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1.
Candle for Christmas /tp Paperback Jean Speare 9780888991492 $4.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from P - k Sep 01, 1991

Tomas, a young native boy, is staying with the reserve nurse while his parents go to check on their cattle. It is a very harsh, cold winter, and although they have promised to return in time for Christmas, they haven't appeared by Christmas Eve. Tomas falls asleep and dreams of a candle so large that it lights up the night sky. When he awakes he finds that his dream has helped his parents find their way home.
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A Coyote Columbus Story Paperback Thomas King 9780888998309 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Sep 01, 2007

A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from a Native point of view turns this tale on its ear! Coyote, the trickster, creates the world and all the creatures in it. She is able to control all events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles and beavers in Coyote’s land. Instead he is interested in the human beings he can take to sell in Spain. Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus’s voyages. ... + Read More
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A Coyote Solstice Tale Hardcover Thomas King 9780888999290 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Sep 01, 2009

Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book.Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the party-goers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall -- a place they have never seen before. Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that fi lling your shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same thing as actually paying for them. The trickster is tricked and goes back to his cabin in t... + Read More
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A daisy is a daisy is a daisy (except when it's a girl's name) Hardcover Linda Wolfsgruber 9781554980994 $16.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 09, 2011

Many girls are named after flowers (or even forms of the word flower, such as Flora), which inspired Linda Wolfsgruber to create this utterly charming book. Girls names in different languages accompany her imaginative illustrations, so that the reader discovers, for example, that Gul means rose in Turkish, but that it is Rosa in Spanish and Raisa in Hebrew. Other names in the book include those for buttercup, sunflower, lily of the valley, daisy, bluebell, snowdrop, hyacinth, camomile, violet, tulip, poppy and lily. This is a beautiful and int... + Read More
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A Dog Came, Too Paperback Ainslie Manson 9780888991874 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Nov 01, 1995

Most Canadians may not know that Alexander MacKenzie was accompanied by a big brown dog on his long journey to the Pacific Coast of Canada. Our Dog, as he was known to his companions, protected the explorer and the Native guides that helped him all along his way. Manson's focus on the role of the Natives, as well as that of the heroic Our Dog, brings new insight to this exploration story.
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A Few Bites Hardcover Cybèle Young 9781554982950 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2012

In this sequel to A Few Blocks, acclaimed artist Cybèle Young uses collage and paper sculpture to tell the story of an older sister creating imaginary worlds to persuade her brother to eat his lunch. In the end he turns the tables.It’s time for Ferdie to eat lunch, but he’d much rather find the special part for his fighter ship. When big sister Viola promises to help him, he comes to the table. But he finds broccoli on his plate, and carrots! Ever resourceful and imaginative, Viola convinces Ferdie that dinosaurs ate broccoli to escape their fi... + Read More
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A Few Blocks Hardcover Cybele Young 9780888999955 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 27, 2011

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2011 and a finalist for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award "It was time for Ferdie and Viola to go to school. But Ferdie had eleven cars to wash, the highest tower ever to build and a snake drawing that wasn't done…"  Ferdie doesn't want to go to school, but go to school he must, and fortunately his imaginative older sister Viola paves the way. She tells him to put on his superfast cape and his rocket blaster boots and then off they go! Time and again Viola uses her rich imagination to keep Ferdie on his way. B... + Read More
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A Gift from Childhood Hardcover Baba Wague Diakite 9780888999313 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Grade (US) to 5 Mar 01, 2010

Baba Wague is only four years old when he is sent to the tiny Malian village of Kassaro to be raised by his paternal grandparents, according to the family tradition. Under his grandmother's patient and wise tutelage, he comes to love his close-knit village community. He learns how to catch a catfish with his bare hands, learns the true meaning of the appearance of a snake in the granary, flees from an army of bees and mistakes a hungry albino cobra snake for a pink inner tube. And he survives, with trepidation and pride, his circumcision -- a c... + Read More
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A New Life Paperback Rukhsana Khan 9780888999306 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11 Feb 01, 2009

Eight-year-old Khadija, her older brother, Hamza, and their parents have just arrived in Canada from Pakistan. In their classrooms on the first day of school Khadija and Hamza are confronted by a sea of unfamiliar faces. Everyone looks so different from the way they did back home. At first Khadija and Hamza feel left out at recess, and they both become the targets of school bullies. It's really hard to have to speak English all day long. And Khadija just can't figure out how to get enough water out of the drinking fountain. Hamza, in particula... + 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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A Small Nativity Hardcover Aquiles Nazoa 9780888998392 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 01, 2007

