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Series: Blue RiderHardcover
Geraldo Valério9781554989812
$19.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Mar 01, 2018
“[A] dazzling vision of the way art transcends the everyday.” — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWOn a gray and crowded city sidewalk, a child discovers a book. That evening, the child begins to read and is immediately carried beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural landscape. The child experiences a moment of true joy, and as if in response to that single blissful moment, people seem to come alive in all the other rooms of the apartment block. Thanks to the power of one book, an entire society is transformed.... + Read More
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Series: FriendsHardcover
Geraldo Valério9781773061023
$19.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Mar 01, 2019
In Geraldo Valério’s newest vibrant and beautiful wordless picture book, a trip to the beach turns into a magical journey under the sea—exploring themes of friendship and the power of imagination. When a girl and a frog go to the beach to fish, they are frustrated to find that the fish aren’t biting. Instead, they stare into the water and make faces at their reflections. Then, something spectacular happens. The reflections take on lives of their own, transforming into a mermaid with her own pet frog. Surprise gives way to delight as they invite... + Read More
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Series: At the PondHardcover
Geraldo Valério9781773062327
$19.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 01, 2020
Geraldo Valério looks at the nature of true friendship and love in a stunning new wordless picture book. On a dull gray day, a boy puts his dog on a leash and they walk to a shimmering pond where snowy white swans swim freely. One of the swans invites the boy and dog for a ride. They climb on its back and sail into a stunningly beautiful landscape, dotted with wildflowers, spoonbills and ibises. Foxes, rabbits and deer appear in this paradise, then butterflies and even bigger, more beautiful flowers. The boy unleashes his dog on shore, and the ... + Read More
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Series: Turn On the NightHardcover
Geraldo Valério9781554988419
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4
Sep 01, 2016
A wordless book that celebrates a child’s imaginative freedom. A little girl falls asleep and in her dream becomes a huge gray wolf, like the one in her bedtime story. Out the window she leaps, and a marvelous nighttime adventure unfolds. She visits the rooster in his coop, and invites him to hop upon her back and together they run through the night. A reindeer joins in the fun, until the three are suddenly stopped in their tracks by a giant dazzling star. The reindeer climbs upon the wolf, and the rooster upon the reindeer to reach the star, t... + Read More
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Series: Sidewalk FlowersHardcover
JonArno Lawson9781554984312
$17.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Mar 01, 2015
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. “Written” by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small thin... + Read More
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Series: The ReturnHardcover
Natalia Chernysheva9781773062099
$17.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Oct 01, 2019
Coming home from her independent city life, a young woman rediscovers childlike wonder and comfort at her grandmother’s house. A young woman gets on the bus and rides out of the big city. She arrives in the countryside, where she is as big as a giant, looming over a tiny house, a garden and her tiny grandmother. The cabbages and the apple trees are far below. Her grandmother smiles up at her in her yellow hat. The young woman bends down to give her little grandmother a big kiss, and then she smells her grandmother’s cooking. She has returned ho... + Read More
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Series: Helen’s BirdsHardcover
Sara Cassidy9781773060385
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9
Sep 01, 2019
From Sara Cassidy, acclaimed author of A Boy Named Queen, comes a stunning wordless graphic novel about friendship, loss and hope. For as long as Saanvi can remember, she has been friends with her elderly neighbor Helen. They play cards and garden together and, especially, care for the wild birds that visit Helen’s yard. When Helen dies suddenly, a “For Sale” sign goes up, and movers arrive, emptying the house of its furniture and stripping the yard of its birdfeeders. The sparrows and hummingbirds disappear. Soon a bulldozer tears down Helen’s... + Read More
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Series: Son of HappyHardcover
Cary Fagan9781773061788
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9
Aug 01, 2020
How would you feel if your dad were a clown? The boy in this story never wants to go to his friends’ birthday parties, because Happy the Clown is always there. And Happy is … his dad. He wishes his dad had a regular job, like all the other kids’ parents. He didn’t mind his dad being a clown when he was a little kid, but now it’s just embarrassing. And even worse, since business is slow, his dad is putting a sign on the front lawn advertising his clown services! But one night at dinner Dad announces that he’s going back to his old job of being a... + Read More
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Series: Your Turn, AdrianHardcover
Helena Öberg9781773061498
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
May 01, 2019
A stunningly illustrated graphic novel about feeling vulnerable and struggling to meet expectations, and about friendship and the power of the imagination.Almost every day, Adrian goes to school with knots in his stomach. He feels different from the other children, and alone. Whenever the teacher calls on him, his heart starts to pound and time stops. But he finds respite in his rich imagination — a world full of color and joy in which he is a circus performer, capable of spectacular feats.One day Adrian encounters a huge wolfhound that seems t... + Read More
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Series: Buddy and EarlBuddy and EarlPaperback
Maureen Fergus9781773061191
$7.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 2018
