Escape to Gold Mountain

By (author) David H.T. Wong
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Winner, Chinese American Library Association Best Book Award winner (Fiction)

The history of Chinese immigration to Canada and the US over the past 100-plus years has been fraught with sadness and indignity; ...

Fatty Legs

By (author) Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton
Categories: Children's Nonfiction

The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact. Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her ...

Come and Learn With Me

By (author) Sheyenne Jumbo & Mindy Willett
Photographs by Tessa Macintosh
Categories: Children's Nonfiction
Series: The Land is Our Storybook

Nine-year-old Sheyenne lives in Sambaa K’e, Northwest Territories-that’s Trout Lake in English. Come learn with her as she takes you on a journey to her community in the fall, the season of moose. ...

Living Stories

By (author) Therese Zoe, Philip Zoe & Mindy Willett
Photographs by Tessa Macintosh
Categories: Children's Nonfiction
Series: The Land is Our Storybook

In Living Stories, Therese Zoe translates the stories and traditional wisdom of Tlicho Elders Philip Zoe and Elizabeth Chocolate.

Therese Zoe is a Tlicho woman from Gamèti in the Northwest Territories. ...

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 ...