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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
When the motto of your village is "never say die," you have a lot to live up to. . . .
At home in Canada's Arctic, Nick Thrasher is an accomplished Inuit hunter at fifteen....
4) Yellow line
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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The line between Native and White begins to blur for Vince as he finds himself falling for a First Nations girl.
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Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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"The four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation are back for another mystery in Book Three of the Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series -- the first two books in the series are The Case of the Missing Auntie (Book Two) and The Case of Windy Lake (Book One). The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats: Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
7) The Wendigo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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In this graphic retelling of a story by Algernon Blackwood, a group of hunters in 1910 Canada encounter a mysterious and deadly creature called the Wendigo.
8) The Chaos
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Toronto teenager Scotch may have to acknowledge her own limitations and come to terms with her mixed Jamaican, white, and black heritage if she is to stop the Chaos that has claimed her brother and made much of the world crazy.
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Twelve-year-old Macy is an amateur treasure hunter. She finds all sorts of lost things along the shores of Buffalo Pound Lake. When her mom announces she's leaving her quiet park ranger job at the lake to be a police officer in the city. Macy decides she needs to find a treasure big enough to put Buffalo Pound on the map so her family can stay put. But instead of treasure, Macy finds a mermaid! She learns that the frightened creature was kidnapped...
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
11) Hatchet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
12) The gathering
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Darkness rising volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
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Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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"Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting archaeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance. In the midst of community conflict, family concerns, and environmental protests,...
15) Birdsong
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of nature and art. As the seasons change, can the girl navigate the failing health of her new friend? Acclaimed author and artist Julie Flett's textured images of birds, flowers, art, and landscapes bring vibrancy and warmth to this powerful story, which highlights the fulfillment of intergenerational...
17) Acceleration
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Wendy Lamb Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
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"Follow cousins on a road trip to Pride as they dive into family secrets and friendships in this contemporary novel"--
As kids, Mark and his cousin Talia spent summers at the family cottage in Ontario, but a fight between their parents put an end to it. Living on opposite coasts-- Mark in Halifax and Talia in Victoria-- they haven't seen each other in years. Mark and Talia are both queer, but a trip to their grandfather's death cabin after his death...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
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1200L
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At age six, Ben MacDonald has the ability to communicate with animals better than he can with people. Then one June day in 1870, he wanders away from his family's farm to observe the wild creatures he loves. When he doesn't return home, his family begins a desperate search for him. As the days go by with no sign of Ben, the MacDonalds start to lose hope. How could a small boy survive on the prairie? But Ben is alive. In a story that would seem...
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