafe streets. In the wake of a brutal brawl, the guests find a lifeless body—and this murder is only the first. Escalating violence drives Frankie, Martin, and Cara to forge new bonds, and together unmask a killer. Narrated from multiple perspectives, Heartbreak Homes is about what compels us to kill – and the true face of justice.The invisible Fran (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Jim Benton. 2004
Franny drinks a potion to make herself invisible so she can persuade her clueless classmates to work on her robot.…
The students become so involved that they sneak into school at night to finish the job and unintentionally send the robot on a rampage. For grades 2-4. 2004Lacrosse face-off
Par Stephanie True Peters. 2006
Sixth-grader Garry Wallis is embarrassed that his nonathletic, overweight brother Todd has joined his lacrosse team. When popular player Michael…
Donofrio starts picking on Todd, Garry is reluctant to defend his older sibling. For grades 4-7. 2006Crispin: at the edge of the world (Crispin)
Par Avi. 2006
Fourteenth-century England. This sequel to Crispin: The Cross of Lead (DB 55295) finds Crispin and the enormous red-haired juggler, Bear,…
fleeing for their lives from a rebel brotherhood. When Bear is wounded, Crispin relies on an ancient healer and a disfigured girl for help. For grades 6-9. 2006Once upon a Marigold
Par Jean Ferris. 2004
When Christian was six, he ran away to live with a troll in a cave where he was happy inventing…
things. Eleven years later he meets Princess Marigold, whom he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. For grades 5-8. 2002Mr. Docker is off his rocker! (My Weird School Ser. #10)
Par Dan Gutman. 2006
Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up and uses potatoes for power. He…
has A.J. and his friends wondering whether science is for nerds or is the coolest subject ever. For grades 2-4. 2006Attack of the 50-ft. Cupid (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Ser. #2)
Par Jim Benton. 2004
It's almost Valentine's Day. Franny's new lab assistant Igor, a dog of many breeds, accidentally brings to life a picture…
of Cupid and then enlarges Cupid to gigantic proportions. Now Franny has to deal with the problem. For grades 2-4. 2004The Unseen
Par Zilpha Keatley Snyder. 2004
When twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical feather, she unlocks a usually unseen world filled with both cuddly creatures and malicious…
monsters. Through experiences in this new reality, she learns a great deal about herself and the family in which she has felt like an outsider. For grades 5-8. 2004Scrambled eggs at midnight
Par Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler. 2006
Calliope travels around the country with her nomadic, jewelry-making mother, while Eliot lives at a North Carolina Christian fat farm…
run by his born-again father. The two fifteen-year-olds meet and fall in love as they struggle to grow up. For senior high readers. 2006Zelda and Ivy one Christmas
Par Laura McGee Kvasnosky. 2000
While baking cookies with their neighbor Mrs. Brownlie, sister foxes Zelda and Ivy talk about what they want for Christmas.…
Back home they're unsure whether the Christmas elves will leave Mrs. Brownlie a gift, so they decide to make one for her themselves. Easy chapter book. For grades 2-4. 2000Heir apparent
Par Vivian Vande Velde. 2002
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game full of medieval kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators protesting…
such pastimes have damaged the equipment she's connected to. She must win the game quickly or face brain damage. For grades 6-9. 2002Simply love (Simply Quartet Ser.)
Par Mary Balogh. 2006
Regency England. Anne Jewell, an unwed mother and instructor at Miss Martin's School for Girls, meets disfigured war veteran Sydnam…
Butler on an estate in Wales. As Anne fights her growing attraction to Sydnam, a wealthy estate manager, he falls in love with her. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006How Tía Lola came to (visit) stay
Par Julia Alvarez. 2001
Nine-year-old New Yorker Miguel and his sister Juanita move to Vermont with their mother after their parents divorce. Struggling to…
fit in, Miguel is embarrassed when his Spanish-speaking aunt from the Dominican Republic comes to live with them. For grades 4-7. 2001Keturah and Lord Death
Par Martine Leavitt. 2006
When sixteen-year-old Keturah follows a hart into Lord Temsland's forest she becomes lost. Eventually Lord Death comes to claim her,…
but because she is able to charm him with her story, he gives her a twenty-four-hour reprieve to find her true love. For senior high readers. 2006The prophet of Yonwood: The Third Book of Ember (Books of Ember #Bk. 3)
Par Jeanne DuPrau. 2006
Yonwood, North Carolina. Eleven-year-old Nickie figures out how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions…
to the apocalyptic visions of their neighbor, Althea Tower. Prequel to City of Ember (RC 59907) and People of Sparks (DB 60098). For grades 5-8. 2006Hattie Big Sky
Par Kirby Larson. 2006
Montana, 1918. Sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Inez Brooks arrives at the remote homestead claim she inherited from an unknown uncle. She…
expects hard work but does not anticipate the strong local anti-German prejudice directed at her good neighbors, the Muellers. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2006A far country
Par Daniel Mason. 2007
Fourteen-year-old Isabel moves from her third-world village to the city. But Isabel, who has heightened senses of hearing and sight,…
arrives at her cousin's shantytown only to discover that her older brother Isaias is gone. Isabel encounters contemptuous wealthy people and bureaucrats in her search. 2007Born to rock
Par Gordon Korman. 2006
Young Republican Leo Caraway loses his Harvard scholarship on a technicality and learns that his biological dad is a legend--former…
punk rocker "King Maggot." Hoping for college money, Leo joins King's comeback tour as a roadie and grows up along the way. For junior and senior high readers. 2006When my name was Keoko
Par Linda Sue Park. 2002
Thirteen-year-old Tae-yul and his younger sister, Sun-hee, take turns recounting what happened to their family in Korea while under Japanese…
occupation during World War II. As the Japanese tried to suppress Korean culture, even people's names were changed--Sun-hee was called Keoko. For grades 6-9. 2002