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1.
Stones
by William Bell
Garnet can't wait to finish
high school and work as a carpenter in his father's antique shop. He
stumbles into a snowstorm, en route to work, and finds himself in the
middle of a horrifying event from the past.
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2.
Basket of Beethoven
by Susan Currie
For the music lovers! The
first time 11 year old Sam accidentally hears Helen playing he piano, he
knows he must learn. Perhaps if he can help solve Helen's bully problem,
she will teach him to play piano.
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3.
Out of the Fire
by Deborah Froese
As she tries to decide who her
friends are, 16 year old Dayle is caught in a terrifying bonfire
accident that forces her to examine how real friends should behave.
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4. Flying Geese
by Barbara Haworth-Attard
12 year old Margaret begins a
new school in London, Ontario after the Saskatchewan family farm fails
and her brother is off fighting in World War I. Will her father find a
job and will Margaret ever find a friend?
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5.
Everything on a Waffle
by Polly Horvath
Primrose Sqaurp simply knows her parents did not
perish at sea during a terrible storm, but try convincing the other
residents of Coal Harbour on that score.Miss Bowzer,proprietor of
"The Girl on the Red Swing Restaurant", offers a willing ear and
sage advice to Primrose.
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6. In Spite of Killer Bees
by Julie Johnston
The Quade sisters, whose mother
is gone and whose father is dead, move to a little town to collect their
late grandfather's inheritance. Although the inheritance includes very
little money, it does include a dotty aunt who wants nothing to do with
them.
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7. The Buccaneers by Iain Lawrence
"There's pirates in the
West Indies. Cannibals. They'll cook you alive." These words
will haunt 17 year old John Spencer as he embarks on his first voyage to
foreign lands. Companion to "The Wreckers" and "The
Smugglers."
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8. Orphan at my door
by Jean Little
Victoria
records her family's experiences with a 12 year old English girl, Mary
Anna Wilson, sent to Canada as a Home Child in the 1920's. As the girls'
friendship grows so does their determination to first find and then
rescue Mary Anna's brother from an abusive placement.
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9. Scared to Death
by
Norah McClintock
A girl at Chloe's high school
has been murdered and Chloe's police officer stepfather is in charge of
the investigation. Tessa is dead and one of Chloe's friends is under
suspicion of murder. Chloe has to find out who might have wanted Tessa
out of the way.
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10. The Light-Bearer's Daughter
by O.R. Melling
11 year old Dana finds herself
gradually drawn into the magical world of the faeries, compelled by them
to take a message to the second in command to the High King in exchange
for heart's desire.
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11. If I Just Had Two Wings
by Virginia Frances Schwartz
13 year old Phoebe has always
dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. One night Phoebe, Liney
and her two small children flee under cover of darkness. They face miles
of unfriendly country and dangers too horrible to imagine.
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12. Of Mice and Nutcrackers
by Richard Scrimger
The Phys.Ed teacher will not
let Jane run her "Nutcracker" rehearsal in the gym, she may be
losing her best friend and she's worried about home because Dad's sick
and Grandma - irritable, chain-smoking, non-cooking Grandma is taking
care of the family.
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13. Hope's War
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Kat Baliuk is having to deal
with her won problems as the "new kid" in an all-arts high
school when her boloved grandfather is charged with being a war
criminal. Family life is turned upside down as Kat's grandfather tries
to defend himself.
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14. Dust
by
Arthur Slade
In the depths of the
Depression, children start to disappear from Saskatchewan farms. 11year
old Robert clutches the memory of his lost younger brother to his heart
as a conman convinces his parents to build a rain machine.
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15.The
White Horse Talisman
by Andrea Spalding
Canadians Adam and his younger
sister Chantel visit cousins in England where the forces of evil
threaten to overcome the Wise Ones who have hidden one of their magic
tools near the Chalk Horse of Uffington.
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16. Across the Steel River
by Ted Stenhouse
When friends, Will and Arthur,
discover a badly beaten Blackfoot man, they refuse to accept the
explanation that he was hit by a train. As the boys dig more deeply into
what really happened, they uncover racism's ugly face.
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17. On Wings of a Dragon by Cora
Taylor
Kour'el and her dragon companion
Api'Naga struggle against the evil Queen Mariah to bring the rightful heir
to the grhorne. Will Maighdlin's grandfather be able to help her as she is
captured and force to work in the palace?
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18. Tiger in Trouble
by Eric
Walters
Sarah and her brother Nick find
themselves fact to face with unscrupulous owners of an exotic animal farm
who are willing to sell an endangered tiger for body parts. Can they get
word to their neighbor who operates a similar farm in time to save the
tiger and themselves?
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The 2003 winner is: If I Just Had Two Wings by Virginia
Frances Schwartz.
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