This special four-book collection features stories of bravery and courage about early settlers and their relationships with the indigenous peoples of Canada. B.J. Bayle's young adult fiction brings Canada's past alive on the page....
Canadian fiction
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Author:Bayle, B.J.Summary: - Author:Mutala, MarionSummary:
When the wind brings her a babushka just like the one Baba used to wear, the young girl goes on a magical adventure to a springtime in the past and discovers the Easter traditions of her Ukrainian heritage.
- Author:Mutala, MarionSummary:
The wind brings Natalia a babushka just like the one Baba used to wear, taking the young girl on a magical journey to an autumn long ago to discover the wedding traditions of her Ukrainian heritage.
- Author:Katić, MirjanaSummary:
Ninety-year-old Mitra has much history behind her. Young Sofija cannot grasp what her great-grandmother Mitra is telling her about life when Mitra was a young girl, growing up in a village back in Yugoslavia. These two are as far apart...
- Author:Jones, DavidSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Gerry Copeland has mixed feelings about flying back to his parents’ research camp in the African savanna. While his biologist mom and dad study baboon behavior, he’ll be thinking about the video arcade and restaurants...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. They wonder if his friends will start showing up again. They wonder if they'll be walking down the street one day and they'll run into Jojo and Jojo will...
- Author:Wykes, MeganSummary:
Set in Toronto in the blistering summer of 1971, Back to the Garden is about four strangers who take a chance on a new psychological treatment: group therapy. What seems, at first, like a good idea, quickly spirals out of control as the...
- Author:McCormack, JudithSummary:
Eduardo, an architect from Lisbon, has come to Montreal to be with his wife Geneviève. Geneviève researches fungi and likes to catalogue her orgasms. But when Eduardo is caught in an explosion and rumors of arson begin to circulate,...
- Author:Wieler, DianaSummary:
Hockey is the only game worth playing in the rough-and-tumble prairie town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When sixteen-year-old A.J. Brandiosa makes the Triple A team of his dreams, he can hardly believe that his life is finally coming...
- Author:Dakers, DianeSummary:
Lindy takes advantage of an elderly woman she works for.
- Author:Johns, JessicaSummary:
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night,...
- Author:Brady, LizSummary:
In Bad Date, crime journalist Jane Yeats is on the scene again full of her trademark smart-ass attitude and fondness for Irish ale. Jane is thrust headlong into an unsolicited investigation of a string of unsolved sex-trade mysteries....
- Author:Baker, CarleighSummary:
Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award.
Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never...
- Author:Baker, CarleighSummary:
... Baker pushes readers to reconsider their desire for resolution. Eschewing the easy, the neat, the smoothed over, allows us to consider the things about ourselves we might not like. There's a political dimension to this. One...
- Author:Barclay, LinwoodSummary:
Fans of the crime caper will rejoice that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his riotously funny and irreverent debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids...
- Author:Marston, MissySummary:
Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that — a string of bad ideas — and the absurdity of love Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy's...
- Author:Chong, CorinnaSummary:
Longlister for the Giller Prize. The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past. Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her...
- Author:Barclay, LinwoodSummary:
Bad Move introduces Linwood’s reluctant hero, Zack Walker, a science fiction writer and perpetually worried father who moves his family from the dangerous city to the peaceful suburbs, and runs headlong into the law of unintended...
- Author:Bertin, KrisSummary:
The characters in 'Bad Things Happen' - professors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminals - are between things. Between jobs and marriages, states of sobriety, joy and anguish; between who they are and who they want to be. Kris...
- Author:Stewart, ShannonSummary:
Badir, a new Canadian, thinks he has discovered a very, very large rat.
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