Have You Seen an Elephant?

By (author) Elina Ellis
Illustrated by Elina Ellis
Categories: Children’s / Teenage social issues: Environment and green issues
Series: Alex's Field Guides

A girl's hilariously unsuccessful search for elephants serves as a clever allegory for the disappearance of these iconic animals. The first book in a series focused on endangered animals.

Meet Alex. She's ...

Fail-Safe Strategies for Science & Literacy

By (author) Sandra Mirabelli & Lionel Sandner
Categories: Teacher training

Effective teaching can be found where science and literacy overlap. This book helps teachers streamline busy schedules by focusing on cognitive skills shared by science and language arts. Designed to ...

Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super

By (author) Heather Camlot
Illustrated by Victor Wong
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments

Take a tour of the science of superpowers and see how science fiction is becoming science fact

If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Fly like Shazam? Turn invisible like Violet Parr? Or maybe ...

Boobies

By (author) Nancy Vo
Illustrated by Nancy Vo
Categories: Early years: the body and the senses

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award, Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books
Finalist, CCBC Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
Nominee, Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award

A cheeky ...

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 ...

Why Don't Cars Run on Apple Juice?

By (author) Kira Vermond
Illustrated by Suharu Ogawa
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology

Curious kids ask the best questions! What keeps the stars from falling from the sky? Why do metal boats float? And more importantly, why don’t cars run on apple juice?! All these questions and more ...

Join the No-Plastic Challenge!

By (author) Scot Ritchie
Illustrated by Scot Ritchie
Categories: Children’s / Teenage social issues: Environment and green issues
Series: Exploring Our Community

Learn about the problem of single-use plastic—and what to do about it. On his birthday, Nick challenges his friends to spend the day without using any single-use plastic. This means they bring their ...

Planets

By (author) Tamara Hartson
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Space, stars and the solar system
Series: Super Explorers

Super Explorers take you deep into space to see the planets in our Solar System and beyond! Our Solar System has eight planets, five dwarf planets, and many minor planets. Most planets have at least one ...

Trash Revolution

By (author) Erica Fyvie
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Categories: Children’s / Teenage social issues: Environment and green issues

Where did all our “stuff” come from? And where does it go when we’re done with it? Kids find out by tracking the life cycles of typical items in a school backpack—water, food, clothing, paper, ...

The Triumphant Tale of the House Sparrow

By (author) Jan Thornhill
Illustrated by Jan Thornhill
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Birds

The extraordinary story of one of the most adaptable creatures on Earth. This fascinating book includes the life history of the House Sparrow and descriptions of how the Ancient Egyptians fed it to the ...