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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead,...
62) The edge
Author
Publisher
Lerner Sports
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A teenaged gang member accused of various crimes finds redemption working and snowboarding at a ski lodge in the mountains surrounding Canada's Glacier National Park.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
Author
Series
McAlister family novels volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1909, Grace McAlister set sail for Canada as one of the thousands of British Home Children taken from their families and their homeland. Though she was fortunate enough to be adopted by wealthy parents, the secrets of her past were kept hidden for ten years until someone from her long-buried childhood arrives on her doorstep. With this new connection to her birth family, will she be brave enough to leave her sheltered life in Toronto and uncover...
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While acting as a snowboard, Stanley Lambchop gets carried away by a strong wind, sending him and his new friend Nick on a cross-country Canadian adventure.
68) The Wendigo
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this graphic retelling of a story by Algernon Blackwood, a group of hunters in 1910 Canada encounters a mysterious and deadly creature called the Wendigo.
69) Looking for Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
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