1.
Series:
They Say Blue
Hardcover
Jillian Tamaki
9781773060200
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Mar 01, 2018
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2018 Caldecott and Printz Honor-winning illustrator Jillian Tamaki brings us a poetic exploration of colour and nature from a young child’s point of view. They Say Blue follows a young girl as she contemplates colours in the known and the unknown, in the immediate world and the world beyond what she can see. The sea looks blue, yet water cupped in her hands is as clear as glass. Is a blue whale blue? She d...
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2.
Series:
Our Little Kitchen
Hardcover
Jillian Tamaki
9781773062624
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 01, 2020
A picture book about a lively evening in a community kitchen from Governor General’s Award–winning author and illustrator Jillian Tamaki. Tie on your apron! Roll up your sleeves! Pans are out, oven is hot. The kitchen’s all ready, Where do we start?In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbours come together to prepare a meal for their community. With a garden full of produce, a joyfully chaotic kitchen and a friendly meal shared at the table, Our Little Kitchen is a celebration of f...
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3.
Series:
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Paperback
Mariko Tamaki
9781773063638
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
May 21, 2019
From This One Summer co-creator Mariko Tamaki comes a hilarious and poignant story of teen heartbreak and friendship.All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got back together was the best one of Freddy’s life, but nothing’s made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, funny and SO CUTE … but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy’s head spinning — and Freddy’s friends can’t understand why she keeps going back.When Freddy consults the services of a local...
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4.
Series:
This One Summer
Paperback
Mariko Tamaki
9781554981526
$18.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13
May 01, 2014
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration Rose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visited Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. But this year is different, and they soon find themselves tangled in teen love and family crisis. From the creators of Skim comes an investigation into the mysterious world of adults. Sure, Rose’s dad is still making cheesy and embarrassing jokes, but her mother is acting like she doesn’t even want to be there. Plus, being at the cottage isn’t just about going to the beach...
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5.
Series:
Skim
Paperback
Mariko Tamaki
9780888999641
$14.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) to 14
Mar 01, 2010
A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find something to hold on to and something to believe in. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's high school, and that's what happens to Skim when she starts to meet in secret with her neo-hippie ...
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6.
Series:
They Say Blue
Board book
Jillian Tamaki
9781773066783
$14.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Aug 02, 2022
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2018 Caldecott and Printz Honor-winning illustrator Jillian Tamaki brings us a poetic exploration of colour and nature from a young child’s point of view. They Say Blue follows a young girl as she contemplates colours in the known and the unknown, in the immediate world and the world beyond what she can see. The sea looks blue, yet water cupped in her hands is as clear as glass. Is a blue whale blue? She d...
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7.
Series:
The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel
Adapted edition
Paperback
Deborah Ellis
9781773061184
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Jan 01, 2018
Deborah Ellis’s bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel. This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. Parvana’s father — a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed — ...
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8.
Series:
A Year Without Mom
Paperback
Dasha Tolstikova
9781773063799
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Mar 01, 2020
Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova’s acclaimed graphic novel A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. ...
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9.
Series:
My Body in Pieces
Hardcover
Marie-Noëlle Hébert
9781773064840
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Apr 01, 2021
A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman’s struggles with self-esteem and body image issues.All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn’t make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn’t call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn’t fall with...
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10.
Series:
Harvey
How I Became Invisible
Paperback
Herve Bouchard
9781773060057
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10
May 01, 2017
A sophisticated and original graphic novel, about a young boy's reaction to his father's death.Harvey and his little brother are playing in the slushy streets of early spring when they learn, out of the blue, that their father has died of a heart attack. Everything changes and Harvey’s favorite movie, The Incredible Shrinking Man, suddenly begins to dominate his fantasy life. When relatives try to get him to look at his father in his coffin, Harvey finds himself disappearing. Brilliantly illustrated, emotionally true and devastatingly sad, this...
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11.
Series:
Grandfather and the Moon
Hardcover
Stéphanie Lapointe
9781554989614
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 13
May 01, 2017
An award-winning graphic novel from Quebec — for fans of Jane, the Fox and Me and A Year Without MomThis moving graphic novel tells the story of the affection between a girl and her grandfather. When the grandfather withdraws in grief after his wife dies, the girl is determined to live life fully herself and enters an extraordinary contest — the result is a sensitive portrayal of pursuing a dream.Grandfather, a man of few words, is devastated when his beloved wife succumbs to cancer, and he sinks into depression. His granddaughter (“Mémère,” as...
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12.
Series:
Forever Truffle
Hardcover
Fanny Britt
9781773060705
$24.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
Aug 02, 2022
Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault are back with a new graphic novel, this time featuring Truffle, younger brother, best friend, aspiring rockstar … Meet Truffle in three linked stories: In “Truffle the Rockstar,” Truffle wants to form a band with his best friends Flo and Riad. They can already picture themselves on stage, wowing the crowd with epic songs. They still have to learn how to play instruments … but that’s just a minor detail! Ever since Truffle asked Nina to be his girlfriend, they have been shy around each other. In “Truffle Loves...
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13.
Series:
Jane, the Fox and Me
Hardcover
Fanny Britt
9781554983605
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Sep 01, 2013
A graphic novel about bullying, body image and the transformative power of fiction. Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane’s tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hélène is humiliated on ...
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14.
Series:
Louis Undercover
Hardcover
Fanny Britt
9781554988594
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Oct 01, 2017
A stunning graphic novel from the award-winning creators of Jane, the Fox and Me.In this powerful new graphic novel from Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, we meet Louis, a young boy who shuttles between his alcoholic dad and his worried mom, and who, with the help of his best friend, tries to summon up the courage to speak to his true love, Billie.Louis’s dad cries — Louis knows this because he spies on him. His dad misses the happy times when their family was together, just as Louis does. But as it is, he and his little brother, Truffle, hav...
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15.
Series:
In-Between Days
A Memoir About Living with Cancer
Paperback
Teva Harrison
9781487001087
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 23, 2016
2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcil...
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16.
Series:
The Outside Circle
A Graphic Novel
Paperback
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
9781770899377
$21.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 02, 2015
Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature In this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.Pete, a young Indigenous man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. ...
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17.
Series:
Operatic
Hardcover
Kyo Maclear
9781554989720
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Apr 01, 2019
A story of friendship, first crushes, opera and the high drama of middle school told by award-winning Kyo Maclear in her debut graphic novel.Somewhere in the universe, there is the perfect tune for you.It’s almost the end of middle school, and Charlie has to find her perfect song for a music class assignment. But it’s hard for Charlie to concentrate when she can’t stop noticing her classmate Emile, or wondering about Luka, who hasn’t been to school in weeks. Then, the class learns about opera, and Charlie discovers the music of Maria Callas. Th...
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18.
Series:
Sidewalk Flowers
Hardcover
JonArno Lawson
9781554984312
$17.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Mar 01, 2015
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. “Written” by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small thin...
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19.
Series:
Small in the City
Hardcover
Sydney Smith
9781773061986
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2019
The first picture book that the award-winning Sydney Smith has both written and illustrated is a story about feeling small in the city — and finding your way home. On a snowy day in a big city, a little boy hops off a streetcar and walks through downtown, between office buildings, through parks and down busy streets. Along the way, he provides helpful tips about which alleys make good shortcuts, which trees to climb and where to find a friendly face. All the while, the boy searches for what he has lost … The first book that award-winning illust...
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20.
Series:
Town Is by the Sea
Hardcover
Joanne Schwartz
9781554988716
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Apr 01, 2017
Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers, show the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig.With curriculum connec...
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