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Series: Abukacha's Shoes Hardcover Tamar Tessler 9781554984589 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 01, 2015

Abukacha finally throws away his worn out shoes and gets himself a new pair. But the old shoes, somehow, keep finding their way back to him.When author and illustrator Tamar Tessler was a little girl, her aunt would tell her the story of Abukacha and his shoes — a story that had been told to her by her own Polish aunt, Fella. The plot was always different, but the problem remained the same — Abukacha had the biggest shoes in the world, and he couldn’t get rid of them no matter what he did. Inspired by her husband, who refused to throw away a wo... + Read More
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Series: Alego Hardcover Ningeokuluk Teevee 9780888999436 $17.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2009

An enchanting and utterly authentic introduction to the life of an Inuit child and her world. Written and illustrated by Ningeokuluk Teevee, one of the most interesting young artists in Cape Dorset, home to the great tradition of Inuit art, this is a beautifully simple story, written in Inuktitut and English, about a young Inuit girl who goes to the shore with her grandmother to collect clams for supper. Along the way she discovers tide pools brimming with life – a bright orange starfish, a creepy-crawly thing with many legs called an ugjunnaq,... + Read More
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Series: Alfredito Flies Home Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9780888995858 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 Oct 01, 2007

Alfredito and his family are getting ready to return to their old home in El Salvador for Christmas, their first time back since they left as refugees. But they will make this trip on a plane — the first time any of them has ever flown. The excitement mounts as they drive to the airport, get on the plane and fly up into the air, each step bringing an increasing level of amazement. But the greatest moment of all is when they finally arrive and their beloved relatives meet them. Their old house looks and feels as it always did. The smells, the fo... + 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: The Amazing Discoveries of Ibn Sina Hardcover Fatima Sharafeddine 9781554987108 $17.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 - 11 Apr 01, 2015

The life story of Ibn Sina (980-1037), one of the greatest philosophers, scientists and physicians of the Islamic world. Born in Persia more than a thousand years ago, Ibn Sina was one of the greatest thinkers of his time — a philosopher, scientist and physician who made significant discoveries, especially in the field of medicine, and wrote more than one hundred books. As a child, Ibn Sina was extremely bright, a voracious reader who loved to learn and was fortunate to have the best teachers. He memorized the Qur’an by the age of ten and compl... + Read More
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Series: The Amazing Travels of Ibn Battuta Hardcover Fatima Sharafeddine 9781554984800 $18.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 - 11 May 01, 2014

The true story of a fourteenth-century traveler, whose journeys through the Islamic world and beyond were extraordinary for his time. In 1325, when Ibn Battuta was just twenty-one, he bid farewell to his parents in Tangier, Morocco, and embarked on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It was thirty years before he returned home, having seen much of the world. In this book he recalls his amazing journey and the fascinating people, cultures and places he encountered. After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Ibn Battuta was filled with a desire to see more of the world. ... + Read More
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Series: Amazonia Hardcover Daniel Munduruku 9781554981854 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 10 May 01, 2013

Amazonia is an extraordinary book of Brazilian folktales that combines the authentic voice of Daniel Munduruku, a noted indigenous author who grew up in the Amazon rainforest, with the imagined Amazon of Nikolai Popov, one of Russia's major artists and its foremost children's book illustrator. Many years ago, Nikolai Popov, Russia's leading children's book illustrator, illustrated an extensive, academic collection of Brazilian folktales. The sources for his illustrations were the stories themselves and his own richly imagined Amazonia.... + 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: Arctic Adventures Hardcover Raquel Rivera 9780888997142 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 8 Jun 01, 2007

The land, hunting, hunger, magic and extreme weather are themes that resonate for Inuit who live in the Far North. These stories, drawn from the lives of four Inuit artists, offer young readers a glimpse into this rich, remote culture, past and present. Accompanying each story are illustrations by Jirina Marton, who has spent time in the Arctic and whose deep appreciation for its subtle beauty shines through her art. In addition to the stories, there is a feature spread on each artist with a photograph, a brief biography and a reproduction of o... + Read More
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Series: Bilingual Cooking Poems Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding Bilingual edition Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9780888999818 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2010

