Teresa Toten

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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Governor General's Literary Awards nominee for Children's Literature, Text

Dani Webster had played The Game with her sister, Kelly, for as long as she could remember. It was a secret quest to vanquish evi...

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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Red Cedar Award nominee, 1997

Life in her new neighborhood isn't going to be easy for Croatian immigrant Lucy Vakovik. Her mother has saved enough to buy them an onlyhouse: a single detached home. But to L...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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A young girl helps Mommy dress up for an evening out.

The air is full of tickles. I can hear my Mommy humming. It's a party! Could be dinner! Maybe company is coming?

A young girl is excited by her mother's bustling activity, unti...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction
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“How did your poor husband pass away?”
Make it simple, Mama, I tried to bore into her, simple, simple…
“His brains exploded.”
 I heard a gasp. It was me.
“An aneurysm?”
“Okay,” said Mama.
 “I’m sorry, h...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Book annotation not available for this title...Title: .Better Than Blonde..Author: .Toten, Teresa..Publisher: .Penguin Group USA..Publication Date: .2009/04/29..Number of Pages: .212..Binding Type: .PAPERBACK..Library of Congress: ....

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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In Beyond Blonde, Sophie’s world has exploded. Papa has left to try and get sober, and her first love, Luke, has left to marry the mother of his baby. Mama is functioning on auto-pilot, and even Sophie’s refuge in basketball is threatened, since ...

• Jan-2012
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Katie likes to believe she’s invisible. It seems so much safer than being exposed as who she is: shy, poor, and vulnerable. So getting up in front of audience as the lead in her school’s production of The Taming of the Shrew should be complete to...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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Deep, understated, and wise, this engaging YA novel, winner of the Governor General’s Award in Canada, is about more than the tough issue of teens dealing with obsessive-compulsive order. It also has romance, and a whodunit element that will keep r...

• Oct-2015
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Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth about the mot...

• Jun-2016
• / Thriller
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For fans of We Were Liars, Gone Girl, and The Girl on the Train comes a powerful psychological thriller with a gripping pace and Hitchcockian twists. Set against the backdrop of New York City, this compelling novel delves into the dysfunctional yet m...