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Zack

1999
The son of a Jewish father and black mother, high school senior Zack has never been allowed to meet his mother's family, but after doing a research project on a former slave, he travels from his home in Canada to Natchez, Mississippi to find his grandfather.

Bone dance

1997
When her father wills her a cabin on land in rural Manitoba, Alexandra meets a young man who shares her Indian heritage and her experience of being haunted by spirits.

Mable Riley

a reliable record of humdrum, peril, and romance
2004
In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley dreams of being a writer and having adventures while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her sister in teaching school and secretly becoming friends with a neighbor who holds scandalous opinions on women's rights.

Red River stallion

2013
In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.

How to be a perfect stranger

a guide to etiquette in other people's religious ceremonies
1999
African American Methodist Churches -- Bahai -- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- The Christian Congregation -- Church of the Brethren -- Church of the Nazarene -- Evangelical Free Church -- International Church of the Foursquare Gospel -- International Pentecostal Holiness Church -- Mennonite/Amish -- Native American/First Nations -- Orthodox Churches -- Pentecostal Church of God -- Reformed Church in America/Canada -- Sikh -- Unitarian Universalist -- Wesleyan.

White Fang

2001
The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.

Wintering

1999
In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share.

Quebec

2003
Examines the history, geography, climate, industries, people, culture, and ongoing separatist struggle of Canada's largest province.

Maya running

2005
Maya, a Canadian of East Indian descent, struggles with her ethnic identity, infatuation with a classmate, and the presence of her beautiful Bengali cousin, Pinky, who comes for a visit bearing a powerful statue of the god Ganesh, the Hindu elephant boy.

Dust

2003
Eleven-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s.

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