Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass...
Orphans
- Author:Taylor, LynneSummary:
- Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
- Author:HOROWITZ, AnthonySummary:
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating the accidental death of two powerful men who both have sons attending an exclusive school for rebellious rich boys in the French Alps. Suggested level...
- Author:Bavati, RobynSummary:
Simone has been raised as a dancer, but she hates performing. Hannah loves nothing more than dance, but her parents see it as just a hobby. When the two girls meet for the first time at age fifteen, they choreograph a plan to switch...
- Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
On Agate Hill is set in North Carolina in the years from 1872 to1927, and also in the present. The novel evokes the South in Reconstruction from an honest female perspective. It is the exuberantly romantic and episodic story of Molly...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willlow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors’ Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she's ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspaperwoman. A crumbling newspaper clipping...
- Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
Kim Vogel Sawyer, ACF Book of the Year winner for Waiting for Summer's Return, delivers historically rich tales with unforgettable characters. After an 1886 fire kills their parents, three children are split up. Keeping her parents'...
- Author:Hunt, SamanthaSummary:
After years of absence, Ruth leads her niece Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And who--or what--is she hiding? In an ingeniously structured dual narrative, two...
- Author:Tracey, ScottSummary:
Moonset, a coven of such promise... Until they turned to the darkness. After the terrorist witch coven known as Moonset was destroyed 15 years ago—during a secret war against the witch Congress—five children were left behind, saddled...
- Author:Harrell, RobSummary:
In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism. Each town, that is--except...
- Author:Bates, MarniSummary:
Après avoir suivi Mackenzie dans le premier tome de la série, Miss Malaise, les lecteurs s’attacheront cette fois à Holly qui a elle aussi le don de se mettre les pieds dans les plats! Passer les vacances de Noël sur un bateau de...
- Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:
Jo, everyone’s favorite headstrong tomboy, has used her inheritance from Aunt March to found a progressive boys’ school. This charming book lets us peek into six months in the lives of the school’s young pupils.
- Author:Patterson, James, Grabenstein, ChrisSummary:
Daniel is finally ready to take on the biggest threat in the galaxy: the Prayer--the same beast that brutally murdered his parents long ago. Daniel will have to push his powers beyond the brink in order to bring down a monster that has...
- Author:MARTEL, YannSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Pi's father owns a zoo in India, until the family decides to immigrate to Canada. On the way tragedy strikes and the ship sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a tiger and an orangutan. He...
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
While investigating a suspicious death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the grounds of Aldwick Castle-and in the midst of utter chaos. The ramshackle castle is in flames-and a beautiful woman and four young girls...
- Author:Hugo, VictorSummary:
The novel that inspired the beloved Broadway musical: Jean Valjean's immortal adventure among the dispossessed of nineteenth-century Paris. Widely considered Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables is both an epic story and a...
- Author:Stachniak, EvaSummary:
Elle s’appelle Barbara, Varvara en russe. Alerte et vive d’esprit, elle est admise au service de l’impératrice Élisabeth, dans l’univers éclatant et cruel de la plus éminente cour du monde. Sous la tutelle du comte Bestoujev, chancelier...
- Author:Gauthier, JessicaSummary:
Lovita ! On ne sait plus si ce prénom désigne la jumelle d’Émilie ou un personnage fantasmatique qui envahit ses rêves éveillés ou nocturnes. Après la mort de ses parents au Nicaragua, la petite Émilie se retrouve donc orpheline. Un...