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  • Author:
    Sherrard, Valerie
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    At last, Shelby Belgarden has put her crime-solving behind her and has returned to the life of an ordinary teenager. Now 16, she has taken her first job: working at a new local restaurant called The Steak Place. But when one of her co-...

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    Reid, Charles
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    Robbie Carter is adjusting to his new life in late-1950s Toronto with his single mother, an engineeer with the airplane manufacturer A.V. Roe. One night, waking to the buzz of voices, Robbie creeps downstairs and makes an astonishing...

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    Toogood, Deborah
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    Matt Simmons has two weeks left of summer before starting grade six. He wants to enjoy that time with his best friends, Danny and Emma, but has to include his younger cousin Adam who is visiting. Trapped on a sandbar in the middle of...

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    Butcher, Kristen
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    When Linda’s high school sets up online chat rooms, she can’t resist the urge to visit them. Fueled by interest in a student with the nickname Cyrano, Linda, a girl who suffers from extreme shyness, gets chatty online. Using the...

  • Author:
    Kloepfer, David
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    Cheap Thrills takes place over the course of a single weekend, beginning with the incessantly stoned Ethan and his roommate Phil discovering the body of their weed dealer in a Vancouver alley alongside a box of porno magazines and crime...

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    Butcher, Kristin
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    Laurel discovers her passion for investigative journalism when she writes an article for her school paper about the homeless man who's been living at the school. Eager to write more articles with impact, she launches an investigation of...

  • Author:
    Scarsbrook, Richard
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    This compelling coming of age story will leave older teenage boys alternatively snorting with laughter and silently shivering in recognition at the strength and power of bullies. Dak Sifter grows from a bright, 12-year-old beginning to...

  • Author:
    Lewis, Wendy, Ross, Graham
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    Cheetah is the small spotted frog Amelia brings home in a macaroni container. Amelia longs to keep Cheetah forever, but over the course of a week she comes to understand that his place is back in the wild. Cheetah is based on a true...

  • Author:
    Cain, R.D.
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    Behind the façade of the crisp, dark suit, under a sharp haircut and behind pale blue eyes, was a place of anguish. Steve Nastos walked down the street, avoiding eye contact with various lawyers, court clerks and police officers in the...

  • Author:
    Preston, Alison
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    One summer afternoon in 1954 a jealous four-year-old girl named Cherry Ring bites her baby brother Pete on the cheek. She bites him so hard that little Pete needs a skin graft to repair the damage and will have a scar for the rest of...

  • Author:
    Maruno, Jennifer
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    CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2016) — Commended Is pretending to be someone else the only way Michiko can fit in? Michiko Minigawa’s life is nothing but a bad game of baseball. The Canadian government swung the bat...

  • Author:
    Maruno, Jennifer
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    After being outcast to a small community, 10-year-old Michiko’s life gets better when a former baseball star becomes her teacher. Second book in the Cherry Blossom Books series. Ten-year-old Michiko wants to be proud of her Japanese...

  • Author:
    Laberge, Rosette
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    LA CONCLUSION ÉCLATANTE D'UNE SÉRIE RYTHMÉE PAR L'ÉMOTION - Si le rock'n roll a la réputation de semer le bonheur partout où il passe, Laurence commence à penser le contraire sans Béa, sa complice de toujours....

  • Author:
    Silcoff, Mireille
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    A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff. Inspired by the real life medical struggles of the author, this stunning debut collection opens with a gripping portrait...

  • Author:
    Brouillet, Chrystine
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    Roland, un séduisant paraplégique, Victor, un enseignant au grand cœur, et Louise, une célibataire amoureuse des chats, habitent tous trois dans un immeuble du Quartier latin, à Québec. Des meurtres sadiques commis aux alentours...

  • Author:
    Van Tol, Alex
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    Fourteen-year-old Chick struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and his father's expectations.

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    Dubois, Amélie
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    La série à succès d'Amélie Dubois enfin disponible en format poche ! En amour, comment éviter de souffrir ou de faire souffrir ? Lasses de tenter de répondre à cette question récurrente, quatre femmes à l'aube de la...

  • Author:
    Dubois, Amélie
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    La série à succès d'Amélie Dubois enfin disponible en format poche ! La consœurie permet-elle à ses membres d'évoluer ? Après un an de mode de vie sous le signe de la consœurie, les quatre amies décident de...

  • Author:
    Dubois, Amélie
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    La série à succès d'Amélie Dubois enfin disponible en format poche ! Mali et ses consœurs sont-elles prêtes pour le grand amour ? La grande ville de Montréal accueille nos quatre « célibat-stars » qui concrétisent leur...

  • Author:
    Crosbie, Lynn
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    Set in disparate parts of Los Angeles, Chicken uproariously, grievously, relates the collision and inevitably ruinous paths of two incendiary figures. One is the once beautiful and famous Parnell Wilde, a maverick actor arrogant in his...

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