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Affiche du document Gold

Gold

John Wilson

1h43min30

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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138 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h43min.
Sam and Annabel are on vacation with Annabel's parents in Italy. While visiting the small hilltop town of Civita, they hear rumors of looted gold from World War II buried somewhere in the town's network of underground tunnels and caves. Once again the two friends cross paths with their old nemesis, Humphrey Battleford, but he is not the only one in pursuit of the gold. An intimidating man named Kurt, the grandson of a ruthless Nazi, is also snooping around. After Annabel is kidnapped, Sam must solve the mystery of the hidden treasure to save his friend. This is the fourth mystery featuring Sam and Annabel, after Stolen, Bones and Lost. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!
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Affiche du document Plunge

Plunge

Eric Howling

1h56min15

  • Romans et nouvelles
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155 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h56min.
Cade's dad thinks triathlons are for wimps. He doesn't think it's a real sport and wishes Cade would play football instead, like his older brother, Trent. So Cade trains in secret and qualifies to compete in the provincial championship in Sylvan Lake. The night before the event, Cade's coach suddenly can't go, and Cade is forced to ask his dad for a ride there. He only agrees because Trent has a football game nearby. The road trip takes a nasty turn when his dad swerves to avoid a deer and their car hurtles into an ice-cold river. It's up to Cade to use his skills to save his entire family.
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Affiche du document Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug / Sguna, Salgang, Dang k'uut'as, Dang k'uusgid : Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug Haida Edition

Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug / Sguna, Salgang, Dang k'uut'as, Dang k'uusgid : Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug Haida Edition

Susan Musgrave

09min45

  • Eveil - De 0 à 6 ans
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13 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 10min.
An enjoyable dual-language board book for babies and toddlers that introduces facial expressions, emotions and gestures of affection. In this English/Haida version of Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug, emotions are linked to facial expressions with an array of colorful close-up photographic images that showcases a multiethnic cast of babies. Perfect for little hands to hold, this is a board book to share and enjoy over and over again.
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Affiche du document Heavy Freight

Heavy Freight

Sigmund Brouwer

2h07min30

  • Univers ado - Pour les plus de 12 ans
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170 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h07min.
Fifteen-year-old Maxwell Stone has been surviving and thriving in the tough part of East Vancouver by being smart and fast. But when a drug deal goes wrong, Max suddenly finds himself on the run from both the bad guys and the cops. Desperate to escape, Max impulsively decides to hop on a moving freight train. His first attempt to climb aboard fails, but at the last second a hand reaches down and pulls him in. Joseph has been riding the rails for years, and his tales inspire Max to take a journey to the last place he ever expected to go. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
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Affiche du document Out of Tune : A Riley Donovan mystery

Out of Tune : A Riley Donovan mystery

Norah Mcclintock

3h12min00

  • Univers ado - Pour les plus de 12 ans
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256 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h12min.
Everyone in town thinks they know who killed their musical prodigy, but Riley Donovan will have the final say. In Riley Donovan's last whodunit mystery, Alicia, a talented high school violinist, is found bludgeoned to death in a field on the outskirts of town. The small town's suspicion immediately falls on Carrie, the teen's musical rival. But Riley isn't convinced of Carrie's guilt, and even though her police-officer aunt tells her to stay out of it, Riley goes searching for the truth. Did Carrie really kill Alicia in a fit of jealous rage, or is there another explanation for Alicia's death?
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Affiche du document Miriam's Secret

Miriam's Secret

Debby Waldman

2h45min45

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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221 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h46min.
In 1930 nine-year-old Miriam travels by train from Brooklyn to her grandparents' farm in upstate New York. Her grandparents are kind, generous people, but they aren't exactly ideal playmates for a lonely girl. When Miriam is not doing homework in the kitchen with Bubby or helping prepare meals for the migrant workers that Zayde hires to help out on the farm, she plays with the barn kittens born just before she arrived. Those kittens are her only friends, until the day Miriam discovers a young girl hiding in the barn. Cissy and her brother, Joe, who's one of Zayde's farm hands, are on the run from an abusive uncle back in Mississippi. Miriam and Cissy hit it off immediately. But their friendship is tested when Miriam is forced to choose between keeping a promise and doing the right thing.
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Affiche du document Bats in Trouble