Kirkus 2010 Best Children's Books selection The cuisines of many different cultures all over the world include rice and rice pudding. In this title in the Cooking Poems series, Jorge Argueta gives us a bilingual recipe for the classic Latin American version. From sprinkling the rice into the pot, to adding a waterfall of milk, cinnamon sticks, salt stars and sugar snow, Jorge Argueta's recipe is not only easy to follow, it is a poetic experience. The lively illustrations by Fernando Vilela feature an enthusiastic young cook who finds no end of ... + 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: Between Sisters Hardcover Adwoa Badoe 9780888999962 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) to 9 Sep 01, 2010

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. She joins a youth band at church, and Christine has even promised to teach her to read. But Kumasi is also fu... + Read More
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Series: Black Flame Hardcover Gerelchimeg Blackcrane 9781554981359 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to 6 Apr 05, 2013

Award-winning author Gerelchimeg Blackcrane has written a compelling novel, set in Tibet, Mongolia and China, about the adventures of a fiercely powerful yet lovable Tibetan mastiff that is sure to join the ranks of other much-read classic dog stories. Kelsang, a Tibetan mastiff, is just a tiny puppy when his mother dies after a vicious fight with a snow leopard. Soon he comes to fill his mother’s role as sheepdog for the master, Tenzin, his instincts teaching him how to herd the flock on the northern Tibetan grasslands. But one day when visito... + Read More
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Series: Blanca Flor Hardcover Victor Montejo 9780888996008 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to 1 Aug 07, 2005

Blanca Flor era originalmente una historia tradicional española, que fue adaptada y vuelta a contar en Latinoamérica y en Nuevo México, donde se convirtió en una versión de Blanca Nieves. En Sud América, los criollos contaban una versión más cercana a la original, en la que una joven mujer, Blanca Flor, logra hacer que su pretendiente pase exitosamente por las pruebas impuestas por su posesivo y celoso padre. Víctor Montejo, un jacaltec maya, escuchó esta versión de Blanca Flor de la boca de su propia abuela. En esta versión llena de suspenso,... + Read More
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Series: Bone Dance Paperback Martha Brooks 9780888993366 $8.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 01, 1998

Alexandra's beloved grandfather was fond of saying, Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the good and the bad get all bunched up together. However, he could not have prepared her for the death of her father, a man she never knew, and his legacy -- a cabin on prairie land formerly owned by the LaFreniere family. Lonny LaFreniere's stepfather is the kindest man Lonny has ever known. But Lonny, tormented by guilty memories and visions he can't shake, rejects the land Pop always wanted to pass on to him. How could he have known it would end up... + Read More
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Series: Book Uncle and Me Hardcover Uma Krishnaswami 9781554988082 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Sep 01, 2016

Winner of the International Literacy Association Social Justice Literature AwardAn award-winning middle-grade novel about the power of grassroots activism and how kids can make a difference.Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library on the street corner. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something.What can she do? The local elections are coming up, but she’s just a kid. She can’t even vote!St... + Read More
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Series: A Boy Named Queen Hardcover Sara Cassidy 9781554989058 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11 Aug 01, 2016

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: Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo! Hardcover Pat Mora 9781554983438 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 01, 2014

In this sweetly funny picture book, a tiny mouse, Chico Canta, saves his entire family from the clever kitten, Little Gato-Gato, when he uses his quick wits and ability to speak another language. Chico Canta, the youngest of twelve, is a tiny, mischievous, fearless mouse who lives with his family in an old theater. They love to go upstairs to see the plays and echo the audience shouting, “Bravo, bravo!” as the curtain falls. Mrs. Canta has her hands full trying to keep track of all her children, especially Chico Canta. She is always telling the... + Read More
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Series: Breadwinner Series The Breadwinner Trilogy Paperback Deborah Ellis 9780888999597 $19.99 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 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: Bright Sky, Starry City Hardcover Uma Krishnaswami 9781554984053 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 May 01, 2015