This delightful retelling of the Christmas story in a contemporary Latin American setting is by Aquiles Nazoa, one of the most famous poets of Venezuela. Ana Palmero Caceres, a young Venezuelan artist and designer, has enriched the text with marvelous, densely symbolic paintings presented as a series of altarpieces adorned with gold leaf. She uses decorative symbols as well as flora and fauna native to the Americas to tell the story of humble Mary and Joseph seeking a place for the birth of their child. This version of the Nativity speaks to a ... + Read More
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A Thief in the House of Memory 2nd edition Paperback Tim Wynne-Jones 9780888997425 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 11 May 18, 2006

It has been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present that he has avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family home, the man's death sends forth tremors that reawaken forgotten memories. Suddenly Dec is flooded with visions of his mother so tangible it's hard to believe they're not real. At least Dec has his best friend -- gifted, funny Ezra -- to help him sort out what's real and what isn't. But as Dec's dream visions of his mother tu... + Read More
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A Thief in the House of Memory New edition Electronic book text, EPUB Tim Wynne-Jones 9781554980444 $8.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 11 Aug 16, 2004

It has been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present that he has avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family home, the man's death sends forth tremors that reawaken forgotten memories. Suddenly Dec is flooded with visions of his mother so tangible it's hard to believe they're not real. At least Dec has his best friend -- gifted, funny Ezra -- to help him sort out what's real and what isn't. But as Dec's dream visions of his mother tu... + Read More
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A Troublesome Boy Hardcover Paul Vasey 9781554981540 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) to 9 May 01, 2012

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book About the Past, and selected as an Honor Book by the Society of School Librarians International Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off, and then his mother married Henry, a man Teddy despises. But Teddy has no control over his life, and adults make all the decisions, especially in 1959. Henry decides that Teddy should be sent to St. Ignatius Academy for Boys, an isolated boarding school run by the Catholic church. St. Iggy's, Teddy learns, is a cold... + Read More
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A Troublesome Boy Paperback Paul Vasey 9781554981557 $9.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 14 May 01, 2012

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book About the Past, and selected as an Honor Book by the Society of School Librarians International Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off, and then his mother married Henry, a man Teddy despises. But Teddy has no control over his life, and adults make all the decisions, especially in 1959. Henry decides that Teddy should be sent to St. Ignatius Academy for Boys, an isolated boarding school run by the Catholic church. St. Iggy's, Teddy learns, is a cold... + Read More
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Abuelos Hardcover Pat Mora 9780888997166 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2008

International Latino Book Award for Best English Picture Book In this delightful story two young children, Ray and Amelia, discover the old New Mexican tradition of "los abuelos" for the first time. Long ago, in the cold midwinter of northern New Mexico, village men would go up into the mountains, disguise themselves as scary old men and then go down to the village to see who had been good and who had been bad. The abuelos — wearing masks and covered with soot — would tease the children and then have them sing or dance around the fire. This mid... + Read More
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Abuelos Paperback Pat Mora 9781554981014 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 05, 2011

International Latino Book Award for Best English Picture Book In this delightful story two young children, Ray and Amelia, discover the old New Mexican tradition of los abuelos for the first time. Long ago, in the cold midwinter of northern New Mexico, village men would go up into the mountains, disguise themselves as scary old men and then go down to the village to see who had been good and who had been bad. The abuelos -- wearing masks and covered with soot -- would tease the children and then have them sing or dance around the fire. This m... + Read More
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Abuelos Hardcover Pat Mora 9780888997173 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2008

This edition is in Spanish. In this delightful story two young children, Ray and Amelia, discover the old New Mexican tradition of "los abuelos" for the first time. Long ago, in the cold midwinter of northern New Mexico, village men would go up into the mountains, disguise themselves as scary old men and then go down to the village to see who had been good and who had been bad. The abuelos – wearing masks and covered with soot – would tease the children and then have them sing or dance around the fire. This midwinter masquerade, which contai... + Read More
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Abuelos Paperback Pat Mora 9781554981021 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 05, 2011

