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Nikki blames her brother, Derek, for their parents’ death in a house fire, but when Derek gets involved with a gang, Nikki knows she is the only one who can save him. Enlisting the help of a girl named Rain, who is inclined to use her own athletic abilities to carry out acts of petty thievery, Nikki uses all her parkour skills to stay ahead of the gang and keep her brother from being killed

Canadian Review of Materials 4 out of 4 rating!

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Spider's Song (2007) Penguin Canada // Young Adult psychological thriller set in Yellowknife, NT // ISBN 978-0-14-305297-5 : $12.99

I was smarter. I was always smarter. A little cut-cut, drip-drip, blood saved and sprinkled.

Stuck in Yellowknife with her crazy grandmother, AJ is one angry girl. She's lonely, too, and her blog has become her main source of contact with the world. It is there she reveals her innermost hurts-the absence of her mother, who has gone back to school, and of her father, who abandoned AJ when she was just a little girl; and the moving around she and her mom have had to do every few years for reasons she has never understood. And recently, she's begun to cut herself-a powerful habit and shame she is trying to overcome.

Then a festival is held in Yellowknife, and AJ is befriended by a travelling musician, a man she finds herself instantly drawn to. Soon, she realizes that he may be her father.

Or is he?

Anita Daher's chilling new novel will grip you completely from beginning to shocking end.

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Racing for Diamonds (2007) Orca Book Publishers// ISBN 978-1-55143-675-3 // $7.95 // 113 pages, ages 7 to 12

They carried on in dark, not speaking. Only the wind and the sound of the sled swooshing over fresh snow broke the silence.

"Whoa!" Colly called.

Jaz could hear open water. That wasn't all she heard.

Woooooo!

Wolves. And they were close!

What Jaz thinks of as an adventure, her mom and dad call trouble, but Jaz just can't seem to help herself. When she joins the Junior Canadian Rangers and is teamed up with an annoying partner, she has no idea that all her new-found skills will soon be put to a life and death test.

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Flight from Bear Canyon (2004) Orca Book Publishers // ISBN 1551433265 // $7.95 paperback // 160 pages, ages 7 to 11

Kaylee is upset about being left to spend the summer with Jack and his niece, Jaz. All she wants is time alone with her dog, Sausage. Things change quickly, though, when Jack is injured when his helicopter goes down near a group of grizzly bears. Kaylee and Jaz must team up to save him and Kaylee finds herself once again at the controls of a plane.

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Flight from Big Tangle (2002) // Orca Book Publishers // ISBN 1-55143-234-X // $6.95 paperback // 160 pages, age 7 to 11

Ever since her father and his plane disappeared in the Caribbean, Kaylee has been afraid to fly. Now, in the midst of a raging forest fire, the only way to safety is resting on pontoons at the end of the dock. Will Kaylee be able to overcome her fear and fly herself and her dog out of the fire?

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