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Lesley Choyce
Tina needs to find a donor to save Kurt’s life.
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Tired of bullies at school, Colin decides to take a stand. Branded a rat, he finds that standing up for what you believe in can be empowering.
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Quinn Dorfman’s struggling at school and watching his family deteriorate and, since moving to a new town, has trouble enjoying his passion, skateboarding.
Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd. Three years ago, a skateboarding accident caused minor brain damage and made him a little stranger. He spends much of his time living…
Escaping from a wilderness camp for young offenders, Cameron and Brianna end up in a struggle for survival.
After being the victim of an armed robbery, Sean goes in search of more danger.
Asked to write something for English class that expresses who he really is, 16-year-old Carson blisters the page with hate for everything in his life. Stuck in a private school…
In this novel for teens, Trevor, who has Huntington’s disease, connects with an old man who helps him live his life more fully.
This book celebrates the ordinary: the everyday disasters and discoveries that shape a life. In this, his one hundredth book, Lesley Choyce takes readers along as he writes about nearly…
Quinn Dorfman a de la difficulte a l'ecole alors que sa famille se desagrege. Et depuis qu'il est demenage a la ville, il n'a plus autant de plaisir a faire…
Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, Dance the Rocks Ashore, is certainly choice Choyce. Dance the Rocks Ashore contains substantial new stories including…
When their farm gets expropriated to make way for the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant, Alexander McNab and his family move to Saint John. Without the magic of the Bay…
Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian…
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This literary whodunit pulls us into the world of American expatriate novelist Richard DeMille as he attempts to break the hold of his longtime friend and publisher Damien Carlyle. Now…
Tara’s perfect life begins to unravel. Where will she turn for help?
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jackson gets in over his head when he tries to save a girl from her drug-dealer boyfriend.
Jeremy quiere tener exito en la industria musical. ?Tendra lo que se necesita para conseguirlo?
Jeremy’s band is hot - Thunderbowl is on the way up and they have had their first big break - a gig at a local bar. But in trying to…
Ben wants to learn to surf, if he could just conquer his fear of the sea.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Nick tries to adjust to his new reality after a surfing accident leaves him partially paralyzed.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jake tries to help his friend Maria after her parents are deported.
Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him…
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In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Blake Pendleton is surprised to learn, after three years abroad, that things are very different at his school now.
Home-schooled and naive, Cody must attempt to fit in and stand up for what he believes in when he moves to the city.
When Zach finds out that his girlfriend is pregnant, he is terrified. What will they do?
Melanie and Craig are going to have to help each other if they’re going to survive.
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier is a tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers hoping to save not only him but also themselves.
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Tyler and his friend Mason are desperate to escape the small town they’ve grown up in.
Influenced by a friend, Craig starts taking steroids only to see his life spiral out of control.
The story of two seasoned and intrepid Canadian travellers, Lesley and Linda Choyce, who embark on a new adventure with their West Highland terrier, Kelty.
Lesley Choyce is a 70-year-old…
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The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil is a compelling, witty and heartwarming novel by renowned Nova Scotia author Lesley Choyce.
After willing himself back to life with sheer stubbornness, ninety-year-old John Alexander MacNeil finds Death sitting at his kitchen table.
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When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down ferry service to Ragged Island, its residents see their world beginning to disappear.
A book about a love affair with Nova Scotia, about the search for a sane and magnificent asylum away from the indutrial world.
The year is 2014. Dylan Gibson is 16 and knows there is something unusual about him, but he doesn’t know what. When Dylan discovers a mysterious photograph of himself at…
Everyone knows there are no skunks in Nova Scotia…right? Well, that’s what Pamela thinks, until she wakes up one morning to a terrible smell.
Now Pamela stinks, her father stinks…
Winner, Dartmouth Book AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Booksellers Choice AwardA small Canadian island declares its independence to the world and benign anarchy reigns. A god-like ocean deposits many a thing, yet it…
A varied and spiritual collection of work by the Mi'kmaq writers of Atlantic Canada. Both young and old stories and storytellers combine talents to produce short stories, poetry, and personal…
