You Hold Me Up / Gimanaadenim
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An evocative picture book intended to foster empathy among children and encourage them to show each other love and support. In English and Anishinaabemowin.
Nye, Sand and Stones
A young girl challenges destructive behavior from the citizens of an island of stones that the rest of her community on an island of sand has been accepting since the beginning of time.
The Disability Experience
This nonfiction book for teens provides a history of disability, describes types of disabilities and examines the challenges faced by people living with disabilities.
The Sun Will Come Out
In this novel for middle-grade readers, painfully shy Beatrice Gelman ends up at summer camp all by herself.
Cheat
In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, Laurel investigates a cheating scam at her high school.
Overdrive
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jake is involved in a street-racing accident and struggles to do the right thing.
Trash Talk
This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-graders shows how people all over the world are working to keep our planet from drowning in a sea of garbage.
Finding Home
Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, this illustrated book offers a look at how human migration has changed the world.
Design Like Nature
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Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle readers, in this book young readers discover innovations and inventions inspired by nature.
Toucania
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In this transitional picture book, a young explorer has a chance to travel to a magical island inhabited by unusual creatures she’s only ever heard about in bedtime stories told to her by her grandfather.
Riley Can't Stop Crying
While his sister tries everything to help, a young boy isn’t sure why he can’t stop crying in this transitional picture book.
A Perfect Likeness
This volume contains two novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing. Both stories follow the lives of young artists who have dreams for a better future.
Genie Meanie
In this partially illustrated chapter book, an eight-year-old girl confronts a bully with the help of a genie she discovers has been living in a spice bottle her grandmother left her.
Pasture Bedtime
In this partially illustrated early chapter book and the first book in the Charlie's Rules series, eleven-year-old Charlie tries his hardest to keep his life quiet and organized amid the chaos of life on the farm with his veterinarian mother.
Elephants Do Not Belong in Trees
In this delightful picture book an elephant takes up roost in a tree, upsetting the other animals living there. But the elephant helps save the day when a bulldozer comes along to chop the tree down.
Chinese New Year
Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series, Chinese New Year is illustrated with color photographs throughout. Readers will learn how a simple gathering of family and friends grew into a weeklong, worldwide festival.
Tornado
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Cam must find his way home to save his little brother when a tornado hits.
Pickpocket
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, 17-year-old Jean-Luc is sent away to live with his uncle in a small town on the coast of France.
We Wear Masks
In this picture book, readers are introduced to all sorts of professionals and other people who wear masks in their daily lives and are reminded that wearing a mask to limit the spread of germs is an act of kindness.
Bones
In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, Sam and Annabel learn about paleontology while solving a mystery.
Back
After serving time for a violent crime, Jojo returns to the neighborhood and tries to take his life back.
Beyond Repair
In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, Cam, grieving over the death of his father, becomes worried he is being stalked.
Sticks and Stones
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jujube takes on her tormentors and helps a group of girls win back their self-esteem.
Chick: Lister
In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, fourteen-year-old Chick struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and his father’s expectations.
