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The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
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Described as “Lemony Snicket meets Oscar Wilde meets Edgar Allan Poe,” this supernatural adventure for middle-grade readers is not quite witty or gothic ...Read Review
Monster: The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim
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Monster, second in Shane Peacock’s The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim trilogy set in Victorian times, brings us to a world where ...Read Review
Innocent Heroes: Stories of Animals in the First World War
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This unique book tells the story of three men in a fictional Canadian platoon during the First World War, leading up to the ...Read Review
Another Me
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
In this YA historical fantasy, one of Wiseman’s teenaged narrators is an ibbur, a figure described in Hebrew kabbalistic writings as a ...Read Review
Heart of a Champion
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Ten-year-old Kenny Sakamoto wants to be just like his older brother Mickey, who at age sixteen is a star on the Asahi baseball ...Read Review
Little Red Lies
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Rachel’s beloved brother is coming home from World War II, and she’s thrilled. But the young man who returns is a ...Read Review
Death of a King
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Young Alex Macpherson time-travels to medieval Scotland in a quest to discover why his parents have disappeared into the 13th century – and if ...Read Review
Escape from Berlin
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The omnibus edition of Watts’s three novels about the Kindertransport – the rescue program that transported 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany and surrounding ...Read Review
Watching Jimmy
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It’s 1958, and Canada doesn’t yet have universal health care. That’s bad news for Jimmy, who was brain-damaged by his “Uncle” ...Read Review
The Last Song
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The Inquisition has just begun, and teenage Isabel believes she is safe from Torquemada and his brutal minions. She was raised in a ...Read Review
