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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
30th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it - 30th anniversary edition.
Seepeetza loves living on Joyaska Ranch with her family. But when she is six years old, she is driven to the town of Kalamak, in the interior of British Columbia. Seepeetza will spend the next several years of her life at an Indian residential school. The nuns call her Martha and cut her hair. Worst of...
62) Finders keepers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Macy is an amateur treasure hunter. She finds all sorts of lost things along the shores of Buffalo Pound Lake. When her mom announces she's leaving her quiet park ranger job at the lake to be a police officer in the city. Macy decides she needs to find a treasure big enough to put Buffalo Pound on the map so her family can stay put. But instead of treasure, Macy finds a mermaid! She learns that the frightened creature was kidnapped...
Author
Language
English
Description
This title is the third in the series of delightful stories about Anna Hibiscus, a little girl who lives in Africa. Anna Hibiscus is looking forward to visiting her grandmother in Canada, where she will see snow for the first time! But before she goes, she must find suitable clothes to keep her warm in the cold winter weather, and say goodbye to the family she loves. "Anna Hibiscus", the first book in the series, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase...
Author
Series
Crimson five volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the Crimson Five travel to Quebec City for the Piedmont Global Championships, they are blindsided by a new task and Kia must get them to pull together as pressure builds.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
70) Far North
Author
Language
English
Description
From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen-year-old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada's magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River--wall-to-wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. The pilot sets the plane down on the lake-like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Suddenly...
71) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," teenage Anne Shirley becomes a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island. Now an independent young woman with a knack for trouble and misadventures, Anne gains new insights about love, friendship, and the ways of the world.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.
74) The drop
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Alex wants to be a part of the elite Backcountry Patrol of snowboarders, but first he and three other hopefuls--Dave, Bryce, and Hope--must endure a series of tests that forces them to confront their own fears and the treacherous mountain terrain.
75) A gift for Gita
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Gita's loving relationship with her grandmother is put in sharp contrast to her sense of identity with her new home.
76) Roses for Gita
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Although Gita misses her grandmother and her grandmother's garden in India, she discovers a new friend and a new garden at her next door neighbor's house.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't speak much English, and May can't understand Chinese. She's hungry, and bored with Gong Gong's errands. Plus, it seems like Gong Gong's friends are making fun of her! But just when May can’t take any more, Gong Gong surprises her with a gift that reveals...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A lively look at the journey of a West Coast tugboat towing a log boom, as seen through the eyes of a young boy as he and his father go through their workday on a tugboat on the West Coast. Follow as they watch a log boom being made, then tow it to a mill upriver. The pair must steer clear of other ships, race against the tide and weather a storm along the way."--
79) Zack
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
The son of a Jewish father and black mother, high school senior Zack has never been allowed to meet his mother's family, but after doing a research project on a former slave, he travels from his home in Canada to Natchez, Mississippi to find his grandfather.
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