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- | ===== Enzo Races in the Rain, by Garth Stein ===== | ||
- | 36 pages | + | ===== Stella, Fairy of the Forest, by Marie-Louise Gay ===== |
- | Life on the farm is pretty quiet—except when he races the cars that come down the barn road. Because Enzo is fast. He knows he's different from other dogs. But people never understand Enzo when he barks, and it drives him crazy! Then one day Enzo meets a little girl named Zoë and her father, Denny, and everything changes. | + | 32 pages |
- | ===== Noni Says No, by Heather Hartt-Sussman ===== | + | Stella’s little brother, Sam, wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and says that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some. So begins another adventure of Stella, the irrepressible redhead, and her slightly apprehensive little brother. But Sam surprises Stella and himself |
- | 24 pages | ||
- | Noni can do many things: she can give her baby brother his bottle, she can help her mother in the kitchen, and she can even walk over to her friend Susie’s house. But Noni just can’t say “no.” When she was very small, it was easy saying “no” to everybody, but now that she has a best friend, she wants to please. Noni can’t say “no” to her friend, even when it means she has to hand over a precious toy, or when it means agreeing to a hideous haircut, or even giving up her bed at a sleepover. But when Noni finally finds her voice, the consequences are not what she – or the reader – expects. | + | ---- |
- | ===== Stella, Fairy of the Forest, by Marie-Louise Gay ===== | + | ====== Children' |
- | 32 pages | + | ===== Some of the Kinder Planets: Stories by Tim Wynne-Jones ===== |
- | Stella’s little brother, Sam, wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and says that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some. So begins another adventure of Stella, the irrepressible redhead, and her slightly apprehensive little brother. But Sam surprises Stella and himself by having a few ideas of his own — ideas that ensure a wonderful end to a perfect day in the woods. | + | 136 Pages |
- | ===== Missuk' | + | Meet someone new... Harriet, who sees Mars and tastes pomengranates -- all in one day; Cluny, a girl who wants to publish a magazine for people with weird names; Ky, who lives in a geodesic dome deep in the country; Fletcher, the survivor of an almost fatal illness, who decides to paste the names of exotic places he would like to visit on his chest and stomach; Edward George, who made a discovery and became famous -- famous and forgotten -- on a hot day in 1867. |
- | 36 pages | + | ===== Johnny Kellock Died Today by Hadley Dyer ===== |
- | In the land under the Northern lights, a little girl dreams of carving snow geese out of soapstone, just like her father. He promises that he'll teach her when he returns from his hunt, so Missuk goes out to play in the snow, hoping to forget her worry that she lacks his skill as a carver. Then, when a terrifying storm blows in, Missuk has something far worse to worry about: Will her father return from his hunt? | + | 208 Pages |
+ | Rosalie Norman is facing the summer of 1959 as if she was being sentenced to boredom. Her best friend is away and she is stuck socializing with the boy next door, a strange young man called "the Gravedigger" | ||
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- | ====== | + | ===== Last Chance Bay Paperback by Anne Laurel Carter |
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+ | 188 Pages | ||
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+ | Set in Cape Breton in the early stages of the Second World War, Last Chance Bay tells the story of Meg, a young girl who dreams of flying. Inspired by her heroines Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham, Meg' | ||
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+ | ===== Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle ===== | ||
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+ | 176 Pages | ||
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+ | Martin O' | ||
+ | But life in Ottawa' | ||
+ | It would all be very exciting, except for one thing. In their endless pursuit of more funds Martin and Billy have joined the church choir -- as summer boys. And the organist, Mr. T.D.S. George, is awfully fond of Martin. But Martin, despite his hardships, has a pure soul and his Granny' | ||
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+ | ===== Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Guelph, Ontario, 1897 by Jean Little ===== | ||
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+ | 224 Pages | ||
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+ | Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed with another family. Victoria vows to help Mary Anna find her brother, so they can be a family once again. | ||
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+ | ===== Stephen Fair by Tim Wynne-Jones ===== | ||
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+ | 192 Pages | ||
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+ | Stephen' | ||
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+ | ===== Summer Of The Mad Monk by Cora Taylor ===== | ||
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+ | 145 Pages | ||
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+ | There was no doubt he was strong. And he looked to Pip like a man who couldn' | ||
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+ | ===== The Crazy Man Paperback by Pamela Porter ===== | ||
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+ | 176 Pages | ||
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+ | It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad accidentally ran over her leg with the discer, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. But perhaps the worst thing from Emaline' | ||
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+ | ===== Uncle Ronald by Brian Doyle ===== | ||
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+ | 168 Pages | ||
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+ | Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can't remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of what happened one hundred years ago, when he and his mother ran away from his violent father to take refuge in the hills north of Ottawa. Brilliantly combining humor and tragedy, the award-winning Uncle Ronald is one of Brian Doyle' | ||
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+ | ===== Watching Jimmy Paperback by Nancy Hartry ===== | ||
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+ | 160 Pages | ||
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+ | Watching Jimmy is impossible-to-put-down; | ||
+ | With the dreadful secret locked away, Carolyn walks an emotional tightrope. No matter what else is happening in this post-war era, she must keep an eye on her now poor, brain damaged Jimmy. But when Uncle Ted threatens his beleaguered family with even more abuse and the loss of their home, Carolyn must find the courage to match wits with him and to speak out, using the truth as her only weapon. | ||
+ | Set in 1958, Watching Jimmy is a brilliant portrait of the post-war era, a family of strong women, and a resourceful heroine who exudes character, resilience, and most of all, love. | ||
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