The Underground Reporters

By (author) Kathy Kacer
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Series: The Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers

In a quiet village in Czechoslovakia, laws restricted the freedom of Jewish people during WWII. A small plot of land by the river was allocated to the village’s Jewish youth, and it was here that some ...

Snow Amazing

By (author) Jane Drake & Ann Love
Illustrated by Mark Thurman
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Jane Drake and Ann Love, the acclaimed authors of Cool Woods: A Trip Around the World’s Boreal Forest, explore the fascinating, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous world of snow. They write about snow ...

Amazing Animal Adventures Around the World

By (author) Brian Keating
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world
Series: Going Wild

Fifth House is GOING WILD with a new children’s nonfiction adventure series. The first of eight books features world-famous zoologist Brian Keating and his travels to experience unique ecosystems and ...

That's Very Canadian!

By (author) Vivien Bowers
Illustrated by Dianne Eastman
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Series: Wow Canada!

From maple syrup to the Mounties, That’s Very Canadian! is a witty, informative, and entertaining look at the nation — and a celebration of what makes Canadians so Canadian! Written from the perspective ...

Champlain

By (author) Christopher Moore
Illustrated by Francis Back
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Discovery and exploration

“One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure. ” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, ...

Lester B. Pearson

By (author) Susan Hughes
Categories: Children's Nonfiction
Series: The Canadians

Lester Pearson was born in 1897 and grew up during a time when the British empire covered a quarter of the earth’s land surface and Britain remained firmly in control of Canada’s affairs.

He joined ...

Jabberwocky

By (author) Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Categories: Children's Nonfiction
Series: Visions in Poetry

The most celebrated nonsense poem in the English language, Lewis Carroll’s "Jabberwocky" has delighted readers of all ages since it was first published in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found ...

A Kids' Guide to Zoo Animals

By (author) Michelle Gilders
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world

Take science to the zoo with you with The Kids’ Guide to Zoo Animals, the latest book from award-winning biologist and photographer Michelle Gilders, author of Why Am I Rare?

The Kids’ Guide to Zoo ...

I Came As a Stranger

By (author) Bryan Prince
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12

Winner of 2005 Children’s Nautilus Book Awards (Non-fiction)
Prior to abolition in 1865, ...

One Some Many

By (author) Marthe Jocelyn
Illustrated by Tom Slaughter
Categories: Early years: colours

One Some Many by Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is an excellent early introduction to numbers and to the principles of modern art. It is the perfect companion to 1 2 3, a counting book with a difference. ...