L'enfant qui entame la rédaction de ce journal intime est innocent. Fraîchement débarqué dans son nouveau quartier, il lui tarde de rencontrer ses camarades de classe. Mais dès le premier jour, dans la cour d'école, c'est son bourreau qui l'attend. Le monde coloré qui l'habite s'assombrit à mesure que les insultes se transforment en coups, les coups en torture; les phrases sautillantes du début font place à une écriture exsangue...

« Habituellement, je déteste l'hypocrisie des changeurs de voix, ce sont des caméléons-cache-vrai. Cependant, madame-cinq-tons paraît recourir à cette technique comme un outil à la disposition des élèves. Étant donné que cet à semblant ne sert pas ses propres avantages, j'ai décidé que j'allais le tolérer et ne pas le classer dans le compartiment des mensonges. Pour l'instant. » Rapatriée après une fugue épique,...

"From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic book you will read and reread." Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda,...

"Set amidst the old-monied decadence of 70s-80s Halifax, Aubrey McKee follows a group of freaks and geeks as they navigate late adolescence and begin to come to terms with their privileged upbringing. In the tradition of Franny and Zooey and Lives of Girls and Women, Aubrey McKee is an episodic coming-of-age story and the first in a five-part series of autobiographical novels"--Publisher.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was a versatile and visionary author of novels, short stories, poetry, essays and translations whose reputation has been overshadowed by early censorship and sensationalist memoirs of the 1930s and 40s. He rejected Victorian prudishness and promoted the idea of sexual liberation in a Utopia he wished to see take form. This led to works that were viewed as obscene and pornographic by both literary critics and government...

"An anxious teen hopes that a summer of adventure and offbeat dares will keep her friend group together after graduation"-- Provided by publisher.

"Back in the low-income Toronto neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding one's own voice. Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as a compass, she rediscovers life as a precocious teen growing up in the nineties. Delia's writings reveal her anxieties following a move to Don Mount Court, a Toronto...

Nova Scotia. 1976. The weekend of the American Bicentennial. When 15-year-old Kit decides that living with his father is too repressive, he hits the road to move in with his mother. Accompanied by his girlfriend Alice, Kit will explore his very core - his sexuality, his sense of place and self - in an attempt to find a place to call home.

The White Peacock is the first novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1911, though with 1910 on the title page. Lawrence started the novel in 1906 and then rewrote it three times. The early versions had the working title of Laetitia. Maurice Greiffenhagen's 1891 painting 'An Idyll' inspired the novel. The painting had "a profound effect" on Lawrence, who wrote: "As for Greiffenhagen's 'Idyll', it moves me almost as if I were in love myself. Under...

A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.