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Series: Grandmother’s Visit Hardcover Betty Quan 9781554989546 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2018

Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss.Grandmother lives with Grace’s family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day.Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. Father comes home early to make dinner, but the rice bowl... + Read More
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Series: Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance Paperback Ian Wallace 9780888991676 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 01, 1992

Winner of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator Award From the time Chin Chiang stood only as high as his grandfather's knees, he dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance. Now the first day of the Year of the Dragon has arrived, and Chin Chiang is so scared that he wants to melt into his shoes. Chin Chiang is a most appealing small boy, whose plight will touch readers young and old. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7With prompting and support, describe the relationship between ill... + Read More
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Series: Pirate Queen A Story of Zheng Yi Sao Hardcover Helaine Becker 9781773061245 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Mar 01, 2020

An inspiring story of Zheng Yi Sao, the real-life pirate queen who took control of her life — and the South China seas — in the early 19th century. The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the late 1700s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years later, she took command of the fleet. Over the next decade, the pirate queen built a fl... + Read More
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Series: When I Found Grandma Hardcover Saumiya Balasubramaniam 9781773060187 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2019

Maya longs to see her grandmother, but when Grandma arrives from far away for a visit, she is not quite what Maya expected.When Maya’s grandma makes a surprise visit from thousands of miles away, Maya is delighted. But her excitement doesn’t last long. When Grandma picks her up from school, she wears fancy clothes and talks too loudly. Grandma’s morning prayer bells wake Maya up, and she cooks with ingredients Maya doesn’t usually eat. Plus, Maya thinks cupcakes taste better than Grandma’s homemade sweets. Maya and Grandma try to compromise, ... + Read More
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Series: Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories Paperback Paul Yee 9780888995872 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 11 Nov 01, 2003

These ten original ghost stories dramatize the history of Chinese immigration to North America -- from the poor village men who first came searching for gold in the late 1850s to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. These stories describe the resilience and struggle of people trying to make new lives for themselves in a strange land. But these are also ghost stories, a popular narrative form in China. Though men and women seek their fortune in the New World, the links to China are strong. Wherev... + Read More
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Series: Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White Hardcover Saumiya Balasubramaniam 9781773062587 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 27, 2020

A child’s joy on a snowy day finally helps her mother feel at home in their new country A little girl and her mother walk home from school on a snowy winter day. “So much snow,” says Ma. “So monochromatic.” “Mono crow what?” her daughter replies. Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything — the clouds in the winter sky, the “firework” display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where f... + Read More
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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: A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid Hardcover Sara O'Leary 9781773062501 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Aug 01, 2021

In this companion to the enormously popular A Family Is a Family Is a Family, a group of kids share the silly questions they always hear, as well as the questions they would rather be asked about themselves. Being the new kid is hard, a child in the school playground tells us. I can think of better things to ask than if I’m a boy or a girl. Another child comes along and says she gets asked why she always has her nose in a book. Someone else gets asked where they come from. One after another, children share the questions they’re tired of being ... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Train Hardcover Paul Yee 9781554983896 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10 Oct 01, 2013

The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has bee... + Read More
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Series: All Monsters Must Die An Excursion to North Korea Paperback Magnus Bärtås 9781770898806 $22.95 HISTORY Apr 04, 2015

In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung.In 1978, North Korea celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, and Kim Jong-il, who at the time is the head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, orders the kidnapping of the greatest South Korean movie star, the actress Madame Choi, and her ex-husband, the famous film director Shin Sang-ok.In 2008, North Korea celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, and Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman take a bizarre, heavily guided tour to the world’s most isola... + Read More
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Series: Hope Has Two Daughters Paperback Monia Mazigh 9781487001803 $22.95 FICTION Jan 28, 2017

A bracing and vividly told story set against the backdrops of the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside revolution from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating to Canada to begin her life.More than twenty-five years later, Nadia’s daughter Lila reluct... + Read More
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Series: I Hid My Voice Paperback Parinoush Saniee 9781487000837 $18.95 FICTION Aug 06, 2016

From the international bestselling author of The Book of Fate comes the story, based on real events, of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him “dumb.” Young Shahaab doesn’t understand what the word means and thinks it is a compliment, until one day his cousin plays a trick on him to prove to everyone that the boy truly is the ne... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures In Search of A Better World A Human Rights Odyssey Paperback Payam Akhavan PhD 9781487002008 $22.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 09, 2017

A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bahá’ís that ... + Read More
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Series: Kim's Convenience Media tie-in Paperback Ins Choi 9781487002237 $18.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2016

