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Barracuda

Barracuda

by Sigmund Brouwer
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : mysteries & detective stories, water sports, multigenerational

Fishing for barracuda from a kayak in the Florida Keys. That's what Jim Webb thinks this resort vacation with his grandfather should be about. Except the dying resort owner holds the key to legend about a generations-old crime. A crime that is worth way too much to those who want the legend to be true. Webb soon discovers that what lurks in the su …

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Barracuda (7 Prequels)

Barracuda (7 Prequels)

by Sigmund Brouwer
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : water sports, multigenerational, mysteries & detective stories

Fishing for barracuda from a kayak in the Florida Keys. That's what Jim Webb thinks this resort vacation with his grandfather should be about. Except the dying resort owner holds the key to legend about a generations-old crime. A crime that is worth way too much to those who want the legend to be true. Webb soon discovers that what lurks in the sun …

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Dancing in the Rain

Dancing in the Rain

by Shelley Hrdlitschka
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : death & dying, adoption

While struggling with the death of her beloved adoptive mother, sixteen-year-old Brenna reconnects with members of her biological family, hoping to discover why her biological mother broke off contact many years earlier.

At the same time, she is falling in love with Ryan, who provides support while she grieves but has to leave her when she needs hi …

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Another Miserable Love Song

Another Miserable Love Song

by Brooke Carter
edition:Paperback
also available: Paperback
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : music, self-esteem & self-reliance, death & dying

Kallie Echo is starting to think dreams are dangerous. Her dad had one—to be a rock star—and then he died. Now Kallie is practically homeless and her life is falling apart. So when a punk band asks Kallie to sing for them, she surprises everyone, including herself, with her powerful voice. She's also surprised to learn that Jamie, her best fri …

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Scam

Scam

by Lesley Choyce
edition:Paperback
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : death & dying, friendship, drugs, alcohol, substance abuse

Josh’s mother always had issues—with drugs and just getting by. And Josh has always been the one who kept them together. But when his mom dies, he really is on his own and must find a way to look after himself. On his way to his mother’s funeral he meets Lindsay, a cute girl who flirts with him but then steals his wallet. When he confronts he …

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What Happens When a Loved One Dies?

What Happens When a Loved One Dies?

Our First Talk About Death
by Jillian Roberts, illustrated by Cindy Revell
edition:Hardcover
also available: Audiobook Paperback
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age: 3 to 5
Grade: p to k
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tagged : death & dying, emotions & feelings

Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death.

Using questions posed in a child’s voice and answers that start simply and become more in-depth, this book allows adults to guide the conversation to a natural and reassuring conclusion. Additional que …

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What Happens When a Loved One Dies? Read-Along

What Happens When a Loved One Dies? Read-Along

Our First Talk About Death
read by Jillian Roberts, illustrated by Cindy Revell
edition:eBook
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age: 3 to 5
Grade: p to k
Reading age: 3 to 5
tagged : emotions & feelings, death & dying

Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death.

Using questions posed in a child’s voice and answers that start simply and become more in-depth, this book allows adults to guide the conversation to a natural and reassuring conclusion. Additional que …

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Learning the Ropes

Learning the Ropes

by Monique Polak
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : circus, death & dying, non-classifiable

Mandy dreams of a career in the circus, working as an aerialist who specializes in rope climbing.

When Mandy is accepted into the prestigious Montreal Circus College summer program, she feels that she is finally on her way to fulfilling her dreams. At circus camp she is befriended—and challenged—by young circus performers from around the world. …

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Tap Out

Tap Out

by Sean Rodman
edition:Paperback
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : boarding school & prep school, violence, general (see also headings under social themes)

It was supposed to be a brand-new start for him. But old instincts die hard, and Dar is used to fighting for everything.

