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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... + Read More
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Series: Africville Hardcover Shauntay Grant 9781773060439 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2018

Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in IllustrationFinalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated BooksFinalist for a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Books AwardWhen a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like —the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bou... + Read More
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Series: Any Questions? Hardcover Marie-Louise Gay 9781554983827 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Aug 11, 2014

Where does the story start? Marie-Louise Gay explains the creative process with typical fun and whimsy. Many children want to know where stories come from and how a book is made. Marie-Louise Gay’s new picture book provides them with some delightfully inspiring answers in a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children, who collaborate on writing and illustrating a story. Marie-Louise has scribbled, sketched, scrawled, doodled, penciled, collaged and painted the words and pictures of a story-within-a-story that show how b... + Read More
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Series: Me and You and the Red Canoe Hardcover Jean E. Pendziwol 9781554988471 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 Aug 01, 2017

“A true gem that invites contemplation and reflection in children, who are often too busy to notice the beauty of everyday life.” — School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEWIn the stillness of a summer dawn, two siblings leave their campsite with fishing rods, tackle and bait, and push a red canoe into the lake. A perfect morning on the water unfolds, with thrilling glimpses of wildlife along the way.The narrator describes the experience vividly. Trailing a lure through the blue-green depths, the siblings paddle around a point, spotting a moose in... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Mustafa Hardcover Marie-Louise Gay 9781773061382 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 01, 2018

Boston Globe, Best 2018 Books for ChildrenTD Canadian Children's Literature Award FinalistMustafa and his family traveled a long way to reach their new home. Some nights Mustafa dreams about the country he used to live in, and he wakes up not knowing where he is. Then his mother takes him out to the balcony to see the moon — the same moon as in their old country. In the park, Mustafa sees ants and caterpillars and bees — they are the same, too. He encounters a “girl-with-a-cat,” who says something in a language that he can’t understand. He watc... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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: Short Stories for Little Monsters Hardcover Marie-Louise Gay 9781554988969 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Mar 01, 2017

The internationally acclaimed author of the Stella and Sam series has created a collection of short, funny illustrated stories.This hilarious collection of illustrated stories gives us a glimpse into the things children wonder about every day.What do cats really see? What do trees talk about? Should you make funny faces on a windy day? Do worms rule the world? Do mothers always tell the truth? Do snails have nightmares?These short stories are illustrated in vibrant watercolor and collage in cartoon style. They are rich in detail and tiny humoro... + Read More
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Series: Sidewalk Flowers Hardcover JonArno Lawson 9781554984312 $17.99 JUVENILE 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 White Cat and the Monk A Retelling of the Poem “Pangur Bán” Hardcover Jo Ellen Bogart 9781554987801 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 01, 2016

A monk leads a simple life. He studies his books late into the evening and searches for truth in their pages. His cat, Pangur, leads a simple life, too, chasing prey in the darkness. As night turns to dawn, Pangur leads his companion to the truth he has been seeking.The White Cat and the Monk is a retelling of the classic Old Irish poem “Pangur Bán.” With Jo Ellen Bogart’s simple and elegant narration and Sydney Smith’s classically inspired images, this contemplative story pays tribute to the wisdom of animals and the wonders of the natural world.
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Series: Town Is by the Sea Hardcover Joanne Schwartz 9781554988716 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Apr 01, 2017

Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers, show the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig.With curriculum connec... + Read More
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Series: Small in the City Hardcover Sydney Smith 9781773061986 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2019

The first picture book that the award-winning Sydney Smith has both written and illustrated is a story about feeling small in the city — and finding your way home. On a snowy day in a big city, a little boy hops off a streetcar and walks through downtown, between office buildings, through parks and down busy streets. Along the way, he provides helpful tips about which alleys make good shortcuts, which trees to climb and where to find a friendly face. All the while, the boy searches for what he has lost … The first book that award-winning illust... + 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: Stella and Sam Stella, Fairy of the Forest Paperback Marie-Louise Gay 9780888999931 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Mar 01, 2010

Stella's little brother Sam wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some. So begins another adventure in the Stella and Sam series about the irrepressible red-head, and her slightly apprehensive little brother.
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Series: Stella and Sam Stella, Princess of the Sky Paperback Marie-Louise Gay 9781554980727 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Aug 01, 2010

Another adventure begins in this book in the Stella and Sam series as the pair explores the wonders of the natural world. A vast luminous sky, the sun, the stars and the rising moon form the backdrop for their nocturnal expedition. As they encounter raccoons, fireflies, tree frogs and bats, Sam wonders if the moon can swim, if the sun wears pajamas or if he can catch shooting stars with his butterfly net. Stella, as always, has an answer for every question.Marie-Louise Gay's whimsical prose and enchanting illustrations capture the joys of young... + Read More
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Series: Stella and Sam Stella, Star of the Sea Paperback Marie-Louise Gay 9780888999924 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Mar 01, 2010

