(*) The Case of the Golden Boy by Eric Wilson
An investigation into the kidnapping of his schoolmate leads young Tom Austen to the seedy Golden Boy Cafe and an unexpected encounter with a desperate criminal. After getting one step too close to the kidnappers, Tom is taken prisoner and needs all of his wits to survive.
Inner City Girl Like Me by Sabrina Bernardo
"Are you ready?" Gina asks her with a smile. G Child nods, their signal to begin. Punched, kicked, and beaten by her closest friends, she stumbles, but G Child doesn't cry. After all, this is what she wanted. She is now the newest member of the Diablos gang.
G Child quickly learns how to work the street by dealing drugs, menacing the rival gang, and fighting for turf. But as the years go by the stakes get higher, she begins to dream of a different life. Leaving a gang is tougher than getting in, and G Child has to watch her back. But who's the biggest threat - the cops, the enemy gang members, or her own crew?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3620075-innercity-girl-like-me
Frances by W.D. Valgardson
Frances, W.D. Valgardson’s first novel for young people, is about a Canadian girl of Icelandic descent getting in touch with her "Icelandicness." Probably the easiest and most plausible way for her to do this would have been to listen to Bjôrk CDs, but Valgardson, for whom writing from the point of view of a teenage girl is something of a stretch, chooses to have the heroine explore her roots through a discovery of her Icelandic great-grandmother’s diary. Frances is hindered in her search by her philistine mother, but helped by a gruff but humane pensioner. Along the way she uncovers painful family secrets, in addition to finding out more about herself.
(*) The Serpent's Spell by Rae Bridgman
The Serpent's Spell is a about the power of friendship and the mysteries surrounding the snakes of Narcisse, Manitoba. Calamity--prone Wil Wychwood and supernatural artist Sophie Isidor live in the hidden town of MiddleGate. Hundreds of snakes in nearby Narcisse have been murdered, and the cousins set out on a journey to discover who could have done it...
(*) Cherry Bites by Alison Preston
On a summer afternoon in 1955 a jealous five-year-old girl named Cherry Ring bites her baby brother Pete on the cheek. She bites him so hard that Little Pete needs a skin graft to repair the damage and will have a scar for the rest of his life. Cherry knows what's she's done is wrong, and she really is sorry. But sorry isn't going to be good enough. The bite marks the beginning of a troubled relationship between the siblings that will last a lifetime.
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The Sacrifice by Adele Wiseman
The Sacrifice is a haunting depiction of one family and its often tragic attempts to come to terms with a new life in a new country. It is a moving, almost biblical story of a father possessed by his hope for his only son; of a son who rebels against his father’s ideals, yet sacrifices himself to preserve what his father most prizes; and of a grandson who must reconcile the flaws in his inheritance
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4817268-the-sacrifice
Crackpot by Adele Wiseman
Hoda, the protagonist of Crackpot, is one of the most captivating characters in Canadian fiction. Graduating from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution, she becomes a legend in her neighbourhood, a canny and ingenious woman, generous, intuitive, and exuding a wholesome lust for life.
(*) Kiss of the Fur Queen by Thomas Highway
Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests. As young men, estranged from their own people and alienated from the culture imposed upon them, the Okimasis brothers fight to survive. Wherever they go, the Fur Queen--a wily, shape-shifting trickster--watches over them with a protective eye. For Jeremiah and Gabriel are destined to be artists. Through music and dance they soar.
Other books set in Manitoba:
(*) This Business with Elijah by Sheldon Oberman
Corner Store by Bess Kaplan
True Confections by Sondra Gotlieb
(*) In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton
Erebus by Robert Hunter
(*) The Race by Carol Matas
The Primrose Path by Carol Matas
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