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A Gift from Childhood Paperback Baba Wagué Diakité 9781554984213 $12.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 10 Sep 01, 2013

Baba Wagué is only four years old when he is sent to the tiny Malian village of Kassar, West Africa, to be raised by his paternal grandparents, according to the family tradition. He is most unhappy about this at first, but under his grandmother's patient and wise tutelage, he comes to love his close-knit village community, as he listens to his grandmother's stories, learns about his own history and traditions, and experiences many hilarious and sobering adventures along the way. He learns how to catch a catfish with his bare hands, learns the t... + Read More
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Aluta Hardcover Adwoa Badoe 9781554988167 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 01, 2016

University life is better than Charlotte ever dreamed, but her exposure to new ideas in 1981 Ghana will be an exciting and dangerous adventure. For eighteen-year-old Charlotte, university life is better than she’d ever dreamed — a sophisticated and generous roommate, the camaraderie of dorm living, parties, clubs and boyfriends. Most of all, Charlotte is exposed to new ideas, and in 1981 Ghana, this may be the most exciting – and most dangerous — adventure of all. At first Charlotte basks in her wonderful new freedom, especially being out of th... + Read More
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Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings Hardcover Francie Latour 9781773060415 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Oct 01, 2018

A Haitian American girl finds connection to generations of family lore in this story of identity, heart and home.Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter.The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow — the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt’s home in the mountains.The girl has always loved Auntie Luce’s paintings — the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing b... + Read More
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Between Sisters Paperback Adwoa Badoe 9780888999979 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 14 Sep 01, 2010

A poignant and frank novel set in Ghana, told from the point of view of a disarmingly forthright teenaged girl. When sixteen-year-old Gloria fails thirteen out of fifteen subjects on her final exams, her future looks bleak indeed. Her family's resources are meager so the entire family is thrilled when a distant relative, Christine, offers to move Gloria north to Kumasi to look after her toddler son. In exchange, after two years, Christine will pay for Gloria to go to school. Life in Kumasi is more grand than anything Gloria has ever experienced... + Read More
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Greetings, Leroy Hardcover Itah Sadu 9781554987603 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 01, 2017

Moving can be scary, but by the end of his first day at his new school, Roy is happy to find a piece of his old home, Jamaica, in his new home. The first day at a new school is nerve-wracking enough, never mind when it’s in a new country! In this lively picture book from award-winning storyteller Itah Sadu, Roy realizes he may come to love his new home as much as he loves his old home. Written as an email to a friend back home, this picture book tells the story of Roy, whose family has just moved to North America from Jamaica. His new home is d... + Read More
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I See the Promised Land A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hardcover Arthur Flowers 9781554983285 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 12 Feb 08, 2013

African American writer, griot and blues singer Arthur Flowers and Indian scroll painter Manu Chitrakar combine their very distinctive storytelling traditions in an extraordinary jam session, creating this stunning graphic narrative-style biography of Martin Luther King Jr.The engaging text describes the apartheid South in Martin Luther King’s time, which in many ways was not very different from the early days of slavery. Included are descriptions of the Montgomery Bus Boycott; the formation of civil rights groups; mass movements against segreg... + Read More
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Series: The Malaika Series Malaika’s Winter Carnival Hardcover Nadia L. Hohn 9781554989201 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 01, 2017

When Malaika moves to Canada, there’s a lot to get used to, especially Carnival in the wintertime!Malaika is happy to be reunited with Mummy, but it means moving to Canada, where everything is different. It’s cold in Québec City, no one understands when she talks and Carnival is nothing like the celebration Malaika knows from home!When Mummy marries Mr. Frédéric, Malaika gets a new sister called Adèle. Her new family is nice, but Malaika misses Grandma. She has to wear a puffy purple coat, learn a new language and get used to calling this new p... + Read More
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Music from the Sky Paperback Denise Gillard 9781554981281 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 May 14, 2011

A young girl and her grandfather set out one morning to find the perfect branch for Grampa to carve. Grampa says he's going to make a flute, but the girl is doubtful. She has been to a concert in the city, and knows what a flute looks like. How can her grandfather make one out of a tree branch? But Grampa knows what he is doing and, after finding the right branch, they return home, where he whittles away until the branch is no longer a branch, but a wonderful flute. Set in rural Nova Scotia in one of Canada's oldest black communities, Music fr... + Read More
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The Pot of Wisdom Paperback Adwoa Badoe 9780888998699 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 7 Dec 01, 2008