Stella and her little brother are spending the day at the sea. Stella has been to the sea before and knows all its secrets, but Sam has many questions: "Does a catfish purr? Does a seahorse gallop?" Stella has an answer for them all. The only thing she isn't sure of, and neither are we, is whether Sam will ever come into the water.Exquisite, evocative watercolors bring a diaphanous day at the beach alive in this perfect summer story. Gently humorous, Stella, Star of the Sea also captures the relationship between an older sister and her baby bro... + Read More
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Series: The Better Tree Fort Hardcover Jessica Scott Kerrin 9781554988631 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2018

“Together, artist and author affectingly construct The Better Tree Fort that has little to do with its exterior, and everything to do with the love contained within.” — Shelf Awareness, STARRED REVIEW“Let’s build a tree fort,” Russell says to his dad when they move into a house with a big maple tree in the backyard. His dad doesn’t know much about building, but he gamely follows Russell’s plan. Several trips to the lumber store later, the tree fort is done. There is no slide, balcony or skylight like Russell imagined, but it is perfect — right ... + Read More
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Series: The Black Book of Colors Hardcover Menena Cottin 9780888998736 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 10 Jun 01, 2008

A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008 It is very hard for a sighted person to imagine what it is like to be blind. This groundbreaking, award-winning book endeavors to convey the experience of a person who can only see through his or her sense of touch, taste, smell or hearing. Raised black line drawings on black paper, which can be deciphered by touch, complement a beautifully written text describing colors through imagery. Braille letters accompany the text so that the sighted reader c... + Read More
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Series: The Triumphant Tale of the House Sparrow Hardcover Jan Thornhill 9781773060064 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 01, 2018

“The content encourages us to reflect upon and evaluate the relationship between human beings and animals. This book leaves us with admiration for this feisty bird and hope for our world.” — Friends Journal Behold the most despised bird in human history!So begins Jan Thornhill’s riveting, beautifully illustrated story of the House Sparrow. She traces the history of this perky little bird, one of the most adaptable creatures on Earth, from its beginnings in the Middle East to its spread with the growth of agriculture into India, North Africa and... + Read More
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Series: They Say Blue Hardcover Jillian Tamaki 9781773060200 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 3 Mar 01, 2018

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2018 Caldecott and Printz Honor-winning illustrator Jillian Tamaki brings us a poetic exploration of colour and nature from a young child’s point of view. They Say Blue follows a young girl as she contemplates colours in the known and the unknown, in the immediate world and the world beyond what she can see. The sea looks blue, yet water cupped in her hands is as clear as glass. Is a blue whale blue? She d... + Read More
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Series: Tokyo Digs a Garden Hardcover Jon-Erik Lappano 9781554987986 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 01, 2016

Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — Illustrated Books Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. For years, highways and skyscrapers have been built up around the family’s house where once there were hills and trees. Will they ever experience the natural world again? One day, an old woman offers Tokyo seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes. Tokyo and his grandfather are astonished when the seeds grow into a forest so lush that it ta... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: West Coast Wild West Coast Wild A Nature Alphabet Hardcover Deborah Hodge 9781554984404 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2015

Celebrate the Pacific west coast with this gorgeous nature alphabet book. This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific west coast — a magnificent area that combines an ancient rainforest, a rugged beach and a vast, open ocean, and where whales, bears, wolves, eagles and a rich variety of marine species thrive in an interconnected web of life. Author Deborah Hodge has spent more than forty years on the west coast, frequently visiting the Pacific Rim region, and she knows it intimately. From A to Z she desc... + Read More
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Series: I Have the Right I Have the Right to Be a Child Hardcover Alain Serres 9781554981496 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jun 01, 2012

Selected for the IRA Notable Books for a Global Society List, selected for the Children's Literary Assembly 2013 Notable Children's Books and the USBBY Outstanding International Book List With a very simple text accompanied by rich, vibrant illustrations a young narrator describes what it means to be a child with rights -- from the right to food, water and shelter, to the right to go to school, to be free from violence, to breathe clean air, and more. The book emphasizes that these rights belong to every child on the planet, whether they are "b... + Read More
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Series: A Trio of Tolerable Tales Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9781554989331 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Mar 01, 2017

