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1) Totem
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Jonny must travel to the distant past to understand the present. As an orphaned white boy in a school full of Native students, fourteen-year-old Jonny Joe isn't like any of the others at the island Redemption Residential School off the west coast. When the advances of Father Gregory disturb Jonny, he joins another boy in an escape to a mountain cave. But when they leave the cave, the world as they knew it no longer exists. The boys travel to a native...
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Angus and his family are sent from Scotland in 1813 on a voyage to start a new life in the strange and cruel new land of western Canada. In 1813, cleared out from their beloved Scottish Highlands, 15-year-old Angus, his mother, father, small brother Rabbie, and 100 others sail for Canada to seek a better life with assistance from Lord Selkirk. Angus, his family, and their friends the O'Hares, with their aloof, unsmiling daughter Maggie, share the...
3) Thin places
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When Declan begins hearing the voice of a beautiful girl in his head, it leads him on a quest to County Sligo, Ireland, where the barrier between the Earth and the spirit world is thin, in hopes of reaching her.
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Little Jane encounters treachery and adventure on her voyage to the Nameless Isle in search of her parents' buried treasure. Second book in the Little Jane Silver Adventure series. Only two people have ever survived a trip to the Nameless Isle: Long John Silver the Second and Bonnie Mary Bright, the parents of aspiring pirate Little Jane Silver. They thought the volcanic caves on the island would be great places to store their treasure, but they were...
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CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2015) - Commended Fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser searches for her mother, who has gone missing shortly after the two moved to London, England, to escape Edie's abusive father. Is it possible to outrun your past? Fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser and her mother, Sydney, have been trying to do just that for five years. Now, things have gone from bad to worse. Not only has Edie had to move to another new school - she's...
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Algonquin Quest volume 1
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An exciting journey seen through the eyes of the Algonquin people.
This book paints a vivid picture of the original peoples of North America before the arrival of Europeans. The novel follows the story of Mahingan and his family as they live the traditional Algonquin way of life in what is now Ontario in the early fourteenth century. Along the way we learn about the search for moose and the dramatic rare woodland buffalo hunt, conflicts...
This book paints a vivid picture of the original peoples of North America before the arrival of Europeans. The novel follows the story of Mahingan and his family as they live the traditional Algonquin way of life in what is now Ontario in the early fourteenth century. Along the way we learn about the search for moose and the dramatic rare woodland buffalo hunt, conflicts...
7) Red Wolf
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In the late 1800s, Red Wolf befriends an orphaned timber wolf before being forced to attend a residential school under the Indian Act, and both the boy and the wolf must learn to survive alone in a white man's world.
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When your teen years are so messed up, how do you grow up happy?
Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother's home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she's had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she's eighteen, she's about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she's lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she's ever known.
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Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother's home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she's had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she's eighteen, she's about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she's lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she's ever known.
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Algonquin Quest volume 2
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After he learns that his wife is alive but held captive by the Haudenosaunee, Mahingan and his remaining family try to survive the harsh winter and rescue her, but faroff events, and a mysterious Mi'kmaq legend, conspire against them.
10) Hawk
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When Adam is diagnosed with leukemia, he reclaimes his First Nations name Hawk as he fights for his life and for the land of his ancestors and the creatures that inhabit it.
11) Snowhook
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Hannah must rely on her survival instincts to endure a brutal ice storm and save her family.
At first, when a massive ice storm traps fourteen-year-old Hannah and her family in a remote cabin, it feels like a game to practise the survival skills she's been learning. That all changes when an accident leaves her mother desperately low on insulin. With no power and no way to contact the outside world, Hannah steals away with the four family dogs tied...
13) Stowaway
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When Owen decides to sneak on board the yacht docked on the Pacific Coast island where he lives, he stumbles into a human trafficking operation and must find a way home and save the other teenagers on board.
14) Algonquin sunset
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Algonquin Quest volume 3
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Mahingan's children, Anoki and Pangì have become fearsome Mi'kmaq warriors, but they, and their twin cousins, have never faced an enemy like the Lakota before.
15) Tracker's canyon
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When Tristan's father disappears in Swallow Canyon, the sixteen-year-old tracker goes searching for him only to discover that someone is stalking him as he searches.
16) Drone Chase
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Ray will need every ounce of his drone skills and outdoor smarts to recover his missing bear cub before poachers get to it first.
When his orphan bear cub goes missing, sixteen-year-old drone enthusiast Ray McLellan decides to use his airborne spying skills to find it. Little does he know that an evil bear-poaching gang operating in the surrounding forest has drones, too - and a cold welcome for those who would attempt to take them down.
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