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Paralyzed

Paralyzed

by Jeff Rud
edition:Paperback
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : football, emotions & feelings, diseases, illnesses & injuries

Linebacker Reggie Scott is forced to deal with the repercussions of an incident that shakes his belief in the game he loves. When he is persecuted by angry fans for being a "dirty" player, Reggie is forced to confront his own guilt and decide whether he can continue to play his senior season and beyond.

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A toda velocidad

A toda velocidad

(Overdrive)
by Eric Walters
edition:eBook
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : law & crime, death & dying

Jake consiguió por fin su licencia de manejo y esta noche además puede usar el auto de su hermano. Junto con su amigo Mickey, Jake sale a pasear en el auto. Cuando desafían a otro conductor a una carrera callejera, una desastrosa reacción en cadena provoca un accidente. Jake y Mickey abandonan el lugar y tratan de convencerse de que son inocent …

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Monster Lunch

Monster Lunch

by Pat Lamondin Skene, illustrated by Graham Ross
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age: 6 to 8
Grade: 1 to 3
Reading age: 6 to 8
tagged : humorous, cooking & food

In Monster Lunch we dine with Frankenstein, attend a burgoo and a birthday party, meet a grumpy garden dude and slurp hot zoop.

Each poem is followed by an interview with the main character or fascinating facts about food. This collection of yummy, yucky, messy and hot rhyming stories is bursting with rhythmical fun.

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Un trabajo sin futuro

Un trabajo sin futuro

(Dead End Job)
by Vicki Grant
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : survival stories, law & crime, general (see also headings under family)

Frances trabaja en el turno de la noche en la tienda local de abarrotes, dividiendo su tiempo entre llenar los anaqueles y trabajar en su arte. Una noche, su rutina se rompe cuando Devin entra a la tienda. Devin le dice que es el hijo de un famoso artista local y le ofrece darle su opinión sobre sus dibujos. A pesar de que Devin parece saber demas …

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Captain Jake

Captain Jake

by Shannon Stewart, illustrated by Ben Hodson
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age: 6 to 8
Grade: 1 to 3
Reading age: 6 to 8
tagged : imagination & play, pirates, bullying

Jake loves to hunt for treasure, so when the famous pirate Captain Kidd asks him to be his cabin boy, he can't refuse. But Jake soon learns that bringing home an invisible pirate can be a real disaster, particularly when the pirate is mortally terrified of his teenage sister. There are many rules of the sea, and Captain Kidd's own cabin boy, Richar …

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Thunderbird Spirit

Thunderbird Spirit

by Sigmund Brouwer
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
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tagged : hockey, prejudice & racism, friendship

Hockey stars Mike "Crazy" Keats and his new friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning a championship the least of their concerns. Dakota Smith is in trouble. But Mike "Crazy" Keats doesn't care. He is new to the Seattle Thunderbirds, and Dakota seems like a good guy to have for a friend. Unfortunately, not everyone accepts …

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Sister Wife

Sister Wife

by Shelley Hrdlitschka
edition:Paperback
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : religion & faith, values & virtues, girls & women

In the isolated rural community of Unity, the people of The Movement live a simple life guided by a set of religious principles and laws that are unique to them. Polygamy is the norm, strict obedience is expected and it is customary for young girls to be assigned to much older husbands.

Celeste was born and raised in Unity, yet she struggles to fit …

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Bio-pirate

Bio-pirate

by Bossley, Michele Martin
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
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tagged : mysteries & detective stories, science & technology, diseases, illnesses & injuries

Trevor, Robyn and Nick decide they have a mystery to solve when Trevor discovers a suspicious looking young man snooping around. They learn about missing research involving the use of carob beans to aid in cancer treatment-potentially valuable information. With a shady looking grad student, a bitter activist and an employee of a medical research fi …

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Spiral

Spiral

by K.L. Denman
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Grade: 8 to 12
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tagged : drugs, alcohol, substance abuse, horses, diseases, illnesses & injuries

When fifteen-year-old Abby is seriously injured, her wounds go far deeper than her broken back. Rehabilitation therapy teaches her to cope with her new physical reality but once she's home with her family, she refuses to participate in life and withdraws into a world of drugs.
Abby's family discovers her addiction, and she is sent to a farm that sp …

