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Series: Faces in the Crowd The Jews of Canada Paperback Franklin Bialystok 9781442604414 $59.95 HISTORY Mar 15, 2022

Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.The Jews were the first ethno-cultural minority to arrive in Canada, settling in Quebec in 1759. Their story is analogous to the experiences of subsequent immigrants as they arrived and settled into their new homes. Faces in the Crowd sheds light on the unique immigrant experience of the Jews in Canada by focusing on three processes: settlement, adaptation, and diversity. Drawing on case studies from the eighteenth century to the present day, Franklin Bialysto... + Read More
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Series: Rethinking Canada in the World The Racial Mosaic A Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism Paperback Daniel R. Meister 9780228008712 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 15, 2021

Canada is often considered a multicultural mosaic, welcoming to immigrants and encouraging of cultural diversity. Yet this reputation masks a more complex history. In this groundbreaking study of the pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism, Daniel Meister shows how the philosophy of cultural pluralism normalized racism and the entrenchment of whiteness.The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how early ideas about cultural diversity in Canada were founded upon, and coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism, despite the apparent tolerance of a varie... + Read More
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Series: Mass Capture Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens Hardcover Lily Cho 9780228008163 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2021

Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to 1953, they included date of birth, place of residence, occupation, identifying marks, known associates, and, significantly, identification photographs. The originals were transferred to microfilm and destroyed in 1963; more than 41,000 grainy reproductions of CI 9s remain.Lily Cho explores h... + Read More
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Series: Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in Canada Hardcover Tania Das Gupta 9780774865661 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2021

Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced explores the lives of Gulf South Asians who arrived in Canada from India and Pakistan via Persian Gulf countries. Tania Das Gupta reveals the multiple migration patterns of this group, analyzing themes such as gender, racial, and religious discrimination; class mobility; the formation of transnational families; and identities in a post-9/11 context. This perceptive study demonstrates the effect of neoliberal labour markets and transnationalism on community building, diaspora, citizenship, and a sense of belonging... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Immigration and Culture Being German Canadian History, Memory, Generations Paperback Alexander Freund 9780887558474 $31.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 30, 2021

Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants. As one of Canada’s largest ethnic groups, German Canadians allow for a variety of longitudinal and multi-generational studies that explore how different generations have negotiated and transmitted diverse individual experiences, collective memories, and national narratives. Drawing on rece... + Read More
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Series: The Doll Hardcover Nhung N. Tran-Davies 9781772601657 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 5 - 9 Apr 20, 2021

A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
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Series: Carry On Poetry by Young Immigrants Hardcover Various contributors 9781771474160 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 9 - 12 Apr 15, 2021

A moving #OwnVoices poetry collection written by young newcomers to Canada Carry On began in a high school in Outremont, Quebec, where author and poet Simon Boulerice conducted creative-writing workshops for young newcomers to Canada. As the students began writing, their poems gave voice to their reflections on leaving family, friends, and countries of origin to make new homes and connections in their new home, Canada. Paired with expressive portraits by award-winning artist Rogé, each young writer reflects on the experience of leaving one ... + Read More
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Series: Travesia A Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey//El viaje de una joven migrante Paperback Michelle Gerster 9781551528366 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 12 Apr 06, 2021

A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey, filled with both heartbreak and hope, begins in Tijuana, where they are transported from house to house by strangers. Here they meet the mysterious smuggler el Guero, who p... + Read More
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis Canada's Anti-Semitic Policies in the Twentieth Century Hardcover Rona Arato 9781459415669 $34.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 18 Jan 19, 2021

Prior to the Second World War, Canada's Jewish community was well established in many cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg. As war grew closer, anti-Semitism across Europe was increasing. Hitler's Nazis were spreading hatred and violence towards Jews across Germany. At first, Jews were allowed to leave Germany and thousands escaped to save themselves and their families. Then countries around the world closed their doors to Jewish refugees. In 1939, the MS St. Louis sailed for Cuba with nearly a thousand Jewish men, women, and childr... + Read More
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Series: Somewhere in the Unknown World A Collective Refugee Memoir Paperback Kao Kalia Yang 9781250296856 $24.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 10, 2020

From “an exceptional storyteller,”Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author ofThe Latehomecomer andThe Song Poet.All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the... + Read More
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Series: Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White Hardcover Saumiya Balasubramaniam 9781773062587 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest 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: Sleeping with the Light On Hardcover David Unger 9781773063843 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 6 - 9 Oct 27, 2020

Life in Guatemala is simple for young Davico and his older brother Felipe ... until soldiers invade, and the blackouts begin. Davico lives with his family above La Casita — the Little House — in Guatemala City in the early 1950s. But it’s not just a little house. It’s also the family restaurant! The restaurant provides plenty of distraction and adventure for Davico and his older brother, Felipe. The mean cook, Augusto, and the always-late waiter, Otto, love to play tricks on Davico. There’s a huge oven that Felipe knows how to light — if he can... + Read More
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Series: Maurice and His Dictionary A True Story Hardcover Cary Fagan 9781771473231 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 8 - 12 Oct 15, 2020

This is the story of one refugee family’s harrowing journey, based on author Cary Fagan’s own family history. The graphic novel follows a young Jewish boy, Maurice, and his family as they flee their home in Belgium during the Second World War. They travel by train to Paris, through Spain to Portugal, and finally across the ocean to Jamaica, where they settle in an internment camp. All the while, Maurice is intent on continuing his education and growing up to be a lawyer. He overcomes obstacles to find a professor to study with, works toward ... + Read More
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Series: Yara's Spring Paperback Jamal Saeed 9781773214399 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 10 - 14 Oct 13, 2020

Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari... + Read More
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Series: The Stray and the Strangers Hardcover Steven Heighton 9781773063812 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 6 - 9 Sep 29, 2020

Based on a true story, a stray dog befriends an orphan boy in a refugee camp on a Greek island. The fishermen on Lesvos call her Kanella because of her cinnamon color. She’s a scrawny, nervous stray — easily intimidated by the harbor cats and the other dogs that compete for handouts on the pier. One spring day a dinghy filled with weary, desperate strangers comes to shore. Other boats follow, laden with refugees who are homeless and hungry. Kanella knows what that is like, and she follows them as they are taken to a makeshift refugee camp. The... + Read More
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Series: The Paper Boat A Refugee Story Hardcover Thao Lam 9781771473637 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 6 - 9 Sep 15, 2020

Named a best picture book of 2020 by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story by critically acclaimed author Thao Lam New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family’s refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s escap... + Read More
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Series: Snow Doves Hardcover Nancy Hartry 9781772601350 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 3 - 6 Sep 15, 2020

Sami has just arrived in a new country. The snow piled up outside his window is a mysterious and, frankly, chilly surprise! Joy, his new neighbor, does not speak his language, but that does not stop them from communicating as Joy helps Sami overcome his fears. The two new friends get bundled up against the cold, and Sami discovers the magic of playing outside on a snowy day.
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Series: Reaching Mithymna Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos Paperback Steven Heighton 9781771963763 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

A poet’s firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY-—a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a ... + Read More
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Series: The Eleventh Trade Paperback Alyssa Hollingsworth 9781250211460 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 10 - 14 Sep 08, 2020

From debut author Alyssa Hollingsworth comes a moving middle-grade story about living with fear, being a friend, and finding a new place to call home.They say you can't get something for nothing, but nothing is all Sami has. When his grandfather’s most-prized possession—a traditional Afghan instrument called a rebab—is stolen, Sami resolves to get it back. He finds it at a music store, but it costs $700, and Sami doesn’t have even one penny. What he does have is a keychain that has caught the eye of his classmate. If he trades the keychain for ... + Read More
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Series: Mercury Series Pier 21 A History Paperback Steven Schwinghamer 9780776631363 $27.95 HISTORY Aug 26, 2020

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas during the Second World War. In the immediate postwar period, Pier 21 became the busiest ocean port of entry in the country. Today, people across Canada still enjoy connections to Pier 21 through family history and stories of arrival at the site. Since 1998, researchers at the Pie... + Read More
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Series: Nowhere Boy Paperback Katherine Marsh 9781250211453 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 10 - 14 Aug 25, 2020

"A resistance novel for our time."—The New York Times"A hopeful story about recovery, empathy, and the bravery of young people."—Booklist"This well-crafted and suspenseful novel touches on the topics of refugees and immigrant integration, terrorism, Islam, Islamophobia, and the Syrian war with sensitivity and grace." —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his fat... + Read More
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Series: Sigh, Gone A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In Hardcover Phuc Tran 9781250194718 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 21, 2020

For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong,Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature.In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such asThe Metamorphosis,The Scarlet Letter,The... + Read More
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Series: My Name is Konisola Paperback Alisa Siegel 9781772601190 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 9 - 12 Mar 17, 2020

On a freezing cold winter night, nine-year-old Konisola and her mother step off a plane in Canada. Their home in Nigeria is no longer safe for them, and they are taking the biggest chance of their lives to travel across the world in search of refuge. Soon after they land, disaster strikes, Konisola’s mother falls ill and they become separated. Konisola is forced to fend for herself in a strange country, with no family and no friends. Then she meets a remarkable nurse and things begin to change for the better. But Konisola's future remains uncer... + Read More
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series Fields of Light and Stone Paperback Angeline Schellenberg 9781772125115 $19.99 POETRY Mar 16, 2020

You lie awake, needlessly fingering this patchwork guilt. Remorse, a code you live by; distress calls for someone to blame. —from “Threads” Following the deaths of her Mennonite grandparents, Angeline Schellenberg began exploring their influence on her life. Her elegiac love letter to them articulates her grief against the backdrop of their involuntary emigration. She artfully captures the immigrant identity, vital to Canadian culture, in poems that draw on events both personal and global: war and famine, dementia and cancer, hidden sacrific... + Read More
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Series: Salma the Syrian Chef Hardcover Danny Ramadan 9781773213750 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 4 - 7 Mar 10, 2020

Newcomer Salma and friends cook up a heartwarming dish to cheer up Mama. All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn’t know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers at the Welcome Center are happy to lend a hand—and a sprinkle of sumac. With creativity, determination, and charm, Salma brings... + Read More
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Series: The God Child Hardcover Nana Oforiatta Ayim 9781408882429 $34.99 ART Mar 03, 2020

"A beautifully told story of family secrets and conflicting cultural expectations." --Booklist(starred review)"A brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative . . . Cesaire'sNotebookmeets Duras'Lover. Unprecedented" --Taiye Selasi, author ofGhana Must GoA moving, mesmerizing, and astoundingly original debut novel by one of the most exciting literary voices to emerge in recent years.Maya is the only child of an expat Ghanaian couple based in Germany, where as the sole African girl in her school, the pressure is on her to succeed. While her father... + Read More
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Series: Yusra Swims Hardcover Julie Abery 9781568463292 $28.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 6 - 8 Feb 25, 2020

A biography in rhyme relates the story of Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini.
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Series: A Galaxy of Sea Stars Hardcover Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo 9780374309091 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 8 - 12 Feb 04, 2020

A Galaxy of Sea Starsis Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo’s second middle-grade novel—a heartwarming story about family, loyalty, and the hard choices we face in the name of friendship.Sometimes, the truth isn’t easy to see. Sometimes, you have to look below the surface to find it.Eleven-year-old Izzy feels as though her whole world is shifting, and she doesn’t like it. She wants her dad to act like he did before he was deployed to Afghanistan. She wants her mom to live with them at the marina where they’ve moved instead of spending all her time on Block ... + Read More
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Series: Open Borders The Science and Ethics of Immigration Paperback Bryan Caplan 9781250316967 $26.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 29, 2019

An Economist “Our Books of the Year” SelectionEconomist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction.American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens.But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the imm... + Read More
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Series: Caravan to the North Misael’s Long Walk Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9781773063294 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 9 Oct 01, 2019

An urgent and eloquent account of a boy traveling in a caravan from his beloved homeland of El Salvador to the US border. This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave — the hope that lies behind their decision, but also the terrible sadness of leaving home. We learn about how far and hard the trip is, but also about the kindness of those along the way. Finally, on... + Read More
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Series: Here We Are American Dreams, American Nightmares (A Memoir) Hardcover Aarti Namdev Shahani 9781250204752 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

Here We Areis a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani.The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; an... + Read More
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Series: My Friend Hardcover Elisa Amado 9781554989393 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 4 - 8 Oct 01, 2019

From acclaimed author and translator Elisa Amado and award-winning illustrator Alfonso Ruano, My Friend is the story of the meaning of friendship in the life of an immigrant child. Friendship — to be known, to be accepted as you are, to feel safe, especially when you are vulnerable. The girl in this story has recently arrived in Brooklyn with her family. On her very first day at school she meets a girl who almost instantly becomes her very best friend. She feels known, loved and accepted by her. But when she invites her friend to come for dinne... + Read More
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Series: Life Writing What the Oceans Remember Searching for Belonging and Home Hardcover Sonja Boon 9781771124232 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 25, 2019

Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity, as she sought to answer two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to? Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and lim... + Read More
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Series: Pie in the Sky Paperback Remy Lai 9781250314109 $20.50 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 8 - 11 May 14, 2019

A poignant, laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade novel about an eleven-year-old boy's immigration experience, his annoying little brother, and their cake-baking hijinks! Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang!AParents Magazine Best Kids Book of the Year!A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year!AnNPRBest Book of the Year!AHorn BookBest Book of the Year!AKirkusBest Book of the Year!Recipient of FIVE starred reviews!"Pie in the Sky is like enjoying a decadent cake . . . heartwarming and rib-tickling." —Terri Libenson, be... + Read More
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Series: Swan Dive Hardcover Brenda Hasiuk 9781773061467 $17.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 14 May 01, 2019

A teenage refugee adapts to a new country, a new language, new school and even finds a wonderful best friend, until the pressures of past and present collide and lead to a lie that changes everything. 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 navigate a new language, the bitter cold and a strange city and country, Lazar manages to find a place for himself at school, largely by making friends... + Read More
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Series: The Courage of Elfina Hardcover André Jacob 9781459414198 $24.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 12 - 18 Mar 05, 2019

IBBY Honour List 2020 Twelve-year-old Elfina lives with her grandmother in Paraguay. When a distant relative offers to have Elfina come live with her in the city so she can attend school, Elfina's grandmother sends her off for a better life. But life with her relatives isn't what Elfina thought it would be, and soon Elfina finds herself far away from home, living in Canada, and kept as a domestic servant by the family. School and an education are now a distant dream. When Elfina's uncle makes inappropriate advances at her, she knows she must so... + Read More
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Series: Cold White Sun Hardcover Sue Farrell Holler 9781773060811 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 14 Mar 01, 2019

A stranger-than-fiction story based on the real-life experiences of a young boy who was smuggled out of Ethiopia amid political unrest to start a new life from nothing in Calgary, Alberta.Tesfaye lives behind the safe walls of his family’s compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His father is an important man, Tesfaye goes to one of the best schools in the city, his mother and older sisters keep him fed and cared for. He and his beloved brother, Ishi, can spend their time playing soccer, racing chickens and spying on the guests — as long as they sta... + Read More