Can Brovko's family really be leaving him behind as they go to make a new life in Canada? 12-year-old Andrei is furious and upset at having to leave his wonderful companion behind - and Brovko isn't happy either. He tries to make the...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Warwaruk, LarrySummary: - Author:Miller, K.D.Summary:
When Brenda Bray, better known to the world as Rae Brand, author of the popular Elsinor Grey mystery series, returns home to Hamilton, she is set upon by vivid memories of the fall of 1962 when she struck up an intense relationship with...
- Author:Hopkinson, NaloSummary:
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to revive old ways - farming, barter, herb lore. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient...
- Author:Plaisted, CarolineSummary:
La Journée mondiale du livre approche et les Brownies débordent d’idées pour la célébrer. Entre leur travail en vue de l’obtention de leur insigne «Bibliophile» et la visite d’une auteure locale de livres pour enfants, les Brownies...
- Author:McLellan, DonSummary:
A man seeking the high life realizes too late that he has destroyed his possibilities for happiness. Four junkies wait anxiously for a drug dealer who seems to have forgotten their existence. A gang leader attempts to navigate racism,...
- Author:Adderson, Caroline, Flook, HelenSummary:
Seven-year-old Bruno is back and tackling problems with his trademark originality. He defeats hiccups. He trades his mother for a new hat. He skillfully avoids math. And thanks to his special Flutter Kick, he easily advances to the next...
- Author:Fryer, Mary BeacockSummary:
At the beginning of the American Revolution, Justus Sherwood left his young family in order to serve with the King’s forces, first with General Burgoyne on his disastrous invasion of New York. He was soon appointed Supervisor of Spies...
- Author:Osborne, TomSummary:
From the author of Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit and Foozlers comes another tale of madcap human folly. Louella Debra Poule is doing an eighteen-month stint on a weapons charge at a minimum-security institution up the Fraser Valley. Her...
- Author:Marchwell, D. W.Summary:
Jerry Mckenzie es un artista antisocial, que vive recluido. Está satisfecho con la compañía de sus caballos, con trabajar en su estudio y con mantenerse alejado de todos. No es la vida adecuada para un niño, y cuando Jerry descubre que...
- Author:Havrelock, DeidreSummary:
An exuberant celebration of the Buffalo's return to the wild. Since Declan was born, his kokum has shared her love of Buffalo through stories and art. But Declan longs to see real Buffalo. Then one magical night, herds of the majestic...
- Author:Watt, MélanieSummary:
A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room ... where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little...
- Author:Halvorson, MarilynSummary:
Layne wants nothing more than to follow in his father’s footsteps and to be a bull rider. His dad was one ride away from a National championship when he got trampled to death. Layne wants to be able to give his dad that championship, by...
- Author:Harvey, Sarah N.Summary:
After Emily's aunt dies, Emily learns that everything she has always believed is a lie, and her world crumbles. Forced to face the fact that her mother is not who she thought she was, Emily tries to find the truth about her past and...
- Author:Polak, MoniqueSummary:
In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Daniel is forced to examine his own behavior after the teasing of a classmate gets out of hand.
- Author:Withers, PamSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Chris and his family are setting up a bungee jump in his backyard. It's a real large-scale bungee jump off a bridge that connects his backyard to a small island owned by his family. Not only is it going to be the...
- Author:Piercy, AlishaSummary:
From award-winning author Alisha Piercy comes Bunny and Shark, a middle-aged coming-of-age story-cum-shark-adventure that reveals and celebrates women's power in the trenches. Plunging into the first thirteen days after the 'bastard'...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Former novelist Elaine Benson is helping an elderly spinster write a memoir of her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of WWII when she discovers that the writer hired before her died under suspicious circumstances.
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who jettisoned her career over an unreliable screenwriter, is now divorced, broke, and come to a “primitive, untamed northern forest” on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira...
- Author:Walsh, AliceSummary:
After her mother dies, fourteen year old Zoe is whisked away to Newfoundland to live with a father she has never met. In the tiny village of Port au Choix, she gets caught up in solving the mystery of finding the habitation site of the...
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
After a fire kills Josie's family, she is living on the streets while she finds a way to bring her family's killer to justice in this fast-paced entry in the Retribution trilogy.
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