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Cassie loves Beethoven

Relates the startling effects of Beethoven's music on the Kennedys' new cow.
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Anne of Avonlea

In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables, " teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
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Elijah of Buxton

Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada--a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859--uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

It can't happen here

Senator "Buzz" Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program.

Our new home

immigrant children speak
Presents the words and drawings of children from China, India, Russia, Argentina, Germany, and other countries, in which they describe their feelings about moving to Canada.

Reckless

A week after a crazy old man in the woods takes Josh's dirt bike, Josh decides to retrieve his bike from the old man he suspects is the hermit of Loggerman Creek.

Hatchet

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Shadows on the rock

At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.

The Boggart

After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought home with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.

M is for maple

a Canadian alphabet
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a name or word derived from some aspect of the country of Canada, and each term is presented in a rhyme and then further explained in a note.

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