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Canadian West series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. How she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together at his outpost in the far north. While Wynn is accustomed to life in the north, Elizabeth is not. Can their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter, loneliness, and rigors of life without any of the conveniences they're...
2) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of northern Canada.
3) Hatchet
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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English
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Indepedent young Kate Porter envisions a future far greater than the middle-class existence she's always lived, and her work as a governess is simply a means to an end. The glittering world of a society wife calls, and her new position as a private tutor for the children of Mr. Alonzo Colaco is a step in the right direction. She merrily imagines the grand house awaiting her -- but when her new employer meets her at the train station driving a gaily...
5) Shattered
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Series
Alaskan courage volume 2
Language
English
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"Piper McKenna would be overjoyed at the sight of her estranged brother, except that he's covered in blood. She knows he's innocent, but can they prove it?"--Provided by publisher.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Anne's children make friends with the unusual Meredith children. Their minister father is looking for a wife and the town bubbles with interest at his efforts.
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English
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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
12) The Blue Castle
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English
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In early 1920s Canada, drastic circumstances give Valancy, a twenty-nine-year-old unmarried woman resigned to being an "old maid," the courage to defy her controlling family and escape to a life of her own choosing.
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Series
Canadian crossings volume 2
Language
English
Description
After her beloved grandfather's death, Emmaline Moore is shocked to discover that her "deceased" father is actually living in Canada. Having no other family, Emma decides she must find him, and so embarks on a journey across the ocean, accompanied by her best friend, Jonathan. Unfortunately, Randall Moore and his well-to-do family aren't thrilled by her arrival, fearing her sudden appearance will hinder his chance at becoming mayor of Toronto in 1919....
14) I am still alive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the woods after her cabin burns down and her father is killed, a disabled girl and her dog fervently prepare for the coming winter while plotting revenge on the person who murdered her father.
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Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary got hit with the performance bug not much later. During a difficult time in junior high, he started journaling,...
16) The boggart
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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.
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English
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In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damagethose events caused to the survivors.
19) Bones to ashes
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
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English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to Acadia when the body of a young girl is found, and as she investigates the case, Temperance uncovers a startling link between the victim and her childhood friend, Evangeline, who disappeared more than twenty years earlier.
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Series
Canadian West series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges. Just when they've made new friends and started a new school, they are presented with a new posting. It seems Elizabeth's dreams for a family and home of her own are not to be. Will their love for each other, hope for the future, and their faith in God carry them through the crushing disappointments? Book...
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