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"In 1910 Toronto, while other bachelor girls perfect their domestic skills and find husbands, two friends perfect their sleuthing skills and find a murderer. Inspired by their fascination with all things Sherlock Holmes, best friends and flatmates Merinda and Jem launch a consulting detective business. The deaths of young Irish women lead Merinda and Jem deeper into the mire of the city's underbelly, where the high hopes of those dreaming to make...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In 1912, fearing for the safety of her beloved Newfoundland dog Sirius because of a new law outlawing non-sheepherding dogs in her Newfoundland village, twelve-year-old Maggie tries to save him by keeping him hidden.
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"Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that he may have murdered a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When Junior Canadian Rangers, Colly and Jaz, visit Colly's uncle on Canada's Arctic coast, they are quick to discover someone has been hunting gyrfalcons, the official bird of the Northwest Territories, and end up in a terrifying race for their lives.
85) The unquiet past
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Tess seeks the truth about her family and the waking visions that haunt her when her orphanage burns down, sending her to a rural Quebec mansion. When Tess learns that mental patients are being mistreated, she must face the truth about her paranormal powers if she hopes to cope with the pain of her family's secret past. Secrets (Orca Books) series, 264pp.
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Everyone deserves a new beginning. But sometimes fate isn't on your side... Over one short weekend, when Canadian musician Scott Emerson and British children's author Frankie Shaw meet by chance, a profound connection is made. Their homes are thousands of miles apart: Frankie and her children live by the coast of North Norfolk while Scott's roots lie deep in the mountains of British Columbia. Against all advice, they decide to see where this might...
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Arthur Bean volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Seventh-grader Arthur Bean, soon-to-be a rich and famous author, has set two goals for himself: to win the school writing contest and to win the heart of his secret crush, Kennedy, but his life has had some major twists and turns lately, and the recent loss of his mother definitely complicates things.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"A groundbreaking Indigenous anthology for young people . . . A joyful invitation to celebrate the circle of ancestors together." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Edited by award–winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families from Nations across...
Edited by award–winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families from Nations across...
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"Behind the scenes, nothing is what it seems. Gord Stewart, 40 years old, single, moved back into his suburban childhood home to care for his widowed father. But his father no longer needs care and Gord is stuck in limbo. He's been working in the movie business as a location scout for years, and when there isn't much filming, as a private eye for a security company run by ex-cops, OBC. When a fellow crew member asks him to find her missing uncle,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Wolf's mother is obsessed with saving the world's honeybees. He gets that. It's another thing entirely when she announces that she's taking her Save the Bees show on the road--family style and complete with mortifying bee costumes. What will it take for Wolf and his sisters to convince her that dragging the family around the province in a beat-up Ford panel van may not be the best idea she ever had?
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Dutton Books for Young Readers
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In a near-future Toronto where the British Empire never fell, Helena, August, and Margaret are caught off-guard by the discovery of a love so intense they are willing to change the course of the monarchy to keep it.
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Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique and special--and that her superpower was right in front...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
96) Hatchet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
97) Blood like magic
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Blood like magic volume 1
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.
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Random House
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Through the window of their hotel room in the Toronto Blue Jays baseball stadium, cousins Mike and Kate spot strange blue lights flashing across the bullpen and decide to investigate.
100) Coming up for air
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"L'Inconnue is a young woman lost in turbulent Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century. Amund is a Norwegian toymaker and father to two young children in the 1950s. Anouk is a contemporary Canadian suffering from cystic fibrosis, a medical condition that leaves her constantly fighting for air, swimming through the boundary between life and death as she awaits a lung transplant that could save her life. The way their stories intersect takes us...