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  • The Rex Zero Series Bundle
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    Rex Zero and the End of the WorldIt's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place.

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  • The Tim Wynne-Jones Bundle
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    The MaestroBurl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life.

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  • Rex Zero and the End of the World
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

    Summary:

    It's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war.

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  • Zoom at Sea
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    Beddows, Eric

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    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Tim Wynne-Jones.

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  • Rex Zero, King of Nothing
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    Rex and his friends begin grade six against the backdrop of the 1962 Ban the Bomb protests on Parliament Hill. But once again it is trouble on the home front that has Rex's attention.

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  • Some of the Kinder Planets
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    Meet someone new...

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  • A Thief in the House of Memory
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    It has been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present that he has avoided examining his past.

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  • The Boy in the Burning House
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    Two years after his father mysteriously disappeared, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. Then Ruth Rose crashes into his life.

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  • Rex Zero, the Great Pretender
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    Commended, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books: Historical Fiction It's September 1963 when Rex is blindsided by some unexpected news.

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  • The Maestro
    Author:

    Wynne-Jones, Tim

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    Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life.

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  • Last Airlift A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War  
    Author:

    Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

    Summary:

    Last Airlift is the true story of the last Canadian airlift operation that left Saigon and arrived in Toronto on April 13, 1975. Son Thi Anh Tuyet was one of 57 babies and children on that flight.

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  • The Hunger
    Author:

    Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

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    Fifteen-year-old Paula’s perfectionism drives every facet of her life, from her marks in Grade 10 to the pursuit of a "perfect body." A history project brings her face to face with her gr

    Genre: Psychological fiction, Young adult fiction

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  • Hope's War
    Author:

    Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

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    Short-listed for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Book Award and for the 2003 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award and long-listed for the 2002 CBC Canada Reads People’s Choice Book Kataryna Baliuk, a gift

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fiction, Young adult fiction

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  • Nobody's Child
    Author:

    Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

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    Commended for the 2004 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Selection, short-listed for the 2005 Red Maple Award and Rocky Mountain Book Award When the Armenians of Turkey are marched into

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction, Young adult fiction

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