Julie Johnston

• 1994
• / General Fiction
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"If you don't want your heart broken, don't let on you have one." This is the motto of foster child Sara Moone. She can't wait to turn sixteen so she can drop out of the system that has hurt her so deeply. All she has to do is survive one last placem...

• Nov-1995
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1999
• / Historical
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A moving story set in the twilight of childhood.

In the year 1904, Fred Dickinson teeters on the brink of manhood. He is spending the last summer of his childhood at his grandfather’s family cottage on Rideau Lake, the only place he feels tr...

• Dec-2002
• / General Fiction
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In Spite of Killer Bees is a novel about not giving in and not giving up. Aggie and her two sisters have had to move to the small village that had been their father’s childhood home. Their mother is long gone, and their father â€" who’d been in a...

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
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World War II has just been won, and everything seems possible to young Keely Connor. She sees herself as a hero on a white charger, able to conquer the world, even though in reality her charger is Lola, the placid horse that lives in the field behind...

• Jun-2007
• / Literary
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Whe Val Hudson discovers her husband of 11 years is killed in a car accident, the life she once knew comes to an end. Struggling with grief and guilt, she searches her past for meaning . Enter Gus, a screenwriter turned novelist, who bases his second...

• Aug-2007
• / Historical
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Shortlisted for the 2005 Young Adult Canadian Book Award

Susanna's Quill is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Susanna Moodie, writer and pioneer, by award-winning author Julie Johnston. The story takes us into Susanna’s gente...

• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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Rosalind Kemp is the youngest in a family of sisters. She lives a comfortable life in a small town in Ontario. Ros is active, loving, and artistic. And, she has second sight.

It is a part of her nature with which she has trouble coming to term...

• Sep-2013
• / Historical
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The war is over, but for thirteen-year-old Rachel, the battle has just begun. Putting childhood behind her, she knows what she wants - to prove she has acting talent worthy of the school drama club, and what she doesn't want - to romantically fall fo...

• Mar-2016
• / Christian
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In wanting children to have fun while learning, "God's Love and Lessons" rhyming Bible stories were written to teach such things as God's faithfulness, Love and never ending presence. It starts with the beginning of creation, then Adam & Eve's mistak...