Joan Clark

• Aug-1981
• / Suspense
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• Jun-1994
• / General Fiction
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Shortlisted for the 1988 Governor General's Award for Fiction

Set in a Swampy Cree community on the western shore of Hudson Bay, The Victory of Geraldine Gull is about the struggle for survival. In prose as clear as a northern lake, Joan Clar...

• Aug-1996
• / Suspense
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• May-1998
• / General Fiction
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A combination of fact, fiction, and fantasy, Eiriksdottir is the story of Norsemen who, 1,000 years ago, crossed the treacherous seas to Vinland, a land that became both mythical and real. Their final voyage, led by Freydis Eiriksdottir, the enigmati...

• Feb-2002
• / Literary
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The thirteen linked stories in Joan Clark's Swimming Toward the Light are like a spectrum of bright colours refracted into a clear white beam. Layer by layer, they reveal the life of Madge Murray, from her childhood in wartime Nova Scotia and her ...

• Oct-2004
• / Historical
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Set in the 19th century and inspired by Edith Whartons women who were not passive victims of their lives, s Heir is the story of two girls who defy the conventions of convent school and parties, the social system of . Fredrica Navarreau, known as Ric...

• Apr-2005
• / General Fiction
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His classmates have identified him as a friend of Jackson, who has Asperger Syndrome, and now Tyler is tormented by what that means in terms of his own personality. Over the course of this highly readable and swift-moving middle-grade novel (2nd to 6...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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Joan Clark’s An Audience of Chairs opens with Moranna MacKenzie living alone in her ancestral Cape Breton farmhouse, waging a war with the symptoms of bipolar disorder and grieving the loss of her two daughters, taken from her over thirty years pre...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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Do your students need to understand their peers with autism a bit better? Joan Clark's sequel to her popular book, Jackson Whole Wyoming, reintroduces us to Jackson Thomas, a fifth-grade boy on the spectrum. This time, we find Jackson in a new school...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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Set against the vividly described Prairies in the heart of a cloistered religious sect, this is a gripping novel from a beloved Canadian author.Fifteen-year-old Jim Hobbs, alienated from life in Toronto, hitchhikes to the Prairies on a whim, where he...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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PENNY NICHOLS AND THE BLACK IMP is #3 in the Penny Nichols series of detective stories for girls.Penny befriends another troubled young lady, Amy Coulter. Amy's sculpture, the Black Imp, was the best entry in an art contest, but the prize went to an ...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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The Penny Nichols series consists of four titles: 1. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (1936) 2. Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key (1936) 3. Penny Nichols and the Black Imp (1936) 4. Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery (1939) Penny Nichols i...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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The Penny Nichols series consists of four titles: 1. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (1936) 2. Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key (1936) 3. Penny Nichols and the Black Imp (1936) 4. Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery (1939) Penny Nichols i...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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PENNY NICHOLS FINDS A CLUE is #1 in the Penny Nichols series of detective stories for girls.In this volume, the readers become acquainted with Penny Nichols, a determined young woman with an eye for detective work....

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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The Penny Nichols series consists of four titles: 1. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (1936) 2. Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key (1936) 3. Penny Nichols and the Black Imp (1936) 4. Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery (1939) Penny...

• Jun-2015
• / Psychological Suspense
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From the bestselling author of Latitudes of Melt and An Audience of Chairs: The Birthday Lunch is the story of one pivotal week in the life of a family facing a tragic loss, rich with dramatic tension and beautifully rendered.   Free-spirited Li...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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Snow falls all day, all week, all month! Sammy’s world is covered in snow. As he clambers up the mountains of snow, he imagines what might lie beneath ― a black bear and her cubs, whales and seals, even elves mining rubies and emeralds! Finall...

• / General Fiction
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This bountiful, magical novel opens with the discovery by two fishermen of a baby floating in a cradle on an ice pan in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. To the small fishing community into which the foundling is adopted, Auro...