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If You Live Like Me

If You Live Like Me

by Lori Weber
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
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age: 14 to 16
Grade: 6 to 9
tagged : adolescence, new experience

“Weber writes with a light touch and a keen ear for teen dialogue and concerns.” —CM Magazine

 

Before her plane even touches down in Newfoundland, Cheryl is already plotting her escape. She knows life on this rock will be no better than it was in the other places she’s been forced to live ever since her parents launched their cross-Canada to …

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The Mask That Sang

The Mask That Sang

by Susan Currie
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
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age: 9 to 13
Grade: 5 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : native canadian, multigenerational, native american

Cass and her mom have always stood on their own against the world. Then Cass learns she had a grandmother, one who was never part of her life, one who has just died and left her and her mother the first house they could call their own. But with it comes more questions than answers: Why is her Mom so determined not to live there? Why was this relati …

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Maya

Maya

by Mahak Jain, illustrated by Elly MacKay
edition:Hardcover
2 ratings
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age: 4 to 8
Grade: p to 4
tagged : death & dying, emotions & feelings, imagination & play

The electricity in Maya’s house has gone out again. She is afraid of the dark — and her fear has been even worse since her father died. Now it feels as if the darkness will never go away.

Maya’s mother distracts her with a legend about the banyan tree, which saved the world from the first monsoon by drinking up the floodwaters, and growing ta …

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The Secret Keepers

The Secret Keepers

by Paul Yee
edition:Paperback
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : ghost stories, own voices

Set in San Francisco's Chinatown before and after 1906, this novel portrays a young Jackson Leong coping with the ghost of his brother who died in the earthquake, as well as the mysterious ghost of a young woman. Jackson must find out the reasons why the ghosts are haunting the world of the living. If he fails, his family will face disgrace and rui …

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