This edition is in Spanish. In this delightful story two young children, Ray and Amelia, discover the old New Mexican tradition of "los abuelos" for the first time. Long ago, in the cold midwinter of northern New Mexico, village men would go up into the mountains, disguise themselves as scary old men and then go down to the village to see who had been good and who had been bad. The abuelos -- wearing masks and covered with soot -- would tease the children and then have them sing or dance around the fire. This midwinter masquerade, which cont... + Read More
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After Sylvia /hc Hardcover Alan Cumyn 9780888996121 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 3 - 6 Jul 05, 2004

Nominated for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the TD Children's Literature AwardAs the new school year unfolds, the magic of the Skye brothers' antic adventures is replaced by a different kind of magic — of stillness, when Owen visits the haunted house in the dead of winter, and of insight, as he begins to see his father in a new light. Owen is growing up, but happily for readers, he never loses his most endearing qualities — his sweet vulnerability, his impulsive courage, and his imagination as big as t... + Read More
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After Sylvia 2nd edition Paperback Alan Cumyn 9780888998682 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11 May 01, 2008

Nominated for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the TD Children's Literature Award As the new school year unfolds, the magic of the Skye brothers' antic adventures is replaced by a different kind of magic — of stillness, when Owen visits the haunted house in the dead of winter, and of insight, as he begins to see his father in a new light. Owen is growing up, but happily for readers, he never loses his most endearing qualities — his sweet vulnerability, his impulsive courage, and his imagination as big as ... + Read More
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Against the Odds Hardcover Marjolijn Hof 9780888999351 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 9 Oct 01, 2009

USBBY Outstanding International Books selection Kiki lives with her mother and father and their very old fat dog, Mona. Life is good except that Kiki's father, a doctor, feels compelled to go off on missions to dangerous and faraway war zones. No matter how persuasive her arguments, Kiki cannot convince him to stay home. Kiki's mother explains to her about odds – how it is very unlikely that her father will die because, after all, how many of her friends' fathers have died? The odds are very good it won't happen. When her father actually does... + Read More
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Against the Odds Paperback Marjolijn Hof 9780888999504 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to 4 Oct 01, 2009

USBBY Outstanding International Books selection Kiki lives with her mother and father and their very old fat dog, Mona. Life is good except that Kiki's father, a doctor, feels compelled to go off on missions to dangerous and faraway war zones. No matter how persuasive her arguments, Kiki cannot convince him to stay home. Kiki's mother explains to her about odds — how it is very unlikely that her father will die because, after all, how many of her friends' fathers have died? The odds are very good it won't happen. When her father actually does g... + Read More
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Alba y Ocaso Hardcover Jorge Luján 9780888995353 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 11 Apr 10, 2003

El día y la noche, la vida y la muerte son a menudo vistos como opuestos. Pero también pueden ser comprendidos como parte de un todo, de una serie continua, el uno formando parte del otro. En este maravilloso par de poemas del célebre poeta argentino-mexicano Jorge Luján, la dos ideas son expresadas en imágenes.
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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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Alexander Mackenzie Paperback Ainslie Manson 9780888994837 $9.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Grade (US) to 5 Nov 01, 2002

Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to cross North America by land. The journey, which took place in 1793, demanded courage and determination and could never have been achieved without the help of the First Nations people. Mackenzie's successful crossing opened up a store of new opportunities for Europeans, but it led to a dramatic invasion of the lives of the Native peoples. Richly detailed and informative sidebars describe the songs of the voyageurs, life in the pays d'en haut, pemmican (a little time reconciles it to the palate), Our... + Read More
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Alfombras de Aserrin Hardcover Amelia Lau Carling 9780888996244 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Feb 02, 2005

La familia Lau, del laureado libro — La tienda de mamá y papá han sido invitados a pasar Pascuas con sus primos en Antigua, Guatemala. Aunque ellos son chinos y budistas, Mami queda fascinada por el espectáculo de Pascua. La ciudad de Antigua es conocida por sus procesiones de Pascua, durante las cuales se cargan por las calles antiguas estatuas religiosas. Pero lo más impresionante son las espectaculares alfombras de aserrín, que la gente paso horas creando, y que luego verán desaparecer mientras las procesiones caminan sobre ellas. En la ma... + Read More
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Alfombras de Aserrin /tp Paperback Amelia Lau Carling 9780888997302 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from P - 2 Aug 14, 2005