When Darwin's father went to prison for assault, his mom decided it was time to move him from his inner-city school to the elite Norfolk Academy. Dar is convinced by a new friend to take part in an illegal fight club, He starts co …

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The World Without Us

The World Without Us

by Robin Stevenson
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : suicide, friendship, death & dying

What do you do when someone you care about wants you to follow him to a really dark place? Do you pull away? Do you help plan the trip? Or do you put your own life on the line in the hope that love will coax your friend away from the precipice? When Mel meets Jeremy, she thinks she has finally found someone who understands her, someone who will lis …

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Seven (the Series) GoReader Volume 3

Seven (the Series) GoReader Volume 3

Devil's Pass, Last Message
edited by Orca Book Publishers
edition:Audiobook
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
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Seventeen-year-old Webb's abusive stepfather has made it impossible for him to live at home, so Webb survives on the streets of Toronto by busking with his guitar and working as a dishwasher. When Webb's grandfather dies, his will stipulates that his grandsons fulfill specific requests. Webb's task takes him to the Canol Trail in Canada's Far Nort …

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The Seven Sequels GoReader Volume 1

The Seven Sequels GoReader Volume 1

Sleeper, Broken Arrow, Coda
edited by Orca Book Publishers
edition:Audiobook
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : mysteries & detective stories

DJ jets across the Atlantic to England to follow a series of obscure clues and symbols he hopes will reveal the truth about his grandfather. In London, he stays with Doris, the elderly woman he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with. Laid up with a broken ankle, Doris has her grandchild, Charlie, offer assistance. Charlie—short for Charlotte—is a beau …

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Coda

Coda

by Ted Staunton, read by Michael Spring
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : mysteries & detective stories, humorous stories

When his brother Bunny vanishes from the Toronto City Hall skating rink, Spencer, a budding filmmaker, finds himself plunged into the stuff of movie thrillers: kidnapping, terrorists, intrigue, a missing document, a world-famous pop star, disguises, romance and a rogue alligator. As he races the clock to save his brother, he must sort the real from …

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If It Bleeds

If It Bleeds

A Nicole Charles Mystery
by Linda L. Richards
edition:eBook
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tagged : women sleuths, amateur sleuth, crime

If It Bleeds is the first novel in a series of mysteries featuring rookie reporter Nicole Charles.

Nicole Charles didn’t go to journalism school to become a gossip columnist, but the job fell into her lap right out of school and her immigrant work ethic just won’t let her quit to find something she’d like better. It’s a good job, but she str …

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About That Night

About That Night

by Norah McClintock
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : death & dying, dating & sex, mysteries & detective stories

In the depths of winter, a popular former teacher wanders off into the snow—but she's not the only one to go missing that night.

When Jodie's ex-boyfriend, school bad boy Ronan, shows up, Jordie decides that maybe Derek isn’t the one after all. But before she can end it with him, Derek disappears. Did he run away? Or did something happen to him? …

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Whisper

Whisper

by Chris Struyk-Bonn
edition:Paperback
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : class differences, dystopian, music

Sixteen-year-old Whisper, who has a cleft palate, lives in an encampment with three other young rejects and their caregiver, Nathanael. They are outcasts from a society (in the not-too-distant future) that kills or abandons anyone with a physical or mental disability. Whisper’s mother visits once a year. When she dies, she leaves Whisper a violin …

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Breathing Fire

Breathing Fire

by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
edition:Hardcover
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : runaways, orphans & foster homes

When Ally’s mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future. Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose. When Ally meets Tate, a busking fire breather, she starts to see a new life for herself as a street performer. Ally decides to run away from her foster home, but her …

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Who I'm Not

Who I'm Not

by Ted Staunton
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : law & crime, general (see also headings under social themes), orphans & foster homes

Danny has survived everything life has thrown at him: being abandoned at birth, multiple abusive foster homes, life as a con man in training. But when his latest "protector" dies suddenly, Danny has to think fast or he'll be back in foster care again. He decides to assume the identity of a boy who disappeared three years before. If nothing else, he …

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My Side

My Side

by Norah McClintock
edition:Hardcover
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : bullying, friendship, values & virtues

When quiet, shy Addie is lured into the woods, she is convinced she is going to die. She quickly finds out that there are worse things than terror—things like betrayal at the hands of her best friend and public humiliation in front of the entire school.
Neely, Addie's ex-best friend, is tired of the same old life and the same old friends. She is …

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Sam's Ride

Sam's Ride

by Becky Citra, illustrated by Amy Meissner
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age: 6 to 8
Grade: 1 to 3
Reading age: 6 to 8
tagged : multigenerational, farm & ranch life

