Children’s / Teenage: Social issues

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Meatless?

From Meatless Mondays to vegan options, people are talking more about meat and whether or not to eat it. Journalist Sarah Elton tackles the topic by explaining what vegetarianism is, why people choose ...

The Marrow Thieves

Winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text)
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize
Winner of the 2018 Sunburst Award
Winner of the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
Winner ...

My Beautiful Birds

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 ...

Fired Up about Capitalism

There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least, that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over. Politicians daily declare it, journalists ...

Stepping Stones / حَصى الطُرُقات

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 ...

The Summer We Saved the Bees

For Wolf, saving the planet means first saving his family from self-inflicted disaster.

Wolf’s mother is obsessed with saving the world’s honeybees, so it’s not too surprising when she announces ...

Escape to Gold Mountain

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; ...

Dalen and Gole

With seconds to the finish line, Dalen and Gole lead the distant world of Budap's annual Junior-Jet Race. Suddenly they are overtaken. Left behind in a cloud of mysterious purple exhaust, they realize ...

The Sea Wolves

The Sea Wolves sets out to disprove the notion of ""the Big Bad Wolf,"" especially as it is applied to coastal wolves--a unique strain of wolf that lives in the rainforest along the Pacific coast of Canada. ...

Wild Geese

Wild Geese, the sequel to the Governor General's Award winning novel Greener Grass, follows Kit Byrne and her friend Mick O'Toole after fleeing famine-ravaged Ireland. Across the Atlantic aboard a notorious ...