Blood like magic [Blood Like Magic]by Sambury, Liselle 

Paperback(Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 775317 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG Lexile: 720 HL

Genres: Fantasy Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Witches - Fiction Magic - Fiction Families - Fiction Love - Fiction Bildungsromans Black people - Canada - Fiction

Summary: After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.

Elijah of Buxton by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)

BTSB #: P00424 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Freedom - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Black people - Canada - Fiction North Buxton (Ont.) - History|y19th century - Fiction Canada - History|y1763-1867 - Fiction

Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

Madman of Piney Woods by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02684 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Black people - Canada - Fiction Irish - Canada - Fiction Post-traumatic stress disorder - Fiction Freedmen - Fiction Veterans - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Canada - History|y1867-1914 - Fiction

Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.