Bruchac, Joseph
Summary: A teenage survival expert finds all his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wilderness by men determined to silence him. On his way to teach at Camp Seven Generations, a Native outdoor school, Nick witnesses a murder and then is thrown off a train. Remembering and using the teachings of his Abenaki Elders will prove to be the difference between life and death for him. Although...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRUMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURKhalilieh, Jackie
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from acquiring two distinct eyebrows to getting a magical first kiss and landing a spot in the school play. Within the halls of Holy Trinity High, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHACampbell, Nicola I
Summary: Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, [2005] 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMKaur Deo, Jesmeen
Summary: High school debater TJ Powar, after she and her cousin become the subject of an ugly meme, makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful... but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DEOPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 2012Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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Summary: All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn't know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers in her Welcome Home are happy to lend a hand-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURAtwood, Margaret
Summary: A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWSambury, Liselle
Summary: While struggling with her new role as Matriarch, Voya has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future, and with a newfound sense of purpose, she vows to do whatever it takes to bring her shattered community together and prevent the destruction of them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMStrong, Amanda
Summary: "On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 STRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STROke, Janette
Summary: "Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. A frontier woman now, Elizabeth had triumphed over the worst life could offer, or had she?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2005
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Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHReichs, Kathy.
Summary: Discovering the skeleton of a young girl in the neighborhood of a childhood best friend who had gone missing thirty years earlier, Tempe Brennan investigates suspicions that the victim and her friend are one and the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M REIBirdsell, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRPaulsen, Gary
Summary: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUJohnston, E. K.
Summary: This story of a small town, fierce friendships, and revenge served cold is a perfect companion to Exit, Pursued by a Bear. In the small town of Eganston, Ontario, five good girls have had enough. They've experienced the best of what their community has to offer, but they've seen the darker side too. Together, they've decided that it's time for a reckoning and that justice is their privilege to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOHReichs, Kathy.
Summary: Discovering the skeleton of a young girl in the neighborhood of a childhood best friend who had gone missing thirty years earlier, Tempe Brennan investigates suspicions that the victim and her friend are one and the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS REINielsen-Fernlund, Susin
Summary: Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NIEKeefer, Janice Kulyk
Summary: In the summer of 1963 a group of Ukrainian-Canadian housewives compare the lost opportunities of their lives to the romance of the Taylor-Burton affair. Every summer the ladies gather up swimsuits and children and head to their lake cottages at Kalyna Beach, an enclave of Ukrainian immigrants. The husbands, some wealthy, some working class, stay in the city until the weekend, leaving the ladies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2009