Bats in Trouble

Pamela Mcdowell

1h21min00

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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108 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h21min.
Cricket McKay is on the case! Cricket McKay and her best friend, Shilo, are enjoying the last few weeks of summer vacation when they discover that something is killing bats around Grandpa McKay's farm. Could the new wind turbines be the cause? The kids do some detective work and then jump into action coming up with a plan to save the bats. Bats in Trouble is the third book featuring animal-activist Cricket MacKay. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
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Affiche du document Lark and the Diamond Caper

Lark and the Diamond Caper

Natasha Deen

1h14min15

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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99 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h14min.
Rookie detectives Lark and Connor Ba are back on the case! When a pair of diamond earrings goes missing from the neighborhood general store, Lark and Connor just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Carefully mining the adults for clues, the twin sleuths work together to solve the mystery. Lark and the Diamond Caper is the second title in the Lark Ba Detective series. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
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Affiche du document Getting the Brush Off

Getting the Brush Off

Mere Joyce

1h30min00

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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120 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h30min.
Two years ago, sixteen-year-old Sydney Hart was kicked out of the prestigious Burke Academy when her mother could no longer afford the tuition. Sydney lost a promising future in the arts, as well as her best friend, who didn't want to be seen with an art academy reject. But now, without Burke's rigid structure, Sydney has found her true passion in performance painting and is busking on Halifax's boardwalk to earn enough money to go to art camp. After the police shut her down, Sydney learns her old school is hosting a "brush-off" speed-painting contest with a cash prize. Entering would mean facing her painful past, not to mention her former friend, who's also competing. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
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Affiche du document Island in the Salish Sea

Island in the Salish Sea

Sheryl McFarlane

13min30

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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18 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 13min.
This gorgeously illustrated picture book is a celebration of summer vacation and West Coast island life. Every day is different on Gran's island in the Salish Sea as granddaughter climbs big-leaf maples, eats blackberries, explores tide pools and sandstone caves and examines ancient middens and petroglyphs. She and Gran watch harbor seals sunning themselves and Gran's neighbor carving an eagle out of a piece of cedar while drinking fresh nettle tea. And on her way home, our young narrator sees a pod of orcas, breaching, tail lobbing and spy-hopping as she says goodbye to the island for another summer.
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Affiche du document Better Together : Creating Community in an Uncertain World

Better Together : Creating Community in an Uncertain World

Nikki Tate

37min30

  • Découverte
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50 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 37min.
Better Together explores how people gather in groups of all kinds to fulfill the basic human need for companionship. From the smallest units of parents, siblings and friends to global organizations that try to build on a foundation of common human experience to meet their goals, people working together are a powerful force for change. Too often, we look at someone and see all the ways we are different. People all around the world come together to build things, teach and entertain each other, and provide everything from better health care to good food to security and education. Better Together examines the many ways we are the same, no matter where we live.
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Affiche du document POV

POV

Ted Staunton

1h48min00

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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144 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h48min.
One small fib snowballs into dozens of lies, and soon Spencer finds himself in way over his head. When first-year film student Spencer O'Toole is asked to make a music video for a band, he leaps at the chance. But Jerry, Spencer's dad, shows up, and somehow the band assumes he's in charge, despite the fact that he has zero background in film. And then there's Scratch, violent gang member turned sleazy music producer, who keeps making big promises but fails to deliver on a single one. Spencer has no idea how he's going to get this thing made. When the band invites him and his dad up to a cottage for the weekend, Spencer takes the opportunity to ditch Jerry. What could go wrong? Everything! This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!
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Affiche du document First Times

First Times

Charles Ghigna

25min30

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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34 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 25min.
Experience the adorable first adventures of childhood with this picture book from bestselling author Charles Ghigna and celebrated illustrator Lori Joy Smith. From the first slip down a slide to the first time picking out a book to read, this rollicking narrative takes readers on a journey of discovery into the memorable firsts in a child's world. A story that will be enjoyed by the whole family, from the youngest, eager to experience their own adventures, to the oldest, so proud to watch them grow.
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Affiche du document Speed