A little girl and her father have an opportunity to appreciate the wonders of the night sky. Phoebe helps her dad set up telescopes on the sidewalk outside his store. It’s a special night — Saturn and Mars are going to appear together in the sky. But will Phoebe be able to see them with all the city lights? Raindrops begin to fall, followed by lightning and thunder. Phoebe is filled with disappointment as she and her father hurry inside to wait out the storm. But suddenly the power fails and then, amazingly, the rain and clouds disappear. Phoeb... + Read More
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Series: Broken Memory Paperback Elisabeth Combres 9780888998934 $10.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) to 13 Oct 01, 2009

IRA Notable Books for a Global Society selection Hiding behind an armchair, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she hears everything. And when the assassins finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow manages to stumble away from the scene, motivated only by the memory of her mother's last words: "You must not die, Emma!" Eventually Emma is taken in by an old Hutu woman who risks her own life to hide the child. Emma stays with the old woman and a quiet bond forms between the two, but long after the war ends, the yo... + Read More
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Series: The Camel in the Sun Hardcover Griffin Ondaatje 9781554983810 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 5 Sep 30, 2013

Inspired by a retelling of a traditional Muslim hadith, or account of the words or actions of the Prophet, which the author first heard in Sri Lanka, this is the story of a camel whose cruel owner only realizes what suffering he has caused when the Prophet appears and shows love to the animal. The camel has worked its entire life for a man called Halim, carrying bundles of spices, dates, incense, silver and wool on long journeys across the desert, east of the Red Sea. It often has to climb steep dunes, run when it is exhausted, and wait in the ... + Read More
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Series: The Cat at the Wall Hardcover Deborah Ellis 9781554984916 $16.95 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: Children of War Hardcover Deborah Ellis 9780888999078 $16.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Grade (US) to 7 Mar 01, 2009

USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List In this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few who are trying to build new lives in North America. Some families have left Iraq with money; others are penniless and ill or disabled. Most of the children have parents who are working illegally or not at all, and the fear of deportation is a constant threat. Ellis provides an historical overview and brief expla... + Read More
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Series: Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance Paperback Ian Wallace 9780888991676 $9.99 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: Cinco de Mayo New edition Paperback Maria Cristina Urrutia 9780888998774 $7.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Grade (US) to 5 Mar 01, 2008

Cinco de Mayo (fifth of May) is one of the most celebrated days in the Mexican calendar, but few people know what it commemorates -- a decisive victory of the Mexicans against the invading French in the mid-nineteenth century. Drawing on historical sources and the photographic record of a contemporary reenactment, this book introduces children to this important, but little understood event.
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Series: The Composition Paperback Antonio Skarmeta 9780888995506 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 8 Mar 05, 2003

Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awards and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things suddenly become much more complicated. Why, for instance, do Pedro's parents secretly listen to the radio every evening after dinner? And why does the government want Pedro and his classmates to write compositions about what their parents do in the even... + Read More
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Series: Con el sol en los ojos / With the Sun in My Eyes Hardcover Jorge Luján 9781554981588 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 9 Mar 01, 2012

In this book of short poems in Spanish and English, a young boy and girl describe their world and their day-to-day experiences -- the boy's street is like the trunk of an almond tree and the newborn chicks are like tiny walking suns. The girl loves her dog Oliver, the wind hitting her in the face and laughter "that explodes for no reason." But the children also ponder mysteries, such as the loud silence the boy hears inside himself when he goes for a walk alone and the vast beauty of the sky, with its clouds and constellations. Once again Jorge... + 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: 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: Dos conejos blancos Hardcover Jairo Buitrago 9781554989034 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2016

