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Weird Rules to Follow
By Kim Spencer. 2022
A Bucket of Stars
By Suri Rosen. 2023
A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have.It’s the summer…
of 2003 and thirteen-year-old astronomer Noah Cooper has just moved to Queensport, a small town with a vast amateur sky full of stars. There he meets Tara Dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. When the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision.Noah and Tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county — and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. As if that’s not enough to have at stake, Noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father — an ex-astronomer who’s almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth.Touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, A Bucket of Stars will have readers cheering for Noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and Tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images — and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.Mi’kmaw Moons: The Seasons in Mi'kma'ki
By Cathy LeBlanc, David Chapman. 2022
My cat Spit McGee
By Willie Morris. 1999
Mississippi author of My Dog Skip (BR 10740) recalls how he had to overcome his fear of cats when his…
beloved fiancée wanted one. On Christmas Eve the family took in a stray who later had kittens--one with two different eye colors. Uncontracted braille. 1999Tough trails (Orca soundings)
By Irene Morck. 2003
Seventeen-year-old Ambrose takes tourists on trail rides while working for his uncle in Alberta's Rocky Mountains. He buys an older…
mare out of compassion but faces disaster when the animal can't make it up a pass. Uncontracted braille. For senior high and older readers. 2003May magic: Calendar mysteries (Calendar Mysteries #5)
By Ron Roy, John Steven Gurney. 2011
Bradley and Brian need help from friends Nate and Lucy after a hypnotist turns their mother into a duck but…
does not quite get her changed back. Sequel to April Adventure (DB 79338). For grades 2-4. 2011Rise and fall (Spirit Animals Ser. #6)
By Eliot Schrefer. 2015
A devastating betrayal scatters the team. The young heroes and their spirit animals have already sacrificed much in their quest…
for the talismans, and more is yet to come. Sequel to Against the Tide (BR 21156). Uncontracted braille. For grades 4-7. 2015The tale of rescue
By Michael J. Rosen, Stan Fellows. 2015
Harriet the invincible: Hamster princess (Hamster Princess #1)
By Ursula Vernon. 2015
Never a conventional princess, Harriet Hamsterbone becomes an adventurer when she learns she is cursed by the wicked fairy Ratshade…
to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, after pricking herself on the hamster wheel . Years pass, and something peculiar happens when Ratshade reappears. For grades 3-6. 2015Of mice and magic: Hamster princess (Hamster Princess #2)
By Ursula Vernon. 2016
When Harriet Hamsterbone learns about the curse on twelve mice princesses who are forced to dance all night, every night,…
she knows she is the one to break the curse. Sequel to Harriet the Invincible (DB 83774). For grades 3-6. 2016Afternoon on the Amazon: Magic tree house, book 6 (Magic Tree House (R) #6)
By Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 1995
Annie and Jack need to find the second special thing to free Morgan le Fay, owner of the magic tree…
house, from a spell. So they travel to a rain forest where they encounter army ants, people-eating fish, wild jaguars, and a helpful monkey. For grades 2-4. 1995Dolphins at daybreak: Magic tree house, book 9 (Magic Tree House (R) #9)
By Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 1997
Annie and Jack are transported by the magic tree house to a beach by the ocean. A mini-sub takes them…
underwater to a coral reef where they meet a giant octopus, a shark, and friendly dolphins while looking for the answer to an ancient riddle. For grades 2-4. 1997Dinosaurs before dark: Magic treehouse, book 1 (Magic Tree House (R) #1)
By Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 1992
Eight-and-a-half-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister Annie find a magic tree house in the woods near their home. Climbing inside,…
they are whisked back to the prehistoric time of dinosaurs. But how will they return to their own time? For grades 2-4. 1992Petit Billy Stuart 1: À table, les oiseaux
By Alain M. Bergeron. 2019
Note de production : Cet ouvrage a été créé dans le cadre du Projet de description d’images littéraires d’eBOUND. L’auteur…
et l’illustrateur ont rédigé ou contribué aux descriptions des images, qui sont incluses dans le corps et la narration du texte. Petit Billy Stuart a lu quelque part qu'il était possible d'attirer les oiseaux et de les nourrir dans ses mains. Il est emballé par l'idée. Aura-t-il assez de patience pour y arriver?Bear in the Family (Orca Echoes)
By Eric Walters, Olga Barinova. 2022
In this partially illustrated early chapter book, a family return to their home in the forest after a wildfire to…
find their house still standing and an orphaned bear cub in the well.Berani
By Michelle Kadarusman. 2022
From the Governor General’s Award-nominated author of Music for Tigers and Girl of the Southern Sea, a passionate story about…
environmental activism, difficult choices, and the cost of doing the right thingForever Birchwood: A Novel
By Danielle Daniel. 2022
The middle-grade debut of star picture-book author and illustrator Danielle DanielAdventurous, trail-blazing Wolf lives in a northern mining town and…
spends her days exploring the mountains and wilderness with her three best friends Penny, Ann and Brandi. The girls’ secret refuge is their tree-house hideaway, Birchwood, Wolf’s favourite place on earth. When her beloved grandmother tells her that she is the great-granddaughter of a tree talker, Wolf knows that she is destined to protect the birch trees and wildlife that surround her.But Wolf’s mother doesn’t understand this connection at all. Not only is she reluctant to engage with their family’s Indigenous roots, she seems suspiciously on the wrong side of the environmental protection efforts in their hometown. To make matters worse, she’s just started dating an annoying new boyfriend named Roger, whose motives—and construction company—seem equally suspect.As summer arrives, so do bigger problems. Wolf and her friends discover orange plastic bands wrapped around the trees near their cherished hangout spot, and their once stable friendship seems on the verge of unravelling. Birchwood has given them so much—can they even stay together long enough to save this special place?With gorgeous yet understated language, Danielle Daniel beautifully captures an urgent and aching time in a young person’s life. To read this astonishing middle-grade debut is to have your heart broken and then tenderly mended.Un hérisson dans le bedon
By Justine Laberge. 2021
Marine a six ans. Elle a un rire contagieux et un hérisson dans le bedon ! Oui, oui, un vrai…
hérisson. Il est là, logé au creux de son ventre. Quand il se réveille un peu trop souvent à son goût , elle ressent toutes sortes de choses désagréables. Pour calmer et rendormir ce petit animal, Marine propose des astuces qui l'aident à apaiser ses inquiétudes et à se sentir mieux. Un album doux et candide pour apprendre aux enfants à apprivoiser lanxiété.Birdspell
By Valerie Sherrard. 2021
Corbin Hayes has felt alone for as long as he can remember. His mom’s illness means lost jobs, constant moves,…
new schools and friendships that never get to grow. There’s a gap in his life that’s been waiting to be filled. So, when a classmate offers Corbin the talking bird she can no longer keep, he’s stoked. But when things begin to spiral out of control, Corbin can no longer get his mom – or himself – through the dark period. At his lowest moment, he’s forced to do the one thing he fears the most.Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer
By Leslie Gentile. 2021
Winner of the 2021 City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize It’s the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis…
Presley has been dead for a year. But not eleven-year-old Truly Bateman – because she knows Elvis is alive and well and living in the Eagle Shores Trailer Park. Maybe no one ever thought to look for him at on the Eagle Shores First Nation on Vancouver Island. It’s a busy summer for Truly. Though her mother is less of a mother than she ought to be, and spends her time drinking and smoking and working her way through new boyfriends, Truly is determined to raise as much money for herself as she can through her lemonade stand … and to prove that her cool new neighbour is the one and only King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. And when she can’t find motherly support in her own home, she finds sanctuary with Andy El, the Salish woman who runs the trailer park.