Speed

Ted Staunton

2h03min45

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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165 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h4min.
How can you liven up a boring camping trip with your grandpa and your younger brother? Spencer has the answer: lose the new cell phone you weren't supposed to bring with you. Add a War of 1812 reenactment, a student film crew, an old flame of Grandpa's, Laura Secord's cowbell and a larcenous hardcore history buff, and you get a weekend that gives Spencer his first taste of independence and maybe a glimpse of his future, by way of the past. In this funny prequel to Jump Cut and Coda, the goofy and creative Spencer gets caught up in a War of 1812 reenactment.
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Affiche du document Pandas on the Eastside

Pandas on the Eastside

Gabrielle Prendergast

2h19min30

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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186 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h19min.
When ten-year-old Journey Song hears that two pandas are being held in a warehouse in her neighborhood, she worries that they may be hungry, cold and lonely. Horrified to learn that the pandas, originally destined for a zoo in Washington, might be shipped back to China because of a diplomatic spat between China and the United States, Journey rallies her friends and neighbors on the poverty-stricken Eastside. Her infectious enthusiasm for all things panda is hard to resist, and soon she's getting assistance from every corner of her tight-knit neighborhood.
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Affiche du document Salamander Rescue

Salamander Rescue

Pamela Mcdowell

1h01min30

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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82 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h01min.
Cricket McKay is back and answering a new SOS: "Save Our Salamanders!" Cricket McKay has lived in Waterton all her life, so she is surprised to discover an animal she hasn’t seen before: the long-toed salamander. She finds a band of them migrating from the pond to their hibernation grounds at Crandell Mountain. Crossing the road that lies between the pond and the mountain is dangerous enough, but now a newly-constructed curb makes their journey even more challenging. Can Cricket and her friends come up with a solution to help the salamanders? Salamander Rescue is the second book featuring Cricket and friends. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
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Affiche du document Bedtime 123

Bedtime 123

Walters Eric

21min00

  • Eveil - De 0 à 6 ans
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28 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 21min.
Lull your little one to sleep while counting the animals also nestling in for the night. Count the stars coming out, fox cubs snuggling, puppies piling and chicks cuddling as baby rocks gently to sleep in this gorgeously illustrated board book from bestselling author Eric Walters and award-winning illustrator Josée Bisaillon.
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Affiche du document Trial by Fire : A Riley Donovan mystery

Trial by Fire : A Riley Donovan mystery

Norah Mcclintock

3h13min30

  • Univers ado - Pour les plus de 12 ans
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258 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h13min.
Riley Donovan is the new kid in a small town where her aunt (and guardian) has just started a job as a detective on the town’s police force. Riley is home alone when a neighbor’s barn catches on fire; when she realizes that he is trapped in the barn, she calls 9-1-1 and then tries to save him. But instead of being hailed as a hero, Riley finds herself the target of vandalism and violence. Never one to back away from a confrontation, Riley discovers that her neighbor, Mr. Goran is an immigrant from Kurdistan who is hated by most of the townspeople. When he is accused of arson, Riley is positive he’s innocent. In her determination to get to the truth, she makes some powerful enemies, uncovers the depth of the town’s prejudice and corruption, and figures out who is targeting Mr. Goran—and why.
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Affiche du document Blank

Blank

Trina St. Jean

3h55min30

  • Univers ado - Pour les plus de 12 ans
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314 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h55min.
When Jessica wakes up from a coma, she has no memories of her life before the accident at her family’s bison ranch. As she struggles to reconnect with her family and friends, she experiences all the signs of traumatic brain injury—confusion, sadness, fear and rage. Returning to school is a nightmare—especially when she overhears someone say he thinks she is faking her amnesia. When a new friend presents an alternative to staying in her old life, Jessica must confront the reality of what it means to leave her past behind.
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Affiche du document Spare Dog Parts

Spare Dog Parts

Alison Hughes

25min30

  • Jeunesse - Pour les 6 - 12 ans
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34 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 25min.
A stumpy tail, mismatched paws, a long, drooly snout and the biggest dog heart that ever beat. In a celebration of what makes a pet unique, a little girl imagines how an odd assortment of parts combined to make the perfect dog. With spare, inviting text from Alison Hughes and charmingly offbeat illustrations by award-winning illustrator Ashley Spires, this gorgeous picture book is sure to be an instant classic.
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