He’s at his Aunt Jenn’s remote home in Desolation Sound, British Columbia with his 10-year-old sister for a peaceful summer, but will his aunt be able to help him or does he have to cope with taking care of his sister by himself? (2004 Honour Book)ĭavid Garrett, 14, faces some serious family troubles: his mom’s clinical depression and his father’s workaholic behavior.

She draws on the stories sewn into her grandmother’s quilt to find her own courage and inner strength. The next day, two ships explode in Halifax’s harbor, resulting in the greatest human tragedy Canada has ever seen – Rose is sure it’s her fault. Her prayers are answered in a very unexpected way. In 1917, miserable at school, Rose, 13, desperately prays to God that she won’t have to go to school anymore. On her long, dangerous journey on foot to find her mother and the rest of her family, Parvana becomes responsible for an unlikely trio of orphans: the baby Hassan, a one-legged boy, and a young girl, Leila. In the sequel to The Breadwinner, Parvana, now almost 13, realizes that she will not be able to pass as a boy forever. Who will survive to make the perilous journey back to the land of the living? (204 Award Winner)

Shade, Griffin’s father, must save his son and face an enemy he thought he would never see again. In this riveting sequel to Silverwing and Sunwing, the forest heaves and splits in two in a terrible quake and Griffin, a newborn silverwing bat, is sucked down a fissure to the Underworld.

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