1.
Series:
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Hardcover
Christine Baldacchino
9781554983476
$17.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
May 01, 2014
Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves his classroom’s dress-up center and its tangerine dress. Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. He dreams about having space adventures, paints beautiful pictures and sings the loudest during circle time. But most of all, Morris loves his classroom’s dress-up center — he loves wearing the tangerine dress. But the children in Morris’s class don’t understand. Dresses, they say, are for girls. And Morris certainly isn’t welcome in the spaceship s...
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2.
Series:
Happy Birthday, Alice Babette
Hardcover
Monica Kulling
9781554988204
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Apr 01, 2016
It’s Alice’s birthday! A beautiful spring afternoon in Paris — what could be better? Little does she know that her friend has arranged some surprises! It’s Alice’s birthday! But her friend Gertrude seems to have forgotten. No matter, Alice goes out and enjoys her day just the same. A beautiful spring afternoon in Paris — what could be better? Little does she know that her dear friend has a few surprises up her sleeve. While Alice spends the day walking around Paris — riding a carousel in the park and watching a puppet show — Gertrude turns her ...
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3.
Series:
A Family Is a Family Is a Family
Hardcover
Sara O'Leary
9781554987948
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2016
When a teacher asks her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different, but the same in one important way ... When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways — but the same in the one way that matters most of all. One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. One is raised by a grandmother, and another has two dads. O...
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4.
Series:
Operatic
Hardcover
Kyo Maclear
9781554989720
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Apr 01, 2019
A story of friendship, first crushes, opera and the high drama of middle school told by award-winning Kyo Maclear in her debut graphic novel.Somewhere in the universe, there is the perfect tune for you.It’s almost the end of middle school, and Charlie has to find her perfect song for a music class assignment. But it’s hard for Charlie to concentrate when she can’t stop noticing her classmate Emile, or wondering about Luka, who hasn’t been to school in weeks. Then, the class learns about opera, and Charlie discovers the music of Maria Callas. Th...
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5.
Series:
A Boy Named Queen
Paperback
Sara Cassidy
9781773063782
$9.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 11
Mar 01, 2020
Who will be brave enough to make friends with the boy named Queen? Sara Cassidy’s acclaimed novel, A Boy Named Queen, is now available in paperback! Evelyn is both aghast and fascinated when a new boy comes to grade five and tells everyone his name is Queen. Queen wears shiny gym shorts and wants to organize a chess/environment club. His father plays weird loud music and has tattoos. How will the class react? How will Evelyn? Evelyn is an only child with a strict routine and an even stricter mother. And yet in her quiet way she notices things. ...
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6.
Series:
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Paperback
Mariko Tamaki
9781773063638
$20.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
May 21, 2019
From This One Summer co-creator Mariko Tamaki comes a hilarious and poignant story of teen heartbreak and friendship.All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got back together was the best one of Freddy’s life, but nothing’s made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, funny and SO CUTE … but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy’s head spinning — and Freddy’s friends can’t understand why she keeps going back.When Freddy consults the services of a local...
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7.
Series:
Skim
Paperback
Mariko Tamaki
9780888999641
$14.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) to 14
Mar 01, 2010
A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find something to hold on to and something to believe in. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's high school, and that's what happens to Skim when she starts to meet in secret with her neo-hippie ...
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8.
Series:
Island
Hardcover
Patrick Downes
9781773061924
$18.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
May 01, 2019
A teenaged boy struggles as he watches his family and relationships fracture after the death of his mother, and is now faced with the terrible possibility that his twin brother may have just killed their father.Seventeen-year-old Rad comes home to find his father lying broken and dead at the bottom of the ravine behind their house. Rad’s twin brother, shaken but very much alive, had watched their father fall.Desperate to understand what has happened before calling the police, Rad confronts his brother and the complicated landscape of their past...
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9.
Series:
I Was Cleopatra
Hardcover
Dennis Abrams
9781773060224
$18.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Apr 01, 2018
The provocative fictional memoir of a boy actor in Shakespearian London.In Shakespeare’s time, women were not allowed to appear on stage, and so female parts were played by boy actors. In I Was Cleopatra, readers meet John Rice — perhaps the most beautiful and acclaimed boy actor of them all. It is believed by many that John Rice originated the roles of Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra and Cordelia, and this fictional memoir explores his life both on and off the stage. With graceful prose and an encyclopedic knowledge of the period, Dennis Abrams invite...
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10.
Series:
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...
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