Three hilarious Margaret Atwood tales, together in a chapter book for the first time!In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Ramsay runs away from his revolting relatives and makes a new friend with more refined tastes.The second tale, Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, features Bob, who was raised by dogs, and Dorinda, who does housework for relatives who don’t like her. It is only when they become friends that they realize they can change their lives for the better.And finally, to get her parents back, Wenda and her woodchuck companion have to... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: The Alphabet Thief Hardcover Bill Richardson 9781554988778 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Mar 01, 2017

When night falls, along comes a peculiar thief who steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes.The alphabet thief stole all of the B’s, and all of the bowls became owls…It seems that no one can stop her, until the Z’s finally send her to sleep so that all the other letters can scamper back to where they belong. Bill Richardson’s zany rhymes and Roxanna Bikadoroff’s hilarious illustrations will delight young readers with the silly fun they can have with language — and may even inspire budding young writers and ar... + Read More
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Series: Breadwinner Series The Breadwinner Fifteenth Anniversary edition Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781554987658 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 May 01, 2015

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe fifteenth anniversary edition includes a special foreword by Deborah Ellis as well as a new map, an updated author’s note and a glossary to provide young readers with background and context. The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her fam... + Read More
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Series: Breadwinner Series The Breadwinner (movie tie-in edition) Media tie-in Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781773060712 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Aug 01, 2017

A special movie tie-in edition of The Breadwinner, the first book in the best-selling Breadwinner series by Deborah Ellis, featuring an eight-page color insert with stills from the movie.Eleven-year-old 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 — works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the ... + Read More
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Series: Breadwinner Series The Breadwinner Trilogy Paperback Deborah Ellis 9780888999597 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Aug 01, 2009

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times The three books in Deborah Ellis's Breadwinner trilogy bound into one handsome volume Deborah Ellis's novels The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and Mud City have been a phenomenal success, touching the hearts of readers the world over. Here are the three books bound into one handsome volume -- for readers new to Deborah Ellis and for those who would like a collector's edition for their libraries.
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Series: Breadwinner Series Mud City New edition Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781554987733 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 May 01, 2015

This anniversary edition of Mud City includes a new cover and map, and an updated author’s note and glossary to provide young readers with background and context. Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. This is the dream that has sustained her through the terrible years in Kabul. It is the dream for which she has forsaken family and friends.But it is hard to imagine h... + Read More
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Series: Breadwinner Series My Name Is Parvana Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781554982981 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 May 01, 2015

The anniversary edition of My Name is Parvana includes a new cover and map, and an author’s note to provide background and context. In this stunning sequel to The Breadwinner Trilogy, Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan. On a military base in post-Taliban Afghanistan, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out school. The army major thinks she may be a terrorist working with the Taliban. The girl does not respond to questio... + Read More
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Series: Breadwinner Series Parvana’s Journey Fifteenth Anniversary edition Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781554987702 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 May 01, 2015

The anniversary edition of Parvana’s Journey includes a new cover and map, an updated author’s note and a glossary to provide young readers with background and context. A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana’s father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana doesn’t know where they are. She just knows she has to find them.She sets out alone, masquerading as a boy, her jo... + Read More
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Series: The Cat at the Wall Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781554987078 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2014

A remarkable and thought-provoking new novel set on Israel’s West Bank, by the author of The Breadwinner.On Israel’s West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards.Should she help him?After all, she’s just a cat.Or is she?It turns out that this particular cat is not used to thinking about anyone but herself. She was once a regular North American girl who only had to deal with normal m... + Read More
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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. ... + Read More
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Series: Calvin Paperback Martine Leavitt 9781554987207 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Nov 15, 2015

Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — TextIn the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations.As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture.And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold…The lake, it... + Read More
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Series: Sit Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781773061108 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 13 Oct 01, 2017

Nine poignant and empowering short stories from the author of The Breadwinner.The seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own. In each story, a child makes a decision and takes action, be that a tiny gesture or a life-altering choice.Jafar is a child laborer in a chair factory and longs to go to school. Sue sits on a swing as she and her brother wait to have a supervised visit with their father at the children’s aid... + Read More
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Series: The Hollow under the Tree Hardcover Cary Fagan 9781554989997 $16.95 JUVENILE 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: 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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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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Series: The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel Adapted edition Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781773061184 $16.99 JUVENILE 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: This One Summer Paperback Mariko Tamaki 9781554981526 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 May 01, 2014

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration Rose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visited Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. But this year is different, and they soon find themselves tangled in teen love and family crisis. From the creators of Skim comes an investigation into the mysterious world of adults. Sure, Rose’s dad is still making cheesy and embarrassing jokes, but her mother is acting like she doesn’t even want to be there. Plus, being at the cottage isn’t just about going to the beach... + Read More