Canadian fiction

  • Deadly

    Creator

    Harvey, Sarah N. N.

    Abstract

    Amy and Eric are the perfect couple. Popular, good-looking, happy. But after they are seen quarreling at a party, Amy disappears and Eric is the number-one suspect. Amy wakes up alone in a windowless, all-white room. She has no idea how she got there, or who put her there. All she knows is that she has to get out. Eric wakes up to news of Amy's disappearance, and a visit from the police. All he knows is that he didn't do it, and that he has to find Amy. As Amy tries to figure out a way to escape, she must also follow the instructions in a bizarre letter from her kidnapper.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Middle ground

    Creator

    Whittall, Zoe

    Abstract

    Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for: a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day everything gets turned upside down. She loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local café. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds herself questioning the certainties she's lived with her whole life.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Powerslide

    Creator

    Ross, Jeff

    Abstract

    Casey is at the end of his final year in high school. He hasn’t applied to college, and, other than skateboarding, he doesn’t believe he’s good at much of anything. When a young movie star offers him a job as a stunt double in an upcoming skateboarding movie, Casey is stoked. It’s his dream job. But when word gets out about Casey’s new gig, a local skater has other ideas about who would make the best stunt double. What price will Casey pay to realize his dream?

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Bear market

    Creator

    Bossley, Michele

    Abstract

    While volunteering at the local zoo, Robyn, Nick and Trevor learn that grizzly bears are being poached and their gall bladders removed for use in alternative medicine. Always ready to solve a mystery, the kids set out to find the poachers. Bear is not only big game, they learn, but big money to poachers. The stakes are high and the suspects many, as the kids head into their most dangerous adventure yet.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Middle row

    Creator

    Olsen, Sylvia

    Abstract

    Things have changed since Raedawn and Vince started going out and the racial boundaries in town have slipped a bit. But when Dune, who never took sides, disappears, Raedawn is determined to find out where he has gone -- or what happened to him. Fighting against ignorance and hate, they track Dune down and find he is in more trouble than they thought and that nothing is black and white.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Marqué (marked)

    Creator

    McClintock, Norah

    Abstract

    Colin obtient un emploi de nettoyeur de graffitis dans un beau quartier. Il craint d'être la cible d'un gang, mais ne s'attend pas être à soupçonné de complicité dans une série de cambriolages. Colin n'a rien fait de mal, mais sa présence sur les lieux de divers crimes le rend suspect aux yeux des policiers. Pour prouver son innocence, il devra résoudre lui-même l'énigme des cambriolages.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Orphan Ahwak

    Creator

    Rivera, Raquel

    Abstract

    Aneze, a young Aboriginal girl, is left for dead after her village is ripped apart by a wife-raid; her father and brother are killed and her mother is kidnapped. Aneze is the only survivor. She renames herself Orphan Ahwak as she struggles to survive on her own, first in the forest and then in a remote world of tundra and sea-ice. She endures cold and hunger and befriends people whose customs are completely foreign to her. Through it all she remains determined to become a hunter and to find a place in an often hostile and terrifying world.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Timberwolf rivals

    Creator

    Brouwer, Sigmund

    Ross, Graham

    Abstract

    Johnny Maverick and his friends Tom and Stu want to win the prizes donated for their hockey team's Valentine's Day dance fundraiser. Whoever wins the dance contest takes home all the prizes, one of which is a graphite hockey stick. When the boys learn that Connie, the new girl in Howling, is a great dancer, they each want her as their dance partner. But they don't think about asking her to go with them until it's too late. And as usual, things don't turn out as planned for Johnny and his friends.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Five stars for Emily

    Creator

    Waldron, Kathleen

    Abstract

    Emily is horrified when Aunt Hannah tells her that for their holiday they are heading north to a housewarming party at an isolated cabin with no indoor plumbing or electricity. When they arrive, it is even worse than she imagined. The snow is deep. The work is hard. Aunt Hannah is bossy. And Blossom, the girl her age, wants her to play ice hockey on a nearby lake. Is it possible that this could turn into the five-star holiday Emily had dreamed of?

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • So much it hurts

    Creator

    Polak, Monique

    Abstract

    Iris is an aspiring actress, so when Mick, a well-known visiting Aussie director, takes an interest in her, she's flattered. He's fourteen years older, attractive, smart, charming and sexy, in other words, nothing like her hapless ex-boyfriend, Tommy. But when Iris and Mick start a secret relationship, she soon witnesses Mick's darker side, and his temper frightens her. Before long, she becomes the target of his rage, but she makes endless excuses for him. Isolated and often in pain, Iris struggles to continue going to school, where she is preparing for her role as Ophelia.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified