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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Funeral Songs For Dying Girls is a young adult novel about an Indigenous girl who lives on the grounds of a cemetery with her widowed father."--
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky...
62) North
Author
Language
English
Description
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In Three Pines Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates the disappearance of a woman who was once one of the most famous people in the world and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
64) Acceleration
Author
Language
English
Description
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1940 as war rages across Europe, ten-year-old Lindy, waves goodbye to England and makes the long journey to Saskatoon, Canada, along with her mother and her cousin Cameron. They may be far from the war but they are also far from home and everyone they know and love. Life in Canada is very different but it is also full of exciting new adventures.
66) Migrant
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
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.
69) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When TJ Powar—a pretty, popular debater—and her cousin Simran become the subject of a meme: with TJ being the "expectation" of dating an Indian girl and her Sikh cousin who does not remove her body hair being the "reality"—TJ decides to take a stand. She ditches her razors, cancels her waxing appointments, and sets a debate resolution for herself: "This House Believes That TJ Powar can be her hairy self, and still be beautiful." Only, as she...
74) 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.
75) 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.
76) 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.
77) The boggart
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hapless but heroic Clancy has an opportunity to win the hearts of the hometown hockey fans -- and the Stanley Cup. Unfortunately, just as Casey at the Bat missed his big chance, Clancy blows it in the final period: instead of scoring the game-winning goal, he ends up driving the Zamboni.
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