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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life — only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond.
To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s....
To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s....
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, 1812. Struggling alone on the family farm, Abigail Tidwell knows exactly who is to blame for her hardships: the Americans. If it weren't for their part in the war, her father and brothers would be home rather than fighting abroad. But no amount of antipathy could have prepared her for the shocking sight of a wounded American soldier on her property, a man in dire need of her help. Grudgingly, Abigail tends to the soldier's...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Language
English
Description
When a romance between two zoo keepers goes sour, the woman turns to an elephant for sisterly support. Sophie Walker of Ontario is able to do this because while in Africa she learned their language.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's nightmarish experiences as the wife of a man who was arrested for a violent crime one month into their marriage, recounting her struggles with painful stigmas, her efforts to understand her husband's criminal nature and her subsequent advocacy of restorative justice programs.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the author's grandfather's experiences living in a lodge in the woods, a story of how people and animals survive a forest fire in a small Canadian town"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
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