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The Secrets Ebook Bundle

The Secrets Ebook Bundle

by Kelley Armstrong; Vicki Grant; Marthe Jocelyn; Kathy Kacer; Norah McClintock; Teresa Toten & Eric Walters
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : parents, orphans & foster homes, girls & women

In early June, 1964, the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls burns to the ground and its vulnerable residents are thrust out into the world. The orphans, who know no other home, find their lives changed in an instant. Arrangements are made for the youngest residents, but the seven oldest girls are sent on their way with little more than a clue or …

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Stones on a Grave

Stones on a Grave

by Kathy Kacer
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : parents, orphans & foster homes, holocaust

June 1964, Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life.

After a fire destroys the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls, clues about her parentage—a medical certificate and a Star of David—lead her to Germany. Despite her fears—she doesn’t speak the language, she knows no one in …

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Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

by Teresa Toten
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : emotions & feelings, orphans & foster homes, parents

Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth about the mother she believes hurt and then abandoned her. Toronto proves to be both daunting and exciting for To …

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Innocent

Innocent

by Eric Walters
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : parents, orphans & foster homes, mysteries & detective stories

After the orphanage she lives in is destroyed by fire, Betty, an innocent and trusting teen, takes a job as a maid in Kingston, Ontario. Welcomed into the household of the wealthy Remington clan, Betty makes friends with the staff at the house and soon discovers that her mother had also been a maid there—and that her father is in a nearby jail, c …

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Small Bones

Small Bones

by Vicki Grant
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : orphans & foster homes, parents, historical

Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams—but her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls hard for Eddie, a charming local boy who is equal parts helpful and distracting as Dot investigates her past. Searc …

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Welcome Song for Baby

Welcome Song for Baby

A lullaby for newborns
by Richard Van Camp
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age: 0 to 2
Grade: p to 12
Reading age: 0 to 2
tagged : new baby, parents, nursery rhymes

From renowned First Nations storyteller Richard Van Camp comes a lyrical lullaby for newborns.

Complemented with stunning photographs, this evocative board book is perfectly suited as a first book for every baby.

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Molly's Promise

Molly's Promise

by Sylvia Olsen
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : music, friendship, parents

When Molly learns a talent competition is coming to town, her friend Murphy (A Different Game, Murphy and Mousetrap) becomes her manager. Molly is certain she is a good singer—she has been singing in her head for as long as she can remember. She doesn't sing out loud because of a promise she made to herself. Years ago, Molly vowed that her mom wo …

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Box of Shocks

Box of Shocks

by Chris McMahen
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : parents, new experience, friendship

Oliver has helicopter parents—they love him, but they seriously cramp his style. He decides to fill an old wooden box with souvenirs from some of his outrageous and daring exploits. That way, he'll never forget the zombies, the killer dogs and the crazy cows, and his parents will never know that he once jumped from a bridge with the police in hot …

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Living Rough

Living Rough

by Cristy Watson
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : homelessness & poverty, parents, friendship

In most ways, Poe is like the other kids in his school.

He thinks about girls and tries to avoid too much contact with teachers. He has a loving father who helps him with his homework. But Poe has a secret, and almost every day some small act threatens to expose him. He doesn't have a phone number to give to friends. He doesn't have an address. Poe …

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Escape Velocity

Escape Velocity

by Robin Stevenson
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : parents, self-esteem & self-reliance, emotions & feelings

Lou's dad has been addicted to painkillers since an accident left him unable to work. He's a good, loving dad, but kind of useless. Lou's mother, Zoe, a successful novelist, abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until three years ago, when Lou was twelve. Their relationship since then has been strained, but when Lou's dad has a strok …

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B Negative

B Negative

by Vicki Grant
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : values & virtues, blended families, parents

Paddy loves his family, all except for his annoying stepfather Anthony. When they have a discussion about his future, Paddy overreacts and threatens to join the army. Unable to back down, he finds he is alienating everyone around him. And when he takes the physical exam and learns his blood type, his world starts to crumble and he starts to questio …

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El blanco

El blanco

(Bull's Eye)
by Sarah N. Harvey
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : alternative family, parents, emotions & feelings

Después de la muerte de su tía, Emily se entera de que todo lo que siempre ha creído es una mentira y su mundo entero se derrumba. Obligada a enfrentar el hecho de que madre no es quien ella creía, Emily trata de descubrir la verdad sobre su pasado y encontrarle sentido al futuro. Para manejar su ira, Emily se vuelca al grafiti y al vandalismo, …

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Dunces Anonymous

Dunces Anonymous

by Kate Jaimet
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : school & education, self-esteem & self-reliance, parents

Josh Johnson's mother wants him to run for class president. Josh just wants to run and hide. If only there were a club to help downtrodden eleven-year-olds escape their parents' ambitions! But since no such club exists, Josh has to invent one—he calls it Dunces Anonymous, and before he knows it, the membership is up to three.

