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  • Author:
    Withers, Pam
    Summary:

    When Tristan’s dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him — but will Tristan’s talents save him if it turns out to be a trap? Thanks to his dad’s coaching, sixteen-year-old Tristan is one of the best climbers...

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    Acton, Vanessa
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    Nick and Ava have become friends over the fact that they're the only upper classmen who still ride the bus to school. And every day, they see the same boy-who they call The Kid-walking along the train tracks, even when the weather is...

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    Deriso, Christine Hurley
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    Of course Anne would be drawn to Blake. He's good looking, he's friendly, and they both bring sob stories to the table: her parents died in a car wreck, his girlfriend, Cara, drowned. Of course Blake would understand what she...

  • Author:
    Beveridge, Cathy
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    Tragic Links is award-winning author Cathy Beveridge's fourth young adult novel focusing on Canadian disasters. This time Jolene and her family find themselves in Quebec where Jolene's father is conducting research for his Museum of...

  • Author:
    Shields, Gillian
    Summary:

    Quand Evie Johnson arrive au pensionnat de Wyldcliffe, elle est loin de se douter que sa vie sera bientôt complètement transformée: elle y apprend sa parenté avec Lady Agnes, elle forge un lien privilégié avec Helen et Sarah, et...

  • Author:
    Lawrence, Lisa J.
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    After moving into a dank and drafty basement suite in West Edmonton with her truck- driving father, nasty stepmother and taciturn twin brother, Ash, seventeen-year-old Greta doesn't have high expectations for her last year of high...

  • Author:
    Chapman, Brenda
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    In the fourth and final instalment in the Jennifer Bannon mystery series, Jennifer begins Grade Eleven at Springhills High, where her life is far from settled. Her mother has moved to L.A. with her new husband, Jennifers boyfriend moves...

  • Author:
    Lindroth, Malin
    Summary:

    The narrator of Train Wreck is looking back at the year she was 15 … She is in love with a bad boy named Johnny. Johnny’s friends play a cruel trick on a misfit named Susie by convincing her that Johnny is attracted to her. When the...

  • Author:
    Blair, Kate
    Summary:

    London, England, present day. This is the world as we know it, but with one key difference: medical science has found a way to remove diseases from the sick. The catch? They can only transfer the diseases into other living humans. The...

  • Author:
    Maes, Nicholas
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    What do you do when you’re being watched at every turn by creatures plotting to take over the world? Simon Carpenter is a normal 16-year-old living in Vancouver. Or is he normal? Any type of music drives him crazy. When walking by a...

  • Author:
    MacDonald, Susan
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    Being a teenager is hard enough. It’s even more difficult when you have supernatural powers you barely understand. Now that Alec and his terrifying abilities are under the control of the traitorous Anna, it’s up to Riley to save her...

  • Author:
    Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary Kate
    Summary:

    These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...

  • Author:
    Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Summary:

    When young Jim Hawkins picks a treasure map off a dead boarder, he’s drawn into a rollicking and dangerous journey filled with buccaneers and buried treasure — but, sadly, no Muppets. Stevenson’s timeless tale has inspired generations...

  • Author:
    Dalton, Sheila
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    Winner of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choice: Best Books for Kids & Teens Seventeen year-old Nathan is running – running from his past and running from his present. Raised by a white mother and never having known his native...

  • Author:
    McClintock, Norah
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    Riley Donovan is the new kid in a small town where her aunt (and guardian) has just started a job as a detective on the town’s police force. Riley is home alone when a neighbor’s barn catches on fire; when she realizes that he is...

  • Author:
    Slade, Arthur G.
    Summary:

    For Percy, the loss of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during the last week before high school graduation.

  • Author:
    Grant, Vicki
    Summary:

    Neil decides that his long-term relationship with Jade is finally over. After ending it, he realizes the hardest part will be saying goodbye to her little brother, Owen, who suffers from severe migraines. Neil's friends suspect that...

  • Author:
    Smith, Kirsten
    Summary:

    Now a Netflix Original Series! The Breakfast Club meets Leah on the Offbeat in this story of female friendships that break all the rules. Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, and a burnout. Tabitha has just about...

  • Author:
    Toro, Guillermo del
    Summary:

    "You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk' They're patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you've paid so much attention to in mirrors' It's delicious to the right tongues, a casserole of succulent tissue...

  • Author:
    Tromly, Stephanie
    Summary:

    Happily Ever After gets a serious makeover in this swoony, non-stop, thrill-ride of a conclusion to the Trouble Is a Friend of Mine trilogy. Digby and Zoe have been skirting around each other for so long that you might think they'd lose...

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