In this middle-grade novel, Bunny ends up caught in a reenactment of the War of 1812 while searching for a stolen cell phone.
Canadian fiction
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Author:Scrimger, RichardSummary: - Author:Spencer, Kim.Summary:
"Readers will be left with a rich image of Mia's world and the family and people that surround her as well as a strong sense of how culture and class impact people's experiences. A touching exploration of identity and culture."-Kirkus...
- Author:Dowding, PhilippaSummary:
They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales...
- Author:Dowding, PhilippaSummary:
They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are three spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales...
- Author:Dalvay, HopeSummary:
Welcome to Camp Fill-in-the-Blank is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Page (without an "i"), who lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where her Canadian parents work. Page's perfectly organized life turns upside down when her parents send...
- Author:Douglas, RhondaSummary:
Rhonda Douglas’s debut collection dazzles with its daring and dangerous prose. Welcome to the Circus, where every moment is a tight-rope act, precariously balancing on the edge of destruction. In these stories, a choir processes its...
- Author:Douglas, RhondaSummary:
These ten strikingly original stories explore love and escape--how we escape to love, escape through love, and escape ourselves and hold on to love. Together, the stories of Welcome to the Circus highlight the courageous, acrobatic...
- Author:Scott, WalterSummary:
THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD OF MAKING (OR NOT MAKING) ART TAKES CENTER STAGE IN THIS TRENCHANT SATIRE OF MFA CULTURE. Wendy is an aspiring contemporary artist whose adventures have taken her to galleries, art openings, and parties in Los...
- Author:Boyden, JosephSummary:
In Joseph Boyden's novella, an Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School.
He realizes too late just how far away he is from home. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest, who comment on his...
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West by Northwest is a classic collection of British Columbia stories, beginning with Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst's ribald creation myth "The Raven and the First Men" and closing with Edith Robinson's brilliant depiction of a Native...
- Author:Asnong, JoceySummary:
Jocey Asnong's vibrant and whimsical illustrations take readers kayaking through Cowichan Bay, surfing with starfish and sea otters at Tofino, and swimming with sea wolves in the Great Bear Rainforest. From carving through fresh powder...
- Author:Innes, RoySummary:
When a series of murders threatens the lives of an entire community in Vancouver, Inspector Coswell and RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore team up once again to solve the case. What begins as an array of hate crimes suddenly culminates into a...
- Author:O'Donnell, Liam, Grand, AurélieSummary:
Meet Myron: a third-grade detective who loves logic, facts and solving mysteries. He does not love new things. Unfortunately, everything is new this year: Myron has a new baby sister, his family has moved across town, and now he’s...
- Author:de Nikolits, LisaSummary:
Emotionally battered and bruised, 29-year-old Australian immigrant Benny is looking for escape, not redemption. Escape from herself and the dismal failures of her life: her first solo art exhibition is panned by critics and her husband...
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Collection of stories written by first and second generation authors from the western part of Iceland, who emigrated to North America, particularly Manitoba.
- Author:Andre, F.B.Summary:
In this new collection of stories, F.B. Andre explores what it means to "belong." Frequently his stories portray individuals involved in mixed relationships, of different cultures and races or backgrounds, of people struggling to feel...
- Author:Jones, AmySummary:
Amy Jones's Metcalf-Rooke Award-winning short fiction collection What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another. Whether a...
- Author:Flood, CynthiaSummary:
In these twelve stories that unfold over a few hours or a weekend or five decades, adults deceive themselves about their motives - greed, desire for control, jealousy, fear, ambition. With unflinching realism, reminiscent of William...
- Author:Hobsbawn-Smith, DeeSummary:
In her first collection of short fiction, dee Hobsbawn-Smith creates protagonists struggling to navigate the troubles common to life everywhere, including children attempting to make their parents proud, the collapse of romantic...
- Author:Swan, SusanSummary:
A dazzlingly imagined novel that embraces two centuries, two women, a long-lost Journal and the mystery behind the legendary Casanova’s last great love.
It’s 1797, and an aging Casanova has returned to Venice in disguise to elude...
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