![]() Mondo, a fourteen-year-old hunchback, has been raised by the mysterious Mr. THE HUNCHBACK ASSIGNMENTS by Arthur Slade In the story, little Jimmy and his companions seek to slay the giant, Collosso.įor her big 6 th Grade Writing Club project, Lee decides to write a book about her previous summer’s discoveries: being a real-life orphan is not as exciting or romantic as portrayed in Anne of Green Gables body parts are occasionally a source of curiosity and amusement and the sudden death of a loved one brings about unexpected life changes. Dickie’s eleven-year-old friend, Laurie Valentine, visits the polio ward and begins to tell the patients a story. The iron lung helps Dickie to breathe, keeping him alive despite his paralyzed lungs. Eight-year-old Dickie Espinosa contracts polio and is placed in a hospital iron lung. Set in 1955, this book is a mix of fantasy and historical fiction. This fast-paced book also gives a glimpse into the lives of new Canadians, especially the Irish, settling into their new existence in their adopted country. Set in Toronto in 1906, a group of adolescents enjoys an exciting new sport-iceboat racing on Lake Ontario. ![]() When a journal hinting at past relationships with humans is found, Knife realizes that humans hold the key that will either destroy or save her people but does she have the courage to find out which? A chance encounter with a young human sparks her life-long curiosity with the forbidden human race. Knife has grown up in the great Oak, the last refuge of a dying faery realm. Will their crazy plans help them outsmart their parents, or just make their lives worse?įAERY REBELS: SPELL HUNTER by R. When he forms a club for kids like him with his new friends Wang and Magnolia, the three friends realize that getting out of a school play, and ditching the chess club, while trying to lose an election, is not as easy as they think. Have your parents ever wanted you to be something that you’re not? Eleven-year-old Josh Johnson’s mother wants him to be class president, but Josh just wants to be left alone. But when their initial success leads her foster brother Billy further into a life of crime, Nell realizes that it will take more than money to save their family. Thirteen-year-old Nell knows that stealing is wrong but when she and her foster brothers find out about their foster parents’ financial problems, they hatch a desperate plan to rob a bank and thus keep their family together. On a journey that takes her all the way to Nova Scotia, this once-lonely rich girl makes new friendships and finds love but can she piece together the mystery that has brought her here?īANK JOB by James, Charles and Norma Heneghan But when she accidentally discovers information that makes her question her mother’s identity, her life is turned upside down. With a musician father, famous mother, and all the money a kid could want seventeen-year-old Robin’s life seems perfect. NOT SUITABLE FOR FAMILY VIEWING by Vicki Grant When she vanishes and wakes up in a cabin deep in the woods, she will need to try to escape and make her way back to safety before her kidnapper returns. Sixteen-year-old Stephanie lives with her mom and step dad, Greg, and though she matches the description of the girls who have been taken, she doesn’t believe it could happen to her. The town is beginning to panic after two young girls mysteriously disappear.
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