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Calvin Paperback Martine Leavitt 9781554987207 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Nov 15, 2015

Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — TextIn the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations.As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture.And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold…The lake, it... + Read More
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Tokyo Digs a Garden Hardcover Jon-Erik Lappano 9781554987986 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 01, 2016

Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — Illustrated Books Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. For years, highways and skyscrapers have been built up around the family’s house where once there were hills and trees. Will they ever experience the natural world again? One day, an old woman offers Tokyo seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes. Tokyo and his grandfather are astonished when the seeds grow into a forest so lush that it ta... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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This One Summer Paperback Mariko Tamaki 9781554981526 $19.99 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... + Read More
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Northwest Passage Hardcover Stan Rogers 9781554981533 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 Sep 01, 2013

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration Award-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song "Northwest Passage" by legendary Canadian songwriter and singer Stan Rogers and tells the dramatic story of the search for the elusive route through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, which for hundreds of years and once again today, nations, explorers and commercial interests have dreamt of conquering, often with tragic consequences. For hundreds of years explorers attempted to find the Northwest Passage - a route thr... + Read More
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Ancient Thunder Paperback Leo Yerxa 9781554981274 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 5 Feb 01, 2012

Winner of the Governor General's Award A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on leather shirts. The art is accompanied by a rich song of praise for the wild horses that came to play such an important role in the lives of the First Peoples. Years in the making, the book is truly a work of art — one that reflects Yerxa's sense... + Read More
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The Crazy Man Paperback Pamela Porter 9780888996954 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jun 30, 2006

It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad accidentally ran over her leg with the discer, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. But perhaps the worst thing from Emaline's point of view is that in his grief and guilt, her father shot Prince and then left Emaline and her mother on their own. Despite the neighbors' disapproval, Emaline's mo... + Read More
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Stitches Paperback Glen Huser 9780888995780 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 11 - 13 Oct 01, 2003

Travis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side there's Shon Docker, Travis's old tormenter from elementary school. Travis lives in a trailer park outside a small prairie town. His mother, a country-and-western singer, is on the road a lot; his father is long gone. When things get crazy at his house, he can always visit his best friend, Chantelle, a smart disabled girl with several wild biker brother... + Read More
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Alego Hardcover Ningeokuluk Teevee 9780888999436 $17.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2009

An enchanting and utterly authentic introduction to the life of an Inuit child and her world. Written and illustrated by Ningeokuluk Teevee, one of the most interesting young artists in Cape Dorset, home to the great tradition of Inuit art, this is a beautifully simple story, written in Inuktitut and English, about a young Inuit girl who goes to the shore with her grandmother to collect clams for supper. Along the way she discovers tide pools brimming with life – a bright orange starfish, a creepy-crawly thing with many legs called an ugjunnaq,... + Read More
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Angel Square 2nd edition Paperback Brian Doyle 9780888996091 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 11 Nov 03, 2003

A Phoenix Honor Award Book Young Tommy is seeing Angel Square through new eyes since his best friend's father was beaten up just because he's Jewish. Brian Doyle brings his award-winning blend of humor and wisdom to bear in this mystery that confronts the issue of racial hatred.
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Arctic Adventures Hardcover Raquel Rivera 9780888997142 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 8 Jun 01, 2007

The land, hunting, hunger, magic and extreme weather are themes that resonate for Inuit who live in the Far North. These stories, drawn from the lives of four Inuit artists, offer young readers a glimpse into this rich, remote culture, past and present. Accompanying each story are illustrations by Jirina Marton, who has spent time in the Arctic and whose deep appreciation for its subtle beauty shines through her art. In addition to the stories, there is a feature spread on each artist with a photograph, a brief biography and a reproduction of o... + Read More
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As Long as the Rivers Flow Paperback Larry Loyie 9780888996961 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 8 Sep 04, 2005

Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction From the mid-1800s to the late 1990s, the education of Indigenous children was taken on by various churches in government-sponsored residential schools. More than 150,000 children were forcibly taken from their families in order to erase their traditional languages and cultures. As Long as the Rivers Flow is the story of Larry Loyie’s last traditional summer before entering residential school. It is a time of adventure and learning from his Elders. He cares for an abandoned ba... + Read More
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Bone Dance Paperback Martha Brooks 9780888993366 $8.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 01, 1998

Alexandra's beloved grandfather was fond of saying, Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the good and the bad get all bunched up together. However, he could not have prepared her for the death of her father, a man she never knew, and his legacy -- a cabin on prairie land formerly owned by the LaFreniere family. Lonny LaFreniere's stepfather is the kindest man Lonny has ever known. But Lonny, tormented by guilty memories and visions he can't shake, rejects the land Pop always wanted to pass on to him. How could he have known it would end up... + Read More
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Canadian Railroad Trilogy Hardcover Gordon Lightfoot 9780888999535 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 Sep 18, 2010

Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot's heart-stirring song, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," to readers young and old. The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada's centennial year and it has been a classic ever since. It eloquently describes the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway -- "an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea" -- a great feat of nation building that changed Canada forever for ... + Read More
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Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance Paperback Ian Wallace 9780888991676 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 01, 1992

Winner of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator Award From the time Chin Chiang stood only as high as his grandfather's knees, he dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance. Now the first day of the Year of the Dragon has arrived, and Chin Chiang is so scared that he wants to melt into his shoes. Chin Chiang is a most appealing small boy, whose plight will touch readers young and old. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7With prompting and support, describe the relationship between ill... + Read More
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Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories Paperback Paul Yee 9780888995872 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 11 Nov 01, 2003

These ten original ghost stories dramatize the history of Chinese immigration to North America -- from the poor village men who first came searching for gold in the late 1850s to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. These stories describe the resilience and struggle of people trying to make new lives for themselves in a strange land. But these are also ghost stories, a popular narrative form in China. Though men and women seek their fortune in the New World, the links to China are strong. Wherev... + Read More
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Flannery Hardcover Lisa Moore 9781554980765 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 May 01, 2016

A spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing friends and starting all over again, from the internationally acclaimed Lisa Moore.Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery’s dreams, literally too cool for school.Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyro... + Read More
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Go Home Bay Hardcover Susan Vande Griek 9781554987016 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Apr 05, 2016

In 1914, Tom Thomson spent the summer at a family cottage on Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay, where he taught the ten-year-old daughter, Helen, how to paint. Author Susan Vande Griek and illustrator Pascal Milelli have imagined this time through Helen’s eyes, providing an intriguing glimpse into the famous painter’s life.Helen and her father greet their visitor on the rocks of West Wind Island. She is fascinated by everything about him — his canoe full of gear, his paint-stained hands, his campfire stew. Over the next few days she watches as Tom padd... + Read More
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Grandpa's Girls Hardcover Nicola Campbell 9781554980840 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 24, 2011

A finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize A young girl delights in a visit to her grandpa’s farm. She and her cousins run through the fields, explore the root cellar where the salmon and jars of fruit are stored, swing on a rope out the barn loft window, visit the Appaloosa in the corral and tease the neighbor’s pig. The visit is also an opportunity for this child to ask Grandpa what her grandmother,Yayah, was like, and explore the “secret room,”with its old wooden trunk of ribbons, medals and photos of Grandpa ... + Read More
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I Know Here Hardcover Laurel Croza 9781554983933 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2013

Winner of the 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the 2011 Ezra Jack Keats and New York Public Library New Writer Award, and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration The little girl in this story lives with her family in a trailer in northeastern Saskatchewan, where her father is building a dam. She knows everything about the place she lives -- her road, her school, the forest where she plays hide-and-seek and where the wolf howls at night, the hill where she goes tobogg... + Read More
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From There to Here Hardcover Laurel Croza 9781554983650 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 01, 2014

