White Pine Award 2015

Are you sure you want to remove your recommendation for

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

William Holt

Thank you for your recommendation

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

#/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

0/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

Request a reading copy

You are requesting an advance reading copy of by

This request will be submitted to

I prefer:

Digital Print Any format

Mailing Address* required*

Requested by
Job title *required*

Please provide any additional information you would like the publisher to know that would support your request

# of 250 characters left

Reading copies are not available for all forthcoming titles, and are supplied at the sole discretion of the publisher.

* missing required field

Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate contact at

You will receive a copy of the email request. Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact.

Request a reading copy

You have already requested a reading copy of by

The request was made on . Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact:

You are exporting:

This order will be exported using the default fund codes assigned to each branch, and

Override the fund code defaults for the export

User fund code

Close this order after export

White Pine Award 2015

Create Template

Give your template a name Please provide a name.

Choose a base template
Single

List

Tile
- Default PDFs
  Single
  List
  Tile

DRAFT

1.
Series: The Game Rush Paperback Eve Silver 9780062192141 $13.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 May 13, 2014

Rush pulls you headlong into the thrilling, high-stakes world of Eve Silver's teen series The Game, about teens pulled in and out of an alternate reality where battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and death. Eve Silver's teen debut offers science fiction and gaming fans romantic thrills at a breakneck pace. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong says, "Smart and original, Rush is an action-packed ride with plenty of heart."Sixteen-year-old Miki Jones's carefully controlled life spirals into chaos after she's run down in the... + Read More
2.
Series: Apparition Apparition Paperback Gail Gallant 9780385679626 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 03, 2013

A haunting romantic thriller introducing a reluctant teenage clairvoyant with lots of attitude and an unusual problem: she is torn between her devotion to her dead boyfriend and her flesh-and-blood affection for the new guy in town.The last time seventeen-year-old Amelia Mackenzie saw her best friend Matthew alive, he broke her heart. When he is found the next day in an abandoned barn at the edge of town, an apparent suicide, Amelia’s whole world comes crashing down.And then she sees him again. Because Amelia has a secret that even Matthew didn... + Read More
3.
Series: Audacious Paperback Gabrielle Prendergast 9781459802643 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 01, 2015

Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie city, Raphaelle wants to make a new start. Reborn as "Ella," she tries to fit in at her new school. She's drawn to Samir, a Muslim boy in her art class, and expresses her confused feelings in explicit art. When a classmate texts a photo of Ella's art to a younger friend, the fallout spreads throughout Ella's life, t... + Read More
4.
Series: Baygirl Paperback Heather Smith 9781459802742 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Sep 01, 2013

Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable. When the 1992 cod moratorium forces her father out of a job, the tension between Kit and her father grows. Forced to leave their rural community, the family moves to the city, where they live with Uncle Iggy, a widower with problems of his own. Immediately pegged as a "baygirl," Kit struggles to fit in, but longstanding trust issues threate... + Read More
5.
Series: Creeps Paperback Darren Hynes 9780143187141 $15.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Jul 30, 2013

Fifteen-year-old Wayne Pumphrey wishes he were courageous enough to actually send the heartfelt letters he writes to friends and family. He also wishes his father would drive on the right side of the street, his mother would stop packing her suitcase to leave, and his sister would stop listening to Nickelback. But most of all, he wishes that Pete “The Meat” would let him walk to school in peace. After all, how many times can one person eat yellow snow? Then one morning, while facing Pete and his posse, Wayne is rescued by Marjorie. An unlikely ... + Read More
6.
Series: Knots Sequence The Oathbreaker's Shadow Paperback Amy McCulloch 9780385678261 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 15, 2014

Fans of Philip Pullman, Jonathan Stroud, and George R.R. Martin are going to love this action-filled fantasy novel by an exciting and extremely promotable debut voice in the genre.In the world of fifteen-year-old Raim, you tie a knot for every promise you make. Break that promise and the knot will burst into flames, scarring your skin and forever marking you as an oathbreaker. Raim has worn a simple knot around his wrist for as long as he can remember. No one seems to know where it came from or which promise it symbolizes, and Raim barely think... + Read More
7.
Series: The Opposite of Geek Paperback Ria Voros 9781443104845 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 Sep 01, 2013

A piercing novel about the unnerving process of growing up, and a girl finding her feet.Gretchen Meyers doesn't know exactly what went wrong, but life in the eleventh grade is beginning to suck. As if having a semi-nudist, food-obsessed family wasn't awkward enough, she has lost her best friend to the fanatical school swim team, and her chemistry grade is so close to negative digits that only emergency tutoring can save it. So far, so high school. Then James/Dean rolls into her life — also known as her zit-faced chemistry tutor James and h... + Read More
8.
Series: The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley Paperback Jan Andrews 9781926531687 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Mar 01, 2013

When no one listens, what’s the point of talking? Kyle McGinley doesn’t say a word. Fed up with being shuttled from one foster care home to another, he has stopped speaking. But at the home of Scott and Jill Wardman, with the help of a crow, a swamp, and an excess of black paint, he begins to think that maybe, just maybe, life could be better. As long as his frigging dad doesn’t mess things up.
9.
Series: Tag Along Paperback Tom Ryan 9781459802971 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) exact 12 Oct 01, 2013

It's junior prom night. Andrea is grounded for getting her older brother to buy booze for her, Paul is having panic attacks, Roemi has been stood up by his Internet date, and Candace is busy tagging a building (before she gets collared by a particularly tenacious cop). By happenstance, the four near-strangers end up together, getting into more trouble, arguing and ultimately helping each other out over the course of eight madcap hours.
10.
Series: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B Paperback Teresa Toten 9780385678346 $14.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Aug 27, 2013

Two-time Governor General's Award nominee Teresa Toten is back with a compulsively readable new book for teens!When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her--to play Batman to her Robyn--whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can ... + Read More