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn more money before they can continue their journey. As many thousa... + 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: From Another World Paperback Ana Maria Machado 9780888996411 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Feb 02, 2005

Mariano and his friends are helping their parents turn an old Brazilian coffee plantation into an inn. The children sleep in a shed, which is being converted into guest rooms. One night they hear crying. Gradually, the ghost of Rosario, a young slave from the late 1800s appears to them and tells the story of why she is so sad. Hans Christian Andersen Award-winning author Ana Maria Machado's storytelling skills and social conscience come together in this powerful and moving book that reveals the evil of slavery in a real, immediate and unforget... + 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: 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: The Girl from Chimel Hardcover Rigoberta Menchú 9780888996664 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 9 Jul 03, 2005

Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum brings the world of her childhood vividly to life in The Girl from Chimel. This evocative memoir for children is beautifully illustrated by noted Mazatec-Mexican artist Domi. Before the thirty-six-year war in Guatemala, despite the hardships the Maya people had endured since the time of the Conquest, life in their highland villages had a beauty and integrity that were changed forever by the conflict and brutal genocide that were to come. Through stories of her grandparents an... + Read More
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Series: Good for Nothing Paperback Michel Noel 9780888996169 $14.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 May 01, 2004

Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair. The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the o... + Read More
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Series: Good Night, Commander Hardcover Ahmad Akbarpour 9780888999894 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 7 May 01, 2010

This extraordinary little book gives us a glimpse into the world of a young boy who has lost his mother and one of his legs in the Iran-Iraq war. We meet the boy in his room, where he recreates the conflict with an imaginary enemy and soldiers, trying to avenge his losses. The boy's father urges him to take off his artificial leg when he is at home, to join his uncles and aunties who have arrived for dinner. But when he does, he finds out that they are all about to go off to meet his new mother.Back in his room he meets an enemy soldier who is ... + 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: Bilingual Cooking Poems Guacamole Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9781554981335 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 01, 2012

Following on the success of Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup and Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding is Jorge Argueta’s third book in our bilingual cooking poem series — Guacamole — with very cute, imaginative illustrations by Margarita Sada. Guacamole originated in Mexico with the Aztecs and has long been popular in North America, especially in recent years due to the many health benefits of avocados. This version of the recipe is easy to make, calling for just avocados, limes, cilantro and salt. A little girl dons her apron, singing and dancing around... + Read More
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Series: Guru Nanak /hc The First Sikh Guru Hardcover Rina Singh 9780888999580 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Grade (US) to 4 Sep 25, 2011

The Sikh faith, the world’s fifth largest religion, began with the teachings of Guru Nanak in the fifteenth century and evolved with the nine gurus who followed him. Their writings as well as those of Hindu and Muslim mystics are collected in the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Nanak tells the story of the first guru of the Sikhs, who was born in 1469 in India at a time when there were great tensions between Hindus and Muslims. Born into a humble Hindu family, Nanak was an extraordinary child who from a very young age questioned th... + Read More
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Series: Home is Beyond the Mountains Hardcover Celia Lottridge 9780888999320 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 01, 2010

Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler na... + Read More
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Series: The Honey Jar Hardcover Rigoberta Menchú 9780888996701 $18.95 Age (years) to 9 Jan 16, 2006

In this book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns to the world of her childhood. The Honey Jar brings us the ancient stories her grandparents told her when she was a little girl, and we can imagine her listening to them by the fire at night. These Maya tales include creation myths, a classic story about the magic twins (which can also be found in the Popol Vuh), explanations of how and why certain natural phenomena came to exist, and animal tales. The underworld, the sky, the sun and moon, plants, people, ani... + 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: The Cocalero Novels I Am a Taxi Paperback Deborah Ellis 9780888997364 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Sep 01, 2006

Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession. Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister temporarily ... + Read More
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Series: I dreamt... Hardcover Gabriela Olmos 9781554983308 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) to 4 May 01, 2013

