Alone in the Storm
In wartime Budapest, Leslie Vertes escapes from the forced labour service. As he lives under false identity documents, each day he survives feels like a miracle.
Where Courage Lives
Written in vignettes with child-like charm and innocence, Where Courage Lives provides rich insight into life in a small village against the backdrop of the war, paying tribute to both Muguette’s indomitable mother and the courage of the people of Champlost.
The Feedback-Friendly Classroom
How to equip students to give, receive, and seek quality feedback that will support their social, academic, and developmental needs.
Crocs at Work
Children will be excited to see what these silly crocodiles get up to when they go to work. Another delightful laugh-out-loud treat that follows up the popular Crocodiles Say… and Crocodiles Play!
The Golden Touch
A beautiful picture book with a CD of the opera based on the Greek myth of King Midas, who turns everything he touches to gold. Celebrated actor Terry Jones narrates the story on the CD.
A Princess of Great Daring!
Jamie is a young transgender girl planning to come out to her friends after playing a game of princes and princesses.
Is That For A Boy Or A Girl?
Peyton’s not happy wearing a dress to dance at pow wow, but Auntie Eyota has a plan to help Peyton enjoy dancing again and see herself reflected as she wants to be – with the help of community.
Love Is In The Hair
Carter's up in the middle of the night, too excited to sleep: her baby sister is being born! She asks her Uncle Marcus to tell her stories about the beautiful things in his dreadlocks so she can relax and rest.
M Is For Mustache
An ABC picture book that follows the journey of a young child and her chosen family as she prepares to march at Pride.
The Newspaper Pirates
Anthony Bartholomew is on a mission to find the “newspaper pirates” who have been stealing his father’s newspaper from outside their apartment door. Along the way he discovers just how fierce he can be.
The Zero Dads Club
It's Father's Day craft time in Akilah and Kai's class, but they don't have dads! They hatch a plan to create a special club to celebrate other family members instead in The Zero Dads Club!
The Blue Vase
This entertaining and beautifully illustrated chapter book by BC Book Prize-winning author Katarina Jovanovic conveys some important messages about bullying and believing in yourself.
"This Is a Great Book!"
101 events for building enthusiastic readers inside and outside the classroom — from chapter books to young adult novels.
44 Hours or Strike!
During the Toronto Dressmakers’ Strike of 1931, young Jewish sisters Sophie and Rose must stand together in their fight for better working conditions, decent wages, and for their union – the ILGWU. Faced with unexpected – and sometimes violent – barriers, they quickly find that a strike is more than just a march.
Fifteen Dollars and Thirty-five Cents
When Joseph and Devon find money in the schoolyard the two friends have different thoughts about what to do. Should they say "finders keepers" or find out who lost it? It takes some courage, but Devon figures out how to help Joseph make the right choice.
The Weight of Freedom
Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland.
Across the Rivers of Memory
The name Transnistria did not exist on a map. Yet that is where ten-year-old Felicia Steigman and her parents arrive in 1941, after a cruel deportation and death march overseen by Romanian Nazi collaborators.