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Scum

Scum

by James C. Dekker
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
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tagged : law & crime, general (see also headings under social themes), mysteries & detective stories

Megan's brother Danny is dead. Killed in an apparent robbery in a bar. It seems like a terrible but simple case of mistaken identity, of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But as the truth comes out, Megan realizes that Danny was "known to police." He was in much deeper than she realized, and the police are not motivated to solve the crime …

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Learning to Fly

Learning to Fly

by Paul Yee
edition:Hardcover
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : prejudice & racism, emigration & immigration, drugs, alcohol, substance abuse

Jason is an outsider. A recent immigrant from China, he lives in a close-minded town with his mother and younger brother. Falling in with the wrong crowd, trying to fit in, Jason takes chances and ends up in trouble with the police. Holding on to his friendship with a Native boy, also an outsider, Jason finds he needs to fight to belong and to find …

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First Time

First Time

by Meg Tilly
edition:Hardcover
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : dating & sex, friendship, sexual abuse

Haley and Lynn are best friends. When Lynn meets Chad, a player several years older, Haley feels left out. She tries to be happy for her friend, but when her mother's new boyfriend starts making unwanted advances, Haley finds she has no one to tell. Not wanting to upset her mother's happiness and finding that Lynn is drifting away, Haley has to fac …

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Skate Freak

Skate Freak

by Lesley Choyce
edition:Hardcover
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : skateboarding, self-esteem & self-reliance

Dorf is all about skateboarding and so far that's worked out fine. But now that he's in a new city, the terrain has changed. He's no longer free to skateboard where he wishes, school is more difficult, and his passion for skateboarding garners him the nickname and reputation of a freak. With daring stunts he gains the grudging respect of local trou …

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Watch Me

Watch Me

by Norah McClintock
edition:Hardcover
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : law & crime, self-esteem & self-reliance, values & virtues

At first Kaz intends to help the old lady who's fallen in the park. But then he starts thinking about how he never gets what he wants. The next thing he knows, he's running away with her purse. The purse contains only five dollars and a battered watch. When Kaz learns who the old woman is and where the watch came from, he begins to understand conse …

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Scum

Scum

by James Dekker
edition:eBook
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : law & crime, mysteries & detective stories, general (see also headings under social themes)

Megan’s brother, Danny, is dead. Killed in an apparent robbery in a bar. It seems like a terrible but simple case of mistaken identity, of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But as the truth comes out, Megan realizes that Danny was “known to the police.” He was in much deeper than she realized, and the police are not motivated to sol …

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One Peace

One Peace

True Stories of Young Activists
illustrated by Janet Wilson
edition:Hardcover
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : social activists, military & wars, values & virtues

One Peace celebrates the "Power of One," and specifically the accomplishments of children from around the globe who have worked to promote world peace. Janet Wilson challenges today's children to strive to make a difference in this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled and fascinating volume of portraits of many "heroes for today."

Canadian Craig Ki …

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In a Flash

In a Flash

by Eric Walters
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : values & virtues, friendship, school & education

The first flash mob Ian puts together himself is a sixty-plus person, four-minute pillow fight in a department store. His friend Oswald is thrilled with the event, but Julia, the one Ian really wants to impress, is still convinced that flash mobs are stupid. While Ian tries to prove Julia wrong by initiating flash mobs with political impact, Julia …

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What World is Left

What World is Left

by Polak, Monique
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : holocaust, values & virtues, general (see also headings under social themes)

A pampered child used to having her own way, Anneke Van Raalte lives outside Amsterdam, where her father is a cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper. Though Anneke's family is Jewish, her religion means little to her. Anneke's life changes in 1942 when the Nazis invade Holland, and she and her family are deported to Theresienstadt, a concentration …

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Ramp Rats

Ramp Rats

A Graphic Guide Adventure
by Liam O'Donnell, illustrated by Mike Deas
edition:Paperback
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : skateboarding, bullying, mystery & detective

Fresh from his adventures in Wild Ride, Marcus is back and helping his cousin, Bounce, learn to skate. Between learning how to ollie and do a 50-50 grind, Bounce and his friends also have to avoid the skate-park goons and take on the outlaw bikers who are terrorizing the small town. Excitement, action and some radical skating tips. Hang on for anot …