Sam, a seven-year-old boy, is devastated when his mother leaves him for two weeks on his grandfather's ranch. Grandpa has a lot of rules, and Sam isn't happy about having to stay with him. But Sam's time on the ranch isn't all bad. He learns to ride a horse and also discovers some surprising things about his father, who died when Sam was a baby. Wh …

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The Salmon Bears

The Salmon Bears

Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest
photographs by Ian McAllister, by Nicholas Read
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
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tagged : environmental conservation & protection, bears, environmental science & ecosystems

Extensively illustrated with Ian McAllister's magnificent photographs, The Salmon Bears explores the delicate balance that exists between the grizzly, black and spirit bears and their natural environment, the last great wilderness along the central coast of British Columbia.

Key to this relationship are the salmon that are born in the rivers each sp …

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Hurricane Heat

Hurricane Heat

by Steven Barwin
edition:Paperback
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : baseball & softball, siblings, orphans & foster homes

Everything stops making sense for southpaw Travis Barkley when his parents die in a car crash and he is separated from his sister, Amanda. After years of being in the foster-care system, Travis receives a puzzling postcard from Amanda and heads to southern California to try to find her. His search is a dead-end until he meets Jesse and Ethan. With …

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Night Terrors

Night Terrors

by Sean Rodman
edition:Hardcover
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : death & dying, survival stories, emotions & feelings

Ever since he watched his little brother drown last summer, Dylan has felt like he's losing it. He can't shake the nightmares that plague him—dreams from which he wakes up screaming every night. Dylan takes a summer job at a remote wilderness hotel, hoping to leave his problems behind. But when he volunteers to help close up the resort for the wi …

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Whatever Doesn't Kill You

Whatever Doesn't Kill You

by Elizabeth Wennick
edition:eBook
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Grade: 8 to 12
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tagged : law & crime, death & dying, emotions & feelings

Jenna Cooper was only a few days old when her father was murdered and her family was shattered.

Now fifteen, she daydreams of a picture-perfect sitcom family as she struggles with the gritty realities of her life. When Jenna finds out that Travis Bingham, the man who shot her father, has been released from prison, she becomes obsessed with tracking …

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The New Normal

The New Normal

by Ashley Little
edition:Paperback
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : death & dying, contemporary

Tamar Robinson knows a lot about loss—more than any teenager should.

Her younger sisters are dead, her parents are adrift in a sea of grief, and now Tamar is losing her hair. Nevertheless, she navigates her rocky life as best she can, not always with grace, but with her own brand of twisted humor. She joins the chess club with her friend Roy, earn …

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Record Breaker

Record Breaker

by Robin Stevenson
edition:Paperback
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Grade: 4 to 7
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tagged : death & dying, depression & mental illness, 20th century

It's 1963, and Jack's family is still reeling from the SIDS death of his baby sister. Adrift in his own life, Jack is convinced that setting a world record will bring his father back to his senses and his mother back to life. But world events, including President Kennedy's assassination, threaten to overshadow any record Jack tries to beat—from s …

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Gail Bowen Ebook Bundle

Gail Bowen Ebook Bundle

A Collection of Charlie D Mysteries
by Gail Bowen
edition:eBook
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tagged : crime, suspense

Three compelling mysteries in one ebook bundle that includes the first three novels by Gail Bowen featuring the successful talk-show radio host Charlie D. Charlie D’s listeners have a particularly intimate relationship with him and often reveal much about themselves, confident that he will honor their trust and that he can save them. But Charlie …

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Seven (the Series) Ebook Bundle

Seven (the Series) Ebook Bundle

by Eric Walters; John Wilson; Ted Staunton; Richard Scrimger; Norah McClintock; Sigmund Brouwer & Shane Peacock
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also available: eBook
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
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tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance

The bestselling Seven (the Series) is comprised of seven linked novels that can be read in any order. When David McLean, well-loved grandfather and avid adventurer, dies, he leaves behind an unusual will that outlines sevens tasks he has set for his seven grandsons.  Eric Walters, John Wilson, Ted Staunton, Richard Scrimger, Norah McClintock, Sigm …

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