Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance
My Name Is Seepeetza
An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.
Seepeetza loves living on Joyaska Ranch with her family. ...
The Witness Blanket
For more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada.
Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure that ...
Guardians of Porthaven
On his fifteenth birthday, Malcolm Gravenhurst is preparing to take on the mantle of Guardian, like many Gravenhursts before him.
The Guardians are tasked with defending the city of Porthaven, and his ...
The Street Belongs to Us
A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two best friends who transform their torn-up street into a world where imaginations can run wild. The Street Belongs to Us is a story of family, friendship, and ...
Finding Home
People have always searched for a place to call home. In this book we explore the history of human migration, the current issues facing immigrants and refugees today, and the stories of people who have ...
No Vacancy
Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn’t eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman’s dream, but at least it’s an adventure. But when it becomes clear that only a miracle ...
If I Go Missing
Combining graphic fiction and non-fiction, this young adult graphic novel serves as a window into the unique dangers of being a girl from a racialized minority background. The text of the book is derived ...
Betty
“Betty’s tragic story seamlessly connects to the present day, and is a must read for young people. ”—Katherena Vermette, author
Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, ...
Nightwalker
After his guardian dies, Maurey is reduced from student to unpaid servant at his grammar school and bullied because of his black hair and eyes, which make him look as if he is related to the sorcerers ...
Genocide
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have ...