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Maturation (Psychology)

  • Love, lies, bleeding
    Author:
    Haworth-Attard, Barbara
    Summary:

    On the Home Front, during World War II, 13 year old Roberta keeps a diary and exchanges letters with her brother Alex, who is fighting on the Western Front. Based on actual wartime letters, this is a story about growing up in difficult...
  • In the paint
    Author:
    Rud, Jeff
    Summary:

    For as long as he can remember, Matt has wanted to play basketball. Now, as he tries out for the team at his new middle school, he realizes that the easy days of elementary ball are over and that this is a much more serious game....
  • If I die before I wake : the flu epidemic diary of Fiona Macgregor
    Author:
    Little, Jean
    Summary:

    Twelve-year-old Fiona Macgregor receives a diary for her birthday and uses it to record the arrival of the Spanish Flu epidemic in Toronto in 1918 and the impact it has on her family. Includes factual historical information about the...
  • Hope is a rainbow
    Author:
    Kotb, Hoda
    Summary:

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and cohost of NBC's Today, Hoda Kotb, comes a new book about finding hope in ordinary places. What do you hope for? What do you dream? Hoda Kotb's new book is a lyrical celebration of...
  • Hold fast : 35th anniversary edition
    Author:
    Major, Kevin
    Summary:

    Hold Fast is the widely acclaimed story of a young boy's struggle to survive in a new environment and his fight against those who stand as threats to his pride in himself and his way of life. Michael turned fourteen in May. By June,...
  • Futures
    Author:
    Summary:

    A collection of short stories and poems to provide a look at the future through open doors. Not the future that is formed in the minds of science fiction writers but the individual and personal future that awaits each of us.
  • Fever
    Author:
    Meyer, Deon, Seegers, K.L.
    Summary:

    An epic story of survival and betrayal for fans of Station Eleven and The Road. Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa to have survived a devastating virus that...
  • Featherless Bipeds
    Author:
    Scarsbrook, Richard
    Summary:

    This novel is every high school boy's wet dream: drummer Dak Sifter's adventures forming the rock and roll band Featherless Bipeds, touring, drinking beer, being discovered by the Big Plastic Record Co. and Billy VandenHammer...
  • Explore
    Author:
    Goerzen, Christy
    Summary:

    When Mike Longridge gets in trouble yet again, he is given a choice: juvenile detention or an outdoor program called Explore. He chooses Explore, but he worries about how he can survive ten months with the hippies and keeners in the...
  • Emily's dream
    Author:
    Pearce, Jacqueline
    Summary:

    In the sequel to Discovering Emily, Emily Carr is determined to become an artist. But her parents have died, and she and her siblings are ruled by the iron-willed eldest, Dede. Dede is more concerned with decorum than with ridiculous...
  • Drive
    Author:
    Wieler, Diana
    Summary:

    In a shiny new pickup packed with camping equipment and guitars, and with a $5,000 debt hanging over their heads, Jens and his musician brother, Daniel, take off on an unusual kind of road trip. Little do they know that they are...
  • Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
    Author:
    Kinney, Jeff
    Summary:

    While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
  • Cougar cove
    Author:
    Lawson, Julie
    Summary:

    Eleven-year-old Sam's first visit to the remote west coast of Vancouver Island is nothing like she'd expected. Her older cousins tease "the city kid" mercilessly, when they're not ignoring her altogether. She often finds herself left to...
  • Call it what you want
    Author:
    Morris, Keith Lee
    Summary:

    Keith Lee Morris delivers a collection of stories. In these unforgettable tales of deep humanity, the flaws and strengths of young men are explored with remarkable clarity.
  • Belle of Batoche
    Author:
    Guest, Jacqueline
    Summary:

    Belle must put aside her struggle to become the church bell ringer when those she loves are threatened during the battle of Batoche, part of the Riel Rebellion.
  • Becca fair and foul
    Author:
    Baker, Deirdre
    Summary:

    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...
  • Becca at sea
    Author:
    Baker, Deirdre
    Summary:

    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...
  • Bat summer
    Author:
    Withrow, Sarah
    Summary:

    Terence isn't cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he's not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she's a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don't -- about the gaps in life, and seeing things more...
  • Alone at 90 foot
    Author:
    Holubitsky, Katherine
    Summary:

    Fourteen year old Pamela Collins is struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Somewhat shy, Pamela is thoughtful, full of passion, often funny and sometimes tearful as she learns to cope with the emotional overload the...

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