Little By Little

By (author) Sonya Ballantyne
Illustrated by Rhael McGregor
Letterer Toben Racicot
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Michael might be young, but he’s got a big heart and a strong sense of right and wrong. He knows it’s right to help people when they need it—but what can he do when so many people need help?

When ...

Amazing L'nu'k

By (author) Julie Pellissier-Lush & Robin Grant
Illustrated by James Bentley
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Series: Amazing Atlantic Canadians Series

The newest installment in the celebrated illustrated series about Amazing Atlantic Canadians, featuring incredible Indigenous people.

Delve into the uplifting stories of the people of Mi'kma'ki in this ...

Growing Up Trans

Edited by Lindsay Herriot & Kate Fry
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQ+

What does it mean to be young and transgender today?

Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience ...

I Lost My Talk

By (author) Rita Joe
Illustrated by Pauline Young
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Rita Joe's powerful poem is presented anew in this children's picture book with illustrations from Pauline Young. A story of recovering what was lost in residential school, I Lost My Talk will raise conversation ...

The Dog Patrol

By (author) Rob Laidlaw
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Pets and pet care: Dogs

A full-colour dog book unlike any other delving into the history and evolution of dogs as companions, empowering young readers to promote the health and happiness of dogs in their own lives.
“Clear, ...

Lucy Maud Montgomery, écrivaine

By (author) Josée Ouimet
Illustrated by Adeline Lamarre
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography
Series: Bonjour l'histoire

Lucy Maud Montgomery est une icône et une écrivaine dont le livre le plus célèbre est Anne… La maison aux pignons verts. Elle est née en 1874 à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard. À une époque où ...

A Pocket of Time

By (author) Rita Wilson
Illustrated by Emma FitzGerald
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Before becoming a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, Elizabeth Bishop lived with her Gammie and Pa on a rural farm, learning to walk, to read and write, to sing hymns, and to catch bumblebees in foxglove ...

A Cave in the Clouds

By (author) Badeeah Hassan Ahmed & Susan Elizabeth McClelland
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom.

Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured ...

Joseph-Armand Bombardier

By (author) Josée Ouimet
Illustrated by Adeline Lamarre
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography
Series: Bonjour l'histoire

Joseph-Armand Bombardier est né le 16 avril 1907, en Estrie. Dès 13 ans, il démontre un réel talent d’inventeur. À 17 ans, le jeune homme quitte son village natal de Valcourt pour Montréal, où ...

Un gamin acadien

By (author) Beryl Young
Illustrated by Maurice Cormier
Translated by Robert Pichette
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography
Series: Étagère Tout-terrain

Né sur une ferme dans le village de Memramcook, au Nouveau-Brunswick, le jeune Roméo LeBlanc ne se doutait pas que, grâce à l’amour de sa famille et à l’aide inattendue de ses sœurs, il aurait ...