Kristin Butcher
1) Cheat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Laurel discovers her passion for investigative journalism when she writes an article for her school paper about the homeless man who's been living at the school. Eager to write more articles with impact, she launches an investigation of a cheating scam at her high school. Laurel's efforts elicit hostility from her classmates. Nobody is interested in seeing her article go to print, not even her own brother. It is evident that the cheating is widespread,...
2) Chat Room
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English
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Linda is shy and avoids getting involved at school. But when her high school sets up online chat rooms she can't resist the urge to visit them. Fuelled by an interest in a student with the nickname Cyrano, Linda participates in online conversations using the nickname Roxane and gains a reputation as the queen of one-liners. Soon Linda starts receiving gifts from a secret admirer who signs his gifts, "C." She is certain that her life has taken a turn...
3) La triche
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Français
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Laurel se découvre une passion pour le journalisme d'investigation. Pour écrire un article-choc, elle mène une enquête sur une triche à son école. Elle découvre que la tricherie est généralisée-beaucoup plus qu'elle ne l'avait imaginé. Aveugle à toute autre préoccupation, Laurel est prête à perdre ses amies pour tirer cette histoire au clair. Mais son ultime découverte change tout.
Laurel discovers her passion for investigative journalism...
4) Winter Road
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Kat and her mom haven't seen much of each other since Kat's father died last year. Her mom has taken over the family trucking business and has been away a lot. She promised that Kat could join her on her next run, a journey across the frozen Manitoba lake known as the "winter road." But at the last minute, she changes her mind. Kat, who has recently been diagnosed with diabetes, stows away in the back of the semi instead. By the time...
5) Cabin Girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bailey is working at her first summer job, as a cabin girl at a fly-in fishing camp at Witch Lake. She struggles with the job at first but enjoys hearing the stories of the area, including the legend of a local ghost. Then April, an older waitress with street smarts, takes Bailey under her wing and the two girls become friends. It's all good until another waitress burns her arm and has to leave. Bailey gets a sudden promotion, and...
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Français
Description
Laurel se découvre une passion pour le journalisme d'investigation. Pour écrire un article-choc, elle mène une enquête sur une triche à son école. Elle découvre que la tricherie est généralisée-beaucoup plus qu'elle ne l'avait imaginé. Aveugle à toute autre préoccupation, Laurel est prête à perdre ses amies pour tirer cette histoire au clair. Mais son ultime découverte change tout.
Laurel discovers her passion for investigative...
7) Alibi
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town's ghost walk, which gives Christine the opportunity to meet local characters and visitors, including a mysterious young man who seems to know far too much about the crimes. When the pickpocket targets Aunt Maude's store, Christine is determined to find out who...
8) Caching In
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a very strange search for a series of geocaches. At first they are merely curious, but as the stakes rise and the challenges become more trying, the boys get truly hooked. Convinced they are indeed on the trail of treasure, they become consumed with the search, and though their quest tests their strength, intelligence, courage and even their friendship, they don't give up.
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When doing the right thing turns all wrong. Sometimes a guy just can't mind his own business, no matter how hard he tries, and sometimes that guy gets mired in predicaments that are not of his making. That's what happens to Jas, a Grade Seven boy who is putting all his energy into completing the artwork for an adventure comic he hopes will be his ticket into an elite summer art program. But when he meets Wren, an eccentric, crusading classmate, his...
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Series
Seer trilogy (Kristin Butcher) volume 1
Publisher
Crwth Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Seer trilogy (Kristin Butcher) volume 2
Publisher
Crwth Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this fantasy novel set in pre-Christian Ireland, thirteen-year-old Maeve has a newfound sense of belonging now that she's living among the Druids as she trains to be seer. But she soon learns those she loves are in grave danger and she must use all her skills to save them"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Seer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Crwth Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Maeve is in the final stages of her apprenticeship, but to reach her full potential as a seer, she must refine her mind skills with the dragon Riasc Tiarna.