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1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Heartbreakingly honest and quietly funny, this #ownvoices graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new girl at school--and then there's Viola. Viola is Livy's anxiety brought to life, a shadowy twin that only Livy can see or hear. Livy tries to push back against Viola's relentless judgment, but nothing...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sara and Nadine have been like two halves of the same person, but when Nadine skips a grade and begins high school first, Sara must discover who she is without Nadine.
4) White Fang
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adapts Jack London's novel, which chronicles a wolf-dog's struggles to survive in two worlds, those of people and other dogs, where he endures abuse and a career as a vicious fight dog before learning to trust one of the "gods," a human.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
Author
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a visit to her granny, Maggie is excited to begin her first-ever beading project: a pair of strawberry earrings. However, beading is much harder than she expected! As they work side by side, Granny shares how beading helped her persevere and stay connected to her Anishinaabe culture when she lost her Indian status, forcing her out of her home community--all because she married someone without status, something the men of her community could do...
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Anna Hibiscus has never been away from her big white house in Nigeria, where baby brothers, many cousins, parents, aunties, uncles, and grandparents are always nearby. But now she's flying overseas on her own to visit Granny Canada and see snow for the first time! When she lands at the airport, Anna finds herself amid a sea of white faces in a place that is breathtakingly cold. Canada is very different, but Anna learns how to pull on toasty layers...
11) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
Author
Series
Malaika stories volume 4
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Malaika learns about her father, who came to Canada as a migrant farm worker when she was a just a baby and who shared her love of carnival. Malaika dreams about a man with a basket of fruit and guesses that the dream is about her father. Mummy explains that her daddy passed away long ago, and Grandma decides it's time Malaika knew more about her father's life. The family drives to a far-off farm where they receive a warm welcome and visit the orchard...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school, she is confused, frightened and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite being told to do otherwise. When she goes home for summer holidays, her parents decide never to send her away again, but where will she hide and what will happen when her parents disobey the law?"-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Given a camera that takes and prints tiny pictures just before leaving for the family farm in Canada, a young girl records a vacation that gets off to a slow start, but winds up being a family reunion filled with good memories.
16) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A gripping story of boy's experience in a WWII Japanese internment camp Sandy Saito is obsessed with baseball - especially the Asahi team, the pride of his community in Vancouver, British Columbia. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life, like that of every North American of Japanese descent, changes forever. His friends start calling him names and chasing him from the baseball field. His family if forbidden from visiting certain areas...
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While acting as a snowboard, Stanley Lambchop gets carried away by a strong wind, sending him and his new friend Nick on a cross-country Canadian adventure.
18) No fixed address
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
19) Dog driven
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.
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