Shadow in Hawthorn Bay
10 best books like Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Janet Lunn): Love Underground: Persephone's Tale:, Sweetgrass, Haunted, A Victorian Christmas, Strange Heaven, Devil on My Back, Losing Joe's Place, Who Is Frances Rain?, Graffiti Knight, Awake and Dreaming
| Author | Alicia Fields |
| ISBN | 0451215826 |
Young Persephone is the most beautiful maiden in Hellas. But all the boys are scared away by her mother, Demeter, whose mysterious powers must have come from the gods. So Persephone keeps her distance, and spends her days living a sheltered life. Then one day, Hades--the dreaded lord of the dead--sees...
| Author | Jan Hudson |
| ISBN | 0698117638 |
To become a woman meant everything to Sweetgrass. But... how was a 15-year-old Blood girl to wait for her parents to choose her husband when her heart yearned for Eagle Sun? Set in the historic horse-and-gun period of the Blackfoot confederacy, this daring first novel charts unknown territory on the...
| Author | Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| ISBN | 0002008211 |
Dee is feeding the chickens the morning that bones are discovered on the mountain. Something doesn't feel right—and her feeling is confirmed when local police show her a ring that they found with the bones, a ring belonging to Mary Ann Simpson, who disappeared four years earlier. Other girls, Dee...
| Author | Patricia Gaffney |
| ISBN | 0451174429 |
The best Signet anthology I ever bought -- hands down!
And that's really only based on two stories, KIDNAPPED FOR CHRISTMAS by Betina Krahn and THE BLACK BEAST OF BELLETERRE by Mary Jo Putney. Either one of those stories would have been worth the purchase price of the whole book.
KIDNAPPED...
| Author | Lynn Coady |
| ISBN | 0385659148 |
Strange Heaven is tearfully hilarious, as funny and appalling as real life. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has gone to Halifax from industrial Cape Breton, had her baby, and given it up for adoption. She’s apathetic, the doctors decide, so they transfer her to the psych ward of the children’s...
| Author | Monica Hughes |
| ISBN | 0862031648 |
Read this as a kid. I think it was my first bit of post-apocalyptic sci-fi. I'd been looking for it for years on Google, but kept misremembering the title. I was starting to think I'd hallucinated the whole thing.
Anyway, it was a great book for young adult fiction. It got me to think about a lot of...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590427695 |
I remember reading this for the first time so clearly. I was probably ten or twelve or thereabouts. I didn't think it was as immediately funny as other Gordon Korman books, but I remember telling my friend that it built to an amazing crescendo, where all its threads came together in a way that made me laugh...
| Author | Margaret Buffie |
| ISBN | 1554532094 |
In this 20th-anniverary edition of the novel by Margaret Buffie, it's going to be a long, hot summer for 15-year-old Lizzie. Normally a vacation at her grandmother's northern Manitoba cottage is the highlight of the year, but this summer the whole family is going along, including her new stepfather...
| Author | Karen Bass |
| ISBN | 1927485533 |
After a childhood cut short by war and the harsh strictures of Nazi Germany, sixteen-year-old Wilm is finally tasting freedom. In spite of the scars World War II has left on his hometown, Leipzig, and in spite of the oppressive new Soviet regime, Wilm is finding his own voice. It’s dangerous, of course,...
Theo and her young, irresponsible mother seem trapped in their miserable, poverty-stricken life. Theo dreams of belonging to a “real” family, and her dream seems to come true when she is mysteriously adopted by the large, warm Kaldor family. But as time passes, the magic of Theo’s new life begins...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 1551436248 |
Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century France is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother--a midwife and healer to half the families in the town--is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose must weigh the terror of death against the pain of life...
| Author | Julie Johnston |
| ISBN | 0887766498 |
World War II has just been won, and everything seems possible to young Keely Connor. She sees herself as a hero on a white charger, able to conquer the world, even though in reality her charger is Lola, the placid horse that lives in the field behind her house.
One fateful summer day her brother...
| Author | Ashly Raiti |
| ISBN | 1598162667 |
Maeve, a succubus-in-training, is sent to the human world by her mentor, Veril, to learn how to blend in and hone her skills of seduction. The rules of the Demon World are complicated and archaic though, and one of them, "Don't fall in love with your target," looks like it might be a little too easy for Maeve...
| Author | Sheree Fitch |
| ISBN | 0385660731 |
“An odd shaped shell caught my eye. . . . I turned it over. . . . It was a tiny, perfect skull.”
In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Minn Hotchkiss is sent to spend the summer with her sour grandmother in the tiny seaside town of Boulder Basin, Nova Scotia. Almost as soon as she arrives,...
-- A historical novel that realistically depicts life in 17th-century Quebec from the point of view of a French teenagerThe year is 1672. Eighteen-year-old Jeanne Chatel, the heroine of the story, has just been chosen as a "king's daughter", one of the hundreds of young women sent to the wilderness...
| Author | Karleen Bradford |
| ISBN | 0590716174 |
At fifteen years of age, upon the death of her cousin, Edward, Lady Jane Grey was forced to accept the crown of England. She was queen for only nine days, however. Edward's eldest sister, Mary, soon challenged Jane for the throne, with tragic results. This is the true story of a bright and intelligent young...
Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0140317376 |
Jeremy is not having a good summer. His best friends have moved away, and he has to stay at the cottage with only his little sister and Aunt Margery. His parents have remained in the city so his father can have an operation.
When Jeremy finally sees him again, he finds out that his father has cancer...
| Author | William Bell |
| ISBN | 0440226791 |
Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from...
| Author | Sarah Elton |
| ISBN | 1554684188 |
Strawberries in January, fresh tomatoes year-round and New Zealand lamb at all times--these well-travelled foods have a carbon footprint the size of an SUV. But there is a burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities, farms and shops that is changing both the way we eat and the way...
| Author | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| ISBN | 0888996373 |
14-year-old Burl Crow has a father who is violent. His mother struggles with mental illness. When he follows his father to his secret fishing spot he learns that his father is having an affair. Burl's cover is blown and his father beats him. As his father strikes blow after blow, a helicopter flies overhead,...
| Author | Rumiko Takahashi |
| ISBN | 1421536226 |
After reading the fourth volume of Rumiko Takahashi’s new series “Rin-Ne” and being introduced to Rinne’s deadbeat father Sabato Rokudo, I was truly interested in learning more about Sabato and his turbulent relationship with Rinne. Now, we have a new love interest in this volume named Ageha,...
| Author | Bailey Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0425261069 |
In one world, they’re ordinary university students. In another world, they are a company of heroes in a place of magic and myth called Anfractus……
The Cree called the area Oscana, "pile of bones," a fertile hunting ground where game abounded. The white settlers changed that to Wascana....
