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A resourceful twelve-year-old comes up with an unusual plan in this moving tween novel.Cyril’s mom has always dreamed the two of them would one day have a house of their own. So, when she decides she’ll never find one they can afford, Cyril is sad for her. His solution? Post a want ad to find an older person who’s looking for live-in companionship and housekeeping help and is willing to leave them ... Read more

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For the Record

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A middle-grade novel thoughtfully explores the realities of parents’ divorceTwelve-year-old Justine’s parents are recently divorced. She and her little sister, Bea, go back and forth between their parents’ homes in Montreal. Their mother, whose anxiety manifests as the need to control, believes that their father and beloved half-sister are a bad influence on Justine and Bea. So, she enlists ... Read more

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Miracleville

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Christmas Weekend

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Geoffrey isn't too thrilled about having to spend Christmas weekend at his dad's cottage in the Laurentians. The Internet is so lousy Geoffrey can't play computer games. Even worse, there's Rebekah, his dad's latest girlfriend. Rebekah is unbearably cheerful and for someone Jewish, she's way too into Christmas. It doesn't help that Geoffrey's kid sister Angela and the family dog, Paprika, give ... Read more

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Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in Kangiqsualujjuaq, in Quebec's Far North, where his dad is an English teacher in the Inuit community.Noah's not too keen about living in the middle of nowhere, but getting away from Montréal has one big advantage: he gets a break from the bully at his old school. But Noah learns that problems have a way of following you—no matter how far you travel. To the ... Read more

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What World is Left

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★ “Heartbreaking. An important addition to the Holocaust curriculum.”—Booklist, starred reviewA pampered child used to having her own way, Anneke Van Raalte lives outside Amsterdam, where her father is a cartoonist for an Amsterdam newspaper. Though Anneke's family is Jewish, her religion means little to her. Anneke's life changes in 1942 when the Nazis invade Holland and she and her family are ... Read more

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Fifteen-year-old Tim loves his job at his dad's pet store, partly because he gets to spend time with his best friend, a black cockatoo named Elmo.But things at work have been tense since the store moved to a larger, more expensive location. To make extra money his father rents out the store's exotic birds for parties and Tim is furious at this exploitation of his friend. When Elmo is stolen from
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No More Pranks

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