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Top Grade Fall 2013 Selections (K-8)

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The latest publications for elementary school students, published by independent, Canadian publishers.
Dial M for Morna

Dial M for Morna

The Dead Kid Detective Agency #2
by Evan Munday
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : mysteries & detective stories, horror & ghost stories

The anticipated second volume in Munday’s Silver Birch-nominated series

October Schwartz and her five deadest friends are back. The holiday season has descended upon the town of Sticksville like an eggnog rainstorm, but October has no time for candy canes or mistletoe. She’s busy dealing with an oddly pleasant new history teacher, her living friends’ new roles as high-school radio DJs, and two (!) new mysteries that need solving before the new year. October and her ghost friends are hot on …

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Striker

Striker

by David Skuy
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook Hardcover
tagged : soccer, diseases, illnesses & injuries, self-esteem & self-reliance

Thirteen-year-old Cody is aching to get back onto the pitch. Last year he had a tumor removed from his leg. Though it's a struggle, Cody tries out for the Lions and makes the team as a "super sub" -- one of eleven players who jokingly named themselves that because they're never allowed to play. Secretly Cody is relieved, since he hasn't told anyone on the team that he had cancer.

But then there's a shakeup in team management and suddenly Cody and the super subs are the only players left. Cody ha …

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Hoop Magic

Hoop Magic

by Eric Howling
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance

Orlando O'Malley has had to overcome a lot to play basketball. He's the worst shooter on the Evergreen Eagles middle school team. He can barely dribble around a cone in practice. And he's certainly the shortest. But Orlando has two special talents: a winning personality and the ability to call play-by-play almost everything that is happening around him.

Orlando really wants to be a star player, but despite his best efforts he can't quite seem to make the right play at the right time. His biggest …

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Caching In

Caching In

by Kristin Butcher
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : mysteries & detective stories, friendship, non-classifiable

Eric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a very strange search.

At first they are merely curious, but as the stakes rise and the challenges become more trying, the boys get truly hooked. Convinced they are indeed on the trail of treasure, they become consumed with the search, and though their quest tests their strength, intelligence, courage and even their friendship, they don't give up.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are buildin …

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Jane, the Fox and Me

Jane, the Fox and Me

by Fanny Britt, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Susan Ouriou & Christelle Morelli
edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook
tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance, bullying

A graphic novel about bullying, body image and the transformative power of fiction.

Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane’s tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is …

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Seas of South Africa

Seas of South Africa

by Philip Roy
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : pirates

InSeas of South Africa, the sixth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, it has been over two years since the young explorer first set sail in his own submarine, with his dog and seagull crew. Now, almost seventeen, Alfred is on the cusp of switching from exploring the world to playing an active environmentalist role in protecting the sea that he loves so dearly. Brought into conflict with the pirate scourge that plagues Africa's eastern shores, Alfred takes action against them, onl …

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Namesake

Namesake

by Sue MacLeod
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : europe, self-esteem & self-reliance, time travel

It started with a history project. Mr. Gregor assigned a research paper on a figure from the Tudor era, and of course Jane Grey had to pick her namesake - Lady Jane Grey, the fifteen-year-old girl whose parents schemed to place her on the throne of England, then abandoned her to face the executioner. The project is engrossing from the start, but when Jane opens a mysterious prayer book and finds herself in the Tower of London in 1553, she finds herself literally drawn into her namesake's story.

S …

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Whatever

Whatever

by Ann Walsh
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : adolescence

Sixteen-year-old Darrah is in trouble. She lost her temper and, as a result, Mrs. Johnson, was hurt. Now her parents want her to go to something called a "Restorative Justice" circle that the RCMP suggested. Darrah has to face her parents, Mrs. Johnson, a policewoman, and a "facilitator" who all sit in a circle and decide on Darrah's "sanctions." Sanctions aren't punishments, the facilitator tells her. At first Darrah doesn't believe this-helping Mrs. Johnson two afternoons a week feelslike puni …

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