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1) Indian Horse
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Bibliotherapy: Social Justice
Indigenous History: Adults
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Adult
Indigenous History: Adults
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Adult
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Saul Indian Horse, having hit rock bottom in a treatment centre for alcohol addiction, wants peace. He sees the only way to find it is to tell his life story as a Northern Ojibway with all its joys and sorrows. As he journeys back he comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his life.
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Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1
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"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--Provided by publisher.
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Mac B. is on another secret mission in this totally true kid spy adventure from New York Times bestselling author, Mac Barnett!
The Queen of England calls on her trusty spy, Mac B., once again. This time, Mac must navigate secret tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall in order to retrieve cheat codes from a Soviet scientist. Floppy disk in hand, our hero finds himself trapped in East Germany, stuck between the wall and the Stasi. How will he escape? Well...
4) Fair ball
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The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 4
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"Derek is juggling finals and a baseball tournament during the last few weeks of school, but when his friend Dave starts ignoring him, Derek's perfect summer starts to look less fun"--Provided by publisher.
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Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 2
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The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency was supposed to be a secret constabulary, but after the success of their first case, all of London knows that Lady Ada and Mary are the girls to go to for solving problems. Their new case is a puzzle indeed. It involves a horrible hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a suspiciously slippery servant. But Mary has stumbled onto a mystery of her own. She spotted a ghostly girl in a grey gown dashing through...
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This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history.
When five-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moves from the U.S. to Iran in 1976, its open society means a life with dancing, women's rights, and other freedoms. But soon...
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Tegan and Sara volume 1
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"Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and take separate paths to understanding their queerness. For...
16) Not My Girl
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2022 Family Literacy Day
Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders' school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family - but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can't be her daughter. "Not my girl!" she says angrily.
Margaret's years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish....
18) Bad sister
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"Meet Charise. She's energetic, helpful, a model pet owner and full of inventions. But she's also a bad sister. When she goes too far and breaks little brother Daniel's tooth, can she redeem herself? Is an accident really an accident if you could have stopped it? But most importantly... What does it mean to be a good sister?"--Back cover.
19) Layers: a memoir
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Penelope Bagieu never thought she'd create a graphic memoir. But when she dusted off her old diaries (no, really - this book is based on her actual diaries!), she found cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking stories begging to be drawn. Bagieu reflects on her childhood and teen years with her characteristic wit and unflinching honesty. The result is fifteen short stories about friendship, love, grief, and those awkward first steps toward adulthood....
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Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 3
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When the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency takes on a new case, Ada begins to suspect that a criminal mastermind has been directing the actions of all the criminals they've encountered so far.
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