Skye Bird and the Eagle Feather

By (author) Mary Harelkin Bishop
Edited by Deana Driver
Illustrated by Heaven Starr
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Skye is beginning a new school year at a shiny new school that doesn’t feel as welcoming as her old school. Her teacher doesn’t understand her and her classmates laugh at her. She wants to dance powwow ...

Santa's Countdown to Christmas

Text by Kim Thompson
Illustrated by Élodie Duhameau
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Help little ones be patient until Christmas with this storytelling twist on the timeless Advent tradition. Each day, starting December 1st and counting down to Christmas Eve, children can read a story ...

nipêhon / I Wait

By (author) Caitlin Dale Nicholson
Translated by Leona Morin-Neilson
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Series: Nôhkom series

A quiet, gentle story about a family working together written in Cree and English.

A young child, her grandmother and mother are going out to pick wild yarrow. As Grandmother gets ready, the child and ...

Town Is by the Sea

By (author) Joanne Schwartz
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home ...

My Beautiful Birds

By (author) Suzanne Del Rizzo & Suzanne Del Rizzo
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

A gentle yet moving story of refugees of the Syrian civil war that illuminates the ongoing crisis as it affects its children and the reality of the refugee camps, where people attempt to pick up their ...

When We Were Alone

By (author) David A. Robertson
Illustrated by Julie Flett
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does ...

Stepping Stones / حَصى الطُرُقات

By (author) Margriet Ruurs
By (artist) Nizar Ali Badr
Translated by Falah Raheem
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Stepping Stones tells the story of Rama and her family, forced to flee their once-peaceful village to escape the ravages of the civil war raging ever closer to their home. With only what they can carry ...

Joseph's Big Ride

By (author) Terry Farish
Illustrated by Ken Daley
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

A refugee boy’s determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship.

Joseph wants only one thing: to ride a bike. In the refugee camp where he lives, Joseph helps one of the older boys ...

Kode's Quest(ion)

By (author) Katherena Vermette
Illustrated by Irene Kuziw
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Series: The Seven Teachings Stories

Kode knows many things, but she doesn’t know one thing: What does respect mean? Who will help her figure out the answer? Kode's Quest(ion) is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven ...

Singing Sisters

By (author) Katherena Vermette
Illustrated by Irene Kuziw
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Series: The Seven Teachings Stories

Ma'iingan knows she is a very good singer. Conflict erupts when her little sister wants to sing just like her. Singing Sisters is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of ...