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Top Grade Spring Selections (High School)

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tagged: high school, ESL, FSL, English, Aboriginal Studies
New releases for high school students. 100% Canadian.
Edge of Time

Edge of Time

by Susan MacDonald
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : science fiction, adolescence

Someone wants Alec dead. Someone who can invade innocent bystanders, bending their will to his, forcing them to murder. Someone who can travel through multiple dimensions, has powers beyond Earthly experience, and knows everything Alec knows. How do you fight someone like that? Riley is a target too. And like Alec, a target of more than just someone. The Tyons have come to Earth too, looking for kids like Riley and Alec. Kids with special genetic traits they aren’t even aware of and don’t kn …

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The Color of Silence

The Color of Silence

by Liane Shaw
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : friendship, death & dying, disabilities & special needs

Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end. After being involved in an accident that killed her best friend, she doesn’t see why anyone would want her around and she refuses to talk. Ordered by a judge to do community service, she must spend time at a hospital with a girl named Joanie, who has minimal control of her body and no speech.

 Never having known another way of being, Joanie has an extraordinary internal life. She has been listening and watching as the …

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Counting Back from Nine

Counting Back from Nine

by Valerie Sherrard
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : values & virtues, death & dying, parents, love & romance

"There are rules for what I've done. Specific punishments for crimes against friendship."

Laren Olivier knows the rules, but her attraction to a friend's ex-boyfriend is strong. She tells herself that if she and Scott can keep their new romance a secret, no one will get hurt. But Laren is not the only one with something to hide.

Thus begins a year-long journey through secrets, lies, exposures and betrayals. Somehow, Laren must find a way to reconcile who she is with what she's done. And when trage …

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M in the Abstract

M in the Abstract

by Douglas Davey
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : depression & mental illness, parents, mental illness, general (see also headings under family)

M is for Mary whose real name is Mariposa. She is a troubled girl who is haunted by mysterious dark shadows. She knows little about her father, and her mother can't accept her for who she is. Mary's attempts to dare to make connections with other people are doomed to fail as long as the shadows loom within her — until she figures out how she can gain control of them and use their power.

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Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, The

Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, The

Or a Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles
by Jack Hodgins
edition:Paperback
tagged : literary

In this new edition of Jack Hodgins' Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean and whose people have long been in a continuous slumber. Everything changes, however, when a beautiful sea nymph is washed ashore from a stranded freighter. People begin grasping at new possibilities. There's the giant cactus the mayor installs to attractthe tour …

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Please, No More Poetry

Please, No More Poetry

The Poetry of derek beaulieu
by derek beaulieu & Kit Dobson
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : canadian, poetry

Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to his credit, and many works appearing in chapbooks, broadsides, and magazines, beaulieu continues to push experimental poetry, both in Canada and internationally, in new directions. Please, No More Poetry is the first selected works of derek beaulieu.
As the publisher of first housepress and, more …

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Writing Surfaces

Writing Surfaces

Selected Fiction of John Riddell
by John Riddell, edited by derek beaulieu & Lori Emerson
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : short stories (single author)

In Writing Surfaces, derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present a collection of John Riddell’s work. Riddell’s poems and short stories are a remarkable mix of largely typewriter-based concrete poetry mixed with fiction and drawings. Riddell’s oeuvre fell out of popular attention, but it has recently garnered interest among poets and critics engaged with media studies (especially studies of the typewriter) and experimental writing.
Riddell is best known for his short fiction pieces “H” a …

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The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley

The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley

125 Years of the World's Biggest Bonspiel
by Jan Andrews
edition:Paperback
tagged : emotions & feelings

When no one listens, what's the point of talking? Kyle McGinley doesn't say a word. Fed up with being shuttled from one foster care home to another, he has stopped speaking. But at the home of Scott and Jill Wardman, with the help of a crow, and a swamp, and an excess of blank paint, he begins to think that maybe, just maybe, life could be better. As long as his frigging dad doesn't mess things up.

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