A little girl and her family have just moved across the country by train. Their new neighborhood in the city of Toronto is very different from their home in the Saskatchewan bush, and at first everything about “there” seems better than “here.” The little girl’s dad has just finished building a dam across the Saskatchewan River, and his new project is to build a highway through Toronto. In Saskatchewan, he would come home for lunch every day, but now he doesn’t come until supper. The family used to love to look at the stars, and the northern li... + Read More
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Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall Paperback Leo Yerxa 9781554981243 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Sep 15, 2012

A beautifully illustrated, award-winning picture book from Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, now available in paperback.Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall takes us on a dreamlike voyage into nature at that secret moment when fall turns into winter. We find ourselves in a kind of paradise, which humans may be part of but which they have not despoiled. A father and son lead us through forests, down rivers, over lakes and ponds. Along the way we experience the primordial beauty of the physical world. This is nature as we all feel in our hea... + Read More
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Series: The Malaika Series Malaika’s Costume Hardcover Nadia L. Hohn 9781554987542 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 01, 2016

Malaika’s mother can’t buy her a carnival costume — will she still be able to dance in the parade? It’s Carnival time. The first Carnival since Malaika’s mother moved to Canada to find a good job and provide for Malaika and her grandmother. Her mother promised she would send money for a costume, but when the money doesn’t arrive, will Malaika still be able to dance in the parade? Disappointed and upset at her grandmother’s hand-me-down costume, Malaika leaves the house, running into Ms. Chin, the tailor, who offers Malaika a bag of scrap fabric... + Read More
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Migrant Hardcover Maxine Trottier 9780888999757 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 05, 2011

A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011, an Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award Honour Book, and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration and Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards: Picture Book Each spring Anna leaves her home in Mexico and travels north with her family where they will work on farms. Sometimes she feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall. Sometimes she feels like a jack rabbit living in an abandoned burrow, as he... + Read More
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Money Boy Paperback Paul Yee 9781554980932 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 9 Sep 03, 2011

An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It’s tough getting grades that will please his army veteran father, when speaking English is still a struggle. And he can’t quite connect with his peers at high school -- Chinese immigrants like himself but who seem to have adjusted to North American life more easily. Then comes the fat... + Read More
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Niwechihaw / I Help Bilingual edition Hardcover Caitlin Nicholson 9780888998125 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Feb 01, 2008

This simple story in Cree and English explores a young child's relationship to his kuhkom, his grandmother, as they go for a walk in the bush to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, picking, praying, eating, just as she does. In doing so, he absorbs the rich cultural traditions and values of his Cree heritage.
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Once Upon a Northern Night Hardcover Jean E. Pendziwol 9781554981380 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2013

Once Upon a Northern Night has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. In this exquisite lullaby, the beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold, with images of a soft snowfall, the wild animals that appear in the garden, the twinkling stars, the gentle rhythm of the northern lights and the etchings of frost on the window pane. As the young child sleeps, wrapped in a downy blanket, a snowflake falls, and then another and another. The poem describes the forest of snow-covered pines, where a d... + Read More
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P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony Hardcover Scot Ritchie 9781554987184 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2015

It’s the day of the first salmon ceremony, and P'ésk'a is excited to celebrate. His community, the Sts'ailes people, give thanks to the river and the salmon it brings by commemorating the first salmon of the season.Framed as an exploration of what life was like one thousand years ago, P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony describes the customs of the Sts'ailes people, an indigenous group who have lived on the Harrison River in British Columbia for the last 10,000 years. Includes an introductory letter from Chief William Charlie, an illustrated ... + Read More
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Pinny in Summer Hardcover Joanne Schwartz 9781554987825 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 01, 2016

This engaging story, told in chapter-like episodes, follows Pinny on a long, lazy summer day. As sunshine turns to rain and back to sun again, Pinny searches for a wishing rock, watches clouds, picks wild blueberries, feeds a seagull, and bakes a cake to share with her friends.An ideal book for children beginning to make the jump to independent reading, Pinny in Summer demonstrates the joy young people find in nature and an unstructured life. Pinny is allowed to explore her world freely, and her small setbacks and triumphs will be familiar to e... + Read More
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Rosario's Fig Tree Hardcover Charis Wahl 9781554983414 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2015