Children whose daily lives are afflicted by violence dream of a different world in this powerful book created by Mexican artists as a fundraiser for the IBBY Fund for Children in Crisis. In many parts of the world, including North America, children are living with violence. Wars, gangs, guns, crime, bullying, harassment and fear keep many kids from living the full, free lives that every child should enjoy. This book was created in Mexico, where for the past six years a vicious war against drugs has brought fear and insecuri... + 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: 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: Idaa Trail Hardcover Wendy Stephenson 9780888995766 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Jun 01, 2005

Etseh, Etsi and their three grandchildren have just embarked on a month long canoe trip in the Northwest Territories -- from the town of Rae to Hottah Lake. They are following the Idaa trail, a trade route that the Dogrib people have traveled for hundreds of years. Etseh and Etsi traveled the Idaa trail when they were children and as they paddle north with their grandchildren they pass along their knowledge of special sites along the way and explain how their people survived in the old days -- building birch bark canoes, fishing with willow li... + Read More
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Series: Jimmy the Greatest! Hardcover Jairo Buitrago 9781554981786 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 01, 2012

Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus, honored with the Horn Book Fanfare, and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012 Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests that Jimmy start training, and to inspire him, he gives Jimmy a box full of books, as well as newspaper clippings about Muhammad Ali - "The Greatest." Jimmy is swept with admiration for Ali. He begins to read and run and box like crazy, even though someone at th... + Read More
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Series: Kids of Kabul Hardcover Deborah Ellis 9781554981816 $15.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 12 May 01, 2012

Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner, the fictional story of eleven-year-old Parvana living in Kabul under the terror of the Taliban. But what happened to Afghanistan’s children after the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to Kabul to find out. The twenty-six boys and girls featured in this book range in age from ten to seventeen, and they speak candidly about their lives now. They are still living in a country at war. Violence and oppressi... + Read More
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Series: La Malinche The Princess Who Helped Cortés Conquer the Aztec Empire Hardcover Francisco Serrano 9781554981113 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Oct 01, 2012

This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of "La Malinche," the remarkable woman who became an interpreter and advisor to Hernán Cortés. To some she was the mother of a mestizo Mexico, while to others she was a traitor to her people.In the early 1500s, Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors defeated the great Aztec Empire, built a new city for colonists from Spain and took control of vast lands stretching from today’s southwestern US down through most of Central America.But many people don’t know that one of the reasons for the succe... + 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: 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: Let's Go See Papa Hardcover Lawrence Schimel 9781554981069 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Nov 15, 2011

The little girl in this story likes Sundays best of all -- it’s the day her father calls. She hasn’t seen him for over a year because he works far away across the ocean in the United States. She writes in her notebook every day, keeping a record of everything that happens to share with him when she finally sees him again. Then one Sunday her father asks if she and her mother would like to join him, and she’s surprised by her mixed feelings. It means leaving her grandmother, her friends … and her dog, Kika, behind.This is a powerful story from a... + Read More
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Series: Looks Like Daylight Hardcover Deborah Ellis 9781554981205 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Grade (US) from 7 Sep 30, 2013

After her critically acclaimed books of interviews with Afghan, Iraqi, Israeli and Palestinian children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention closer to home. For two years she traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut — some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope. You’ll meet Tingo, who has sp... + Read More
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Series: Lost Girl Found Hardcover Leah Bassoff 9781554984169 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 Mar 01, 2014

In war-torn Sudan, a girl must make heart-rending choices as she fights for survival and a chance at a future.“This short, quickly paced narrative will stay with readers for the rest of their lives.” School Library Journali, STARRED REVIEW “Moving and necessary.” Kirkus, STARRED REVIEWFor Poni, life in her small village in southern Sudan is simple and complicated at the same time. Stay in school. Beat up any boy who tries to show attention. Watch out for the dangers in the river. But then the war comes. And when soldiers arrive in her village a... + 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