La familia Lau, del laureado libro — La tienda de mamá y papá han sido invitados a pasar Pascuas con sus primos en Antigua, Guatemala. Aunque ellos son chinos y budistas, Mami queda fascinada por el espectáculo de Pascua. La ciudad de Antigua es conocida por sus procesiones de Pascua, durante las cuales se cargan por las calles antiguas estatuas religiosas. Pero lo más impresionante son las espectaculares alfombras de aserrín, que la gente paso horas creando, y que luego verán desaparecer mientras las procesiones caminan sobre ellas. En la maña... + Read More
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Alfredito Flies Home Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9780888995858 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 Oct 01, 2007

Alfredito and his family are getting ready to return to their old home in El Salvador for Christmas, their first time back since they left as refugees. But they will make this trip on a plane — the first time any of them has ever flown. The excitement mounts as they drive to the airport, get on the plane and fly up into the air, each step bringing an increasing level of amazement. But the greatest moment of all is when they finally arrive and their beloved relatives meet them. Their old house looks and feels as it always did. The smells, the fo... + Read More
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Alfredito regresa volando a su casa Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9780888995865 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 Oct 01, 2007

Alfredito and his family are getting ready to return to their old home in El Salvador for Christmas, their first time back since they left as refugees. But they will make this trip on a plane — the first time any of them has ever flown. The excitement mounts as they drive to the airport, get on the plane and fly up into the air, each step bringing an increasing level of amazement. But the greatest moment of all is when they finally arrive and their beloved relatives meet them. Their old house looks and feels as it always did. The smells, the f... + Read More
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All Along the River /hc Hardcover Blair Drawson 9780888995469 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from P - 2 Apr 10, 2003

Grandpa Joe and his grandaughter are having a tea party on the lawn, when he begins to tell a wonderful tale of his boyhood feats of derring-do. He once paddled down the river in search of a great sleeping river giant, and along the way he came upon huge fish, fierce pirates, beautiful mermaids, wild animals, and friendly Chipewyan. But did he find the great river giant? This beautiful, lavishly illustrated picture book by Blair Drawson, one of Cananda's most noted graphic artists, perfectly captures the summer-day fantasies of children both... + Read More
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Amos's Sweater 2nd edition Paperback Janet Lunn 9780888998453 $9.99 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.
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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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Ancient Thunder Hardcover Leo Yerxa 9780888997463 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to K Sep 01, 2006

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration 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. Each shirt 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 — ... + 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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Angel Square New edition Electronic book text, EPUB Brian Doyle 9781554980000 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 11 Oct 01, 1987

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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Ann & Seamus Hardcover Kevin Major 9780888995612 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 12 Sep 01, 2003

Seventeen-year-old Ann Harvey is one of the great unsung heroes of maritime history. In 1828, off the Newfoundland fishing village of Isle aux Morts, Ann Harvey, her father and younger brother, came upon the wreck of the Despatch, an Irish immigrant ship originally destined for Quebec City. In thick fog and fierce wind it had run aground. Ann's courage and strength at the oars of the rescue boat were largely responsible for saving more than 160 dirt-poor passengers stranded amid the raging storm, left "like seabirds clinging to the rocks." Ann'... + Read More
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Apart /hc Hardcover Rod MacIntyre 9780888997500 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to 8 Sep 01, 2007

Jessica, a serious, bookish sixteen-year-old from New Brunswick, places a Personals ad in the Globe and Mail. She is looking for her father, a drug-dealing philanderer who has recently taken off with the local hairdresser. Seventeen-year-old Sween -- an authority-defying drop-out from northern Saskatchewan -- responds. Over time they establish an intense but long-distance relationship in which they provide each other with advice and support as Jessica finds herself attracted to one of her father's biker friends, and Sween suffers a nervous brea... + Read More
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Apart Paperback Rod MacIntyre 9780888998347 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to 8 Sep 01, 2007

Jessica, a serious, bookish sixteen-year-old from New Brunswick, places a Personals ad in the Globe and Mail. She is looking for her father, a drug-dealing philanderer who has recently taken off with the local hairdresser. Seventeen-year-old Sween -- an authority-defying drop-out from northern Saskatchewan -- responds. Over time they establish an intense but long-distance relationship in which they provide each other with advice and support as Jessica finds herself attracted to one of her father's biker friends, and Sween suffers a nervous brea... + Read More
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Applesauce Hardcover Klaas Verplancke 9781554981861 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Aug 01, 2012

