Little Detectives: Dinosaurs

Text by Carine Laforest
Illustrated by Karina Dupuis
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Dinosaurs and prehistoric world
Series: Little Detectives

Discover the wonderful lost world of dinosaurs!

Get out your magnifying glass, little detective, and go on a journey into the astonishing world of dinosaurs. Flying or swimming, big or small, with feathers ...

Secret Schools

By (author) Heather Camlot
Illustrated by Erin Taniguchi
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Information resources

Education goes undercover in this compelling look at some of the world’s most secretive schools through history

Can you keep a secret? What if it meant hiding from your loved ones, sneaking out late ...

The Basketball Game

By (author) Hart Snider
Illustrated by Sean Covernton
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Series: National Film Board of Canada

Warning: This book, which is based on a true story, has depictions of anti-Semitism and contains racial stereotypes and hateful language. It is intended for an audience of 12 years and older.

Healing ...

Journey Around the Sun

By (author) James Gladstone
Illustrated by Yaara Eshet
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Space, stars and the solar system

This story of Halley’s Comet, told from the comet’s own perspective, ties the history of the renowned astronomical phenomenon of Halley’s return every 75 years with our own human history. A variety ...

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 Wall and the Wind

By (author) Veselina Tomova
Categories: Children’s / Teenage social issues: Migration and refugees

In the middle of the twentieth century, in the middle of Eastern Europe, a young girl dreams of adventures far and near. One day, a huge wall appears that separates East from West, and dreamer from dreams. ...

Mega Rex

By (author) W. Scott Persons
Illustrated by Beth Zaiken
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Dinosaurs and prehistoric world

“Scotty,” the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in the world, was discovered in 1991. Mega Rex describes the landmark discovery, how to dig up a fossil, and what the unusual features of Scotty’s ...

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 ...

SOS: Stories of Survival

By (author) Ed Butts
Categories: Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics

Everyone’s life is touched at some time by disaster. But some disasters loom so large they are international events. The stories of those who live through such devastating events such as earthquakes, ...

Hiding Edith

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

Hiding Edith is the remarkable story of a young girl and the village that helped her. Its mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in a safe house.