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2) Girl mans up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
3) Caged eagles
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima and his Japanese Canadian family are evacuated from their village near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and held in an internment camp where he struggles to balance being Japanese enough and Canadian enough to get along with everyone.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate world where industrialization has caused many species of carbon-eating dragons to thrive, Owen, a slayer being trained by his famous father and aunt, and Siobahn, his bard, face a dragon infestation near their small town in Canada.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.
7) Shi-shi-etko
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
10) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Shy, sensitive, and a bit self-conscious, Anna Trent is the oldest daughter of a family of seven. When a young pastor asks Anna to marry him, she agrees despite her feelings of not meeting all the criteria for a minister's wife and feeling guilty about leaving her mother with all the work. Anna must discover that in the sight of the Lord, she truly is "a woman of worth."
13) Beautiful losers
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
The life of an Indian maiden, the course of a homosexual affair, and the tale of an old man are woven together in this bizarre religious epic.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An anthology of stories probing the human psyche. In the title story, a woman prepares to put her life on the line to get a man. She will confront him with a murder he committed, at which point he might kill her, but if he doesn't she will have him in her power.
15) Something more
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 finds a world where things are no longer black and white and...
16) Fitting in
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
17) Learning to fly
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jason, a recent immigrant from China, makes some bad decisions as he comes to terms with small-town racism while trying to fit in.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Temperance Brennan and long-time flame Detective Ryan are on a case involving the deaths of three infant siblings in Montreal. When the children's mother takes off in the middle of the investigation, Tempe and Ryan must join forces with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant--a man with whom Tempe shares a past--to get to the bottom of the sinister case.
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