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363 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
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Salma volume 2
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"Salma is going to be a big sister! She's determined to be the best sister ever, so she sets out to write the ultimate guidebook to siblinghood. But the more Salma learns about siblings, the more confused she gets, especially since her mama is fighting with her own brother, Khalou Dawood, about who he loves. Can Salma figure out what it means to be a good sister before the baby arrives?"--
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"Sixteen-year-old Susan is the new girl in her Canadian high school, striving to meet her parents' academic expectations, missing the friends she left behind in Saudi Arabia, dreaming of pursuing her passion for art, and secretly meeting with troublemaker Malcolm." --
After her family moves from Saudi Arabia to Canada, Susan Thomas strives to meet her parents' expectations of excellence. Malcolm Vakil is the bad boy who started raising hell at age...
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359 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
TJ Powar and her cousin Simran have become the subject of a meme: with TJ being the "expectation" of dating an Indian girl and her Sikh cousin who does not remove her body hair...
6) Stolen girl
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When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
7) Shi-shi-etko
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30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 22 cm
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English
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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.
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"A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number...
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56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"Jules and Jim are best friends. They play together. They go to school together. They grow up together. Through it all, Jim is always a little ahead of Jules: a little faster, a little stronger. So, when Canada goes to war against Germany in 1914, Jim is the first to volunteer, but Jules is right behind him. They fight together. They battle the cold and the mud of the trenches together. But in the end, only one of them will see the Armistice begin...
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"A children's book inspired by the true story of Jewish orphans who came to Canada to learn farming only to find their way to Carnegie Hall. Thirteen-year-old Jacob's life is hard in 1920s Poland, where he lives in an orphanage for Jewish children. His days are brightened by playing in the mandolin orchestra. When an American benefactor arrives with the promise of a new life at the Canadian Jewish Farm School--and even the dream of playing a benefit...
11) Stolen words
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1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"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 between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks...
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48 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"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 Fantastic Guy takes all the credit. Will Nick ever get the chance...
13) The uninvited
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English
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After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
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282 pages : maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"The year is 1991. Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The first Gulf War has broken out close by, but it isn't what she expects -- "We didn't even get any days off school! Just my luck." However, the event sparks major change in her life, as her family moves from big-city Dubai in the UAE to small-town Dartmouth on the east coast of Canada."--Book jacket flap
"Mona learns to find her voice over the course...
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Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Rupi Kaur, this heartrending story told in prose, poetry, and illustration weaves together the stories of a mother and daughter's lives. In this stunning sophomore novel, acclaimed writer Jasmin Kaur explores trauma, fear, courage, community, and the healing power of love in its many forms. Kiran flees her home in Punjab for a fresh start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant. But overstaying...
16) From far away
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"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 empathize with immigrant children whose experiences are very...
18) Swan dive
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"Refugees from the Bosnian War, Lazar's family flees the Siege of Sarajevo and arrives in Winnipeg in the early 1990s. Despite various mini dramas unfolding at home, the bitter cold and a strange city and country, Lazar manages to find a place for himself at school, largely by making friends with Elle, a sassy, outspoken girl who divides her time between living with her hoarder mother and her hippie father, Jimmy, who lives in British Columbia. But...
19) Girl mans up
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373 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
20) Ghost train
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"Left behind in China by her father, Choon-Yi makes her living selling her paintings in the market. After her father writes to ask her to join him in the new world, she discovers that he has since been killed building the railway. Superbly illustrated" Cf. Our choice, 1996-1997.
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