Colfer, Eoin
Summary: Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLFER (GRAPHIC NOVEL)McGoogan, Kenneth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 MCGGianfrancesco, Raymond
Summary: "Akagaq, the youngest brother of three, is confident but forgetful. When he gets caught in a blizzard he makes a tent, but it is no match for the powerful wind. Trapped in the cold, Akagaq is helped by his brother Tiriaq. Tiriaq digs into a snowdrift for shelter, but the wind is still too strong and blows out their lamp. Akkiutaq, the eldest brother, arrives to save them, and brings them to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIASummary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIMRobertson, Joanne
Summary: "A translation of The Water Walker into Anishinaabemowin. The book contains both Anishinaabemowin and English. The Water Walker is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
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Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MATLevy, Buddy
Summary: "The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.804 LEVGrinnell, George James
Summary: The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens. In 1955 an expedition group was swept over a waterfall in the Arctic region of Northern Canada. Their most experienced person died; most of the gear and emergency food supplies were destroyed. Learn how they made it out-- barely alive-- and of Grinnell's lifelong struggle to find meaning in the midst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.19 GrinnellGreening, Rosie
Summary: "You must never touch a polar bear--unless it's in this book! This festive touch-and-feel board book is [meant] for children of all ages and fits perfectly into tiny hands. Kids will love reading the silly rhymes that warn [of] the dangers of touching the wintery animals--and then ignoring the advice!"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Believe Ideas Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDSimpson, Tonya
Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby, in both Plains Cree and English, is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and the Plains and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIMSummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALRobertson, David
Summary: "When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWCussler, Clive.
Summary: Dirk Pitt sets out on an expedition with his children along the treacherous Northwest Passage to find a silvery mineral, which will prove his theory and link the causes for the sudden deaths in British Columbia and the incidents between the United States and an ally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSSummary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.804 MCKMcGrath, Melanie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 MCGFlowers, Pam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 919.804 FLOGeorge, K. (Kallie)
Summary: The charming first book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she first arrives at Green Gables. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, so they've adopted what they hope will be a sturdy, helpful boy. Instead, Matthew finds Anne awaiting him at the train station imaginative, brash, redheaded Anne-with-an-e. With her place at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GEOSummary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.804 MARSummary: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories roam the world, from Nigeria to Venice, from an erupting volcano in Iceland to a brothel in the old Wild West. They feature a dazzling array of characters: a young American falling in love in Japan, a girl raised by snake-handling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor 2014