We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuk’s new collection of short stories, Boy Lost in Wild. Adrift in unfamiliar surroundings, strangers to the strangers around them, the characters in...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Hasiuk, BrendaSummary: - Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, and an ALA Notable Books List selection. Martin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant...
- Author:Benjamin, ChrisSummary:
Twelve short stories about love, loss, failure, and acceptance by an award-winning author. The daughter of an alcoholic desperate to be loved. A father reliving a failed dream though his teenaged son. A struggling immigrant surprised to...
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know. What are they thinking when they warn women against adventure, gulp ale in moonlit truck wrecks,...
- Author:Beiser, TimSummary:
A hilarious story about a finicky frog, who soon finds out that not all creatures eat alike.
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
When the school principal announces a new uniform policy, Ian is pressured to fight the decision. His best friend Julia is determined to get him to protest the policy, but the principal is equally determined to convince Ian uniforms are...
- Author:Scott, MarcSummary:
Marina, responable culturelle du gouvernenet mexicain appelle Jack Delorme, détective privé canadien, au secours. C'est le début d'une aventure encore plus rocambolesque que sa première aventure dans Bisbille à Manille....
- Author:Reynolds, TomSummary:
A Peeping Tom, a child’s disappearance, a fire, a startling decision and a truth learned too late: these are the elements that make up Break Me, an entertaining and sinister little book. The story is superbly constructed and the...
- Author:Jaimet, KateSummary:
It's the summer of Connor Trent's sixteenth birthday, and the stakes for him have never been so high. Connor's summer job at the Bytowne Tennis Club allows him to train at a historic facility. It also throws him into confrontation with...
- Author:Ulrich, MaureenSummary:
In her last year of high school, Jessie is finally playing AAA, the highest level of minor hockey there is. She's been made captain, and she's putting relationship disasters behind her by dating wonderful, sensible Evan. So what if he's...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
Acclaimed writer, David A. Robertson, delivers suspense, adventure, and humour in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel continuation of The Reckoner trilogy. Cole and Eva arrive in Winnipeg, the headquarters of Mihko Laboratories,...
- Author:Draper, PennySummary:
When another ballet dancer's injury lands him a major role, mischief-loving Robin must face his friends' jealousy and the biggest challenge of his dance career in this novel for teens.
- Author:Graziani, E.Summary:
Faith Emily Hansen just wants to be loved and to live without the weight of addiction. But the relief that she gets from being wrapped up in the cozy little cotton ball of heroin is impossible to ignore. Faith’s story starts in her...
- Author:Arcan, NellySummary:
Rose Dubois and Julie O’Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer’s day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined. Worldwide climate change and dramatic shifts in weather...
- Author:Tsiang, Sarah Yi-MeiSummary:
When Ally's mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future. Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose. When Ally meets Tate, a busking fire breather, she...
- Author:Withers, PamSummary:
Beverly is in Hawaii, helping her uncle at his dive shop, learning how to dive and trying to lose weight and get a boyfriend. When Garth, an accomplished diver, shows an interest in her, Beverly is ecstatic, until it turns out Garth is...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed with only a hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. Brian's Winter begins where Hatchet might have ended -- Brian is not rescued,...
- Author:Lopes, AngelaSummary:
Bridge Retakes, the debut novel by Angela Lopes, is a whirlwind millennial tale of love and family and the distances that people will (or won't) go to secure what they want. A Bahian man and a Brazilian-Canadian woman meet on an online...
- Author:Adams, MicheleSummary:
In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness - all bodied forth in a language that is precise,...
- Author:Loughead, DebSummary:
Aline hides under the hay when her father takes her to school in their horse-drawn sled. She's embarrassed that her mother raises chickens in their yard, and doesn't want her school friends to find out that their family has...
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