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When Elephants Fight

When Elephants Fight

by Eric Walters, other primary creator Adrian Bradbury
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
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tagged : military & wars, violence

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. This ancient proverb of the Kikuyu people, a tribal group in Kenya, Africa, is as true today as when the words were first spoken, perhaps thousands of years ago. Its essence is simplicity—when the large fight, it is the small who suffer most. And when it comes to war, the smallest, the most vuln …

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A Thousand Shades of Blue

A Thousand Shades of Blue

by Robin Stevenson
edition:eBook
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : general (see also headings under social themes), coming of age

A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a group home. Her father is driving her crazy with his schedules and rules, her brother is miserable, and there is nev …

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Gravity

Gravity

by Leanne Lieberman
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : lgbt, general (see also headings under social themes), jewish

Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties.

Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her community. Meanwhile …

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Making Change

Making Change

Tips from an Underage Overachiever
by Bilaal Rajan
edition:eBook
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : social activists, self-esteem & self-reliance, values & virtues

Fundraising wunderkind Bilaal Rajan shares his tips for effective fundraising, using examples from his own amazing life to show how it can be done—and how you can have fun doing it. The second part of the book is a section entitled Eight Principles to Maximize Your Full Potential, which includes exercises to help you identify and attain your drea …

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The Lit Report

The Lit Report

by Sarah N. Harvey
edition:eBook
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : books & libraries, pregnancy, friendship

Julia and Ruth have been unlikely best friends since they first met in Sunday school—Ruth was standing on the Bible-crafts table belting out "Jesus Loves Me." Now that they're a year away from graduation, they're putting the finishing touches on their getaway plans. But their dream of a funky big-city loft and rich, interesting older men is threa …

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Meeting Miss 405

Meeting Miss 405

by Lois Peterson
edition:eBook
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : depression & mental illness, friendship, new experience

Life is hard enough for Tansy with her depressed mom away indefinitely and her dad making a mess of things at home. But then Dad sends her down the hall to a wrinkly old babysitter named Miss Stella, who Tansy hates on sight. Miss Stella has a unique perspective on life, to say the least, but with the help of her best friend Parveen, Tansy graduall …

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Going Places

Going Places

by Fran Hurcomb
edition:eBook
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : hockey, girls & women, mysteries & detective stories

Twelve-year-old Jess and her friends have been playing hockey with the boys in Fort Desperation, Northwest Territories, since they were six years old. They'd like to start a girls' team in their community, but is tiny Fort Desperation ready for it? Somebody is trying to scare them off through acts of vandalism. Not only do Jess and her friends have …

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Res Judicata

Res Judicata

by Vicki Grant
edition:Paperback
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : law & crime, mysteries & detective stories

Cyril MacIntyre, son of firebrand lawyer Andy MacIntyre, smells something fishy about one of his mother's cases. And it's not just that there are sea lice in the coffee. When Cyril starts investigating the death of a millionaire inventor, he gives a whole new meaning to the term "legal aid." Long on smarts and short on—well, just plain short, Cyr …

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Poachers in the Pingos

Poachers in the Pingos

by Anita Daher
edition:Paperback
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : birds, friendship

When Junior Canadian Rangers, Colly and Jaz, visit Colly's uncle on Canada's Arctic coast, they are quick to discover something is amiss. Someone has been hunting gyrfalcons, the official bird of the Northwest Territories. Could it be poachers? During a pretend emergency, Colly and Jaz put two and five together and end up in a terrifying race for t …

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The West is Calling

The West is Calling

Imagining British Columbia
by Sarah N. Harvey, illustrated by Dianna Bonder
edition:eBook
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age: 6 to 8
Grade: 1 to 3
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Leaving Fletchville

Leaving Fletchville

by René Schmidt
edition:eBook
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : values & virtues, prejudice & racism

Brandon is the biggest and toughest kid in his small-town school. He is feared as a bully, but he only pretends to be "dumb as a bag of hammers," so he can learn as much as possible about the people around him. When Leon, his sister Winnie, and their lively little brother Sam, arrive in Kingsville, they are the only black people in town. Everyone i …

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