When eight-year-old Josh and his family adopt an energetic puppy with a big personality and a talent for escaping, everyone is sure that obedience school will teach him good manners. But Bagels turns out to be a bigger handful than...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Stuchner, Joan Betty, Whamond, DaveSummary: - Author:Stuchner, Joan BettySummary:
In this early chapterbook, the third in a series about an adopted puppy named Bagels, the Bernsteins hop aboard a cruise and find themselves in the midst of a detective caper.
- Author:Stuchner, Joan BettySummary:
In this sequel to Bagels Come Home, the Bernstein family heads off on a camping trip to Sasquatch Lake, only to encounter a series of mysterious happenings.
- Author:Funk, WesSummary:
Sam Brown is a shy, nineteen-year-old farm kid fresh out of cooking school. Determined to make a life for himself in the city, he lands a job in a busy downtown Saskatoon diner. There, he meets Slash, the restaurant's gruff middle-aged...
- Author:Gray, MarieSummary:
C’est intense, l’amour. Ça fait peur, aussi. Pire qu’un accouchement et bien plus qu’un nouvel emploi. Je devrais évoquer cet état émotif de façon plus positive, je sais, mais je suis de nature plutôt craintive. Madame Chicken, c’est...
- Author:Marsh, CharisSummary:
Presenting the three titles in the Ballet School Confidential series, which follows a group of friends (and sometimes adversaries) during their time attending the Vancouver International Ballet Academy. Kaitlyn was the star at her old...
- Author:Bock, Maxime RaymondSummary:
A Tristram Shandy–esque novella about failing memory and failed writing, from one of French Canada’s most exciting new voices. A young, floundering author meets Robert ‘Baloney’ Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing...
- Author:Houde, NicoleSummary:
Voici un livre étonnant. On y découvre une Nicole Houde rieuse et moqueuse, tendre et grave, avec un brin de fantaisie impertinente. Des fées et des mages s'amusent au milieu d'une foule de personnages croisés au hasard de promenades...
- Author:Skelton, JohnSummary:
In 1755, on the eve of the Seven Years’ War, fifteen-year-old Nola and her Acadian parents face expulsion from Grand Pry the British. Nola, her friends Hector and Jocelyne, Nola’s grandfather, and a band of bold teenagers manage to flee...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
Quentin and JD have been friends forever. Hanging out together, Quentin learns JD has a gun, and when they are caught in a robbery, JD uses the gun–with deadly results. Trying to cover up the crime and get away with it, Quentin gets in...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program. Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool...
- Author:Heneghan, James, Charles, NormaSummary:
Nell has been in foster homes all her life -- most of them have been horrible. She finally gets moved to a home she likes, and the ministry threatens to close it down unless an expensive renovation is made to the house. Nell and the two...
- Author:Roch-Lefebvre, ValérieSummary:
Bannie du royaume est un premier roman touchant et magnifiquement écrit, qui explore les manifestations de la maladie -mentale dans les dynamiques familiales. Un vœu simple est partagé par tous les personnages : celui de se fondre au...
- Author:Westerling, A.M.Summary:
Faced with financial ruin and the loss of her good name, Rose Chadwick decides to make a new start for herself and her young daughter Hannah in the rough-and-tumble gold rush town of Barkerville, British Columbia. However, making a new...
- Author:Gaetz, DayleSummary:
Rusty, Katie and Sheila are sent out of town with Rusty's grandparents to keep them out of trouble. This time the trio is in historic Barkerville, a gold rush town with a secret. After witnessing what they take to be a ghost in the...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an...
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
In this middle-grade novel, Jim Webb goes to the Florida Keys with his grandfather and becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a dead man and a missing cache of diamonds.
- Author:Crocker, EvaSummary:
Winner, Canadian Authors Emerging Writer Award
Finalist, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
Shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut...
- Author:Carter, ScottSummary:
Barrett Fuller’s privileged life is about to change radically … or else. Barrett Fuller is a world-famous and very wealthy children’s author who writes under a pseudonym because he’s a self-absorbed womanizer and drug-user. His life...
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