A teenage girl struggles with the problem of her pregnancy.

Bird at the window

Truss, Jan

Harper&Row

Eighteen, pregnant, and stubbornly alone, Angela Moynahan wants neither her baby nor an abortion and escapes from her parents' farm in Canada to England where she uncovers a secret from her parents' past and neglects the child developing within her

The Bird at the Window

Harpercollins

In order to escape from troublesome younger brothers who interfere with her homework and may cause her to fail in school, Jasmin goes to live alone in the Canadian wilderness.

Jasmin

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Atheneum

Macmillan Co. of Canada

The man in the poster is Louis Riel, and in this powerfully wrought historical novel by Jan Truss, Paul Gauthier has been chosen to play Riel in a school play at a time in his life when new menaces threaten the small Metis settlement where he lives with his family.    Convinced that such menaces can be fought with the same spirit that emboldened Riel, Paul and his young Indian friend Simon Buffalo set out to thwart a government plan to raze the settlement to make room for a new highway.

Very Small Rebellion

General Pub Co Ltd

Margaret K. McElderry

Jasmin tells the story of an alienated young woman who leaves home and in the process discovers that she is a good artist as well as a good person. Jasmin Marie Antoinette Stalke is failing the sixth grade. Burdened with the responsibilities of being the oldest child in a large, poor family, she lies awake nights staring at the stars but seeing no way to succeed. She can't do her homework because of noise from her family and the television set that is always on in the main room of their small house. Her science fair project has just been ruined by Nathaniel and Leroy's careless horsing around. She doesn't know what to do. For solace she reaches for a treasured book of poems and becomes inspired to imitate Meg in her favorite poem: from now on she will live "as she do please." She will run away. This haunting and sensitively written story of a girl's successful search for independence will resonate with many girls of a similar age.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

GROUNDWOOD BOOKS *

The man in the poster is Louis Riel, and in this powerfully wrought historical novel by Jan Truss, Paul Gauthier has been chosen to play Riel in a school play at a time in his life when new menaces threaten the small Metis settlement where he lives with his family. 
 Convinced that such menaces can be fought with the same spirit that emboldened Riel, Paul and his young Indian friend Simon Buffalo set out to thwart a government plan to raze the settlement to make room for a new highway.

A Very Small Rebellion

Historical Fiction

Fitzhenry and Whiteside

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Bird at the window

The Bird at the Window

Jasmin

Bird at the window

Very Small Rebellion

Jasmin

Jasmin

A Very Small Rebellion