P.L.A.N. for Better Learning
4 simple steps for designing lessons that boost thinking and maximize learning.
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.
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.
A Name Unbroken
Miklos Friedman grows up learning to take risks and seize opportunities. In 1944, as Germany occupies Hungary, he must draw on his wits to survive
Hope's Reprise
David Newman’s gifts as a musician and a teacher carry him through years of brutality during the war.
Where I Belong
An adopted Native Canadian girl finds her birth father and the twin sister she never knew existed.
The Sphere of Septimus
A boy and his friend are hurtled into another dimension and must defeat the evil ruler in order to save the universe and all creation.
Shack Island Summer
Twelve-year-old Pepper explores ESP, dreams, friendship and love over the course of an unforgettable summer.
The Moment
When a devastating train accident results in the loss of his leg, James cannot imagine ever leading a normal life again.
Exploding the Reading
Building a world of responses from one story: 50 interactive strategies for increasing comprehension.