A brand new edition of the smash-hit play, now a wildly popular CBC TV series. Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim’s Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. As the neighbourhood quickly gentrifies, Mr. Kim is offered a generous sum of money to sell — enough to allow him and his wife to finally retire. But Kim’s Convenience is more than just his livelihood — it is his legacy. As Mr. Kim tries desperately, and hilariously, to convince his daughter Jan... + Read More
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Series: The Men in White Paperback Anosh Irani 9781487004736 $19.95 DRAMA Sep 25, 2018

A finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Drama, The Men in White explores urgent themes surrounding the complexities of the modern immigrant experience, Islamophobia, and the unifying power of sport — the masterful playwright and novelist Anosh Irani at his finest.Eighteen-year-old Hasan Siddiqui lives in a bustling Muslim quarter of Bombay. He escapes the drudgery of his work at a chicken slaughterhouse by fostering two fervent dreams — to become a star in cricket, a sport at which he happens to excel, and to win the affections of Hasee... + Read More
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Series: We Two Alone Paperback Jack Wang 9781487007461 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The consul general of China attempts to sa... + Read More
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Series: The Sniper Paperback Kuo-Li Chang 9781487008574 $19.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

Jason Bourne meets John McClane in this electrifying thriller about a special-forces sniper and a seasoned homicide detective who get caught up in a criminal conspiracy that involves the highest levels of power. Twelve days before retirement, Taipei police detective Wu is handed a curious case: a naval officer has been found dead in his hotel room. While it is immediately apparent to Wu that the officer has been murdered, the military insist it was suicide and want the case closed with no questions asked. Soon, however, more high-ranking offi... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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 Costume Hardcover Nadia L. Hohn 9781554987542 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 01, 2016

Malaika’s mother can’t buy her a carnival costume — will she still be able to dance in the parade? It’s Carnival time. The first Carnival since Malaika’s mother moved to Canada to find a good job and provide for Malaika and her grandmother. Her mother promised she would send money for a costume, but when the money doesn’t arrive, will Malaika still be able to dance in the parade? Disappointed and upset at her grandmother’s hand-me-down costume, Malaika leaves the house, running into Ms. Chin, the tailor, who offers Malaika a bag of scrap fabric... + 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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Series: The Malaika Series Malaika’s Surprise Hardcover Nadia L. Hohn 9781773062648 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 01, 2021

When Malaika finds out she is going to have a new baby brother or sister, she worries that her mother will forget about her. But a surprise arrives on Malaika’s birthday that gives her more reason to celebrate her family’s love. It’s summertime, and Malaika and Adèle are enjoying playing carnival in their bright costumes, dancing and laughing in the sunshine. But when Mummy announces that they will soon have a new baby brother or sister, Malaika is unsure how to feel about another change in her family. Will Mummy forget about me? Back at school... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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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: Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged! Hardcover Jody Nyasha Warner 9780888997791 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Sep 01, 2010

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: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks Paperback Austin Clarke 9781487008420 $16.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Now available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke — winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his novel The Polished Hoe — is a vital, lyrical, and provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada. Originally issued in 1971, Austin Clarke’s first published collection of eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to chronicling the Caribbean dia... + Read More
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Series: The Shadow Paperback Melanie Raabe 9781487008635 $22.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

Ruth Ware meets Shari Lapena in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller about the inescapable pull of destiny and revenge. Norah Richter has recently moved from Berlin to Vienna, hoping to put her old life behind her. While walking to her new office one morning, Norah is approached by an elderly woman who utters these chilling words: On the eleventh of February, you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm …With good reason. And of your own free will.Norah is unnerved — many years earlier, something terrible happened to her on Februa... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden Hardcover Kay Weisman 9781554989706 $18.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Sep 01, 2020

Discover the wonder of ancient sea gardens on the Northwest Coast Sea gardens have been created by First Peoples on the Northwest coast for more than three thousand years. These gardens consist of stone reefs that are constructed at the lowest tide line, encouraging the growth of clams and other marine life on the gently sloped beach. This lyrical story follows a young child and an older family member who set out to visit a sea garden early one morning, as the lowest tides often occur at dawn. After anchoring their boat, they explore the beach,... + Read More
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Series: Alego Hardcover Ningeokuluk Teevee 9780888999436 $17.95 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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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: 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 Nicholson 9781773061160 $12.95 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 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: Very Last First Time Hardcover Jan Andrews 9780888990433 $18.95 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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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 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 native people 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 from Montrea... + Read More