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"Seven surgeries later and, as seventeen-year-old Abby Hughes says, her facial disfigurement still sends young children screaming into their mother's arms. After hiding out at home for months after being brutally mauled by a grizzly bear while backpacking in the Rocky Mountains, ...

"Kate Harding at 16 rebels against the social norms of the remote colonial town of Victoria in 1861. Here, Indigenous people are regarded as fodder for the small pox epidemic, and Kate's hope of practicing medicine is disparaged. But she is determined and eventually wins out."-- ...

"Sixteen-year-old Claire is walking across Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver when a good-looking young man approaches. He's laughing, talking on his cellphone. Then, when they get close, he reaches out, hands her his phone, says, "I'm sorry, " then climbs over the railing and jumps....