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  • One Year in Coal Harbour
    Author:

    Horvath, Polly

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    Shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award.

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  • Easy Avenue
    Author:

    Doyle, Brian

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    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award In his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and the shallow but rich kids.

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  • Wheels for Walking True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Wheels for Walking True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
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    Richmond, Sandra

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    Brooks, Martha

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    Sally and Brian are in love. But at the end of a wonderful ski weekend together, a car accident leaves Sally fully paralyzed for life.

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  • Bad Boy
    Author:

    Wieler, Diana

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    Hockey is the only game worth playing in the rough-and-tumble prairie town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When sixteen-year-old A.J.

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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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  • Skim
    Author:

    Tamaki, Jillian

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    Tamaki, Mariko

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    Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto.

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  • The Cat at the Wall
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers.

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  • Empire A Groundwork Guide
    Author:

    Laxer, James

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    Springer, Jane

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    "[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generati

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  • The Breadwinner
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    "All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is

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  • Against the Odds
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    Hof, Marjolijn

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    Prins, Johanna H.

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    Prins, Johanna W.

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    USBBY Outstanding International Books selection Kiki lives with her mother and father and their very old fat dog, Mona.

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  • Ghost Train
    Author:

    Yee, Paul

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    Chan, Harvey

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    Johnson, Molly

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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 Molly Johnson.

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  • Payback
    Author:

    Heneghan, James

    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old Charley Callaghan is coping with some difficult changes. His family has recently moved to Vancouver from Ireland, and his mother has died of cancer.

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  • Summer in the City
    Author:

    Gay, Marie-Louise

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    Homel, David

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    Gay, Marie-Louise

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    An OLA Best Bet for 2012 Charlie can't wait for school to be over. But he's wondering what particular vacation ordeal his parents have lined up for the family this summer.

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  • Parvana's Journey
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is ParvanaA war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust

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  • Defying Expectations The Case of UFCW Local 401
    Author:

    Foster, Jason

    Summary:

    In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401.

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