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Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...
2) Oh, Canada!
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This colorful whirlwind journey across Canada takes young readers from coast to coast to coast, revealing the awe-inspiring scope and iconic images of their amazing country.
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A young immigrant's journey to Halifax from the Iron Curtain Emma lives on the grey, cold side of the wall, where people speak in whispers and no flowers grow. On the other side there is happiness and colour, but she can never go there. One day, Emma's parents disappear and she is sent to live with her miserable Aunt Lily. She disapproves of Emma's drawing and dashes her niece's dream of becoming an artist. That is, until a strange boat arrives and...
5) Hatchet
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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The kids call her Lighthouse: no lights on up there. In a small town, everyone knows when you can't read. But Cathy is just distracted by the light and lines and artistry of everyday life. She is a talented artist growing up in tiny Mariners Cove and yearns for acceptance. She dreams of enrolling in art school, but getting there will be a struggle. Hutch Parsons is everything Cathy is not: charismatic, popular, smart. Overflowing with energy, he is...
11) Shin-chi's canoe
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November Is Picture Book Month!
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
November Is Picture Book Month!
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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When Shi-shi-etko returns for her second year at a residential school, she is accompanied by her six-year-old brother Shin-chi, to whom she gives the gift of a tiny cedar canoe to help him get through the difficult months until summer.
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Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience.
As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body's insistent desires, and tries desperately to fall in love, she grapples with the crises that mark the
...13) Greetings, Leroy
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"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 in Canada as much as he loves his old home in Jamaica."--Provided by publisher.
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Essais volume no. 4
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Essays of the author's thoughts about some of the questions she has been asked by Canadians, which involve subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice, and reconciliation.
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Ukpik lives in the North with her family. When a captain from the south arrives to trade with Ukpik's father, Ukpik is excited to learn how to use the forks, knives, and spoons he brings with him. But soon, Ukpik starts to wonder if they'll need to use the new tools all the time, and if that means that everything in camp will change.
17) I am Canada
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Poetic text describes everything that Canadian kids love to do, from one end of the country to the other.
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In this beautifully illustrated book, a determined young Anishnaabe girl in search of adventure goes on a transformative journey into a forest on her traditional territory. She is joined by a chorus of women and girls in red dresses, ancestors who tell her they remember what it was like to be carefree and wild, too. Soon, though, the girl is challenged by a monster named Hate, who envelops her in a cloud of darkness. She climbs a mountain to evade...
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A city-by-city guide to the best hidden gems, local institutions and memorable places. For over five years, John Catucci has crossed North America uncovering the great joints and legendary restaurants that most of us have never heard of. Now, in You Gotta Go Here!, you'll learn what to do and see between meals: from roadside attractions to incredible experiences to the off-the-beaten path places that only locals know. Filled with photographs, great...
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