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Series: Legacy of Orisha Children of Blood and Bone Paperback Tomi Adeyemi 9781250294623 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Jan 01, 2023

InstantNew York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018TIME Top 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2018NPR's Book Concierge 2018 Great Reads ListBuzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018Bustle's Top 25 Best Young Adults Books of 20182018KirkusPrize FinalistYALSA William C. Morris YA Debut Award FinalistPaste Magazine’s 30 Best YA Novels of 2018Newsweek’s 61 Best Books from 2018Boston Globe’s Best Children's Books of 2018Publishers Weekly Best YA Books of 2018School Library JournalBest Books of 2018With five starred reviews, To... + Read More
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Series: The 57 Bus A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives Paperback Dashka Slater 9781250229137 $14.50 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Jan 01, 2023

This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.One teenager in a skirt.One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever.If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived i... + Read More
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Series: The State of Grace Paperback Rachael Lucas 9781250308924 $13.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Jan 01, 2023

Whip-smart, hilarious, and unapologetically honest,The State of Grace is a heartwarming young adult story of one girl trying to work out where she fits in, and whether she even wants to.“Sometimes I feel like everyone else was handed a copy of the rules for life and mine got lost.”Grace has Asperger's and her own way of looking at the world. She's got a horse and a best friend who understand her, and that's pretty much all she needs. But when Grace kisses Gabe and things start to change at home, the world doesn't make much sense to her any more... + Read More
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Series: Snow Lane Paperback Josie Angelini 9781250294166 $10.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jan 01, 2022

By turns harrowing and heartbreaking, this middle-grade novel tells a story of a family of nine kids and one very dark secret.Fifth grader Annie is just like every other girl in her small suburban town. Except she’s starting to realize that she isn’t.Annie is the youngest of nine children. Instead of being condemned to the bottom of the pecking order, she wants to carve out place for herself in the world. But it’s hard to find your destiny when the only thing you’re good at is being cheerful. Annie is learning that it’s difficult to be Annie, ... + Read More
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Series: Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted Hardcover Daniel Sokatch 9781635573879 $36.50 HISTORY Sep 21, 2021

From the expert who understands both sides of one of the world's most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-dayGuide for the Perplexed-a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian issue. "Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?" This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis. As the head of the New Israel Fund, which is dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews, Sokatch is supremely well-versed on the Israeli conflict.Can We Talk About I... + Read More
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Series: This Promise of Change One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Paperback Jo Ann Allen Boyce 9781547604487 $17.50 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 10 - 12 Aug 19, 2021

Recipient of a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book HonorWinner of the 2019Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for NonfictionA NYPL Top Ten of 2019AKirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearIn 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but then outside agitators interfered, pitting the townspeople against one ano... + Read More
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Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series Light the Road of Freedom Paperback Sahbaa Al-Barbari 9781772125443 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 15, 2021

Sahbaa Al-Barbari’s story provides a unique perspective on Palestinian experience before and after the 1948 Nakba. Born in Gaza, Al-Barbari began her career as a school teacher and was an activist in her community. When Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967, Al-Barbari was exiled from Palestine, continuing her activism as she lived in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Kuwait, Tunis, Libya, and Europe. Al-Barbari returned to Gaza in 1996. This is the second book in the Women’s Voices from Gaza series, which honours women’s unique and underrepresen... + Read More
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Series: The Street Belongs to Us Paperback Karleen Pendleton Jimenez 9781551528403 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 May 04, 2021

A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two best friends who transform their torn-up street into a world where imaginations can run wild. In 1984 Los Angeles, Alex is a tomboy who would rather wear her hair short and her older brother's hand-me-downs, and Wolf is a troubled kid who's been wearing the same soldier's uniform ever since his mom died. They temporarily set their worries aside when their street is torn up by digging machines and transformed into a muddy wonderland with endless possibilities. To pass the hot summer days, the two best... + Read More
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Series: My Indian Paperback Chief Mi'sel Joe 9781550818789 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 15 - 18 Apr 30, 2021

