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Willow and Twig
By Jean Little. 2000
When their mother breaks her parole and runs off, 10-year-old Willow and her four-year-old brother Twig are on their own.…
They journey from the mean streets of Vancouver to stay with their grandmother in rural Ontario. There, the children learn valuable life lessons about pride, a sense of belonging, and being true to who you are. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. 2000.Walking backward
By Catherine Austen. 2009
When twelve-year-old Josh loses his mother in a freak car accident, his grief therapist suggests he keep a journal. Josh…
describes his father's withdrawal into the basement where he's building a time machine, his younger brother running wild, and how he tries to find some meaning and order in all the chaos. For junior high readers. Some strong language. 2009.The magic boot
By Rémy Simard. 1995
Pipo's feet are so enormous that he can win races without even moving, but he keeps outgrowing his shoes. Luckily…
a good fairy decides to give him magical red boots that will grow with watering. But these boots quickly change hands - Pipo loses them to an ogre, Pipo's jealous neighbour steals them from the ogre and then buries them. One is found by Pipo's sister, who does something very interesting with it! Grades K-3. 1995. Uniform title: Bottine magique de Pipo.The shaman's apprentice: a tale of the Amazon rain forest
By Lynne Cherry, Mark J Plotkin. 2001
Kamanya dreams of becoming his tribe's next shaman, and spends his time following the current shaman into the forest and…
learning the secrets of the plants. But local plants can't cure the new diseases brought to the area by strangers, and the pills the strangers bring with them cause the native people to lose faith in the ability of their shaman. Eventually a woman named Gabriella, who comes to study the properties of the rain forest plants, restores the tribe's faith. Grades K-3. 2001. c1998.Selected stories
By Alice Munro. 1996
Short story by the world-famous Alice Munro, which won her Canada's most prestigious literary prize: the Governor General's Award. Munro's…
stories look beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promise, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women.Dandelion Daughter
By Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. 2023
A runaway bestseller in Québec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversationDandelion…
Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it's like to grow up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth. Set against the windswept countryside of the remote Charlevoix region some five hours north of Montreal, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay's autobiographical novel immortalizes her early years as an alienated boy trapped in a world of small-town values and her parents' dissolving marriage, through complex adolescent years of self-discovery and first loves, to the harrowing episodes that fuel the growing realization that she must transition and give birth to her new self if she is to continue living at all. One of the first novels of its kind to appear in Québec, this inspiring story has already connected with a wide readership, and has been adopted by many schools to help expand worldviews and curriculums.