Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2031)
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A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Echo travels back in time to 1884, where Louis Riel leads a new Me?U+0081tis resistance to stop encroaching forces from the east.
292.
Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A time-traveling adventure starring a young Métis girl.
293.
Red River Resistance by Katherena Vermette EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
The third graphic novel in the A Girl Called Echo series, Northwest Resistance follows Echo Desjardins and her travels through time. Going back to 1884, Echo finds herself in the thick of a new Métis resistance led by leader Louis Riel, who has returned from exile to resist encroaching forces from the East and to ensure his people’s rights are honoured. For Echo, the experience is empowering, focusing her own identity and giving her the strength to confront the challenges in her life.
294.
King Arthur and His Knights by Maude Radford Warren EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Twenty-one stories from the Arthurian legends specially selected and adapted for children and told in simple well-written prose. The stirring tales of these chivalrous knights awaken the reader's admiration for courage and gentleness and high sense of honor essential in all ages. Suitable for ages 9 and up.
295.
As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Caroline is seven when her family flees Pinochet's regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve 1986. She fears Santa won't find them on the plane but wakes to find a new Barbie doll, her mother preserving the holiday even amidst persecution and turmoil. Once in Canada, Caroline accompanies her parents as they clean banks at night; she experiences racist micro aggressions at school, discovers Québécois popular culture, and explores her love of reading and writing in French. Slowly, the Andean peaks disappear from her drawings. As her family increases their wealth and status--moving to a... continue
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Pyongyang : A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found himself in its capital Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation company, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city. Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, Delisle could only explore Pyong... continue
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Penelope und die zwölf Mägde by Margaret Atwood DE
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Penelope – die spartanische Prinzessin gilt als Sinnbild der treu liebenden Ehefrau und Mutter, die jahrzehntelang geduldig die Heimkehr des heldenhaften Ehemanns erwartet. So erzählt es die »Odyssee«, aber ist es auch die Geschichte, die Penelope selbst erzählen würde? Nein, findet Margaret Atwood. Ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen hält ihre Penelope Rückschau auf ihr Leben, berichtet von der gnadenlosen Konkurrenz mit der hübschen Cousine Helena, von der Zwangsverheiratung mit Odysseus, einem Mann, dem der Ruf vorauseilte, ein Aufschneider zu sein, und den Intrigen und Skandalen am Hofe ... continue
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The Maid's Secret by Nita Prose EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest A wedding. A heist. A secret. Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, two good things are just around the corner—a taping of the hit antiquities TV show Hidden Treasures and, even more exciti... continue
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Stolen Family : Captive in Saudi Arabia by Johanne Durocher EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Johanne Durocher fights to free her daughter and four grandchildren from a nightmarish life of abuse and poverty in Saudi Arabia. In 2001, Nathalie Morin was just seventeen when she met Saeed, a Saudi man who claimed to be studying in Montreal. She fell in love with him, but soon after she gave birth to their son, Saeed was deported back to his country of origin. Struggling as a single mother and wanting Samir to know his father, Nathalie travelled to Saudi Arabia to reunite her family, confident that she would be able to return to Canada whenever she wanted. But a trap was closing around her ... continue
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The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson The small southern Ontario town known as The Pump lies at the crossroads of this world's violence--a tainted water supply, an apathetic municipal government, the Gothic decay of rural domesticity--and another's. In Brooman's interconnected stories, no one is immune to The Pump's sacrificial games. Lighthouse dwellers, Boy Scouts, queer church camp leaders, love-sick and sick-sick writers, nine-year-old hunters, art-eaters--each must navigate the swamp of th... continue