Essex County
A graphic novel in which Lester, a recently orphaned boy, is sent to his uncle's farm in Southwestern Ontario, where he befriends a damaged former hockey star and the two escape to a private fantasy world.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: orphans, farms, hockey players, friendship, ontario [X], country life, families, hockey, family life [X], nurses
Fly Away
Fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun, the daughter of a drug addict who has agreed to go with her aunt Mindy after another one of her mom's disappearances, is confident her mom will return, and wonders if she cares about her friend Alan, school, or anything else that has to do with the life of a normal teenager.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: cheerleading, sports, ontario [X], dysfunctional families, interpersonal relations, birds, wildlife rescue, families, drug abuse, family problems, family life [X], animal welfare, seattle (wash.), leadership, friendship
Three Songs For Courage
Sixteen-year-old Gordon Westley comes of age in the summer of 1956 as he must learn to handle some of the sweetest and saddest moments life has to offer.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Brothers Far From Home
In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1914-1918, brothers and sisters, family life [X], diaries, canada, uxbridge (ont. : township), ontario [X]