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 ...

Bat Citizens

By (author) Rob Laidlaw
Categories: Children’s / Teenage social issues: Environment and green issues

An introduction to the exciting world of bats! Ten young “bat citizens” who are invested in conservation efforts to save this important species are highlighted. Complete with index, glossary, and ...

What's the Big Idea?

By (author) Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Steve Attoe
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology

Beginning with inventions from long, long ago (the needle, the wheel, the water pump) moving to those from long ago (the printing press, steel, the telegraph) and ending with innovations from not so long ...

The Bite of the Mango

By (author) Mariatu Kamara
With Susan Elizabeth McClelland
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

The astounding story of one girl’s journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family ...

Miskeen

By (author) Judy Andrekson
Illustrated by David Parkins
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography
Series: True Horse Stories

Miskeen was born in obscurity on a Russian farm, sold to a traveling circus, and earned a reputation performing in small towns in the 1980s. He was schooled first as a liberty (rider-less) horse and then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Emily Carr

By (author) Jo Ellen Bogart
Illustrated by Maxwell Newhouse
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Nonfiction

Selected as Honour Book by the Children’s Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year

The brilliant artist Emily Carr lived at the ...