Strong, 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 Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STRProulx, Annie
Summary: In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters -- barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: Beet MacNeill, raised on tales of wild magic around her Prince Edward Island home, must protect her loved ones when the stories of a shape-shifting sea creature and the cold, beautiful woman who controls him begin coming true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANMattick, Lindsay
Summary: "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MATCurtis, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURDimaline, Cherie
Summary: In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMUlmer, Michael
Summary: Many lives ago, a young girl in what would become the Nunavut territory of Canada builds stone men, called Inuksuk, to direct her father and brother home when they are lost in a storm while hunting caribou.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC UlmerVermette, Katherena
Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself transported back in time to 1869, when Maetis resistance fighters battle against Canadian surveyors for access to land in the Red River Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIROppel, Kenneth
Summary: Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OPPCurtis, 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 Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURGraham, Genevieve
Summary: "Canada, 2018: At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left. Soon she'll be gone, just like her husband, her daughter, and the many loved ones she's lost over the years, and the story of her shameful past will die with her. When her great grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MONBruchac, Joseph
Summary: As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRUTorres, J.
Summary: "When a boy struggles after moving to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, baseball shows him another way to approach life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate U.S. 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELPPenney, Stef.
Summary: 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PENMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, teenaged Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series MontgomeryMontgomery, L. M., 1874-1942 (Lucy Maud)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2006
Ghent, Natale
Summary: In Ontario, Canada, in 1977, twelve-year-old Nat and his sisters find that owning, training, and caring for a pony they acquired for free makes it easier to cope with the poverty they have faced since their father abandoned them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GHEGeorge, K. (Kallie)
Summary: When she accidentally makes her friend Diana sick during her grown-uppish tea party, garnering the anger of Diana's mother, Anne wonders if she will ever get to play with Diana again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and lonely, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, sixteen-year-old Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONBoyden, Joseph
Summary: "History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years istruly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014