Tom Ryan
1) Pop Quiz
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (117 pages).
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Aiden is a minor cast member on a long-running high school "dramedy" with a low budget and a loyal following. Aiden and his friends are excited that they're being promoted to lead roles for the upcoming tenth season of Pop Quiz. But then they learn the show is being canceled. According to the producers, no one even watches TV anymore, with kids preferring the antics of YouTube stars. With the help of some former cast members and a...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Dee secretly hosts a popular true-crime podcast but when a missing child seems linked to the disappearance of her best friend ten years ago, she considers revealing her identity to uncover the truth.
Ten years ago Delia 'Dee' Skinner witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. She told the police everything she remembered, but it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else:...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Following Atticus, an international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world, comes the moving true story of a despondent and broken old dog and the man who gave him a second chance. Drawn by a fateful online post, Tom Ryan, with the help of his canine hiking partner, Atticus M. Finch, adopts Will, an elderly, deaf, and nearly blind soul. Long neglected and filled with anger and pain, Will finds...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After high school graduation, Mac focuses on finding the serial killer who murdered his best friend the previous summer, while working through his own feelings for the deceased.
Last summer the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him--easier said than done since Mac's best friend Connor was the murderer's final...
Author
Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Angus MacAskill was still just a boy, he began to grow...and grow...and grow! Known far and wide as the Cape Breton Giant, Angus was loved by his neighbours as much for his beautiful singing voice as for his renowned strength. But as much as Angus loved his little town of St. Ann's, Cape Breton, he decided to leave and seek fortune and adventure. With heartfelt text from critically acclaimed author Tom Ryan and meticulously researched and joyful...
7) Big time
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gerri dreams of making it big as a singer on her favorite reality show, Big Time, but she hasn't counted on being kicked off early in the competition"--Title page verso.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Maple Bay, Nova Scotia. For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay in search of a legendary lost pirate treasure, but locals know there's more than just gold buried in the sand. As the paths of three strangers converge in Maple Bay, the truth is about to be blown wide open. But not before the bodies start to pile up. Peter Barnett is rapidly approaching forty with little to show for it when a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follow cousins on a road trip to Pride as they dive into family secrets and friendships in this contemporary novel"--
As kids, Mark and his cousin Talia spent summers at the family cottage in Ontario, but a fight between their parents put an end to it. Living on opposite coasts-- Mark in Halifax and Talia in Victoria-- they haven't seen each other in years. Mark and Talia are both queer, but a trip to their grandfather's cabin after his death shows...