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February in 1921 Whitaker, Saskatchewan, is colder and bleaker than usual as 13-year-old Lucy May Barber mourns her mother's sudden death. Unable to foresee life without Mama, Lucy decides it's up to her to hold the family together. But that turns out to be easier said than done,...

Zee is torn between making a statement with graffiti and making art.

In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Kat stows away in her mother's semitruck on a dangerous trek across a frozen lake.

Laurel, an aspiring investigative journalist, becomes a social outcast after writing an article about cheating at her high school, but she continues to pursue the story with no thought to the people she might be hurting, until she makes a shocking discovery.

"Sixteen-year-old Bailey is working at her first summer job where she is a cabin girl at a fly-in fishing camp at Witch Lake. She struggles with the job at first, but April, an older waitress with street smarts, takes Bailey under her wing. Bailey is having a great time--until a ...

Christine comes to visit her eccentric Aunt Maude who owns an antique store and also who runs the town's ghost walk. She gets to meet all of the visitors to the store, including a mysterious young man who knows far too much about a rash of thefts in the area. Christine is determi...

"In this fantasy novel, Maeve, thirteen-year-old young farm girl, meets a Druid who tells her she has the gift of sight. Then she meets a dragon who tells her she has an important task ahead of her, and Maeve agrees to live among the Druids to learn their ways and build her skill...

Linda joins her school's online chat group and starts receiving gifts from a secret admirer who she mistakenly believes is a person with the chat group nickname "Cyrano".

Liberty is the new girl at school, and everyone wants to be her friend. When she accuses a teacher of assault, doubts start to surface about her motives.

"After his father's suicide, Shaw tries to chart his own course. But when he moves across the country, he finds that the ghost of his father (a best-selling author) has followed him" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

Despite initial misgivings, it's the best summer of 17-year-old Dani's life. Staying in a small community while her mother honeymoons in Europe, Dani finds her days filled with riding, reading, rodeo, and romance. Life couldn't get any better. Then, suddenly, it couldn't get any ...

Describes one-hundred occupations in Ancient Egypt, including reed cutters, sandal makers, embalmers, charioteers, and more.

Eric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a strange search for a series of geocaches that may actually conceal a treasure.

Zach and Zoe suspect that their neighbour is secretly a bank robber and decide to investigate.

After living in Australia for 6 years, 18 year-old Jessica Lawler returns home to Canada, only to be plagued by a recurring nightmare. In it she is twelve, still living in Victoria and playing on Bone Tree Hill with her friends. At the end of the dream Jessica ends up killing a...

"While running away, a 12-year-old boy discovers that many of his preconceptions about life are wrong. A moving story of how loneliness and curiosity can lead to new friendships" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.

After accepting a ride home, sixteen-year-old Emma Kennedy is raped by a boy from school. But handsome, popular Ross Schroeder tells everyone the sex was consensual, and Emma is immediately branded as a slut. Even Emma's best friend, Jen, doesn't believe Emma's version of events....