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Refugees from the Bosnian War, Lazar's family flees the Siege of Sarajevo and arrives in Winnipeg in the early 1990s. Despite various mini dramas unfolding at home, as his parents and older sisters...

An Americas Award Commended Title Raw, honest and powerful, these moving bilingual poems by noted Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta explore a young Indigenous boy's connection to Mother Earth and how he...

Longlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award Two hundred years after his death, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh is still considered one of the greatest leaders of...

Details the travels of Ibn Battuta, a twenty-one year-old who penned a diary as he traveled the medieval Islamic world from Mecca to Quanzhou.Author: Fatima SharafeddinePublisher: Groundwood...

Author: Val??Rie Fontaine, Nathalie DionPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: March 02, 2021Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1773065017ISBN-13: 9781773065014

Author: Sara LundbergPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: Aug 04, 2020Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1773062603ISBN-13: 9781773062600

Author: Deborah EllisPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: Aug 25, 2009Number of Pages: 520 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0888999593ISBN-13: 9780888999597

Author: ??L??Onore Douspis, Shelley TanakaPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: April 06, 2021Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1773064819ISBN-13:...

A child's first experience of death involves love, laughter and some big questions about life.Author: Matt JamesPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: Apr 01, 2018Number of Pages: 40...

Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school's spring art show, until she ends up with the last two crayons ... By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the...

A little green envelope longs to go on a journey. Will it be chosen to deliver Olive's letter to her far-away friend? Olive's friend has moved away, and Olive wishes she could visit her. A little...

A girl and her mother watch an unusual friendship develop between a solitary starling and a lonely pony. The gray pony lives in the green pasture beside the barn. One day, the girl and her mother see...

An illustrated, middle-grade treatment of the Dreyfus Affair told from the perspectives of Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus and writer Emile Zola.Author: Heather CamlotPublisher: Groundwood...

Vivid and lively account of life at a fur trading post.Author: Jean E. PendziwolPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: Feb 07, 2023Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A mystery spans decades at the Rehearsal Club in this story of sisterhood, friendship and following your dreams under marquee lights. Twelve-year-old Pal Gallagher is a newly minted New Yorker who...

Alice keeps a perfectly round skipping stone in her pocket to remember her grandfather by -- but the stone goes missing. It looked just like a regular stone, but Alice knew it was different: It was...

A young woman gets on the bus and rides out of the big city. She arrives in the countryside, where she is as big as a giant, looming over a tiny house, a garden and her tiny grandmother. The cabbages...

Melanie and Melvin may be twins, but they couldn't be more different. Melanie is LOUD and Melvin is quiet. Melvin likes frogs and Melanie loves MOTORCYCLES! When the twins learn that they will get...

The Secret LegacyAuthor: Rigoberta MenchúPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: September 01, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 177306455XISBN-13:...

The Stray and the StrangersAuthor: Steven HeightonPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: September 29, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

Seventeen-year-old Ren Adams feels lucky to be living with his older brother, Levi, and Levi's girlfriend, Ellie -- a welcome escape from his mother and the fundamentalist husband she married after...

Would you help a tiny fragile snake? Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals ... and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat,...

Travels In Cuba (Travels With My Family)Author: Marie-Louise Gay, David HomelPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the...

A boy and his grandmother are given two beautiful parakeets and must find a way to keep the birds happy and healthy in their new home.Author: Geraldo ValérioPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication...

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 U.S. border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as...

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...

Violet ShrinkAuthor: Christine BaldacchinoPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: March 03, 2020Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1773062050ISBN-13:...

Lily wants a tree for her birthday. Although she and her father live in a tiny dark apartment, she promises to give it water and sun and air. But after she receives her tree--whom she names...

War at the Snow White MotelAuthor: Tim Wynne-JonesPublisher: Groundwood BooksPublication Date: Aug 04, 2020Number of Pages: 248 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1773060473ISBN-13:...