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Four guys -- Tommy, Brad, Andy and Shane -- are all making their way through the jungle that is the last year of high school.

Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. Even so, the most recent of his five books of stories came out in 1988, and most are out of print.

Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way.

One year has passed since Roan, Alandra, and the children escaped from the Brothers.

Two years have passed since Roan fled the destruction of his village.

When Roan’s parents and the people of Longlight perish in a raid, Roan is filled with rage.

Kip is addicted to the pure adrenaline rush that hits when the stakes are high and the bets are laid down.

A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head.

For Sylvie, Ragged Island - and the whales who swam around it - is the only world she has ever known.

Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out.

Short-listed for the 2005 CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd.

Fifteen-year-old Rick Hansen is confident, outgoing, and the star of his high-school basketball team.

Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s.

Heartwarming and humorous, Kindness sensitively captures the reality of children's feelings as they navigate the small and large events in their world.

Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles.