Aisholpan Nurgaiv tells her story for the first time of how she captured and trained her own golden eagle and won the Ölgii eagle festival in Mongolia. A true trailblazer, Nurgaiv was the first female eagle hunter to ever take part in...
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Author:Welch, Liz, Aĭsholpan, NurgaĭvynSummary: -
Author:Griggs, TerrySummary:Hero, the hyper-precocious and nosily omniscient narrator of Terry Griggs's riotous new book, 'The Discovery of Honey,' is not one to hide her light under a bushel, nor to conceal significant, usually scandalous, happenings in her rural...
- Author:Bradley, AlanSummary:
Bishop's Lacey is never short of two things: Mysteries to solve and pre-adolescent detectives to solve them. In this New York Times bestselling series of cozy mysteries, young chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once...
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Author:Quiviger, PascaleSummary:This novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Pascale Quiviger is about the bonds of friendship; the ties between mothers and daughters; the act of creation itself. It's a magical, intricately wrought work of art that reveals layer upon...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times. The three books in Deborah Ellis's Breadwinner trilogy bound into one handsome volume Deborah Ellis's novels The Breadwinner, Parvana's...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under...
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays everyday for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes...
- Author:Hepinstall, KathySummary:
Simon Jester's past is full of secrets. Ony his step-children, 12-year-old Alice and her older brother Boone, know the true darkness that lies in his heart. When terror invades their lives, the two children are forced to attempt daring...
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Author:Campbell Gaetz, DayleSummary:A new life in Canada! What could be better? Plenty of land to farm and even gold to be found in the hills!
Well…except Katherine’s parents aren’t farmers. Having spent everything on sailing from England to Canada and setting up...
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Author:Lawrence, KatherineSummary:Millie is eleven (going on twelve) and enjoys doing what kids usually like to do: riding her bike and dreaming of the day she can convince her family to get a dog. She also writes in her diary daily. But instead of writing to herself,...
- Author:Kim, JessicaSummary:
On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix...
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Author:Tagaq, TanyaSummary:From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as...
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Author:Bergen, LaraSummary:Sophie Miller never gives up! Even though she hasn't found the perfect name yet, she's still on the hunt. Will Sophie the Snoop be just the name she's looking for? Sophie already proved her super-sleuth skills when her piggybank went...
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Author:Zailckas, KorenSummary:From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it...
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Author:Walters, EricSummary:Nine-year-old Skye has always had a fascination with flying. She’d love to be a pilot someday, like both of her parents, but deep down she really wishes she could be a bird. When Skye’s parents take her to Costa Rica, she is thrilled...
- Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:
In her vibrant first novel Sisters of Grass, Theresa Kishkan weaves a tapestry of the senses through the touchstones of a young woman's life. Anna is preparing an exhibit of textiles reflecting life in central British Columbia a century...
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Author:Riva, ReneeSummary:A quirky girl, a faithful dog, and one unforgettable summer.
- Author:McGrath, WendySummary:
What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa seeks the answers to these questions as she tries to make sense of the disintegration of...
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Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:At eleven, Pip MacKenzie's life has already been touched by tragedy - a terrible accident that plunged her mother, Ophelie, into inconsolable grief. But on a foggy summer day, on a beach near San Francisco, Pip meets someone who...
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Author:Juby, SusanSummary:Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic heavy-metal...
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