Every spring the little girl who lives next door to Rosario helps him plant vegetables. One spring, Rosario plants a fig tree, which soon bears sweet purple fruit. But when fall comes, he bends it over and buries it in the ground. What kind of magic is Rosario performing?The next spring, on planting day, the little girl and Rosario make holes for tomato plants, push in stakes for beans and plant other vegetables. Then Rosario begins to unearth the buried fig tree. It looks dead, for sure. But one hot sunny day, a fresh green leaf appears.Inspir... + Read More
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A Salmon for Simon Hardcover Betty Waterton 9781554983926 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Oct 01, 2013

Simon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own.All summer long, Simon, a young First Nations boy, has been desperate to catch a salmon. He goes fishing every day, but has no luck. Then one day a high-flying eagle drops a salmon into a clam hole right before his eyes, and Simon must decide whether to take it home or let it go.This simple story, with its evocative watercolor... + Read More
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A Salmon for Simon 2nd edition Paperback Betty Waterton 9780888992765 $7.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 01, 1997

Simon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own.All summer long, Simon, a young First Nations boy, has been desperate to catch a salmon. He goes fishing every day, but has no luck. Then one day a high-flying eagle drops a salmon into a clam hole right before his eyes, and Simon must decide whether to take it home or let it go.This simple story, with its evocative watercolor... + Read More
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Shi-shi-etko Hardcover Nicola Campbell 9780888996596 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jul 03, 2005

Winner of the Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award. Finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world -- the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the tadpoles in the creek, her grandfather's paddle song. Her mother, father and grandmother, each in turn, sha... + Read More
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Shin-chi's Canoe Hardcover Nicola Campbell 9780888998576 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2008

Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi k... + Read More
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Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox Hardcover Danielle Daniel 9781554987504 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2015

In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks representing their chosen animal, while the few lines of text on each page work as a series of simple poems throughout the book.In a brief author’s note, Danielle Daniel explains the importance of totem animals in Anishinaabe culture and how they can also act as animal guides for young children seeking to understand themselv... + Read More
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Tecumseh Hardcover James Laxer 9781554981236 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jun 01, 2012

Longlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award Two hundred years after his death, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh is still considered one of the greatest leaders of North America's First Peoples. This richly illustrated biography tells the story of his remarkable life, culminating in the War of 1812. Tecumseh, born in 1768, lived during turbulent times: the thirteen colonies revolted against British rule, becoming the United States in 1776, and settlers had begun to push westward, rapidly encroaching on the ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Travels with My Family Travels with My Family Paperback Marie-Louise Gay 9780888998330 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Sep 01, 2007

Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very unique travelogue. Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grassho... + Read More
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Up in the Tree Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9780888997296 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Jan 16, 2006

Margaret Atwood's classic picture book is a perfect integration of words and pictures. This story about the adventures of two children who live up in a tree is vintage Atwood -- playful, whimsical and wry. The perfect integration of words and pictures creates a coherent and delightful whole. When this charming book was first published in 1978, there was a widespread idea that it was too expensive and risky to publish a children's book in Canada. And so Margaret Atwood not only wrote and illustrated the book, she handlettered the type! The book ... + Read More
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Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged! Hardcover Jody Nyasha Warner 9780888997791 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Sep 01, 2010

Finalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction "On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scotians for the racial discrimination she was subjected to by the justice system … We recognize today that the act for which Viola Desmond was arrested, was an act of courage, not an offence." -- Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova Scotia, April 15, 2010 In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theatre told Viola Desmond to move from her main floor sea... + Read More
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Watching Traffic Hardcover Jane Ozkowski 9781554988433 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Aug 01, 2016

A stunning debut novel about that uncertain summer after high-school graduation. Emily has finally finished high school in the small town where she has lived her whole life. At last, she thinks, her adult life can begin. But what if you have no idea what you want your new life to look like? What then? While Lincoln gets ready to go backpacking in Australia, Melissa packs for university on the east coast, and a new guy named Tyler provides welcome distraction, Emily wonders whether she will end up working forever at Pamela’s Country Catering, cu... + Read More
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Series: West Coast Wild West Coast Wild A Nature Alphabet Hardcover Deborah Hodge 9781554984404 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2015

