Told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is about Looee, a chimp raised by a compassionate human couple in Vermont who cannot conceive a baby of their own. When Looee’s two natures collide, this...
Young Adult
These 70 audiobooks -- purchased and produced thanks to funding from the BC government's Libraries Branch -- were added to NNELS in early 2017. BC librarians had a hand in choosing some of the books so you'll find some books recorded in this collection that you won't find anywhere else. For more information, see the news release.
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Auteur:McAdam, ColinSommaire: - Auteur:Chabot, JasonSommaire:
Hokk is a criminal outcast who has been scavenging the bodies that fall from the sky to Below for meagre treasures to help him survive. Elia hails from the floating kingdoms in the skies of Above, where the islands' edges are borders no...
- Auteur:Rose, ArdenSommaire:
By the end of this book, you will have learned not only how to dress yourself, how to travel alone, how to talk to strangers online, and how to date strangers in person, but how to pass as a real, functioning, appropriately socialized...
- Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:
Brian Nowak went for a walk fifteen years ago and was never seen again. When a police dog discovers human remains, Sergeant John Winters reopens the investigation and finds a shattered family and townsfolk desperate to keep their...
- Auteur:St. James, SimoneSommaire:
After her ghost-hunting uncle dies, Oxford student Jillian heads to his village to pack up his things. Upon arriving, terrifying events convince Jillian that an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it a ghost—or something more...
- Auteur:Prendergast, GabrielleSommaire:
Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie...
- Auteur:Chabot, JasonSommaire:
In Jason Chabot’s brilliant debut, fantasy and futuristic worlds collide—literally.
The first of three volumes in this thrilling trilogy opens on the barren plains of Below, where a teenage boy named Hokk lives in exile with his...
- Auteur:Chabot, JasonSommaire:
Elia is a fugitive, on the run from the Imperial Guards, who have launched a city-wide manhunt and offered a reward for her capture. Hokk is also on Elias trailone step behind and all too aware of the mortal danger she is in. Elia...
- Auteur:Levithan, DavidSommaire:
What if you went to a school where it was actually all right to be who you really are? That’s the enchanting place David Levithan has created in his highly acclaimed first novel. But even if the gay kids and the straight kids all get...
- Auteur:Withers, PamSommaire:
Thirteen-year-old Chris and his family are setting up a bungee jump in his backyard. It's a real large-scale bungee jump off a bridge that connects his backyard to a small island owned by his family. Not only is it going to be the...
- Auteur:Tamani, LiaraSommaire:
Told in fifty-four short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, this novel follows Taja Brown on her journey from middle school to high school while living in Houston, Texas.
- Auteur:Armstrong, KelleySommaire:
Moria and Ashyn’s village is gone, their friends have betrayed them, and now the emperor has sent them on a mission to rescue the children of Edgewood. But the journey proves more perilous than they ever imagined. With unrest mounting,...
- Auteur:Johnson-Shelton, Nils, Frey, JamesSommaire:
Twelve ancient cultures were chosen millennia ago to represent humanity in Endgame, a global game that will decide the fate of humankind. And now it's starting. A Player from each culture has been trained for this moment and must play...
- Auteur:Reaves, Michael, Reaves, Mallory, Gaiman, NeilSommaire:
Joey Harker never wanted to be a leader. But he's the one everyone is looking to now that FrostNight looms, and he'll have to step up if he has any hope of saving InterWorld, the Multiverse, and everything in between.
- Auteur:Chopra, DeepakSommaire:
A fifteen-year-old boy is walking through a swirling fog on his way to school when a voice calls out, "Come here. We need to talk." Out of the mist emerges an old man with a white beard. Whoever he is, he has appeared on that very day...
- Auteur:Armstrong, KelleySommaire:
Desperate to outmaneuver the evil Alvar Kitsune, Emperor Tatsu begs Moria to put aside past grievances and ally with Gavril. Meanwhile, Ashyn discovers that she is the key to a ritual that could reawaken an ancient dragon and turn the...
- Auteur:Carley, DaveSommaire:
For young Ellen, an open window at night was an invitation for all manner of scary things to enter her bedroom. As a child she shivered from fear. But now she shivers with anticipation.
- Auteur:Von Ziegesar, CecilySommaire:
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep-sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that...
- Auteur:Shaw, Carol AnneSommaire:
In the second volume of the Hannah trilogy, summer has arrived, and fourteen-year-old Hannah Anderson is excited about spending it with Max (who has been giving her stomach butterflies lately). But things are happening in Cowichan Bay...
- Auteur:Shaw, Carol AnneSommaire:
It's spring break, and 14-year-old Hannah Anderson is spending it with the "Coast-Is-Clear" program, a group committed to cleaning Pacific Rim National Park Reserve's beaches of debris that has drifted across the Pacific from the tragic...
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