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Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.
When the slaves rebel against the rigid social order imposed on the colony by the all-controlling computer, Tomi, the son of the colony Overlord manages to escape beyond the computer's reach and discovers what it is like to be free.
The Game is just the beginning… It’s the year 2154. Lisse and her friends have been deemed unemployable in the eyes of society. Now they must scavenge the disintegrating city for food and shelter, just to make ends meet. But their dismal existence starts to look up when Lisse and her friends are invited to participate in The Game, an experience highly regarded in their society. The Game is a virtual reality experience where they are challenged to survive. But as they spend more time in The Game, the line between reality and fantasy starts to blur. What started as a simple exercise quickly becomes a test of endurance, trust, and their will to live.
"When Andrea is given a maze in a mysterious box, she is curious. A new fantasy adventure with plot twists and turns, from one of Canada's best-loved children's writers" Cf. Our choice, 2003.
When Concepcion's grandmother dies she is forced to leave their farm for the barrio. She takes along her grandmother's legacy, chili, corn and bean seeds. She discovers that even in the city her handful of seeds holds the key to her survival.
Aliens arrive on Earth in a spaceship and enlist the help of a pair of telepathic twins in their search for an earthly substance to save their dying race.
Sandwriter is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
In 2154, sixteen-year-old Alison, eight-year-old Gordie, and their dissident parents are arrested and taken to a sterile dome in a hostile environment, but Gordie escapes and Alison follows him to the place he calls Xanadu.
By the year 2136 AD the life of the settlers on Isis has regressed amd much technical knowledge lost due to the dictatorial rulings of the President who controls all of the population, except one.
"A young girl is 'shipped off' to a Scottish boarding school during the Second World War, where she uncovers a 'secret society,' and learns about the Celtic lore of the land" Cf. Our choice, 1997-1998.