In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill reclaim the story of Sylvester Joe, the Mi’kmaq guide engaged by Cormack. In a remarkable feat of historical fiction, My Indian follows Sylvester Joe from his birth (in what is now known as Miawpukek First Nation) and early life in his community to his... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Style How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures Hardcover Christian Allaire 9781773214900 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 27, 2021

Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly... + Read More
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Series: The Doll Hardcover Nhung N. Tran-Davies 9781772601657 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Apr 20, 2021

A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
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Series: When Mom's Away Hardcover Layla Ahmad 9781772601756 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 8 Apr 20, 2021

Things are changing for one little girl whose mom is a busy doctor. When her mom has to be in quarantine—sleeping on a cot in their garage to keep the family safe from the virus—the girl does her best to be brave. She and her dad spend time together, she goes to school online, and she helps her grandparents too…making sure to wave so they know it's her! They join their neighbours outside to thank the doctors and nurses around the world for their hard work. But of course the highlight of the day is when mom comes home, and they wave to each oth... + Read More
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Series: I Sang You Down from the Stars Hardcover Tasha Spillett-Sumner 9781771474085 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Apr 05, 2021

An #OwnVoices love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby, new from celebrated author Tasha Spillett-Sumner and 2021 Caldecott winning illustrator Michaela Goade, that honors the beauty of a little one's arrival Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolors, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child. The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby’s birth; a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sag... + Read More
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Series: THAO A Picture Book Hardcover Thao Lam 9781771474320 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Apr 15, 2021

A funny, eye-opening story about the challenges of growing up with an unfamiliar name and learning to be true to yourself, new from the critically acclaimed Thao Lam Even though it’s only four simple, familiar letters long, nobody can ever pronounce Thao’s name. She’s been called Theo, Tail, even Towel! But the teasing names—Tofu, Tiny, China Girl—are worse. Maybe it’s time to be someone else? Thao decides to try on a different name, something easy, like Jennifer. It works, but only until she opens her lunchbox to find her mother’s Vietname... + Read More
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Series: Carry On Poetry by Young Immigrants Hardcover Various contributors 9781771474160 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 15, 2021

A moving #OwnVoices poetry collection written by young newcomers to Canada Carry On began in a high school in Outremont, Quebec, where author and poet Simon Boulerice conducted creative-writing workshops for young newcomers to Canada. As the students began writing, their poems gave voice to their reflections on leaving family, friends, and countries of origin to make new homes and connections in their new home, Canada. Paired with expressive portraits by award-winning artist Rogé, each young writer reflects on the experience of leaving one ... + Read More
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Series: Four Faces of the Moon Hardcover Amanda Strong 9781773214542 $24.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Jun 08, 2021

On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld, she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls, a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the buffalo—a key tactic to starve and contain the Indigenous People onto reservations. Spotted Fawn must travel through her own family history to confront the harsh realities of the past and reignite her connection to her people and the land. Her darkroom be... + Read More
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Series: Diana Dances Paperback Luciano Lozano 9781773212470 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Apr 13, 2021

Diana is a dancer! Diana is struggling in school and no one knows why. One day she can’t help but dance to music she hears, and the truth becomes clear—there’s nothing wrong with Diana. She just learns through movement. Diana is a dancer!
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Series: Daniels v. Canada In and Beyond the Courts Paperback Nathalie Kermoal 9780887559273 $27.95 LAW Apr 23, 2021

In Daniels v. Canada the Supreme Court determined that Métis and non-status Indians were “Indians” under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, one of a number of court victories that has powerfully shaped Métis relationships with the federal government. However, the decision (and the case) continues to reverberate far beyond its immediate policy implications. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide array of professional contexts, this volume demonstrates the power of Supreme Court of Canada cases to directly and indire... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Celebrity Entanglements with Fame Paperback Jennifer Adese 9780887559068 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 09, 2021

Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people’s entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of “Indigenous” and “celebrity” and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture’s ... + Read More
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Series: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery The Case of the Burgled Bundle: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 3 Paperback Michael Hutchinson 9781772601664 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 06, 2021

The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats—cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake’s reputation! What’s worse, prime suspect Pearl takes off to the city with her older brother and known troublemaker, Eddie. If they have the burgled bundle with them, the Mighty Muskrats fear it may be lost for go... + Read More
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Series: Us, Now Paperback Lisa Moore 9781550818819 $22.95 FICTION Apr 02, 2021

Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are by turns joyous, tender, hilarious, and heart-wrenching. They confront racism and celebrate the act of enduring. They are about settling and getting unsettled, about parents and their children, about language, about facing down the horrors of homophobia, about the joy of love, about lifelong relationships or the glee of a magnificent... + Read More
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Series: Wild Sun Unbound Paperback Ehsan Ahmad 9781949671131 $16.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

In this old-school interplanetary epic, the flames of hope cannot easily be extinguished. After three years of forced labor in the mines, Cerrin is free at last. Now she leads a band of escaped slaves on a deadly race for freedom across an endless, ancient forest. At her heels are soldiers of the most powerful, most advanced, most ruthless empire the galaxy has ever known. Leading the pursuit is Count Talazeer himself, a vicious nobleman driven by a personal vendetta again Cerrin??and a desperate need for redemption in the eyes of his family an... + Read More
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Series: Travesia A Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey//El viaje de una joven migrante Paperback Michelle Gerster 9781551528366 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 06, 2021

A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey, filled with both heartbreak and hope, begins in Tijuana, where they are transported from house to house by strangers. Here they meet the mysterious smuggler el Guero, who p... + Read More
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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation Did You See Us? Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School Paperback Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School 9780887559075 $24.95 HISTORY Mar 12, 2021

The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada’s Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located in a large urban setting. Operating between 1958 and 1973 in a period when the residential school system was in decline, it produced several future leaders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, and other notable figures. It was in many ways an experiment within the broader destructive framework of Canadian residential schools. Stitching together ... + Read More
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Series: Algonquian Text Society mitoni niya nêhiyaw / Cree is Who I Truly Am nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya / Me, I am Truly a Cree Woman Paperback Sarah Whitecalf 9780887559426 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 02, 2021

Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918–20 and murder committed in a jealous rage to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits who on her release grant her healing powers. A highly personal document, these memoirs are altogether exceptional in recounting the thoughts and feelings of a Cree woman as she copes with the challenges of reserve life but also... + Read More
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Series: The Bare Naked Book Hardcover Kathy Stinson 9781773214726 $21.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Mar 09, 2021

Bodies, bodies! Big and small, short and tall, young and old—Every BODY is different! The Bare Naked Book has been a beloved fixture in libraries, classrooms, and at-home story times since its original publication in 1986. Now, this revised edition is ready to meet a new generation of readers. The text has been updated to reflect current understandings of gender and inclusion, which are alsoshowcased in the brand-new, vibrant illustrations by Melissa Cho. Featuring a note from the author explaining the history of the book and the importance of ... + Read More
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Series: Treaty Words For As Long As the Rivers Flow Hardcover Aimée Craft 9781773214962 $16.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 10 Mar 09, 2021

The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis’s home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen—to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties—the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Accompanied by beautiful illustr... + Read More
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Series: Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms A Mother & Daughter’s Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression Paperback Grace Eiko Thomson 9781773860411 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 05, 2021

A vital memoir by two Japanese Canadian women reflecting on their family history, cultural heritage, generational trauma, and the meaning of home.At eight years old, Grace Eiko Nishikihama was forcibly removed from her Vancouver home and interned with her parents and siblings in the BC Interior. Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms is a moving and politically outspoken memoir written by Grace, now a grandmother, with passages from a journal kept by her late mother, Sawae Nishikihama. An educated woman, Sawae married a naturalized Canadian man a... + Read More
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