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Bullies and Borscht
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In 1934, just after Mary Bendiak finishes Grade 3, her father dies. After the funeral, her mother Hanya, a Ukrainian immigrant, moves the family from Windsor to Toronto where Mary and her younger sisters must deal with poverty, making new...
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Dad at 14
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Edwin Barker-Ouellet was a normal teenager. Sure, he had problems like everyone else, but on the whole, his life was pretty ordinary. He went to the movies with friends, played hockey on Friday nights, and even had a girlfriend. But all of that...
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A New Beginning
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It’s the first day of Grade 7, a big day in any kid’s life. For Kevin Rogers, the feeling is different. It’s thrilling and nauseating. It’s exciting and nerve-racking. Because for the first time in seven years, he’ll walk in the door of a brand...
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Waves of Love
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Caught in the turmoil between Irish leaders and Vikings in eleventh-century Ireland, Princess Maire mac Domnaill desires freedom—the freedom to write the stories and history of her people and the fae folk, rather than being locked in an unhappy...
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Resettlement
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In the year 2438, eleven-year-old Jesse Darris leaves everything she knows behind—Earth, school, safety—for the alien frontier of a distant planet. Alongside her parents, twin brother, and little sister, Jesse journeys 300 million miles to...
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Unknown Secrets
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In the dark trunk of a moving car, Sam awakes. She doesn’t know how she got there, where she’s being taken, or who she even is. The only thing she knows is she has to get away. With a superhuman strength that surprises her, she overpowers her...
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The Boy and The Pond
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Fifteen-year-old Max has an unhappy home life. No matter how hard he tries he can't seem to help his troubled mother. He feels like a failure as a son, that he can't do anything right. It is only on Noonan's Pond, skating across the cold, hard...
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The Last Tree in Galanthus
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Violet has always known that her sister, Arina, is different. Not only does she have strangely elongated ears, close-to-translucent skin, and an abnormally skinny, long body—but animals are drawn to her; grass turns green under her feet. And then...
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Rite of Passage
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Élan - Half Eldridge. Half Castalian. Total outcast. Helpless witness to the butchering of his parents by the invading Satyr forces, Élan is unwillingly saved and mentored by his DragonLord Uncle, Leavenstar — that is, only after Leavenstar is...
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The Kamikaze
The Galapagos' Islands Tale
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Life is like music. Music is like being alive. It has all the stations of life. Music makes us fall in love, shed tears, laugh, and it can also make us want to die, depending on the mood. A world without music would be lifeless. If I had to...