Celebrate the Pacific west coast with this gorgeous nature alphabet book. This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific west coast — a magnificent area that combines an ancient rainforest, a rugged beach and a vast, open ocean, and where whales, bears, wolves, eagles and a rich variety of marine species thrive in an interconnected web of life. Author Deborah Hodge has spent more than forty years on the west coast, frequently visiting the Pacific Rim region, and she knows it intimately. From A to Z she desc... + Read More
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl 2nd edition Paperback Martha Brooks 9780888995698 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 12 Oct 01, 2003

In the midst of a heaven-rattling summer storm a young stranger blows into a small prairie town. On the run after taking her latest boyfriend's truck, with a pocketful of stolen money and a heart full of pain, seventeen-year-old Noreen Stall seems to invite trouble. And trouble comes soon enough, as Noreen's new mistakes trigger calamities that shake the lives of the residents of Pembina Lake. Acclaimed novelist Martha Brooks has written an unforgettable and award-winning story about a terribly complex heroine and the effects she has on those ... + Read More
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Looking for X Paperback Deborah Ellis 9780888993823 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 1999

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award In this urban adventure story, Khyber, a smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood, sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious homeless woman who has gone missing. The desperate search takes Khyber on a long, all-night odyssey that proves to be wilder than any adventure she has ever imagined.
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The Great Poochini Paperback Gary Clement 9780888999900 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2010

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration By day Signor Poochini is a dog, lying peacefully in his master's living-room and listening to music. But by night he is the Great Poochini, the most acclaimed singer in all opera -- dog opera, that is. One evening, however, as Poochini attempts to leave home for the opera house, he discovers that his master has left the window locked, and he cannot get out. He is in despair until suddenly a cat burglar appears, and what might turn into a disaster becomes an opportunity. Gary Cl... + Read More
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Ghost Train Hardcover Paul Yee 9781554983896 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Oct 01, 2013

The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has bee... + Read More
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The Maestro 2nd edition Paperback Tim Wynne-Jones 9780888996374 $9.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 12 Dec 16, 2004

Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, and in just one day, this eccentric genius changes Burl's life forever.
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Some of the Kinder Planets 2nd edition Paperback Tim Wynne-Jones 9780888994189 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Oct 01, 2000

Meet someone new… Harriet, who sees Mars and tastes pomengranates -- all in one day; Cluny, a girl who wants to publish a magazine for people with weird names; Ky, who lives in a geodesic dome deep in the country; Fletcher, the survivor of an almost fatal illness, who decides to paste the names of exotic places he would like to visit on his chest and stomach; Edward George, who made a discovery and became famous -- famous and forgotten -- on a hot day in 1867. You'll get to know them all in Some of the Kinder Plants -- nine stories full of hum... + Read More
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Doctor Kiss Says Yes Hardcover Teddy Jam 9781554981946 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jun 30, 2012

A new edition of the magical Governor General’s Award-winning book, now reissued as a fundraiser for IBBY Canada’s Joanne Fitzgerald Fund.Doctor Kiss is quite prepared to say yes when she finds a letter asking her to come to the aid of a young knight who has been injured in battle. She waits until after her usual goodnight kisses and hugs from her parents, and then she takes her medical bag and climbs through her bedroom window into a gilded, magical world from the age of chivalry.Teddy Jam and Joanne Fitzgerald have created a richly satisfying... + Read More
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Amos's Sweater 2nd edition Paperback Janet Lunn 9780888998453 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2007

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Illustration, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award Amos the sheep is old and cold and tired of giving up all his wool. But despite his noisy objections, Aunt Hattie shears Amos once again and knits his wool into a brightly colored sweater for Uncle Henry. Poor Amos decides that this time he has had enough — and he sets out to reclaim what is rightfully his.