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{"id":6813812293691,"title":"Eighteen Below","handle":"eighteen-below","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGritty and chilling, \u003ci\u003eEighteen Below \u003c\/i\u003eis the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA high-speed chase ends in tragedy when a car crashes into Helsingborg harbour. In the front seat is one of Sweden’s most affluent IT entrepreneurs. Initially all signs point to an accident, but a closer examination of the body shows that it has been frozen. Stranger yet is the time of death: two months before the crash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo years have passed since the events of \u003ci\u003eVictim Without a Face\u003c\/i\u003e. Fabian Risk has taken advantage of the quiet at work to focus on patching things up with his family, while across the strait Dunja Hougaard has donned the uniform once more, this time as a police officer. When a homeless man is brutally beaten to death, Dunja can’t stop herself from starting an investigation of her own. Before long the clues take her to Sweden and Helsingborg, where Risk is investigating the peculiar case of the frozen millionaire.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:11:06-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:27:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Book Club Pick","By (author) Ahnhem Stefan","Fabian Risk","pub date: 2018-01-13","Spiderline","Translated by Willson-Broyles Rachel"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40205733593147,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899193","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Eighteen Below - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":640,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770899193","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206094893115,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899209","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Eighteen Below - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899209","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206095548475,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899216","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Eighteen Below - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899216","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_13374c37-30c8-408b-b10e-f2f1fd823307.jpg?v=1678601537"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_13374c37-30c8-408b-b10e-f2f1fd823307.jpg?v=1678601537","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561670203,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_13374c37-30c8-408b-b10e-f2f1fd823307.jpg?v=1678601537"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_13374c37-30c8-408b-b10e-f2f1fd823307.jpg?v=1678601537","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGritty and chilling, \u003ci\u003eEighteen Below \u003c\/i\u003eis the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA high-speed chase ends in tragedy when a car crashes into Helsingborg harbour. In the front seat is one of Sweden’s most affluent IT entrepreneurs. Initially all signs point to an accident, but a closer examination of the body shows that it has been frozen. Stranger yet is the time of death: two months before the crash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo years have passed since the events of \u003ci\u003eVictim Without a Face\u003c\/i\u003e. Fabian Risk has taken advantage of the quiet at work to focus on patching things up with his family, while across the strait Dunja Hougaard has donned the uniform once more, this time as a police officer. When a homeless man is brutally beaten to death, Dunja can’t stop herself from starting an investigation of her own. Before long the clues take her to Sweden and Helsingborg, where Risk is investigating the peculiar case of the frozen millionaire.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Eighteen Below
Gritty and chilling, Eighteen Below Zero is the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.
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Couldn’t one just learn about life from Jane Austen and spend the days eating breakfast at noon, watching “People in Conflict,” and thrift-store shopping for cool castoffs to tie-dye for the upcoming outdoor hippie music festival?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut life becomes more complicated when the girls meet a Texan draft dodger who comes to live with Charlotte’s Quaker family. Tom Ed expands Charlotte’s horizons as they discuss everything from war to civil disobedience to women’s liberation. Grappling with exhilarating and disturbing new ideas, faced with a censorship challenge to her beloved English teacher and trying to decode the charismatic draft dodger himself, Charlotte finds it harder and harder to stick to her unteen philosophy, and to see eye to eye with Dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Text Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehistorical context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3\u003cbr\u003eDescribe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4\u003cbr\u003eDetermine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6\u003cbr\u003eExplain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:10:52-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:18:47-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 10 - 14","By (author) Ellis Sarah","CC Literature - Grade 6","CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3","CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4","CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6","Childrens Accessible ebooks","Childrens Starred Reviews","Groundwood Books","Human Rights and Activism","Lexile measure HL570L","LGBTQ+","pub date: 2018-09-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40205703741499,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781773060729","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dodger Boy - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":1695,"weight":300,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781773060729","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205704921147,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781773060736","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dodger Boy - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781773060736","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205705543739,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781773060927","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dodger Boy - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781773060927","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc87ed02-973f-4a83-aacf-3ab3875ea186.jpg?v=1731042402"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc87ed02-973f-4a83-aacf-3ab3875ea186.jpg?v=1731042402","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24903054655547,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.677,"height":2325,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc87ed02-973f-4a83-aacf-3ab3875ea186.jpg?v=1731042402"},"aspect_ratio":0.677,"height":2325,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc87ed02-973f-4a83-aacf-3ab3875ea186.jpg?v=1731042402","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning author Sarah Ellis comes the story of an American draft dodger who turns up to stay with thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her family.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pitfalls of adolescence. 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Grappling with exhilarating and disturbing new ideas, faced with a censorship challenge to her beloved English teacher and trying to decode the charismatic draft dodger himself, Charlotte finds it harder and harder to stick to her unteen philosophy, and to see eye to eye with Dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Text Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehistorical context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3\u003cbr\u003eDescribe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4\u003cbr\u003eDetermine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6\u003cbr\u003eExplain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She was with a boy who was just about as opposite from the be-in as you could imagine, a kind of anti-matter of hippie. He had very short, tidy hair shaved up the sides of his head, and he was dressed in crisp jeans and a white T-shirt. He was so clean that he seemed to have a little halo around him. How was he staying so clean?\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second he arrived at the blanket, the sun peeped out.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is Tom Ed,” said Dawn. “He’s from Texas. He’s a draft dodger.” \u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Later, when Charlotte saw those T-shirts that declared, Today is the first day of the rest of your life, she thought of that moment.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe damp blanket, her muddy toes, the music in her pores, the hippie-sweet air, and the tall, bright-faced Texan.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\\\/strong\u003e:\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Scintillating prose, rich dialogue, and charming characterizations mark a novel that straddles the boundary between middle-grade and YA. . . . [W]hipsmart . . .","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"Ellis’s draft dodger novel is crisp, funny, smart and wonderfully well put together – an example of all that writing for the young can be.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"[Charlotte] proves to be a deeply introspective and likable protagonist, offering up insights that cut right to the heart of the coming-of-age experience. . . . A unique piece of historical fiction that packs a punch.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_3":"[Sarah] Ellis introduces the evils of book banning and the importance of believing in yourself and standing up for your own identity.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award-winning author Sarah Ellis comes the story of an American draft dodger who turns up to stay with thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her family.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2018-09-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"From award-winning author Sarah Ellis comes the story of an American draft dodger who turns up to stay with thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her family.","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
Dodger Boy
From award-winning author Sarah Ellis comes the story of an American draft dodger who turns up to stay with thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her family.
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ages 11
to 13
/ grades 6
to 8
Almost Invisible
Jewel is escaping an abusive home situation by living at school. After Maya discovers Jewel's secret, should she tell? Or can she help on her own?
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ages 4
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When I Found Grandma
Maya longs to see her grandmother, but when Grandma arrives from far away for a visit, she is not quite what Maya expected.
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The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Paulette Jiles.
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Undercard
Undercard is the story of four childhood friends reunited by a high-profile prizefight in a Las Vegas casino and an even higher-profile murder.
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The Rise of Populism
The twenty-third semi-annual Munk Debate takes on the future of liberalism against the rising tide of populism.
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Swan Dive
A teenage refugee adapts to a new country and even finds a best friend, until the pressures of past and present collide and lead to a devastating lie.
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Surrender
Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root.
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My Friend
A story about the importance of friendship in the life of an immigrant child, from acclaimed creators Elisa Amado and Alfonso Ruano.
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ages 14
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Island
A teenaged boy struggles after the death of his mother, and is faced with the possibility that his twin brother may have just killed their father.