Drawing on the rich vein of the African Ananse tradition, Ghanaian author Adwoa Badoe and Malian illustrator Baba Wague Diakite bring us a marvelously lively, witty and entertaining collection of ten tales about this spider trickster. These Ananse tales deal with the important issues that face us all -- justice, money, food, marriage, vanity and self-respect. Sometimes Ananse succeeds and things go his way; other times he makes a fool of himself and is ashamed -- but never for a long time. Many elements of these stories can be found in other t... + Read More
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Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged! Paperback Jody Nyasha Warner 9781773060354 $9.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Oct 01, 2018

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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Where Are You, Agnes? Hardcover Tessa McWatt 9781773061405 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 01, 2020

This stunning picture-book imagining of artist Agnes Martin’s childhood gives readers a glimpse into the life and work of one of the most esteemed abstract painters of the twentieth century. Agnes Martin was born on the Canadian prairies in the early twentieth century. In this imagining of her childhood from acclaimed author Tessa McWatt, Agnes spends her days surrounded by wheat fields, where her grandfather encourages her to draw what she sees and feels around her: the straight horizon, the feeling of the sun, the movement of birds’ wings and... + Read More
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Frying Plantain Paperback Zalika Reid-Benta 9781487005344 $19.95 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society.Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too ... + Read More
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This Lovely City Paperback Louise Hare 9781487007058 $22.95 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London, This Lovely City shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects — but that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.London, 1950. With the war over and London still rebuilding, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for labour. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the Empire Windrush, he’s rented a tiny room in south London and fallen in love with the girl next door.Playing in Soho’s jazz clubs by night ... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Blood The Stuff of Life Paperback Lawrence Hill 9781770893221 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 28, 2013

Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today. Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literat... + Read More
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Congotronic Paperback Shane Book 9781770898745 $19.95 POETRY Sep 27, 2014

The second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sou... + Read More
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The Stranger Upstairs Paperback Melanie Raabe 9781487004224 $19.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

From the bestselling author of The Trap, a fast-paced psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth that asks how well we know the ones we love. Several years ago, your husband, and the father of your young son, disappeared. Since then, you’ve dreamt of his return; railed against him for leaving you alone; grieved for your marriage; and, finally, vowed to move on.One morning, the phone rings. When you answer, a voice at the other end tells you your husband’s on a plane bound for home, and that you’ll see him tomorrow. You’ve imagine... + Read More
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The Trap Paperback Melanie Raabe 9781487000776 $19.95 FICTION May 28, 2016

In this twisted debut thriller, a reclusive author sets the perfect trap for her sister’s murderer — but is he really the killer?For eleven years, the bestselling author Linda Conrads has mystified fans by never setting foot outside her home. Haunted by the unsolved murder of her younger sister — who she discovered in a pool of blood — and the face of the man she saw fleeing the scene, Linda’s hermit existence helps her cope with debilitating anxiety.But the sanctity of her oasis is shattered when she sees her sister’s murderer on television. H... + Read More
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Lessons from Mother Earth Paperback Elaine McLeod 9780888998323 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Apr 01, 2010

Tess has visited her grandmother many times without really being aware of the garden. But today they step outside the door and Tess learns that all of nature can be a garden. And if you take care of the plants that are growing, if you learn about them -- understanding when they flower, when they give fruit, and when to leave them alone -- you will always find something to nourish you. This gentle story demonstrates the First Nations' tradition of taking care of Mother Earth.
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Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown Bilingual edition Hardcover Angnakuluk Friesen 9781554988839 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 01, 2017

The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on this story about what it’s like to grow up in an Inuit community in Nunavut. Every line about the hometown in this book will have readers thinking about what makes their own hometowns unique. With strong social studies curriculum connections, Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown introduces you... + 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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The Huron Carol Hardcover Ian Wallace 9781554983940 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 Oct 01, 2013

Renowned children's book illustrator Ian Wallace brings his masterful ability to paint landscape and his cultural sensitivity to The Huron Carol, a beautiful and unusual song with a rich history. In the early 1600s Father Jean de Brébeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people in what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brébeuf was sensitive to the people with whom he lived. He learned their language and he wrote, in Huron, the original version of this famous... + 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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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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Series: Sometimes I Feel Like Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox New edition Paperback Danielle Daniel 9781773061177 $11.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jul 15, 2017