“An understated winner of a friendship story. … simultaneously of-the-moment and timeless.” — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWWhat’s in the box that Meredith has carried into the living room? Buddy doesn’t know, but when the small, prickly creature says he is a pirate — and that Buddy is a pirate, too — the mismatched friends are off on a grand adventure.In this first book in the best-selling Buddy and Earl series, a dog who likes to play by the rules meets a hedgehog who knows no limits. Their friendship is tender and loyal, and their adventu... + Read More
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Series: Buddy and EarlBuddy and Earl Go ExploringPaperback
Maureen Fergus9781773061207
$7.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 2018
Our favorite odd-couple friends explore the wilds of their house after dark in book two of the Buddy and Earl series.Buddy is just settling in for the night when Earl announces that he’s going on a trip.Where will Earl go? Wherever the road leads him, of course!Before Buddy knows it, he and Earl are off on another grand adventure. While exploring the wilds of the kitchen, they see wondrous sights, make delicious discoveries and even encounter a couple of unusual monsters.This second book in the best-selling Buddy and Earl series reunites the do... + Read More
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Series: Buddy and EarlBuddy and Earl and the Great Big BabyHardcover
Maureen Fergus9781554987160
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2016
Mrs. Cunningham is bringing her baby for a visit! But Buddy and Earl are not prepared for the chaos the small and adorable creature brings with him. Mom’s friend Mrs. Cunningham is coming for a visit, and she’s bringing her baby! While Buddy tries to explain the ins and outs of babydom to Earl, neither of them is prepared for the chaos the small and adorable creature brings with him. When the baby manages to escape from his cage — which Buddy gently suggests is really just a playpen — it’s up to our favorite odd couple to save the day. This thi... + Read More
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Series: Buddy and EarlBuddy and Earl Go to SchoolHardcover
Maureen Fergus9781554989270
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2017
“The bond between Buddy and Earl is as strong as ever in their fourth book, as is the playful banter and cheerful artwork that capture their relationship so well.” Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWBuddy and Earl know that with the right education they can become anything — even a dentist or a hot-dog vendor! So they eagerly gather their silly, smelly supplies and head to school.Soon after they arrive, their teacher, Miss Meredith, is called away and Professor Earl takes charge of the classroom. Buddy works hard at lessons like Sniffing Things, ... + Read More
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Series: Buddy and EarlBuddy and Earl Meet the NeighborsHardcover
Maureen Fergus9781773060255
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2018
Wonder Buddy and Super Earl come to the rescue when their new neighbors need help! The fifth installment of a charming and critically acclaimed series.When Wonder Buddy and Super Earl learn that the Evil Doctor Stinker is planning to shut down the only hamburger factory in town, they know they have to find the supervillain’s secret lair — fast! Hopping into the Earl-mobile, they race into the yard next door where they come face-to-face with the new neighbors.At first, Mister the bulldog is alarmed by Wonder Buddy’s laser-beam eyes (even though ... + Read More
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Series: Pinny in SummerHardcover
Joanne Schwartz9781554987825
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
May 01, 2016
This engaging story, told in chapter-like episodes, follows Pinny on a long, lazy summer day. As sunshine turns to rain and back to sun again, Pinny searches for a wishing rock, watches clouds, picks wild blueberries, feeds a seagull, and bakes a cake to share with her friends.An ideal book for children beginning to make the jump to independent reading, Pinny in Summer demonstrates the joy young people find in nature and an unstructured life. Pinny is allowed to explore her world freely, and her small setbacks and triumphs will be familiar to e... + Read More
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Series: Pinny In FallHardcover
Joanne Schwartz9781773061061
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2018
“Schwartz dreamily captures the small wonders of childhood and the air of magic that can accompany season’s change.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review On a crisp fall day, Pinny decides to go for a walk. She packs a sweater, her rain hat, a book, a snack and her treasure pouch. Set for adventure, Pinny’s day includes a windy game of tag with her friends, an exciting call for help from the lighthouse keeper and a surprising encounter with the falling autumn leaves. From Joanne Schwartz, author of the acclaimed picture book Town Is by the Sea, ... + Read More
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Series: A Year Without MomPaperback
Dasha Tolstikova9781773063799
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14
Mar 01, 2020
Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova’s acclaimed graphic novel A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. ... + Read More
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Series: The Breadwinner: A Graphic NovelAdapted editionPaperback
Deborah Ellis9781773061184
$16.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14
Jan 01, 2018
Deborah Ellis’s bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel. This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. Parvana’s father — a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed — ... + Read More
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Series: The Bird in Me FliesHardcover
Sara Lundberg9781773062600
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12
Aug 01, 2020
A prize-winning, illustrated novel in verse about a young girl who dreams of being an artist, inspired by the life of Swedish artist Berta Hansson. What do you do when it feels impossible to live up to everything expected of you? When the only person who understands you disappears? When you are young and long for something that seems out of reach? Berta dreams of being an artist, but as a girl growing up in a small Swedish farming village in the 1920s, she has little hope. She finds solace in nature, and in drawing and shaping birds from clay f... + Read More
