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Faten's happy life in her village comes to an abrupt end when her father arranges for her to work as a servant for a wealthy Beirut family with two spoiled daughters. What does a bright, ambitious seventeen-year-old do when she is suddenly deprived of her friends,...
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Groundwood Books
Parution :
2013-04-22
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Fourteen-year-old Alex's life is in ruins. Her family ripped apart by unspeakable tragedy, she is stuck on Brier Island for the summer with her aunt. At first, Alex is desperate to escape this place where everyone's business is public knowledge and there is too much...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2012-10-15
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Sam is concerned about keeping things orderly and "cool" at school. She thinks people need to have a tough skin in order to fit in and withstand others’ meanness and lack of cooperation.Sam teases her free-spirited classmate Luisa and enlists a friend, Jayla, to...
Editeur :
Free Spirit Publishing
Parution :
2012-07-27
Collection :
Weird Series
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Luisa is repeatedly teased and called "weird" by her classmate Sam, even though she is simply being herself—laughing with her friends, answering questions in class, greeting her father in Spanish, and wearing her favorite polka-dot boots.Luisa initially reacts to...
Editeur :
Free Spirit Publishing
Parution :
2012-07-27
Collection :
Weird Series
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Alex McKenzie is back, a promising young hockey player who hopes to make the juniors in Quebec City. Though he still prefers fishing and roaming bush roads on his quad, he trains hard under his demanding coach Larry in his hometown on the Lower North Shore of the St....
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2012-05-01
Collection :
Break Away
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As he approaches his 18th birthday, Brandon DeWolf knows he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He failed a grade in an undistinguished school career, and is contemplating spending two more years in school when most of his friends will be graduating at the end of...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2011-09-23
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Maiko has left his village in Africa far behind, moving to live with his aunt and uncle in North America. When he thinks of home he thinks of the large Baobab at the center of his old village. To ease his loneliness,Maiko adopts the little spruce tree in the front yard...
Editeur :
Second Story Press
Parution :
2011-09-01
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Alexandre McKenzie lives in a town on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River. Summer finds him riding through the bush on his quad or fishing in an inland lake. In winter he is a promising midget hockey star who often takes refuge at his camp in the woods. But one...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2011-01-04
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Spike's baby porcupine quills have hardened into sharp, ouchy" points - and he is not impressed. But his friend Rupert convinces him that "quills are the BEST"-especially when a hungry bear finds the two friends in the forest and wants to eat them for his mid-day snack!...
Editeur :
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Parution :
2010-10-29
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A young boy must come to terms with the moral prejudices of his small town in the prairies in the 40's when he befriends the daughter of a young widow who moves in next door. Gracie is unlike anyone Luke has ever met — fun, charming, imaginative and full of life....
Editeur :
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Parution :
2010-10-25
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Rising star Eddie Stewart is on the starting grid of one of the greatest races in the world, the Indianapolis 500.With an innovative new car, an international sponsor, and the support of a talented team, Eddie seems to have everything he needs for success. But he soon...
Editeur :
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Parution :
2009-05-12
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The Acadian Star competition is the biggest thing to ever happen in Meg Gallant's small Cape Breton town. Meg dreams of performing onstage with her best friend, Neve. If they're lucky, they might even make it to the finals in Halifax. But Meg's weird old aunt, Tante...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2008-09-30
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After his mother's death, Travis Keating and his father move to Ratchet, Newfoundland, to start a new life. Some life. Travis soon discovers that only a few oddballs show any interest in him: Cole, a talker who soon makes himself scarce; Hector, a strange kid whose ears...
Editeur :
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Parution :
2008-09-26
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