vancouver (b.c.)

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

Cast out by mainstream society, a gang of teenage girls known as the "Black Roses" rob ATMs, cook crack on stoves, and savagely beat down anyone who dares to harm them. Brutal and broken, they claw at the knot of darkness and violence that tightens around their lives.

"Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons -- only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with you. Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Mike is hired to find the vanished son of a local junk merchant. However, he quickly discovers that the case has been damaged by a crooked private eye and dismissed by a disinterested justice system. Worse, the only viable lead involves a drug-addicted car thief with gang connections. As the stakes rise, Mike attempts to balance his search for the junk merchant's son with a more profitable case involving a necrophile and a funeral home, while simultaneously struggling to keep a disreputable psychic from bilking the mother of a missing girl" --.

When Vicky moves across the city to a new neighborhood with her mom, she must leave her old school, friends and soccer team behind. As she tries to become part of her former rivals' team, Vicky struggles to maintain loyalty to her old friends.

Contains short essays and photographs that provide information about people, places, and other aspects of life in Vancouver, Canada, and includes a short story about living in a cheap Granville hotel.

Texts in English, French, Chinese, and Japanese are accompanied by the author's paintings depicting the plants, the animals, the legends--the many enjoyments of Stanley Park in Vancouver.

Texts in English, French, Chinese, and Japanese are accompanied by the author's paintings depicting the plants, the animals, the legends--the many enjoyments of Stanley Park in Vancouver.

When Tom visits his grandparents in Vancouver he finds himself in the middle of a drug smuggling caper.

Fifteen-year-old Raven, using only a diary for clues, teams up with a streetwise boy and an elderly homeless woman in an effort to find her missing sister, Marcie, who has apparently been captured by a ring smuggling teens from Vancouver into Asia.

After twelve-year-old Violet's father divorces her mother, Violet devises ways to snag the perfect man, George Clooney, to be her mother's new husband.