A very real, funny, touching picture book about a boy’s conflicted feelings for his father, from Belgium’s illustrious children’s book creator, Klaas Verplancke.Johnny’s daddy has smooth cheeks, an apple in his throat and sounds like a mom when he sings in the bath. At other times a cactus grows out of his chin and his breath smells like cauliflower. At times he has warm hands and his fingers taste like applesauce. Other times his hands are cold and flash like lightning, and he becomes a thunder daddy. When this happens Johnny wants to find a n... + Read More
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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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Series: Bilingual Cooking Poems Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding Bilingual edition Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9780888999818 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2010

Kirkus 2010 Best Children's Books selection The cuisines of many different cultures all over the world include rice and rice pudding. In this title in the Cooking Poems series, Jorge Argueta gives us a bilingual recipe for the classic Latin American version. From sprinkling the rice into the pot, to adding a waterfall of milk, cinnamon sticks, salt stars and sugar snow, Jorge Argueta's recipe is not only easy to follow, it is a poetic experience. The lively illustrations by Fernando Vilela feature an enthusiastic young cook who finds no end of ... + Read More
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Art Room Hardcover Susan Vande Griek 9780888994493 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 01, 2002

Winner of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award Emily Carr (1871-1945) was a great artist of the Northwest Coast. One of the few woman painters of her generation, she has been exhibited with and compared to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, two other women artists whose work is finally receiving the recognition it deserves. The Art Room is set in the early 1900s, when Carr was teaching art to children to support herself. Susan Vande Griek has created a delightful story-poem filled with Carr's love of animals, her insistence on pa... + 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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Aunt Olga's Christmas Postcards Hardcover Kevin Major 9780888995933 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to P Jul 03, 2005

Winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award Great-great Aunt Olga has been a collector of Christmas postcards all her life. She's ninety-five, and many of the cards come from very long ago. The Yuletide season is the occasion to share her postcards and her Christmas memories with her favorite niece, Anna. Decked out in red, Aunt Olga is not averse to a little fun over tea, teaching Anna how to write her very own Christmas rhymes. Delightful whimsical drawings and a warmly humorous text, along with fascinating historical postcards from the author's pe... + Read More
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Bad Boy Paperback Diana Wieler 9780888990839 $9.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 13 Mar 01, 1990

Hockey is the only game worth playing in the rough-and-tumble prairie town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When sixteen-year-old A.J. Brandiosa makes the Triple A team of his dreams, he can hardly believe that his life is finally coming together.And then it falls apart. A.J. makes an unexpected discovery about his best friend and teammate, Tulsa Brown, and he can't keep his rage and fear from spilling onto the ice. An aggressive defenseman is becoming a violent one…An explosive novel by award-winning author Diana Wieler that looks honestly at teena... + Read More
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Bad Boy Electronic book text, EPUB Diana Wieler 9781554980680 $9.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 13 Mar 01, 1990

Hockey is the only game worth playing in the rough-and-tumble prairie town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When sixteen-year-old A.J. Brandiosa makes the Triple A team of his dreams, he can hardly believe that his life is finally coming together.And then it falls apart. A.J. makes an unexpected discovery about his best friend and teammate, Tulsa Brown, and he can't keep his rage and fear from spilling onto the ice. An aggressive defenseman is becoming a violent one…An explosive novel by award-winning author Diana Wieler that looks honestly at teena... + Read More
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Banjo of Destiny Hardcover Cary Fagan 9781554980857 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to 4 Mar 05, 2011

Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program. Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impres... + Read More
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Banjo of Destiny Paperback Cary Fagan 9781554980864 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 9 Mar 05, 2011

A funny, offbeat story about a kid who pursues an unexpected passion — to play the banjo.Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impressive young man, including, of course, classical piano.But one day Jeremiah hears the strums, plucks... + Read More
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Banjo of Destiny Electronic book text, EPUB Cary Fagan 9781554981410 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 9 Mar 05, 2011

Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program. Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impres... + Read More
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Barrilete Span ed /tp Paperback Elisa Amado 9780888993816 $6.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Grade (US) from P - 3 Nov 01, 1999

In Guatemala there is a village called Santiago Sacatepequez. It is a very small but famous place because once a year, on the Day of the Dead, the people of Santiago fly some of the biggest kites in the world. As large as seven meters (twenty-three feet) wide, they fill the sky over the cemetery with brilliant colors. Juan and his brothers always helped their grandfather build the kite for the day of the dead. But their grandfather has recently died, and the boys must carry on the tradition on their own. Elisa Amado's text and Joya Hairs' bea... + Read More
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Bat Summer Paperback Sarah Withrow 9780888993526 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 1998