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Series: A Boy Named QueenPaperback
Sara Cassidy9781773063782
$9.99JUVENILE 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. ... + Read More
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Series: Danny, Who Fell in a HolePaperback
Cary Fagan9781554983124
$9.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12
Apr 01, 2013
Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express AwardDanny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits — and the company of a poetry-spouting mole… Danny’s parents have always been a bit flaky, but this time they have gone too far. Now his mother wants to bake cheesecakes in the mountains, and his father wants to be an opera singer. That means Danny and his older brother will spend half the year in Banff (wherever that is) and half the year in New York City. Worst of a... + Read More
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Series: The Mosquito BrothersHardcover
Griffin Ondaatje9781554984374
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 9
May 01, 2015
Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Spanish illustrator Erica Salcedo, this is a gently humorous and remarkably informative nature-adventure story about an unlikely pointy-nosed hero with big dreams and an even bigger heart.After he nearly drowns in a parking-lot puddle, Dinnn Needles is fearful of many things, including flying. When his four hundred siblings swarm off without him, he finds time to dream —about family stories, a lost brother, adventure in The Wild and, above all, how to be cool.At school in an abandoned air-conditioner, Dinn... + Read More
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Series: Travels with My FamilyTravels with My FamilyPaperback
Marie-Louise Gay9780888998330
$9.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Sep 01, 2007
Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very unique travelogue. Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grassho... + Read More
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Series: Travels with My FamilyOn the Road AgainPaperback
Marie-Louise Gay9781554980871
$9.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Apr 09, 2011
In the sequel to Travels With My Family, the family is on the road again -- this time to spend a year in a tiny village in southern France. They experiences the spring migration of sheep up to the mountain pastures, the annual running of the bulls (in which Charlie's father is trapped in a phone booth by a raging bull), and other adventures large and small. Most of all, though, Charlie and his little brother, Max, grow fond of their new neighbors -- the man who steals ducks from the local river, the neighbor's dog who sleeps right in the middle... + Read More
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Series: Travels with My FamilySummer in the CityHardcover
Marie-Louise Gay9781554981779
$15.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Apr 01, 2012
Husband-and-wife team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel create a sequel to the enormously popular Travels with My Family and On the Road Again! — but with a twist. This time Charlie and his family stay home, and find adventure in their own Montreal neighborhood. Charlie can’t wait for school to be over. But he’s wondering what particular vacation ordeal his parents have lined up for the family this summer. Canoeing with alligators in Okefenokee? Getting caught in the middle of a revolutionary shootout in Mexico? Or perhaps another trip abroad? T... + Read More
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Series: Travels with My FamilyThe Traveling CircusHardcover
Marie-Louise Gay9781554984206
$15.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Apr 01, 2015
Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia, a country Charlie has never even heard of. An incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and conflict.Even for a seasoned traveler like Charlie, Croatia is a very different experience. To travel in a country where the language is completely unfamiliar and half the words have no vowels. To visit remote villages where the Internet is so slow, you might as well not h... + Read More
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Series: The Hollow under the TreeHardcover
Cary Fagan9781554989997
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11
May 01, 2018
An escaped lion is hiding in the middle of the city, and it is up to Sadie and Theo to save him!When a circus train derails in Toronto in 1925, a lion escapes and finds shelter in High Park, a four-hundred-acre park in the west end of the city. No one knows about the creature except for Sadie Menken, the feisty daughter of a pie-maker. As various squirrels, dogs and an expensive peacock meet unfortunate ends, and the park “beast” is spotted by visitors, the lion’s presence draws the attention of the authorities.Can Sadie save the lion? Can she ... + Read More
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Series: Coyote TalesHardcover
Thomas King9781554988334
$16.95JUVENILE 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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Series: The Outside CircleA Graphic NovelPaperback
Patti LaBoucane-Benson9781770899377
$21.99COMICS & 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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Your Turn, Adrian Hardcover 9781773061498 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 May 01, 2019
Series: Buddy and Earl Buddy and Earl Paperback 9781773061191 $7.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 01, 2018
Series: Buddy and Earl Buddy and Earl Go Exploring Paperback 9781773061207 $7.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 01, 2018
Series: Buddy and Earl Buddy and Earl and the Great Big Baby Hardcover 9781554987160 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2016
Series: Buddy and Earl Buddy and Earl Go to School Hardcover 9781554989270 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2017
Series: Buddy and Earl Buddy and Earl Meet the Neighbors Hardcover 9781773060255 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2018
A Year Without Mom Paperback 9781773063799 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Mar 01, 2020
The Bird in Me Flies Hardcover 9781773062600 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 01, 2020
A Boy Named Queen Paperback 9781773063782 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11 Mar 01, 2020