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{"id":6818925477947,"title":"Odd Man Out","handle":"odd-man-out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eKip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog. Gran's house is about to be demolished, so anything goes, whether it's drawing maps on the walls or sawing off the knob at the bottom of the banister for a smoother ride.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Kip bashes through an old closet, he discovers the binder his late father kept as a teenager. He's bewildered by what he finds: puzzling lists, hair samples, old newspaper clippings and business cards -- all accompanying a confidential report written by a mysterious young operative who is carrying out a secret plan to infect teenagers with a cell-altering virus.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis wonderful novel has all the Sarah Ellis hallmarks -- quirky characters, insight and wit -- underpinned by resonant themes of family, memory and the creative imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T13:29:11-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T12:11:45-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 9 - 12","By (author) Ellis Sarah","Childrens Accessible ebooks","Childrens Award-Winning","Groundwood Books","pub date: 2006-07-31"],"price":995,"price_min":995,"price_max":995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249073565755,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780888997036","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Odd Man Out - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":995,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780888997036","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249075302459,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554981632","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Odd Man Out - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554981632","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249075892283,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554986347","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Odd Man Out - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554986347","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9e6c3c3b-e01a-4bd4-be8d-4a8f18e43c2e.jpg?v=1649577522"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9e6c3c3b-e01a-4bd4-be8d-4a8f18e43c2e.jpg?v=1649577522","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21924518395963,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.666,"height":2253,"width":1501,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9e6c3c3b-e01a-4bd4-be8d-4a8f18e43c2e.jpg?v=1649577522"},"aspect_ratio":0.666,"height":2253,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9e6c3c3b-e01a-4bd4-be8d-4a8f18e43c2e.jpg?v=1649577522","width":1501}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eKip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog. Gran's house is about to be demolished, so anything goes, whether it's drawing maps on the walls or sawing off the knob at the bottom of the banister for a smoother ride.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Kip bashes through an old closet, he discovers the binder his late father kept as a teenager. He's bewildered by what he finds: puzzling lists, hair samples, old newspaper clippings and business cards -- all accompanying a confidential report written by a mysterious young operative who is carrying out a secret plan to infect teenagers with a cell-altering virus.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis wonderful novel has all the Sarah Ellis hallmarks -- quirky characters, insight and wit -- underpinned by resonant themes of family, memory and the creative imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Odd Man Out is a multifaceted story of imagination, suspense, family, fun, and even fear...without a doubt, Odd Man Out deserves a spot on every library and classroom shelf. Highly recommended.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_Review_2":"Ellis...offers an insightful character study in this novel....the themes of growing up, accepting change, and finding out where one belongs make it a universally appealing work that teens will enjoy...","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)","OtherText_Review_3":"Ellis's language is restrained but rich, and she brings readers directly into Kip's world, never wavering from his sensitive point of view; and Kip's gradual understanding of his father's mental illness is affecting. 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Odd Man Out
When Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, he discovers a very puzzling binder his late father kept.
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{"id":6818926329915,"title":"Liar","handle":"liar","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, \u003cem\u003eLiar\u003c\/em\u003e is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty of Liar make for a compelling tour through one lover's accounting for her own actions and those of her beloved. From the delusion of ownership to the pain of estrangement, Crosbie's surgical intelligence exposes what romantics so often refuse to acknowledge: the lover's own complicity in her joy and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSwinging between the grotesque and the beautiful, Crosbie's depiction of the lover adrift alters how we think of the love poem -- indeed, how we think of passion itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T13:29:26-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T12:13:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Crosbie Lynn","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2006-02-06"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":40249083559995,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847455","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Liar - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847455","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249087492155,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890763","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Liar - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890763","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249088540731,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896819","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Liar - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896819","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3fb4c1ba-fa17-4e3b-8e29-4b49cfce4244.jpg?v=1678601703"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3fb4c1ba-fa17-4e3b-8e29-4b49cfce4244.jpg?v=1678601703","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324562096187,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.765,"height":2404,"width":1839,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3fb4c1ba-fa17-4e3b-8e29-4b49cfce4244.jpg?v=1678601703"},"aspect_ratio":0.765,"height":2404,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3fb4c1ba-fa17-4e3b-8e29-4b49cfce4244.jpg?v=1678601703","width":1839}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAt once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, \u003cem\u003eLiar\u003c\/em\u003e is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty of Liar make for a compelling tour through one lover's accounting for her own actions and those of her beloved. From the delusion of ownership to the pain of estrangement, Crosbie's surgical intelligence exposes what romantics so often refuse to acknowledge: the lover's own complicity in her joy and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSwinging between the grotesque and the beautiful, Crosbie's depiction of the lover adrift alters how we think of the love poem -- indeed, how we think of passion itself.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Liar
From the grotesque to the beautiful, Lynn Crosbie's depiction of the lover adrift alters how we think of the love poem.
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I Am a Taxi
Deep in the jungle, working in a cocaine operation, twelve-year-old Diego must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again.
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Hey Dad!
A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.
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Emily Carr
This remarkable portrait of Emily Carr is a classic of Canadian art biography and won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.
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Airstream Land Yacht
Ken Babstock's brilliant third collection of poetry testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience.
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Wings to Fly
In this sequel to Ticket to Curlew, Josie is glad to have a new friend arrive, someone with whom she can explore and dream about the future.
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Vaudeville! is an enchanted tale on the scale of New York itself, overflowing with puzzles and horrors.
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The Tracey Fragments
A captivating look through the eyes of a girl piecing together the feelings and fragments of her quest to find a lost brother.
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Rex Zero, King of Nothing
Rex and his friends begin Grade 6 with trouble on the home front, but storybook solutions, it turns out, are no match for real-life adult problems.
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Pure Spring
In the sequel to Boy O'Boy, it's spring in post-WWII Ottawa and Martin has finally found a true home and a job. But everything's not perfect yet ...
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ages 14
and up
/ grades 9
and up
Mistik Lake
A stunning novel about what happens when you don't follow your heart, and the lies and secret suffering that can continue to haunt you.