Terence isn't cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he's not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she's a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don't -- about the gaps in life, and seeing things more clearly with your eyes closed, and how you have to learn to fly on your own if you want to survive. Sarah Withrow has penned a startling novel about extraordinary Lucy, who believes she's a bat, and ordinary Terence, who believes in believing.
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Bat Summer Electronic book text, EPUB Sarah Withrow 9781554980581 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 1998

Terence isn't cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he's not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she's a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don't -- about the gaps in life, and seeing things more clearly with your eyes closed, and how you have to learn to fly on your own if you want to survive. Sarah Withrow has penned a startling novel about extraordinary Lucy, who believes she's a bat, and ordinary Terence, who believes in believing.
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Be a Baby /hc Hardcover Sarah Withrow 9780888997760 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to P Sep 01, 2007

Babies love books about babies. As every parent knows they will spend hours looking at images of creatures like themselves. In this book they will find a most delightful and enchanting baby with whom they can identify whether they are happy, sad, crying or sleepy. Parents love books that they can read over and over because the language in them is so beautiful. They will be as delighted as their babies by Sarah Withrow's perfect rhyming lullaby. Manuel Monroy's illustrations depict the state of babyhood at its most appealing and charming -- his ... + Read More
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Beautiful Griselda Hardcover Isol 9781554981052 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 22, 2011

Princess Griselda was so beautiful that almost everyone she met fell head over heels in love with her. And that's not just a saying. They actually lost their heads. In this wonderfully original fairy tale Isol takes on the dangers of narcissism. Griselda not only causes anyone who looks at her to lose his head -- she collects the lost heads, oblivious to the fact that everyone is terrified of looking at her. Eventually she runs out of companions, until she finally finds a prince so myopic that for a short while he is able to be with her (befor... + Read More
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Becca at Sea Hardcover Deirdre Baker 9780888997371 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 01, 2007

Shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award Young Becca has often gone with her parents to visit her grandmother at her rustic cabin in the Gulf Islands. But this year her mother is expecting a baby, and Becca is sent alone for the first time. The island becomes a place of mystery and challenges when, on the very first night, she finds an oyster full of pearls. That marks the beginning of small but significant adventures that leave her seeing the island, her family and herself through new eyes.
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Becca at Sea Paperback Deirdre Baker 9780888997388 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 May 01, 2018

“One girl’s winter, spring and summer of wonder and growth on a glorious northwest coast island.” — KirkusBecca has often gone with her parents to visit Gran at her rustic cabin by the sea. But this year Becca’s mother is expecting a baby, and Becca visits her grandmother on her own. The prospect of spending time at Gran’s — with her peculiar plumbing and ridiculous Scrabble rules — is hardly appealing.Then, on her very first night, Becca finds an oyster full of pearls. One pearl for every adventure to come?As her mother’s pregnancy progresses,... + Read More
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Series: Groundwork Guides Being Muslim New edition Hardcover Haroon Siddiqui 9780888998866 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) to 9 Mar 01, 2008

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail Being Muslim presents an up-front and readable explanation of the most complex and emotion-laden issues of our troubled times. The varying branches of Islam are analyzed and their history outlined -- but the focus is on the present. In speaking about and crossing political, cultural and religious divisions, this book ... + Read More
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Series: Groundwork Guides Being Muslim 2nd edition Paperback Haroon Siddiqui 9780888998873 $10.00 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 14 Mar 01, 2008

Being Muslim is written for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It presents a readable explanation of the most complex and emotion-laden issues of our troubled times. The varying branches of Islam are analyzed and their history outlined — but the focus is on the present. In speaking about and crossing political, cultural and religious divisions, this book offers a unique perspective, forged in Canada, a country where people from everywhere on earth have found a way to live in peace. Terrorism. Wars. Jihad. Hijab. Polygamy. Muhammad's many wives. Mus... + Read More
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Series: Groundwork Guides Being Muslim New edition Electronic book text, EPUB Haroon Siddiqui 9781554980017 $10.00 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) to 14 Jul 01, 2006

Being Muslim is written for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It presents a readable explanation of the most complex and emotion-laden issues of our troubled times. The varying branches of Islam are analyzed and their history outlined — but the focus is on the present. In speaking about and crossing political, cultural and religious divisions, this book offers a unique perspective, forged in Canada, a country where people from everywhere on earth have found a way to live in peace. Terrorism. Wars. Jihad. Hijab. Polygamy. Muhammad's many wives. Mus... + Read More