With playoffs ahead and a chance to play a few games in the National Hockey League, Josh hesitates to get involved when he finds more than a dozen dead cattle on his dad's ranch.
Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries drinking alcohol and eating meat, and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant.
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis.".
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Autumn, a guardian of the Jaen sisterhood in the magical Pacific coast town of Avening, British Columbia, is promoted within the order and given one year to choose among thirteen women, all with special abilities, to find her perfect replacement.
In 1920s British Columbia, twelve-year-old Kit begins to suspect that her father is a rumrunner when she and her mother return to their family's farm after years away.
a guide to private investigation, surveillance, and cookery
Juby, Susan
2010
Nineth-grader Sherman Mack, an amateur private investigator, has a crush on tenth-grader Dini, and tries to help her stay off the high school D-list, a cruel ritual that would ruin her social status forever.
When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother.
