ontario

Examines how the war of 1812 defined North America, addressed resentments left over from the American Revolution, and divided Americans.

In Ontario, Canada, in 1977, twelve-year-old Nat and his sisters find that owning, training, and caring for a pony they acquired for free makes it easier to cope with the poverty they have faced since their father abandoned them.

Introduces the land, people, government, economy, and arts and recreation of Ontario.

At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.

Kate Morrison, orphaned at the age of seven, grows up seeing her brilliant older brother Matt's failure to further his education as a tragedy, and feeling somewhat guilty about her own accomplishments, and it is not until years later that she finally sees the damage her faulty thinking has caused.

Illustrations and haiku celebrate over four hundred years in the history of Ontario, Canada. Includes historical notes.

Jessica is a good student who hates school because she is bullied by the "cool" girls and she is startled and grateful when Annie, the new girl in her southern Ontario high school, seeks her out on the first day of tenth grade and defends her from the bullying--it is a friendship that both girls need, but one based on assumptions and misunderstandings that ultimately threaten to drive them apart.

When Bonnie's family moves to a new community during the Depression for a fresh start, the new town holds its own set of problems including bullies, illnesses, and the challenge of making do with less.

Seventeen-year-old Spencer goes on an adventure laid out in his grandfather's will that requires him to seek a kiss from an aging movie star and catch it on film.

After awakening in a hospital recovering from a blow to the head, private detective Benny Cooperman learns he now suffers from a condition called alexia sine agraphia, and sets out to find the man who attacked him and killed the woman he was with.