Florence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURDupuis, Jenny Kay
Summary: "On a visit to her granny, Maggie is excited to begin her first-ever beading project: a pair of strawberry earrings. However, beading is much harder than she expected! As they work side by side, Granny shares how beading helped her persevere and stay connected to her Anishinaabe culture when she lost her Indian status, forcing her out of her home community--all because she married someone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUPKaur Deo, Jesmeen
Summary: High school debater TJ Powar, after she and her cousin become the subject of an ugly meme, makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful... but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DEOCampbell, Nicola I
Summary: Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, [2005] 2005
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMKhalilieh, Jackie
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from acquiring two distinct eyebrows to getting a magical first kiss and landing a spot in the school play. Within the halls of Holy Trinity High, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHACurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Paulsen, Gary
Summary: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUWong, Jack
Summary: "A young girl helps her dad navigate life in a new country where she understands the language more than he does, in an unforgettable story about communication and community. Angie is used to helping her dad. Ever since they moved to Canada, he relies on her to translate for him from English to Chinese. Angie is happy to help: when they go to restaurants, at the grocery store, and, one day, when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONSambury, Liselle
Summary: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMHohn, Nadia L.
Summary: "Malaika learns about her father, who came to Canada as a migrant farm worker when she was a just a baby and who shared her love of carnival. Malaika dreams about a man with a basket of fruit and guesses that the dream is about her father. Mummy explains that her daddy passed away long ago, and Grandma decides it's time Malaika knew more about her father's life. The family drives to a far-off...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOHCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Johnston, Aviaq
Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHWhamond, Dave
Summary: "Nick's supersized ears give him supersized powers. So when he's recruited by Super Fantastic Guy to be a sidekick -- or, as Nick prefers, a superhero assistant -- he leaps at the chance to use his powers for good. Forced to wear a goofy cape and a fanny pack, Nick discovers that being a superhero assistant isn't all it's cracked up to be. Worst of all, he solves the crimes while Super...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WHARobertson, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBPerkins, Lynne Rae.
Summary: Given a camera that takes and prints tiny pictures just before leaving for the family farm in Canada, a young girl records a vacation that gets off to a slow start, but winds up being a family reunion filled with good memories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PerCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PerkiArmstrong, Kelley
Summary: Things are getting desperate for Maya and her friends. Hunted by the powerful St. Cloud Cabal and now the Nast Cabal as well, they're quickly running out of places to hide. And with the whole world thinking they died in a helicopter crash, it's not like they can just go to the authorities for help. All they have is the name and number of someone who might be able to give them a few answers....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARMSummary: Explore the last 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in the graphic novel anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through magic realism, serial killings, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 THIStrong, Amanda
Summary: "On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 STRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STRFerguson, Jenny
Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FERRyan, Tom
Summary: "Follow cousins on a road trip to Pride as they dive into family secrets and friendships in this contemporary novel"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RP Teens 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RYALittle, Jean
Summary: In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Canada 2003
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LITCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013