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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is faced with one of her most difficult assignments yet when she's asked to assist in a case involving the mysterious deaths of three dead babies. Making matter even more difficult for her is that she's forced to team up with her one-time boyfriend Detective Ryan on the case. As the investigation takes them from the heart of Montreal to the mining town of Yellowknife, the two discover a truth about the deaths...
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Christine is recovering from a broken heart and finds solace in helping her adored brother Henry settle into married life. The "call of the North" tugs at her, making one young man's interest in her doubly attractive--but also filling her with uncertainty. Is Christine willing to give up her dreams of living in the North and let God help her choose a lifelong love?
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Henry--a Canadian Mountie like his father--struggles between the call of duty and the call of his heart. When he informs a young logger's wife of her husband's death, the memory of that loss haunts him for years. Assigned to a new beat five years later, he rediscovers Amber and gains her trust...and eventually her heart.
5) The odds
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English
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Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their thirty-year marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel...
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English
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Edward Dinnissen leads a charmed life. He's the Crown Prince of Canada, gets the royal treatment at his exclusive private school, and resides in a ritzy mansion. He thrives off being the perfect prince as he prepares for the Investiture Ceremony on his eighteenth birthday, the final step in his role as heir -- and Canada's future king. But this closeted Crown Prince has just one tiny problem: he's unsure how to tell his parents, his beloved country,...
Author
Series
Janette Oke Keepsake volume 9 & 10
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
c1983-1985
Language
English
Author
Series
Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 7
Language
English
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Description
"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"--
"Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Anxious to appear cool as she begins seventh-grade and missing the support of her best friend who attends another school, almost-thirteen-year-old Margot makes a series of disastrous choices when she befriends a hip, mean new girl.
12) No small thing
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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. When twelve-year-old
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alternates between the tales of Angus Seaton, the youngest crew member on a boat recovering bodies from the Titanic wreckage in 1912, and Kevin Messenger, a modern-day class clown in Victoria, British Columbia, who helps lay a victim's spirit to rest.
14) North
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
15) Flying free
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.
16) Factory girl
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emily must hold down her job working twelve-hour days in a garment factory in order to keep from starving. A story that includes historical interludes about the working conditions in factories at the turn of the century.
17) Brian's return
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
18) How it ends
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jessica is a good student who hates school because she is bullied by the "cool" girls and she is startled and grateful when Annie, the new girl in her southern Ontario high school, seeks her out on the first day of tenth grade and defends her from the bullying--it is a friendship that both girls need, but one based on assumptions and misunderstandings that ultimately threaten to drive them apart.
19) The edge
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Language
English
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Description
Tor, undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, masquerades as a waiter on a horse-racing junket called the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.
20) Ayesha at last
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is...
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