Although it is 1969 and the end of a decade that has brought tremendous social change even in southweatern Ontario, 14-year-old Annie Ward has experienced little of "love, peace, and understanding." A diehard Beatles fan and highly intelligent but lacking in social graces, Annie is still grieving over the death of her father and also misses Zoe, the one "best" friend she ever had, who has moved away due to less-than-friendly circumstances. Lonely but proud, Annie has distanced herself from every...
Anne of Avonlea (Arcturus Essential Anne of Green Gables) (Anne of Green Gables Collection, #2)
by L. M. Montgomery
At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job a the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else'...
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (Annotated)
by L. M. Montgomery
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with...
Skraelings (Arctic Moon Magick, #1)
by Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
In this adventurous novel - set in the ancient Arctic, but narrated for modern readers by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator - a young, wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens upon a camp in grave peril. The inhabitants of the camp are Tunit, a race of ancient Inuit ancestors known for their shyness and meekness. The tranquility of this Tunit camp has been shaken by a group of murderous, pale, bearded strangers who have arrived on a huge boat shaped like a loon.Unbeknown...
�tienne Br�l� (tienne Br l, #1)
by Jean-Claude Larocque and Denis Sauve
�tienne Br�l�. Tome 3 (14/18)
by Jean-Claude Larocque and Denis Sauve
Niagara Tunnels Secrets Revealed (Josh and Mac Mystery Adventure in Niagara Falls)
by Margarete Ledwez
The Adventures of Radisson 2 (The Adventures of Radisson)
by Martin Fournier
The next installment in the series, this book follows the young, 17th-century explorer Pierre-Esprit Radisson from North America to France and back, with plenty of excitement along the way. After spending two years with his new Iroquois family, Radisson escapes and sails across the Atlantic to Holland before boarding ship to head down the west coast of France. Using his wits and the skills picked up in the New World (present-day Canada), he makes his way up the Loire and arrives in Paris. But w...
This work of historical fiction deals with the occupation of Quebec by the Canadian Army and the massive imprisonment of French-speaking Canadian artists and trade unionists, based on the pretext of two political kidnappings. In October 1970, 21 days was the legal limit, under the War Measures Act, during which the Canadian government could hold prisoners incommunicado without charging them or justifying their arrest. Gaetan is 16. He has quit school, works in a factory in Montreal's Saint-Henr...
Algonquin Spring (An Algonguin Quest Novel, #2)
by Rick Revelle
Years after a devastating battle, Mahingan and his tribe struggle to recover a lost loved one. Six years earlier in the fourteenth century, Mahingan and his tribe fought the Battle of the Falls against the Haudenosaunee. There were many losses, and Mahingan thought he had lost his wife, Wàbananang (Morning Star). But after the battle, he learned she was still alive, taken captive by the Haudenosaunee. Now on a desperate quest to rescue her, Mahingan and his small family are wintering north of t...
Brides of Banff Springs (Canadian Historical Brides, #1)
by Victoria Chatham
Lilly McNabb - a young woman in her late teens - is a rebel in rebellious times. Colonial society in Upper Canada in 1835 is highly stratified, but radical political change is brewing. And Lilly, strong minded and strong willed, is chafing against the social strictures confining her. Lilly lives in Maitland, a small village between Brockville and Prescott in the Upper St. Lawrence River area. A milliner by trade, Lilly has a nose for trouble that draws her irresistibly towards her other calling-...
John et le R�glement 17 (14/18)
by Jean-Claude Larocque and Denis Sauve