Magnolia and Wang hel …

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Juggling Fire

Juggling Fire

by Joanne Bell
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age: 12
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12
tagged : parents, survival stories, death & dying

Rachel's idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father's depression, the family's relocation to "town" and her father's subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with understanding why her father never returned, Rachel hikes with her dog across mountain passes and along valleys to her childho …

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Ni un dia más

Ni un dia más

(Kicked Out)
by Beth Goobie
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : parents, self-esteem & self-reliance, coming of age

Dime tiene 15 años y siempre está enojada. Sus padres no la comprenden y su hermano quedó paralizado por un accidente. Cuando las peleas y las acusaciones la sobrepasan, Dime se muda con su hermano. Pero los problemas la siguen. Si Dime no entiende que debe comenzar a responsabilizarse de sus actos, nada va a cambiar.

Dime is fifteen and always a …

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Five Minutes More

Five Minutes More

by Darlene Ryan
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : suicide, parents, death & dying

D'Arcy's dad is dead.

She desperately wants it to have been an accident, but she is not sure. And when she learns the truth, things become even more difficult. Why would her father choose suicide? Why didn't she see the signs? Her father had always helped her get through everything in her life—five minutes at a time. Can she do it alone? And then …

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Bull's Eye

Bull's Eye

by Sarah N. Harvey
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : parents, alternative family, emotions & feelings

After Emily's aunt dies, Emily learns that everything she has always believed is a lie, and her world crumbles. Forced to face the fact that her mother is not who she thought she was, Emily tries to find the truth about her past and make sense of her future. Turning to graffiti and vandalism as a way to deal with her anger, she comes to realize tha …

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The Hemingway Tradition

The Hemingway Tradition

by Kristen Butcher
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : suicide, parents, art

Shaw Sebring is sixteen and trying to understand his father’s suicide. Moving with his mother halfway across the country to distance themselves from the awful truth, Shaw lands in a new school and finds that the ghost of his father, a best-selling author, has followed him. Shaw tries to chart his own course, until circumstances force him to accep …

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Alberta Alibi

Alberta Alibi

by Dayle Campbell Gaetz
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : mysteries & detective stories, farm & ranch life, parents

Sheila, Rusty and Katie are on the road again. Fresh from their adventures in Barkerville, the trio is now in southern Alberta. Sheila has been anxiously anticipating her reunion with her father and is worried about how they will get along. Her fears are confirmed when they arrive at the Triple W Ranch and he is not there to greet them. When the po …

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Kat's Fall

Kat's Fall

by Shelley Hrdlitschka
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : sexual abuse, parents, law & crime

Darcy's mother is getting out of jail.

Ten years ago Darcy's mom was convicted of throwing Darcy's baby sister off a fifth-floor balcony. Kat survived, but Darcy has spent the last decade raising his sister, giving her the love and support she has been denied by an absent mother and an uncaring father. Now, with their mother about to be released, th …

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My Name is Mitch

My Name is Mitch

by Shelagh Lynne Supeene
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance, parents, bullying

Mitch MacLeod may be the smallest kid in grade six, but he has a great sense of humor and a strong backbone. He can read, sometimes, but never at school when he has to. "You don't know what humiliation is until you have a grade one reading buddy who reads better than you do," he says. But things start to change for Mitch when he creates an opportun …

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Kicked Out

Kicked Out

by Beth Goobie
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 12 to 18
tagged : parents, self-esteem & self-reliance, coming of age

Dime is fifteen and angry all the time. Her parents don't like the way she dresses, her boyfriend, her attitude. Her older brother Darren was paralyzed in an accident she walked away from, and Dime is sure her parents wish she were the one in the wheelchair. When the fights and accusations finally become too much, Dime moves in with her brother. At …

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Birdie for Now

Birdie for Now

by Jean Little
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : dogs, self-esteem & self-reliance, parents

Dickon wasn't happy in his old home or his old school. He hopes that in his new neighborhood he will meet children who never knew his old, hyper self, who will like him for who he is now. And he hopes for a dog of his own. Dickon's mother calls him Birdie. She feeds him milk from a teddy bear mug. She worries if he's out of her sight for a moment a …

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First and Ten

First and Ten

by Jeff Rud
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : football, physical & emotional abuse, parents

Trying to land a spot on the South Side Middle School football team isn't the biggest challenge Matt Hill faces in the third installment of this popular series. Besides catching passes and dodging defenders, Matt also has to deal with the return of his estranged father following a ten-year absence. But while Matt comes to grips with forgiving his f …

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