Janey doesn't want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto--and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away--her mother in...
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Author: Feutl, RitaSummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction
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Author: Taylor, WillSummary:
A sparkling new series about two best friends on the adventure of a lifetime! Maggie's been waiting for her best friend Abby to get home from Camp Cantaloupe for SIX. WHOLE. WEEKS. But now that...
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Author: Ernst, KathleenSummary:
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round...
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Author: Feutl, RitaSummary:
Janey doesn't want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto - and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away - her mother in Turkey...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Author: Foote, ShelbySummary:
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Here, for a certainty, is...
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Author: Struzik, EdwardSummary:
In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast" because it behaved in seemingly sinister and often...
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Author: Doig, IvanSummary:
Set in the 1930s, Doig's novel follows the Duff clan during the construction of the Fort Peck Dam. Hugh Duff is angry that the dam will flood his farm, yet his sons hasten to get jobs working on...
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Author: Welch, JamesSummary:
A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance — "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." —Tommy Orange, The...
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Author: Greenwood, ThereseSummary:
Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached,...
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Author: Whitson, Stephanie GraceSummary:
Charlotte Valentine Bishop has buried her husband. Now she and her son Will are embarking on a trip back to Fort Robinson, Nebraska to make a new home for themselves with Charlotte's...
Genre: Historical fiction, Religious fiction -
Author: Snyder, LaurelSummary:
In this heartwarming sequel to Laurel Snyder's beginning chapter book Charlie & Mouse, the two brothers enjoy a special visit from their grandpa, Grumpy. Follow along as they discuss...
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Author: Demers, BarbaraSummary:
Willa is a thirteen-year-old orphan shipped to the new world in 1795. Resourceful and strong-willed, she survives many hardships before travelling on foot from Hudson's Bay to Fort Edmonton with...
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Author: Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a fortune hunt for a golden bell hanging in a remote Arizona monastery. But between the smoldering ruin of his former jail cell and the...
Genre: Western fiction -
Author: Bayle, B.J.Summary:
In 1874, after their father is wounded by hard men who have stolen a number of mares and Smokey, a prized stallion, sixteen-year-old Rob McCann and his adopted Native brother, Luke, ride...
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Author: Guyatt, BenSummary:
When the War of 1812 breaks out between the British in Canada and the United States, eighteen-year-old Billy Green is an expert woodsman with romantic ideas of combat. Struggling with his father...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction