1.
Series:
Ben the Sea Lion
Hardcover
Roy Henry Vickers
9781550179736
$22.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 8
May 14, 2022
Tsimshian storyteller and artist Roy Henry Vickers shares an adventure from his childhood in the Indigenous village of Kitkatla, on BC’s north coast. When Uncle Johnny accidentally catches an orphaned sea lion pup in his fishing net, young Roy and his cousin Bussy take responsibility for nursing the tiny creature back to health. They name the pup Ben, short for Teeben—the Tsimshian word for sea lion. With the boys’ loving care, Ben eats and eats and grows and grows, getting up to all sorts of fun in Kitkatla, including towing the boys in their ...
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2.
Series: Curious Kids
Physics for Curious Kids
An Illustrated Introduction to Energy, Matter, Forces, and Our Universe!
Hardcover
Laura Baker
9781398803879
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Jan 01, 2022
Young readers can discover the wonders of physics with this inspirational and accessible book, brought to life by full-color illustrations. This vibrant jacketed hardback is packed with clear, colorful, and engaging explanations of the world of physics, including matter and motion, space and time, energy and forces. Supporting STEM learning, this book is an ideal supplement to school education as it covers many core topics in an entertaining and easy-to-understand way. Big new concepts pop off the page thanks to colorful diagrams and an enga...
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3.
Series: Mina Mistry Investigates (US edition)
Mina Mistry Investigates: The Case of the Bicycle Thief
BTPS Edition
Paperback
Angie Lake
9781782269724
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 11
Apr 26, 2022
Book 3 in the laugh-out-loud detective series - printed with fun coloured sprayed edges!Stolen bicycles? Days before the new skate park opens? This needs investigating.This looks like a case for Mina Mistry.Summer is here, school is out and there’s ... nothing to do?! Since grown-ups invaded the skating rink, there’s nowhere for Mina’s friends to hang out. Luckily, a high-stakes competition is about to mark the opening of a new skate park.As everyone gets weirdly intense about it, Mina faces a string of mysteries. Who stole her cousins’ new bik...
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4.
Series:
Bharatanatyam in Ballet Shoes
Hardcover
Mahak Jain
9781773216157
$22.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Mar 29, 2022
“A necessary tool for helping children understand and develop cultural competency and compassion early on.” —School Library Journal A girl explores her love of dancing and her cultural identity in a lively picture book with echoes of the real-life collaboration between Bharatanatyam icon Rukmini Devi Arundale and ballerina Anna Pavlova. Paro comes from a dancing family. At home, she dances Bharatanatyam with her mom, and now she’s excited to learn ballet. But what if she can’t dance like the other kids in her class? Ballerinas move like fairie...
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5.
Series:
She Holds Up the Stars
Hardcover
Sandra Laronde
9781773210667
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Aug 16, 2022
A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story.The last thing that twelve-year old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. And yet she feels strangely compelled to go, drawn by a pull that she feels in her dreams. Maybe she can finally find out what happened to her mother, who mysteriously disappeared when Misko was four years old.Misko’s re...
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6.
Series:
Rabbit Chase
Hardcover
Elizabeth LaPensée
9781773216201
$23.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Apr 05, 2022
A BookRiot Don’t-Miss 2022 Queer Graphic Novels & Memoirs • "Rabbit Chase is a welcome intersectional work for today's youth."—Traci Sorell, award-winning author of We Are Still Here! and At the Mountain's BaseAnishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass. Aimée, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag, the water spirits known to protect the land. While storie...
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7.
Series:
Sky Wolf's Call
The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge
Hardcover
Eldon Yellowhorn
9781773216300
$24.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 11
Apr 05, 2022
From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have shared their wisdom with younger people through oral history, stories, ceremonies, and records th...
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8.
Series:
Bedtime in Nunatsiavut
Hardcover
Raeann Brown
9781551528878
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 8
Apr 26, 2022
A sweet, beautiful book for children depicting the transformative dreams envisioned by a young Inuk girl, with the help of her loving mother. In Bedtime in Nunatsiavut, a little girl named Nya yearns to fly, swim, and wander like the goose, salmon, bear, fox, and other animals that populate her world. Each night, her loving Ananak (mother) tucks her into bed and gives her a kunik (nose-to-nose rub) to help Nya dream and transform into the animals she longs to be like. In Nya's dreams, she moves with the wonder and the freedom of the natural ...
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9.
Series:
Pink Is for Everybody
Hardcover
Ella Russell
9781771474658
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Apr 15, 2022
A joyful celebration of self-expression and uniqueness A group of kids is stuck inside on a rainy day, and they’re feeling gloomy … until they discover a pink treasure chest! Inside they find a collection of items that turn their gray day into a playground of pink. Pink is for painters and palace-dwellers, aliens and astronauts, dancers and dragons! In a parade of exuberance that celebrates all things pink, one surly cat stands apart and teaches the kids a gentle lesson about choosing what you love, no matter who you are, while respecting the u...
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10.
Series:
While We Wait
Hardcover
Judy Ann Sadler
9781771474405
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 15, 2022
A gentle play on patience while a boy and his grandma knit the perfect gift A boy and his grandmother are waiting for … something. While they wait, they sit and knit, they stretch, they rock, they dance, they snack, and they talk. But still, time passes slowly. As the hours go by, they fill the day together. They sit and knit and wait. Until—it’s finally time! The long wait is over when the boy’s parents come home with a special arrival. We see what the boy and his grandma have been creating together: a handmade gift for the newest member of th...
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11.
Series:
A Park Connects Us
Hardcover
Sarah Nelson
9781771474504
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 15, 2022
An ode to urban parks and the many ways they connect us to community and nature This picture book excursion through a city park invites readers to discover how shared green spaces bring us together. Lyrical, upbeat text illuminates the abundant gifts the park offers. Vibrant mixed-media illustrations show a diverse group of visitors as they explore this communal space. Children frolic; couples wander; flowers bloom and birds zoom; friends and families picnic and play ball or simply sink their toes peacefully into the present moment. Meanwhile, ...
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12.
Series: Weird Sisters Detective Agency
The Weird Sisters: A Note, a Goat, and a Casserole
Hardcover
Mark David Smith
9781771474566
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Apr 15, 2022
The first book in a mystery series features three sleuthing sisters One spring evening, three strange visitors arrive in the town of Covenly. Sisters Hildegurp, Yuckmina, and Glubbifer are hoping to start fresh with a new business: a pet store! Their first customer is nine-year-old Jessica Nibley, who has lost her pet goat and hopes the sisters can help track it down. But when the sisters discover a mangled note with missing pieces that suggests they aren’t welcome in town, they suddenly have two mysteries to solve. Jessica and the sisters jump...
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13.
Series:
Kamal's Kes
Hardcover
Baljinder Kaur
9780981241234
$24.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 3 - 4
Aug 31, 2021
Kamal's Kes is a body-positive picture book, rooted in dismantling standards of beauty that harm the mental health of young persons. With such few representations of body hair in picture books, cultural conditioning sends the message of feeling ashamed of natural hair. This Own Voices story offers young girls an empowering choice when it comes to their developing body hair. Kamal will have to confront her deepest thoughts to reimagine what beautiful means to her.
19.
Series: Book of Tea
A Magic Steeped in Poison
Hardcover
Judy I. Lin
9781250767080
$24.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Mar 29, 2022
A #1 New York Times Bestseller!A 2022 PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Summer!Judy I. Lin's sweeping debut A Magic Steeped in Poison, first in a duology, is sure to enchant fans of Adrienne Young and Leigh Bardugo.I used to look at my hands with pride. Now all I can think is, "These are the hands that buried my mother."For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that killed her—the poison tea that now threatens to also take her sister, Shu.When Ning ...
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24.
Series:
Same Here!
The Differences We Share
Hardcover
Susan Hughes
9781771473071
$21.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Apr 15, 2022
Explore how kids around the world live and the common needs that unite them Children around the world live different lives from one another—different cultures, different geographic and socio-economic realities, differing access to health and education. Despite these differences, they all share common needs: the need to feel loved and protected, the need to have a place to live, the need to learn, to eat, to play, to share, and to dream for the future. Grounded in careful and extensive research, this book by best-selling author Susan Hughes intr...
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25.
Series:
Free
Hardcover
Barroux
9781771474511
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Apr 15, 2022
A celebration of thinking outside the box—or cage! The Great Bird Circus is headed to a big show, but they run into trouble when they reach the border. Paloma and the ringmaster are allowed to cross—but their birds need paperwork, and lots of it! The situation seems hopeless, unless … what if there’s more than one way to get across? With Paloma’s quick and creative thinking, she’s able to outwit the bureaucracy and come up with a solution: they free the birds from their cages, and while Paloma and the ringmaster drive across the border in their...
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