vancouver (b.c.)

Sixteen-year-old Angel struggles to free herself from the trap of prostitution and drug abuse in which she is caught.

After moving to Vancouver's lower east side with her mother, Ariel gets on the wrong side of a group of girls when she receives unwanted attention from their boyfriends, and when she is labeled a slut, Ariel tries to break free of the reputation she has earned.

Young Jane Ray volunteers with rescue crews working to save hundreds of birds after an oil spill in Vancouver and finds herself the target of corporate might when she takes a vocal stand about a company's responsibility for the incident.

Dev Rani tries to convince her dad, who does not understand her love of horses or show jumping dreams, that she is able to work with a disturbed new rescue after the owner of South Hills Stables decides her current horse should be retired and finds working with the horse harder than she imagined.

Thirteen-year-old Nell and her friends risk going to jail by robbing banks to pay for renovations in their foster home.

Presents a youth novel set in Vancouver during the 1920s about the effects of the Chinese Head Tax on a young girl's struggle to reunite her family.

In 1907 Vancouver, Canada, after helping unearth a skeleton to be returned for burial in China, fourteen-year-old Bing experiences strange events that cause him to confront his fear of both ghosts and of his father.

Stevie Diamond and her partner, Jesse Kulniki, discover that making a movie is not what it is cracked up to be as they investigate a rash of accidents that has people believing that the production is cursed.

A journalist finds himself in the midst of the hunt for a brutal serial killer who is murdering women in Vancouver's West End.

Teenager Nate, upset over the divorce of his parents and his father's decision not to take him on a kayaking trip, decides to go on his own, paddling off the coast of Vancouver and finding himself involved with a group of foster kids who have serious family problems, a murderous drug smuggler, and a Goth girl from Seattle.