Children’s love for animals and disguise come together in this award-winning introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals.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 importa... + Read More
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Series: Nôhkom series niwîcihâw / I Help New edition Paperback Caitlin Dale Nicholson 9781773061160 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2018

“Textured acrylic paintings, done in rich earth tones...portray the sanctity of the natural environment...a sensitive, respectful portrayal of contemporary Native Americans.” — School Library JournalThis simple story in Cree and English explores a young child’s relationship to his grandmother, or nôkhom, as they go for a walk in the woods to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, picking, praying and eating, just as she does. In doing so, he absorbs the rich cultural traditions and values of his Cree heritage... + Read More
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Series: Nôhkom series nipêhon / I Wait Hardcover Caitlin Dale Nicholson 9781554989140 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2017

A quiet, gentle story about a family working together written in Cree and English. A young child, her grandmother and mother are going out to pick wild yarrow. As Grandmother gets ready, the child and her mom wait. Grandmother leads the way to the field of blossoms, where they can finally start to pick … only now they have to wait for Mom! The simple story, written in Cree and English and accompanied by rich acrylic illustrations, shows the patience, love and humor involved as three generations accommodate one another on a family outing. nipêho... + 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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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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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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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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Very Last First Time Hardcover Jan Andrews 9780888990433 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Oct 01, 1987

A classic story of an Inuit girl's first experience going alone under the ice to collect mussels. Eva's journey is a very special one. Today, she will walk on the bottom of the sea alone. She will go into the cave that is under the ice when the tide is out. She will search for mussels as her people have done for centuries. She will find herself in darkness. She will find too she has brought what she needs with her. She will come again into the light. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.... + Read More
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nattiq and the Land of Statues A Story from the Arctic Hardcover Barbara Landry 9781554988914 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 01, 2020

In this charming story that includes words in Inuktitut, a ringed seal returns to the Arctic with stories of discovery and friendship. A ringed seal, known in Inuktitut as ???? nattiq, has returned to his Arctic home after a long journey south. His friends — a polar bear, caribou, raven, walrus and narwhal — gather round to hear about his trip. “What did you see beyond our land?” shouts the polar bear. ???? nattiq describes the amazing sights he has seen — from crystal clear waters full of giant icebergs to the tundra in full summertime bloom ... + Read More
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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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Coyote Tales Hardcover Thomas King 9781554988334 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Oct 01, 2017

Two tales, set in a time “when animals and human beings still talked to each other,” display Thomas King’s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers. In Coyote Sings to the Moon, Old Woman and the animals sing to the moon each night. Coyote attempts to join them, but his voice is so terrible they beg him to stop. He is crushed and lashes out — who needs Moon anyway? Furious, Moon dives into a pond, plunging the world into darkne... + Read More
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The Red Sash Hardcover Jean E. Pendziwol 9780888995896 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Aug 07, 2005

The Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. The Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. His father spends the long winter months as a guide, leading voyageurs into the northwest to trade with the Indigenous Peoples for furs. Now it is Rendezvous, when the voyageurs paddle back to Fort William with their packs of furs, and North West Company canoes come fro... + 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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Tuk and the Whale Paperback Raquel Rivera 9780888998910 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 10 Apr 01, 2008

Told by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers. This story is set on the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the early decades of the 1600s. Told from the point of view of a young Inuit boy, Tuk, it imagines what might have happened if the people of Tuk's Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers, blown far north from their usual whaling route. Both the Inuit hunters and the whalers prize the bowhead whale, but for very differen... + Read More
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Idaa Trail Hardcover Wendy Stephenson 9780888995766 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Jun 01, 2005

Etseh, Etsi and their three grandchildren have just embarked on a month long canoe trip in the Northwest Territories -- from the town of Rae to Hottah Lake. They are following the Idaa trail, a trade route that the Dogrib people have traveled for hundreds of years. Etseh and Etsi traveled the Idaa trail when they were children and as they paddle north with their grandchildren they pass along their knowledge of special sites along the way and explain how their people survived in the old days -- building birch bark canoes, fishing with willow li... + 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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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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My Name Is Seepeetza Paperback Shirley Sterling 9780888991652 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Nov 01, 1992

An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it. At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and ... + Read More
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Looks Like Daylight Voices of Indigenous Kids Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781554981212 $14.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 Aug 01, 2018

Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories. They come from all over the continent — from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaii to North Carolina. Their stories are sometimes heartbreaking; more often full of pride and hope. You’ll meet Tingo, who has spent most of his young life living in foster homes and motels, and is now thriving after becoming involved with a Native Friendship Center; Myleka and Tulane, young Navajo artists; Eagleson, who started drink... + Read More
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George Johnson's War Paperback Maureen Garvie 9780888994684 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 12 May 01, 2002

George's cloistered life in New York changes as the War for American Independence looms and he must struggle with what it means to be half Mohawk. Young George Johnson lives in an extraordinary family in extraordinary times. His father is Sir William Johnson, one of the richest and most powerful men in colonial New York. His mother is Molly Brant, stepdaughter of a Mohawk chief and sister of Iroquois leader Joseph Brant. George spends his early years in a grand mansion called Johnson Hall, but his cloistered life changes as the War for American... + Read More
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This Accident of Being Lost Songs and Stories Paperback Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 9781487001278 $19.95 FICTION Apr 08, 2017

A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically a... + Read More
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Clifford A Memoir, A Fiction, A Fantasy, A Thought Experiment Paperback Harold R. Johnson 9781487004101 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 28, 2018

From the bestselling author of Firewater comes a moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Indigenous community for his brother Clifford’s funeral, the first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother; and his... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures The Truth About Stories Paperback Thomas King 9780887846960 $19.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2003

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stor... + Read More
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The Outside Circle A Graphic Novel Paperback Patti LaBoucane-Benson 9781770899377 $21.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 02, 2015

Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature In this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.Pete, a young Indigenous man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. ... + Read More
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Tecumseh and Brock The War of 1812 Hardcover James Laxer 9780887842610 $29.95 HISTORY Jun 02, 2012

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. Bestselling author and scholar James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this decisive war, by bringing to life two major contests: the native peoples’ Endless War to establish nationhood and sovereignty on their traditiona... + Read More
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Seven Fallen Feathers Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Paperback Tanya Talaga 9781487002268 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 30, 2017

The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrati... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures All Our Relations Finding the Path Forward Paperback Tanya Talaga 9781487005733 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 16, 2018

Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples — youth suicide.“Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. She brings each story to life, skillfully weaving the stories of the youths’ lives, deaths, and families together with sharp analysis… The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*“Talaga has c... + Read More
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The Break Paperback Katherena Vermette 9781487001117 $23.99 FICTION Sep 17, 2016

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.In... + Read More
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river woman Paperback Katherena Vermette 9781487003463 $19.95 POETRY Sep 25, 2018

Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.Award-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what fe... + Read More
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NDN Coping Mechanisms Notes from the Field Paperback Billy-Ray Belcourt 9781487005771 $19.99 POETRY Sep 03, 2019

In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses the modes of accusation and interrogation. He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of... + Read More
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tawâw Progressive Indigenous Cuisine Hardcover Shane M. Chartrand 9781487005122 $34.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2019

tawâw [pronounced ta-WOW]: Come in, you’re welcome, there’s room. Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine and what it means to cook, eat, and share food in our homes and communities. Born to Cree parents and raised by a Métis father and Mi’kmaw-Irish mother, Shane M. Chartrand has spent the past ten years learning about his history, visiting with other First Nations peoples, gathering and sharing knowledge and stories, and creating dishes that combine his interests and express his person... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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A Storytelling of Ravens Hardcover Kyle Lukoff 9781554989126 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 May 01, 2018

“A charming tribute to the quirkiness of collective nouns … puns and wordplay abound.” — Foreword, starred review A sloth of bears, a smack of jellyfish, a nuisance of cats — these are some of the surprising and idiosyncratic names we have for groups of animals. Inspired by the evocative possibilities of collective nouns, also called “terms of venery,” author Kyle Lukoff and illustrator Natalie Nelson have created a picture book full of clever wordplay and delightful illustrations. Each spread features a nugget of a story using a particular ter... + Read More
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Explosion at the Poem Factory Hardcover Kyle Lukoff 9781773061320 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Apr 01, 2020

A funny story, full of wordplay, brings poetry alive as never before! Kilmer Watts makes his living teaching piano lessons, but when automatic pianos arrive in town, he realizes he’s out of a job. He spots a “Help Wanted” sign at the poem factory and decides to investigate — he’s always been curious about how poems are made. The foreman explains that machines and assembly lines are used for poetry these days. So Kilmer learns how to operate the “meter meter” and empty the “cliché bins.” He assembles a poem by picking out a rhyme scheme, sprinkl... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More