Adios, Oscar

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L. M. Montgomery

Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle--a place where all her dreams come true and she can be who she truly wants to be. After getting shocking news from the doctor, she rebels against her family and discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams.

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Siobhán Parkinson

To Hal, Fridays are blue, and tangy, like blue lemon sherbert. Olivia thinks he's crazy - Friday is just like Friday, isn't it? Olivia is pretty sure that Hal's mysterious plan to get rid of his not-quite-stepfather, Alec, is even weirder - But things don't go quite as either Hal or Olivia expected.

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Carol Matas

In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cree Indian neighbors and, especially, White Loon, their father's new wife.

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[written and illustrated] by Mary Neel Green

After being caught in a trap by pygmies in an African forest, a young animal that they call a donkey learns that he is really an okapi.