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Nineteen eighty-four

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.


First published: London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1949. First published in 1949, George Orwell's 1984 has lost none of its impact and vision with which it first hit readers. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101.
Date Published:2009

First published: London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1949. First published in 1949, George Orwell's 1984 has lost none of its impact and vision with which it first hit readers. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101.

Date Published:2009

The glass castle : a memoir /

Walls, Jeannette.


The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
Date Published:2005

Power play

Walters, Eric, 1957-


With an afterword by Sheldon Kennedy. "A novel" --[cover]. You're going to spend some time on the power play, on penalty kill, and start right off as the second line centre," he told me. I didn't question why he was putting me on the second line. I'd show him the first line was the place I belonged. "The important thing is that you've been drafted," he said. "You're going to play Junior A, and you're going to be on my team. You're my player." This gripping novel explores the complex and disturbing relationship between a talented young hockey star and his predatory coach as it descends into sexual abuse. .
Date Published:2013

With an afterword by Sheldon Kennedy. "A novel" --[cover]. You're going to spend some time on the power play, on penalty kill, and start right off as the second line centre," he told me. I didn't question why he was putting me on the second line. I'd show him the first line was the place I belonged. "The important thing is that you've been drafted," he said. "You're going to play Junior A, and you're going to be on my team. You're my player." This gripping novel explores the complex and disturbing relationship between a talented young hockey star and his predatory coach as it descends into sexual abuse. .

Date Published:2013

The maze runner

Dashner, James, 1972-


Sequel: The scorch trials. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Date Published:2014

We all fall down : a novel /

Walters, Eric, 1957-


... and tomorrow Will, a grade nine student, will be spending the day at his father's office. As a school assignment, all the students in his class will be going to their parents' workplaces, but Will is not looking forward to it - he'd rather sleep in and do nothing with his friends. His father does not even have an exciting job like his best friend James' dad, who is a fireman. Will's dad works for an international trading company and has to wake up early every morning to commute to his office on the 85th floor of the south building of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Will hardly ever sees his father because of the hours he puts in at the office,; he doubts that his dad will bother to make time for him even when they are supposed to be spending the day together. Will discovers a new side of his father during an event that continues to affect the world. As will's new teacher says, tomorrow "might be an experience that changes your entire life."
Date Published:2006

... and tomorrow Will, a grade nine student, will be spending the day at his father's office. As a school assignment, all the students in his class will be going to their parents' workplaces, but Will is not looking forward to it - he'd rather sleep in and do nothing with his friends. His father does not even have an exciting job like his best friend James' dad, who is a fireman. Will's dad works for an international trading company and has to wake up early every morning to commute to his office on the 85th floor of the south building of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Will hardly ever sees his father because of the hours he puts in at the office,; he doubts that his dad will bother to make time for him even when they are supposed to be spending the day together. Will discovers a new side of his father during an event that continues to affect the world. As will's new teacher says, tomorrow "might be an experience that changes your entire life."

Date Published:2006

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne.


Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Date Published:2008

Slumdog millionaire : a novel /

Swarup, Vikas.


"Originally published as Q & A by Scribner"--T.p. verso. Includes P.S. insights, interviews, & more. After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
Date Published:2005

The Scorch trials

Dashner, James, 1972-


Sequel to: The maze runner. Thomas and the Gladers, having solved the Maze, plan on returning to their lives, but instead find the earth a wasteland with Cranks roaming the desert in search of their next meal and they are faced with the challenge of crossing the Scorch in two weeks in order to arrive at a safe haven.
Date Published:2010

The summer I turned pretty

Han, Jenny.


Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, April 2009. Pub Weekly, April 2009. Booklist, May 2009. Horn Book, October 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2009. Kirkus Review, April 2009. Wilson's Junior High School. School Library Journal starred. Pub Weekly. Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.
Date Published:2009

Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, April 2009. Pub Weekly, April 2009. Booklist, May 2009. Horn Book, October 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2009. Kirkus Review, April 2009. Wilson's Junior High School. School Library Journal starred. Pub Weekly. Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.

Date Published:2009

The boat people

Bala, Sharon,


"In the tradition of Lawrence Hill's The Illegal, Chris Cleave's Little Bee, and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, and inspired by a real incident, this high-stakes and increasingly timely novel powerfully evokes what it means to leave behind everything you have ever known to seek out a better life in a strange land. When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separtist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees are subjected to heavy interrogation, Mahindan fears that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan-Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese-Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis. Set in Vancouver, with riveting scenes in civil war-torn Sri Lanka, the novel asks difficult but necessary questions that will continue to be relevant as the world-wide crisis remains a reality for years to come."--
Date Published:2018

"In the tradition of Lawrence Hill's The Illegal, Chris Cleave's Little Bee, and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, and inspired by a real incident, this high-stakes and increasingly timely novel powerfully evokes what it means to leave behind everything you have ever known to seek out a better life in a strange land. When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separtist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees are subjected to heavy interrogation, Mahindan fears that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan-Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese-Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis. Set in Vancouver, with riveting scenes in civil war-torn Sri Lanka, the novel asks difficult but necessary questions that will continue to be relevant as the world-wide crisis remains a reality for years to come."--

Date Published:2018

Sadie

Summers, Courtney.


School Library Journal starred, August 2018. Pub Weekly, August 2018. Kirkus Starred, July 2018. Booklist, May 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2018. "Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water. But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him. When West McCray--a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America--overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late"--OCLC.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal starred, August 2018. Pub Weekly, August 2018. Kirkus Starred, July 2018. Booklist, May 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2018. "Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water. But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him. When West McCray--a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America--overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late"--OCLC.

Date Published:2018

A good girl's guide to murder

Jackson, Holly, 1992-,


"Originally published in paperback by Egmont UK Ltd, London, in 2019." As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
Date Published:2020

X-Men : Target: Angel /



Date Published:2000

Shake hands with the devil : The failure of humanity in Rwanda.

Dallaire, Romeo.


Includes index.
Date Published:2003

The handmaid's tale

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-



Date Published:1985

To kill a mockingbird

Lee, Harper.


Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.
Date Published:1988

Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet Jacobs /

Lyons, Mary E.


A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
Date Published:1996

Shattered

Walters, Eric, 1957-


Fifteen-year-old Ian must complete community volunteer service at a soup kitchen for the homeless. He is rescued from a near-mugging by a homeless man named Sarge, who was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces and served as a peacekeeper in Rwanda. Sarge tells him about the Rwandan genocide and Ian tries to help this shattered man who must live with his nightmarish memories.
Date Published:2006

Baseball and the color line

Gilbert, Thomas W.



Date Published:1995

Life of Pi : a novel /

Martel, Yann.



Date Published:2001