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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Series: Sometimes I Feel Like Sometimes I Feel Like a River Hardcover Danielle Daniel 9781773066950 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Mar 07, 2023

Following the huge success of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world. In each of twelve short poems, a child tells us how or why they feel like the sun, a river, a mountain, a cloud, the rain, a forest and more. Their deeply felt connections and identification with these wonders point to how much we are all part of the natural world. Each poem comes to life through vivid, playful illustrations that show the children immersed in their surroundings. The book serves as a g... + Read More
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Series: The Last Two Crayons Hardcover Leah Freeman-Haskin 9781773066233 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Apr 04, 2023

Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school’s spring art show, until she ends up with the last two crayons … By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how can she make a special picture for the art show? Andy teases that all she’ll be able to draw is mud and dog poop. Her teacher tries to cheer her up, telling her that lots of wonderful things are brown. So Sienna imagines some of her favorite things — her grandma’s rose garden, her new bicycle, rai... + Read More
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Series: Afikomen Hardcover Tziporah Cohen MFA 9781773066066 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Mar 07, 2023

In this wordless time-travel adventure, three children at a Passover seder visit ancient Egypt to help baby Moses find his way safely to Pharaoh’s daughter. When a family settles at the table for Passover, their dog nabs the afikomen bag (containing matzah used for the seder) and dives under the tablecloth. The children follow him and find themselves transported to ancient Egypt. There, they see baby Moses’ mother and sister Miriam placing him in a reed basket. The baby’s journey down the Nile is hazardous — he encounters several obstacles alon... + Read More
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Series: Happy Birthday to Me Hardcover Thao Lam 9781773068725 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Apr 04, 2023

How does it feel to turn a year older? A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year, their birthday! A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year—their birthday! Early-morning excitement gives way to shyness at the arrival of guests, hunger for cake, a craze for arts and crafts, and some real piñata problems. So how can a kid possibly answer that age old question: "How does it feel to be a year older?" From bestselling picture-book creator Thao Lam comes this irrepressible celebration of em... + Read More
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Series: The Remembering Stone Hardcover Carey Sookocheff 9781773065892 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Mar 07, 2023

Alice keeps a perfectly round skipping stone in her pocket to remember her grandfather by — but the stone goes missing. It looked just like a regular stone, but Alice knew it was different: It was perfectly round so you could use it to trace circles, and sometimes she could trick her dad into thinking it was a quarter. It was also how Alice remembered her grandpa, who taught her how to skip stones, and who passed away last winter. Alice brings the stone to school for Show and Share, but when her classmate asks to see it again at recess, Alice... + Read More
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Series: We Are Lions! Hardcover Jens Mattsson 9781773067018 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Mar 07, 2023

I am a lion, and my big brother is one, too … until one day, he gets sick. The narrator and his big brother have the best game in the world together. They are dangerous lions on the savannah! One day, big brother doesn’t want to run around anymore. His stomach hurts. He has to see the doctor and take medicine, and even has to stay at the hospital. Lions don’t want to be trapped by wires and tubes! The narrator instigates a hunt, and the brothers run around the hospital together, chasing gazelles and startling the wildebeest. But big brother is... + Read More
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Series: The Invitation Hardcover Stacey May Fowles 9781773066615 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Apr 04, 2023

Stacey May Fowles’ debut picture book is a whimsical, warmhearted story of how a super-special surprise can lead to anxiety — or invite imagination. One beautiful fall day, Fern opens her mailbox and finds an envelope. After much worrying about what it could possibly contain, her friend Fawn encourages her to open it. Inside, she finds an invitation to a super-special surprise at the museum — but Fern doesn’t like surprises! Luckily, Fawn offers to come with her to the party. What could possibly happen, he asks. Along the way, Fern voices her ... + Read More
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Series: Speak Out Malala Speaks Out Hardcover Malala Yousafzai 9781773069166 $14.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 04, 2023

Malala Yousafzai was denied education when the Taliban took control of her town in Pakistan. She decided to speak up, despite the danger it put her in. Her story is the story of many girls. When Malala was fifteen years old, she was attacked by the Taliban for defending girls’ rights to education. She survived and recovered to become a world leader in education rights. In 2014, at the age of seventeen, she was the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This is her acceptance speech, in which Malala tells her story — the story of 6... + Read More
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Series: Catch Me If I Fall Paperback Barry Jonsberg 9781773068916 $17.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Mar 07, 2023

Twins Ashleigh and Aiden have always promised to protect each other, but after an accident on a school trip, Aiden starts behaving strangely. Are they just growing apart, or is something more sinister going on? In a future Australia ravaged by climate change, twins Ashleigh and Aiden Delatour have always promised to protect and be there for each other, no matter what. Their privileged upbringing and loving, wealthy parents leave them with little to worry about. But when Aiden is seriously injured during a school trip, the twins’ entire world b... + Read More
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Series: Cleaning Up Hardcover Leanne Lieberman 9781773068060 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Apr 04, 2023

Jess finds a secret diary and imagines what it would be like to be a girl who has everything. Will she become so wrapped up in someone else’s life that she misses a chance to create her own? Jess cleans houses to save money for college, because her dad — unemployed and off the wagon yet again — has moved the two of them out of the city into a decrepit borrowed tent and trailer. Jess wavers between anger at her father and fear that poverty and addiction may be her fate, too, and she decides she will do whatever it takes to avoid it. She gets a g... + Read More
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Series: Buffalo Flats Hardcover Martine Leavitt 9781773062020 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Apr 25, 2023

A stubborn, irreverent and resourceful young woman discovers that it is the bonds of family, faith and friendship that will tie her to the wild and unpredictable land she comes to love so fiercely. Seventeen-year-old Rebecca has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the North-West Territories of Canada, where her parents and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community. Despite the back-breaking work, Rebecca decides that she, too, must have her own land. She sets to the seemingly impossible task of earning enough money to bu... + Read More