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1) Mrs. Mike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta after a long, hard journey from Boston, 16-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily-or so completely. Standing over six feet tall, with "eyes so blue you could swim in them," Mike Flannigan is a well-respected sergeant in the Canadian Mounted Police-and a man of great courage, kindness, and humor. Together, he and his beloved Kathy manage to live a good, honest life...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damagethose events caused to the survivors.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the dead-end Canadian town of Bleak Landing, Bridget O'Sullivan lives in a ramshackle house and dreams of another life, even as the Great Depression rages. Routinely beaten by her father and bullied by schoolmate Victor Harrison, she flees to Winnipeg, lands a job at a garment factory, and begins anew. When her father dies Bridget returns home to claim her inheritance. With no identification, the only one in town who recognizes her and can help...
5) Torn away
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Forcibly deported to Canada because of his terrorist activities in Northern Ireland, 13 year old Declan must choose between his revolutionary past and a new life with his Canadian relatives.
6) Flood
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After his mother and stepfather die in a Vancouver mudslide, eleven-year-old Andy Flynn, having been saved by leprechauns, is taken by his stern aunt to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he meets the charming father he thought was dead, and where he must decide what place to call home.
7) Wild geese
Author
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Wild Geese, the sequel to the Governor General's Award winning novel Greener Grass, follows Kit Byrne and her friend Mick O'Toole after they leave famine-stricken Ireland. Across the Atlantic, through Grosse Isle quarantine station, and on to Upper Canada, the two teenagers endure storms, epidemics, and quarantines. Desperate to find her family who travelled on a different ship, Kit is willing to sacrifice everything, even her love for Mick, to reunite...