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"In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster - only to land in another.

Notes of a Native Son is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

No one is more surprised than Rennie to hear that his late grandfather, whom he hardly knew, has left a mission for him to fulfill.

Rennie is in Uruguay when his cousins discover a secret cache at their dead grandfather's cottage. Thousands of dollars in foreign currencies. A mystifying notebook.

Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she's ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspap

"Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. They wonder if his friends will start showing up again.

In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Kenzie's dog is stolen by a dog-fighting operation. This edition combines both written and spoken words.

In this mystery for teen readers, Riley Donovan uncovers the truth about the death of a popular high school football player.

In this middle-grade novel, Rennie ends up on a ski trip with Grandma and stumbles on a murder plot.

In this chilling graphic novel, Truman, the prime suspect in his girlfriend's murder, struggles to find the truth.

Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefr

Records the last months of Baldwin's ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles.

A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.

When a football player from Riley Donovan's school falls to his death from the top of a recreation center, a hunch makes her wonder if he was pushed. But who would do such a thing, and why?