Tim Wynne-Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four hours. Where is he? Where is his girlfriend, Bee? In an attempt to flag down the next passing car, he startles the driver, causing a fatal accident. With sirens in the distance and the lingering feeling that he's running from something--or someone--Donovan grabs the dead driver's briefcase and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four months after his best friend, Dodge, disappeared near their families' camp in a boat accident, Nate is still haunted by nightmares. He'd been planning to make the treacherous trek to the remote campsite with a friend--his first time in winter without his survival-savvy father. But when his friend gets grounded, Nate secretly decides to brave the trip solo in a journey that's half pilgrimage, half desperate hope he will find his missing friend...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In "War at the Snow White Motel," Rex and his family are vacationing in Vermont. A thoughtless act launches him into war with an older teenager at their motel, but a much bigger conflict--the Vietnam War- looms large on the horizon. Ant wants to join the #FridaysForFuture movement--and impressing the new girl at school is only one good reason why. Joseph and Danny are determined to right an old wrong, no matter the consequences. Michel takes a road...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Evan's father dies, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk--the book his father had been reading when he passed away. It is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific Island during World War II. Why was his father reading it? Who was the American soldier also stranded there? And what could this possibly mean for Evan?" -- Dust jacket.