Eric Walters
Tell
Norah McClintock
Thunderbowl
Lesley Choyce
Tough Trails
Irene Morck
The Trouble with Liberty
Kristin Butcher
Truth
Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Who Owns Kelly Paddik?
Beth Goobie
Yellow Line
Sylvia Olsen
Zee's Way
Kristin Butcher
Visit
www.orcabook.com
for more information.
More Orca Soundings
Crush
by Carrie Mac
Isn't she fazed by any of this? Does she do this all the time? Make unsuspecting, seemingly straight girls squirm? Or am I making it all up? But making up what? The butterflies are real. The fact that I want to kiss her is real.
Would kissing a girl be different from kissing boys? If all I did was kiss her, would that make me queer? Are you queer just for thinking it? Or does doing it make you queer? And what if I don't want to be queer? Do I get a say in this at all?
Because of a moment of indiscretion, Hope's parents send her to New York to spend the summer with her sister. Miserable, Hope ends up meeting Nat and developing a powerful crush. The only problem is that Nat is a girl. Hope is pretty sure she isn't gay. Or is she? Struggling with new feelings, fitting in and a strange city far from home, Hope finds that loveâand acceptanceâcomes in many different forms.
More Orca Soundings
Stuffed
by Eric Walters
“So, do we have a deal?” Mr. Evans asked
“Unbelievable,” I muttered under my breath
“I don't understand,” Mr. Evans said
“The whole thing is unbelievable. First you try to threaten me. Then you try to bribe me. And now you do the two together, trying to bribe me and threatening me if I don't take the bribe.”
“I don't like to think of it in those terms,” he said
When Ian and his classmates watch a documentary about the health concerns of eating fast food, Ian decides to start a boycott against a multinational food chain. Can Ian stand up for what he believes in? Can he take on a corporate behemoth and win?
More Orca Soundings
Exit Point
by Laura Langston
“I'm not dead. I'm still me. I still have a body and everything.”
“You are still you, but you don't have a body. What you're seeing is a thought form.” He points to a tall gold urn up by the minister. “Your body is in there. You were cremated.”
Thunk thunk, thunk thunk. My heart pounds in my chest. Dread mushrooms in my stomach. Sweat beads on my forehead.“But everybody knows death is the end. That there's nothing left but matter.”
“Death is only the beginning, Logan. Hannah knows that. Lots of people do.”
Logan always takes the easy way out. After a night of drinking and driving, he wakes up to find he has been involved in a car accident and is dead. With the help of his guide, Wade, and the spirit of his grandmother, he realizes he has taken the wrong exit. He wasn't meant to die. His life had a purposeâto save his sister!