Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable. When the 1992 cod moratorium...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Smith, HeatherSummary: - Author:Gauthier, EvelyneSummary:
Quand Ariel se voit confier une mission dans laquelle elle doit infiltrer le plateau de tournage de la populaire émission Maïka : une vie secrète et compliquée, elle croit rêver. Côtoyer les acteurs de la série télévisée préférée de sa...
- Author:Pearson, KitSummary:
One summer will change everything. For as long as she can remember, Maisie has spent her summers on Kingfisher Island. She and her beloved cousin Una run wild, and Maisie feels the warm embrace of her big, extended family. This summer...
- Author:Elmquist, LaurieSummary:
A poetic board book that gently reassures baby that all the treasures found at the beach will be there tomorrow.
- Author:Reynolds, JohnSummary:
After serving two years in prison for breaking the neck of the man who assaulted his sister, Arden is released on bail. He lands a job working at Tuffy’s, a restaurant and bar on the beach strip, alongside his former cellmate, Slip...
- Author:Bossley, MicheleSummary:
While volunteering at the local zoo, Robyn, Nick and Trevor learn that grizzly bears are being poached and their gall bladders removed for use in alternative medicine. Always ready to solve a mystery, the kids set out to find the...
- Author:Demuth, VivianSummary:
Johanna Bergen is a park warden in a Rocky Mountain National Park whose time is spent on such tasks as bear patrol, locating tourists who are lost or in other physical danger and policing park rules. She has a particular affinity for...
- Author:Daniels, CarolSummary:
Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s. Sandy was adopted by a Ukrainian family and grew...
- Author:Martel, YannSummary:
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
One of Canada's most celebrated author's debut novel for young readers. Beatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forest. How did she arrive in this cozy dwelling, stocked carefully with...
- Author:Flook, Helen, Hughes, AlisonSummary:
Hyperorganized perfectionist Beatrice More is determined to plan a spectacularly professional birthday party for her little sister, Sophie. But she is foiled at every turn: her mother insists on making a homemade cake (disaster!), her...
- Author:Hughes, AlisonSummary:
Beatrice struggles to manage her hopelessly disorganized family in an effort to make a professional start in her new neighborhood.
- Author:Reid, BrandonSummary:
Imbued with passion, creativity and insight, Brandon Reid's debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity and cultural tradition. Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a...
- Author:Runstedler, NancySummary:
The discovery of an old Ouija board sends three kids back in time to wartime 1915 to help a spirit find peace. Maggie’s life has been anything but easy lately. So when her best friend Gillian discovers a Ouija board in the attic, it’s a...
- Author:Fradkin, BarbaraSummary:
Inspector Green explores a web of betrayal and deceit. In the dead of night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit of the Ottawa Police. A brutal blizzard is howling, and a wealthy social activist has not heard from his fiance in...
- Author:Cohen, LeonardSummary:
- Author:Fletcher, CrystalSummary:
Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each...
- Author:Steinmetz, AndrewSummary:
Teenage brothers Hombre and Transformer spend their days locked up in their suburban Montreal bedroom, writing songs and dreaming of stardom. Hombre, the younger one, is quiet, contemplative, and talented, a poet in the making. His...
- Author:Baker, DeirdreSummary:
Shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award. Becca has often gone with her parents to visit Gran at her rustic cabin by the sea. But this year Becca's mother is expecting a baby, and...
- Author:Baker, DeirdreSummary:
When eleven-year-old Becca returns to her grandmother's rustic cottage for another summer, she finds herself seeing her beloved island in new ways. A hunting owl mistakes a bobbing ponytail for prey. A cozy sleepover on the beach...
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