Canadian fiction

  • Yellow dog : a coming-of-age novel

    Abstract

    Jeremy lives in a small community where winters are long and stray dogs roam the streets. When peer pressure leads Jeremy into a bad prank, he is immediately struck with guilt - and that's when Jeremy's life changes forever. Trying to make amends Jeremy befriends Yellow Dog - and in the process meets a curious old man who introduces him to the adventures of dog sledding. Soon Jeremy is forming his own old-time dog team with Yellow Dog at lead - and in the process discovers more about himself - and the old man - than he ever thought possible.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Markham, ON

    Red Deer Press

    Non spécifié
  • Along comes a Wolfe

    Creator

    Counios, Angie

    Gane, David

    Abstract

    The first exciting adventure of Shepherd and Wolfe. High school student, Sheri Beckman, has disappeared. After a massive search turns up nothing, her boyfriend, Tony Shepherd, joins forces with the wise-ass troublemaker, Charlie Wolfe, to find out what happened. However, Charlie's way isn't always lawful, so when another missing girl shows up dead, Tony must decide whether doing right sometimes means doing wrong. Against a ruthless killer, they must work together and stop him before someone else dies. These aren't your parent's boy detectives.

    Publisher (Source)

    Regina, SK

    Your Nickel's Worth Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • Magpie

    Abstract

    Magpies have an eye for shiny things. They search for bright bits of meaning amongst the dirt and filth of their world. Living in a small town on the outskirts of Saskatoon with his emotionally distant and alcoholic father, Ben struggles with his increasingly somber view of society. He is haunted by the death of his older brother and the mysteries of his mother’s suicide. Unable to live life like the other magpies around him, he slips deeper into the darkness of his own mind.

    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Thought Catalog

    Non spécifié
  • Ada, la grincheuse en tutu

    Creator

    Gravel, Elise

    Abstract

    Ada est une vraie grincheuse: elle boude, elle râle, elle déteste tout. Mais ce qu'elle déteste le plus, c'est le samedi, parce que c'est le jour de son cours de ballet. Ada déteste son tutu rose, le long trajet en auto pour s'y rendre et les postures qu'on lui demande de reproduire. Mais ce samedi là, un imprévu vient perturber le cours. Suffira t-il pour arracher à Ada la grincheuse un petit sourire?

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Montréal, Québec, La Pastèque

    Non spécifié
  • L'oiseau de Colette

    Creator

    Arsenault, Isabelle

    Abstract

    Pauvre Colette, récemment déménagée dans un nouveau quartier, sa mère lui refuse un animal de compagnie. Mais lorsqu'elle cherchera à se faire de nouveaux amis, ce sera grâce à une perruche... imaginaire! Ce livre est le premier d'une série mettant en vedette les personnages de la bande du Mile-End. Chaque livre apportera de nouvelles aventures, de nouvelles couleurs et des univers propres à la personnalité de chacun.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Montréal, Québec, La Pastèque

    Non spécifié
  • The journey

    Creator

    Cameron, Anne

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • The boat people

    Creator

    Bala, Sharon

    Abstract

    When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separtist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Random House, Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • American war

    Creator

    El Akkad, Omar

    Abstract

    Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, McClelland & Stewart

    Non spécifié
  • What's my superpower?

    Creator

    Johnston, Aviaq

    Abstract

    Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique and special--and that her superpower was right in front of her all along.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Iqaluit, Nunavut, Toronto, Ontario, Inhabit Media Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • Into the wasteland

    Creator

    Choyce, Lesley

    Abstract

    Dixon Carter wants to share his life manifesto. Don't worry — there won't be any violence. Dixon doesn't believe in violence. But Dixon is seeing things differently. He has gone off his meds — the drugs deaden him to the world. He is writing a daily journal from the point he stopped the meds.

    There are times he is angry with the world and everyone in it. But then there are the times where he can see all the beauty, just like the Romantic poets. His girlfriend Sylvia and best friend Zeke are trying to help him on his journey.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Markham, Ontario, Red Deer Press

    Non spécifié