In this picture book, a shoe journeys through an imaginative world to encounter a variety of animals and insects along the way. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
Canadian fiction
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Author:Edwards, WallaceSummary: - Author:Peck, FrancesSummary:
Wildfire season in the British Columbia Interior. Experienced firefighting pilot Rafe Mackie loses control of his airplane while doing a routine drop and plummets to his death. The investigation that follows unleashes revelations that...
- Author:Simons, JosephSummary:
Mary is certain that her parents are giving her new shoes for Christmas, but the Depression has hit her Saskatchewan farming family hard. Mary tries to hide her disappointment when she receives a crude homemade doll instead. She ends up...
- Author:Kay, AilsaSummary:
Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperation of two North American Hungarian families and those whose lives they’ve touched. There’...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Lucky Smith and Chief Constable Paul Keller are having a weekend getaway when trouble arises—trouble involving Paul’s estranged son, Matt, and a dead body. Lucky’s daughter, Constable Molly Smith, soon finds herself in the middle of the...
- Author:Alma, AnnSummary:
During a camping trip, 11-year-old Lee finds herself on a rough trail in a Vancouver Island forest. Halfway to an abandoned homestead, Lee trips and is knocked unconscious. She awakens in a world unfamiliar -- all the usual landmarks...
- Author:Bishop, AnneSummary:
"There are people who break open and make a new, bigger, self. But some of us are ... brittle." When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses...
- Author:Sutherland, SuzanneSummary:
2016 Junior Library Guild Selection 2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) — Commended She’s with the band, whether she likes it or not. Victoria Mahler is the sixteen-year-old only...
- Author:Gill, Nav K.Summary:
It’s the spring of 1984 in British Columbia, and life is just getting exciting for Esha. A secret that looms over her family has reinforced her proud resistance to her family’s Indian identity. However, one day changes everything, and...
- Author:Clark, JudithSummary:
One more year. That’s all Gunnar has to wait until graduation. More importantly, it’s one more year until he’ll feel safe to come out.
Gunnar has kept his sexuality a secret — only his twin sister knows he’s gay. Coming out now... - Author:Kazenbroot, NellySummary:
Googol and Googolplex have come back to earth to continue their scavenger hunt. Tutus, sand dollars and peacock feathers are on their list. Luckily Troy and Pippa are ready to help, and the ocean is nearby, but so is Martin Kelly, the...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, a girl struggles with the threats that her abortion-providing parents are receiving and the reactions of her girlfriend's family.
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
It's a new season for Nick and Kia and once again they have to prove they've got what it takes to make the Mississauga Magic rep team. There is no free ride on Coach Barkley's team. The tryouts are tough but fair and it looks like the...
- Author:Šileika, AntanasSummary:
A tragic love triangle set in a forgotten place during an invisible war. Inspired by true events, Underground tells the story of a troubled romance between Lukas and Elena, two members of the underground Lithuanian resistance movement...
- Author:Sileika, AntanasSummary:
A tragic love triangle set in a forgotten place during an invisible war. Inspired by true events, Underground tells the story of a troubled romance between Lukas and Elena, two members of the underground Lithuanian resistance movement...
- Author:McIsaac, M.J.Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Nick Carver is tired of living in his older brother's shadow. Markus is the lacrosse team hero, love interest of Nick's longtime crush and now the recipient of a prestigious scholarship from the Philston Weiks Academy....
- Author:DeWitt, PatrickSummary:
On the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless...
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." — Toronto Star From Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter (author of the bestseller Annabel ): A stunning novel reimagining the lost years of misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy...
- Author:Greenaway, R.M.Summary:
A heartbreaking set of murders bring detectives Leith and Dion together in the Lower Mainland, where violence flows like a riptide. Last summer the inlet waters washed an unnamed woman’s body onto the rocks of North Vancouver’s Neptune...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Discover hidden gems from the bestselling author of the Jalna series. A farm inheritance cultivates an illicit love affair. An orphan finds a home with two sisters and their writer lodger and soon discovers strange and frightening...
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