It was supposed to be a homecoming and reunion, but when Anne Tennyson Miller (Tenn to her friends and family) returns to Driftwood Bay with her new friend Una, they find a ghost town.
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Author: Givner, JoanSummary:
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Author: Willett, EdwardSummary:
Ariane and Wally must find a way to travel to France, and go deep underground, to find the second Shard of Excalibur before Rex Major can get his hands on it. Having saved the first Shard of the...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Young adult fiction -
Author: Grayson, PattiSummary:
A gripping ghost story for younger teens about teamwork and standing up for what you know is right.
Summer has just been made captain of her junior high school basketball team when her...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Author: Willett, EdwardSummary:
In the third instalment of this modern take on Arthurian legends, Ariane -- descendant of none other than the Lady of the Lake herself -- is on the run and on her own. Using her powers to keep...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Young adult fiction -
Author: Watt-Cloutier, SheilaSummary:
The Right to Be Cold is a human story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the unique vantage point of an Inuk woman who, in spite of many obstacles, rose from humble beginnings in...
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Author: Urquhart, EmilySummary:
The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, NL, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. After three months of medical...
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Author: Keating, JessSummary:
When twelve-year-old Ana's zoologist parents move the whole family into the zoo, the Sneers--the clan of carnivorous female predators in her class--have even more ammunition to make her life...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Hood-Caddy, KarenSummary:
Robin is distraught over losing her mother and angry at her father for moving the family to a town in cottage country where her eccentric grandmother lives. She claims not to care about anything,...
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Author: Engle, MargaritaSummary:
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
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Author: Hobsbawn-Smith, DeeSummary:
In her first collection of short fiction, dee Hobsbawn-Smith creates protagonists struggling to navigate the troubles common to life everywhere, including children attempting to make their parents...
Genre: Short stories, Canadian fiction -
Author: Daniels, CarolSummary:
Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s. Sandy...
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Author: Dublin, AnneSummary:
In 1931 during the Great Depression sisters Sophie and Rose join the Toronto Dressmakers' Strike and the fight of their lives.
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Author: Chamberlain, PennySummary:
Twelve-year-old Pepper and her misfit brother, Everett, are spending their summer on Shack Island with Grandma. Pepper has mysterious dreams that foretell the future, so she decides to practice...
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Author: Jones, Diana WynneSummary:
Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel...
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Author: O'Leary, SaraSummary:
Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books