The Baby Experiment by Anne Dublin
Summary: Hired to care for babies without speaking to them or giving them affection for an experiment about language, Johanna’s concern grows as the babies become listless and start dying. Unable to take it anymore, Johanna decides to rescue baby Rebecca and make her way from Germany to the Netherlands. As a Jewish girl living in the early 1700s, her journey is filled with religious discrimination and sexism, but the kindness of strangers help her achieve her goal and start a new life in a country where she is considered to be worthy of being a citizen. Number of Pages: 150 Age Range:...
Read MoreAirborn by Kenneth Oppel
Summary: Working on an airship to support his mother and sisters after the death of his father, Matt is more at home in the air than he is on the ground. His part in the recovery of a hot air balloon and its passenger puts him in line for a promotion, but he is passed up in favor of a young man who has gone to airship school. Matt’s dedication to his ship never wavers though, but when a spirited passenger named Kate starts shaking up his life he struggles with having to choose between his beloved ship and his growing attraction to her. Their journey across the Pacificus will be the...
Read MoreAcceleration by Graham McNamee
Summary: Doomed to work his summer away in the Lost and Found Department of the Toronto Transit Commission, Duncan is passing his time sorting the odds and ends that come in from buses, subway trains and streetcars. Just when he thinks things couldn’t possibly get more boring, Duncan comes across a journal written by a man detailing his acceleration from killing animals and starting fires to stalking women he is planning to kill. Haunted by the drowning death of a girl he feels responsible for, Duncan is determined to do something to protect the women in this would-be killer’s...
Read MoreFinding the Good by Tanya Patterson
Summary: Struggling to live a quiet, independent life, Jackie Winger takes a job at a local horse farm to support herself as she finishes high school and seeks to pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian through a scholarship. Working with horses is something she loves to do, but it connects her with her mysterious past and reveals secrets Jackie has been trying to hide. Like some of the horses she tends to, Jackie is withdrawn and shy, scared of getting hurt again and avoiding relationships as a result. When Dusty, a fellow teen co-worker, takes the time to draw her out and become her...
Read MoreRush by Eve Silver
Summary: Miki’s story begins with her own death. When her rescue of a classmate’s little sister turns fatal, Miki is pulled into a battle against aliens. As long as she follows the rules, Miki is free to go on with her life during her downtime, but death in what is considered “The Game” equals death in real life. Thrown onto a team with a mysterious leader, Jackson, who has secrets of his own, Miki is full of questions about the war and confronted with the precariousness of her situation. Unable to talk to her friends and family about what’s going on, a...
Read MoreUnder the Moon by Deborah Kerbel
Summary: The death of Lily’s Aunt Su, her closest friend, worsens her insomnia to the point where she is not sleeping at all anymore. Internet research shows Lily that she can’t live without sleep forever, but without her nightly conversations with her aunt, she doesn’t know how to get to sleep. A three am walk in search of company and connection leads her to the village’s 24 hour drive thru where she meets Ben, a fellow teen pulling all-nighters by choice. Their subsequent friendship fills the loneliness of the long nights, and ends up changing both of their lives....
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