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22) Finders keepers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Macy is an amateur treasure hunter. She finds all sorts of lost things along the shores of Buffalo Pound Lake. When her mom announces she's leaving her quiet park ranger job at the lake to be a police officer in the city. Macy decides she needs to find a treasure big enough to put Buffalo Pound on the map so her family can stay put. But instead of treasure, Macy finds a mermaid! She learns that the frightened creature was kidnapped...
23) Never say die
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
24) The root cellar
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
25) The gnome's eye
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Theresa and her family immigrate to Canada after World War II, she confronts her many fears with the help of a talisman given to her by a friend in Austria.
27) Yesterday
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After the mysterious death of her father and a sudden move back to her native Canada in 1985, sixteen-year-old Freya feels distant and disoriented until she meets Garren and begins remembering their shared past, despite the efforts of some powerful people to keep them from learning the truth.
28) Stolen girl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but sheseems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
29) To build a fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
A tenderfoot attempts to hike through the Yukon snows with his dog in order to reach a mining claim.
30) Ellie's new home
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ellie and her little brother Max find themselves moving from their grandmother's comfortable home in England to Upper Canada. Their mother is dead, Father wants to start over again, and in 1835, there are many opportunities for settlers in British North America. Despite the strangeness of this vast new world, Ellie is sure things will turn out all right, as long as the family stays together. But once they are in Upper Canada, Father leaves Ellie and...
31) No fixed address
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
33) Switchback
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When classmates Vale and Ash get separated from their group during an overnight nature hike, they must find a way to survive in the Canadian wilderness with limited supplies, dangerous weather conditions, and deadly wildlife.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
36) Found
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A teenage survival expert finds all his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wilderness by men determined to silence him. On his way to teach at Camp Seven Generations, a Native outdoor school, Nick witnesses a murder and then is thrown off a train. Remembering and using the teachings of his Abenaki Elders will prove to be the difference between life and death for him. Although his pursuers have modern technology to help them, Nick has...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
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 damage those events caused to the survivors.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.
40) On the trapline
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A picture book celebrating Indigenous culture and traditions. The Governor General Award-winning team behind When We Were Alone shares a story that honors our connections to our past and our grandfathers and fathers. A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. As they embark on their northern journey, the child...
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