Cosmopolitan and curious seventeen-year-old Chrysler Wong suffers from debilitating fear brought on by belief in a family curse, whereby she and her siblings will each die at age eighteen when they leave their small hometown. Three...
Families
- Author:Mah, MelanieSummary:
- Author:JONKER, JoanSummary:
Continues the heartwarming and hilarious story of Molly Bennett and Nellie McDonough and is guaranteed to bring out the sunshine of your smile.
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
"Set in Toronto, this short novel is a portrait of two pivotal times in the life of Miriam Moscowitz. The first section describes her experiences as a bright young university student in the 1950s and recounts the discrimination she...
- Author:Hollinghurst, AlanSummary:
- Author:RAYNER, ClaireSummary:
The glitter of theatre and the debutante season are starkly contrasted with a surgeon's experience of poverty, prostitution and disease in London a century ago.
- Author:Smith, Jennifer E.Summary:
Twelve-year-olds Ruby and Simon have been growing apart since their parents moved them to a Wisconsin farm, but weird weather events that seem tied to Simon's emotions bring a stranger into their lives who introduces them to the...
- Author:Richardson, Jael EaleySummary:
A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father's legendary past in football. At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father – former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey – for the first time to a small town in...
- Author:Moriarty, JaclynSummary:
The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge that it draws the family to the garden shed...
- Author:Reardon, C.S.Summary:
Grief cannot abide a mystery. No one understands that better than the Clarey family of Halifax. In 1937, the Clareys are a close and loving family until their lives are transformed the night Edie, their wilful daughter and sister,...
- Author:Herron, RachaelSummary:
From international bestseller Rachael Herron, comes a book too delightful to put down:Once Adele, Molly and Lana were The Darling Songbirds, a world-famous country band. Now they're just three sisters who barely speak. But that's about...
- Author:St. John Mandel, EmilySummary:
Anton Walker used to forge documents for a living, but now he's playing it straight as a manager with a consulting firm. Problem is, the Harvard diploma on his wall is fake, and his cousin plans to blow the whistle if he doesn...
- Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:
12-year-old Emily travels back in time again in this sequel, to discover a secret locked in her grandmother's soon-to-be-sold stone house.
Twelve-year-old Emily Bradford travels back in time to discover a secret about her...
- Author:Cumyn, AlanSummary:
Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award. Owen Skye is skinny and quiet and has big ears. He does everything (just about) his older brother, Andy, says, while trying to stay one step ahead...
- Author:Boll, RosemarieSummary:
Danny McMillan never knew that his father was abusing his mother, until a night of violence that shattered his family forever. Watching in the courtroom as his father is sentenced, Danny struggles with divided loyalties – to his mother...
- Author:Wertheim, L. Jon, Moskowitz, Tobias J.Summary:
Using the tips, truths, and stats, two dads pack super sports savvy and important math and financial concepts into a fun and heartwarming first novel for kids.
- Author:Fowler, EarleneSummary:
Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Ruby's not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his...
- Author:Fisher, ChrisSummary:
A powerful and touching family sports story, as Les Carson, a young man who grew up in southern Saskatchewan and works in Regina, takes a road trip to Toronto to see the Hockey Hall of Fame with two hockey-mad old-timers, his dying...
- Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:
Rex Zero and the End of the WorldIt's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war. Some people in his new...
- Author:Tatlock, Ann.Summary:
Now transformed by God's grace, John Sheldon is concerned about reuniting with his family after five years in prison. As he asks God to revive his dying marriage and heal his fragmented home, the answer to his prayers might just...
- Author:Moses, Shelia P.Summary:
Following her grandfather's death in rural North Carolina in 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae learns more about her family after reading her grandmother's collection of obituaries and traveling to Harlem, New York, to find her...