Leavitt, Martine

"The coming of age story of Rebecca Leavitt as she searches for her identity in the Northwest Territories of Canada"--Provided by publisher.

Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.

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

Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.

"Tuk, a bighorn sheep of the Canadian Rockies, leads his herd beyond the snares of man and the wiles of predators to the freedom of the Blue Mountain"--Provided by publisher.

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

Abandoned by his mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life.

Tom, a fifteen-year-old with amnesia living on the streets in Canada, plays a role in a First Nations father's search for his son and struggles to make his way to a performance of the opera "The Magic Flute," which holds a key to his past.

Seekvalley's wise woman, the Dollmage, chooses the lazy Renoa over the self-sacrificing Annakey as her successor, unknowingly setting Annakey on a painful path involving betrayal, violence, and brutal justice.

When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.