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Bone. 2, The great cow race /

Smith, Jeff, 1960-


Now that they are reunited, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone plan to return home, but Phoney Bone risks everything on a get-rich-quick scheme and it all goes wrong. Plus, a war is brewing and Fone Bone helps his new friends to defend their idyllic valley from a formidable enemy.
Date Published:2005

Night of the living Zed

Sylvester, Basil,


To win a huge pile of money, fearless investigators Zed and Gabe stay overnight in Glyndebourne Manor where they must solve the puzzles in each room while dealing with scary ghosts, moving walls, cryptic clues and a crowbar-wielding figure.
Date Published:2024

Roberta Bondar : space explorer

Howden, Sarah.


Find out about Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut!
Date Published:2019

Borders

King, Thomas, 1943-,


Tells the story of a boy and his mother whose road trip from Alberta to Salt Lake City is thwarted at the border when they identify their citizenship as Blackfoot. Refusing to identify as either American or Canadian first bars their entry into the US, and then their return into Canada. In the limbo between countries, they find power in their connection to their identity and to each other.
Date Published:2021

Sky of bombs, sky of stars : a Vietnamese war orphan finds home

Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk,


An omnibus edition of the juvenile biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way. Eight-year-old Tuyet, whose left leg was twisted and stunted from polio, was evacuated from her Saigon orphanage on the last Canadian airlift for at-risk children when the city fell to North Vietnam on April 25, 1975. Adopted by the Morris family in Brantford, Ontario, she faced urgent corrective ankle surgery with little time to adjust to a new home and language. Based on personal interviews and enhanced with archival photographs and an index.
Date Published:2020

An omnibus edition of the juvenile biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way. Eight-year-old Tuyet, whose left leg was twisted and stunted from polio, was evacuated from her Saigon orphanage on the last Canadian airlift for at-risk children when the city fell to North Vietnam on April 25, 1975. Adopted by the Morris family in Brantford, Ontario, she faced urgent corrective ankle surgery with little time to adjust to a new home and language. Based on personal interviews and enhanced with archival photographs and an index.

Date Published:2020

The hammer of Thor

Riordan, Rick,


When the god of thunder's hammer goes missing, Magnus Chase and his friends are tasked with retrieving it before an onslaught of giants attacks the mortal world.
Date Published:2016

As good as dead

Jackson, Holly,


Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by her last investigation. But soon a new case finds her and this time it's all about Pip. She has a stalker, one who keeps asking: Who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? Pip soon discovers a connection between her stalker and a local serial killer, but the police refuse to act. As the dangerous game plays out it's clear that if Pip doesn't find the answers, she's as good as dead...
Date Published:2023

Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by her last investigation. But soon a new case finds her and this time it's all about Pip. She has a stalker, one who keeps asking: Who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? Pip soon discovers a connection between her stalker and a local serial killer, but the police refuse to act. As the dangerous game plays out it's clear that if Pip doesn't find the answers, she's as good as dead...

Date Published:2023

Apartment 713 : a novel

Sylvester, Kevin,


Jake Simmons hates his new home, a rundown old apartment building called the Regency. Loneliness (and a trail of kittens) leads Jake to the apartment of an elderly lady, then to the bowels of the building and then to a part-time job assisting Larry the custodian. With each passing day, the building reveals more of its mysteries to Jake. The occupants grow on him too. Unfortunately, Jake’s feeling of belonging is short-lived: the city plans to demolish the Regency. Jake feels powerless, until he’s summoned to the previously off-limits apartment 713. When he opens the door... he travels to the past! This journey provides Jake with a second chance to save both the Regency's future, and his own.
Date Published:2022

Jake Simmons hates his new home, a rundown old apartment building called the Regency. Loneliness (and a trail of kittens) leads Jake to the apartment of an elderly lady, then to the bowels of the building and then to a part-time job assisting Larry the custodian. With each passing day, the building reveals more of its mysteries to Jake. The occupants grow on him too. Unfortunately, Jake’s feeling of belonging is short-lived: the city plans to demolish the Regency. Jake feels powerless, until he’s summoned to the previously off-limits apartment 713. When he opens the door... he travels to the past! This journey provides Jake with a second chance to save both the Regency's future, and his own.

Date Published:2022

The boy who woke the sun

Woodley, A. T.,


Eleven-year-old Elliot is having a dismal pandemic summer when suddenly he's caught in the bubble of one of his own dreams and transported to another world, controlled by evil butterflies, where the sun doesn't shine. Along with his octopus sidekick, Elliot disocovers the reason for these butterflies-gone wrong, and realizes that things must be set right if he is ever to find a way home.
Date Published:2023