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Come, Read With Me
By Margriet Ruurs, Christine Wei. 2021
Production note: This title was created through eBOUND's Literary Image Description project. The author and illustrator wrote or consulted on…
the image descriptions, which are included in the body and narration of the text. In this picture book about stories and reading, contemporary children are whisked through an imaginary world while interacting with characters from classic fairy tales.Jamais trop tôt pour Arnaud
By Liliane Boucher. 2024
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. « Moi, c'est Arnaud, 7 ans et demi. Me poser des questions, c'est mon métier. Si tu savais comme j'ai du boulot. Il faut que je me lève tôt. Très tôt. Mes parents aimeraient bien, parfois, faire la grasse matinée. Mais impossible de m'arrêter quand ma tête déborde d'idées! »--Quatrième de couvertureFreddie the Flyer
By Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, Fred Carmichael. 2023
A gorgeous picture book that pays homage to aviator Freddie Carmichael — the first Indigenous commercial pilot in the Arctic…
—with each month of the year highlighting moments from his life, the beauty of the North and the power of dreams.When Freddie was young, he saw a plane up close for the first time when it dropped off supplies at his family’s remote bush camp. He was instantly hooked.Freddie has flown for nearly seventy years, doing everything from supply runs to search and rescue to transporting dog teams to far-flung areas.This book celebrates Freddie’s early dreams of flying and his later achievements. Readers move with Freddie through the year, hearing about his journey as a pilot and leader, while learning the names of the months in Gwich’in and Inuvialuktun at the same time. Art from Inuvialuit painter Audrea Loreen-Wulf perfectly captures the incredible Western Arctic as well as Freddie’s love for aviation.One Tiny Bubble: The Story of Our Last Universal Common Ancestor
By Karen Krossing. 2022
When Sunlight Tiptoes
By Gillian Sze. 2023
Brave Like the Buffalo
By Melissa Allan. 2023
Brave Like the Buffalo is a children’s book with a message that will inspire all readers to face the storms…
in their life with the help of their support systems and with a brave mindset. Written by Melissa Allan and illustrated by Jadyn Fischer-McNab, this story uses a powerful animal, the buffalo, as a symbolic message and connection to Indigenous ways of knowing and being that helps to create a wonderful narrative rich with Indigenous ties and a heartwarming message around facing adversity. Brave Like the Buffalo is intended for audiences aged 0–6, to be used educationally as a way to intertwine Indigenous ways of knowing and being through story.Lightning Lou
By Lori Weber. 2016
When a team in an all-girls’ hockey league comes to recruit players, twelve-year-old Lou’s dreams seem to be coming true.…
But the dreams hinge on one thing: never letting on that Lou is a boy. But the road to stardom is not easy, as Lou discovers that the competition is fierce, and that he’s got a lot of work to do to match the skills of the league’s star player and his chief rival, Albertine Lapensée. All the while, he has to keep his secret, and wrestle with the moral dilemma of taking a place on the team away from a deserving girl. Loosely based on a true story, Lightning Lou is a riveting and thought-provoking story for middle-grade readers.The Perfect Sushi
By Emily Satoko Seo. 2023
Miko likes things to be perfect. When she makes lopsided sushi for her grandmother’s birthday, she replaces it with perfectly…
formed sushi created by a restaurant robot. Upon delivering her gift, Miko discovers that kokoro (heart) – not impeccability – is the key ingredient to the perfect present. Sprinkled with engaging onomatopoeia, this unique title is infused with Japanese culture and delivers a universal message about the value of intention. A do-it-yourself sushi recipe is included.Cocoa Magic
By Sandra Bradley, Gabrielle Grimard. 2022
In a story where empathy and generosity shine as much as the tempered chocolates, eight-year-old Daniel learns from his chocolatier…
great-uncle and discovers how much comfort a small act of kindness can bringLaura's ma: adapted from the Little house books (Little House Chapter Bks. #No. 11)
By Heather Henson. 1999
The dark room
By Rachel Seiffert. 2001
Stories of three Germans affected by the Third Reich. Physically deformed Helmut, excluded from the Nazi army, becomes obsessed with…
photographing wartime Berlin's citizens. During the Allied occupation, Lore, a devoted sister, perceives her parents' participation in evil. And Micha, in 1997, probes his grandfather's role in the SS. Booker Prize finalist.Seizure
By Robin Cook. 2003
Senator Ashley Butler will hold up permission for stem-cell research being proposed by doctors Daniel Lowell and Stephanie D'Agostino unless…
they secretly perform experimental surgery on him to cure his Parkinson's. The politician also complicates the deal by wanting to use cells obtained from the Shroud of Turin. Bestseller.Will you still love me tomorrow?
By Edward Gorman. 2001
Black Water Falls, Iowa; 1959. Anti-communism is at its peak after a visit to the state by premier Nikita Khrushchev…
of the USSR. When a high-profile local liberal, attorney Sam McCain's client, is murdered, Sam investigates. Trouble arises when the two main suspects are also killed. Some strong language.Flight to freedom (First Person Fiction Ser.)
By Ana Veciana-Suarez. 2002
Writing in her diary thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967. She continues her journal…
after they escape from the communist island to join relatives in Miami, Florida, where Yara, speaking only Spanish, attends a new school. For grades 6-9.Death of Riley
By Rhys Bowen. 2002
New York City, 1901. Irish immigrant Molly Murphy, last seen in Murphy's Law (BR 14095), cajoles private investigator Paddy Riley…
to hire her as his assistant. When Paddy is murdered, Molly gets a glimpse of the culprit and attempts to track him down.The cat who talked turkey
By Lilian Jackson Braun. 2004
A dead body found on his property slightly dims Moose County columnist Jim "Qwill" Qwilleran's excitement over a new bookstore…
and a neighboring town's upcoming bicentennial. After wild turkeys, rare for the area, suddenly appear Qwill looks to his clairvoyant cat, Koko, for answers. Bestseller.Les amis d'enfance: roman
By Pierre Manseau. 2008
"1964, un village dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent. La vie paisible aux Quatre Roches, encore empreinte de tradition, est soudain…
perturbée quand un article aux accents révolutionnaires paraît dans le journal, dans lequel l'auteur s'en prend aux patrons de la mine B.T.J., principal employeur de la région. Les mineurs seraient-ils en danger? C'est à la suite de ce scandale que deux garçons inséparables de 12 ans, Martin Beauregard et Sylvain Chicoine, vont se trouver entraînés malgrés eux dans une expédition qui, cette fois, ne sera peut-être pas qu'un jeu. Foulards de Mamamouchi, potions aux algues, ombres de la nuit, griffes de diablesse, pièges à ours et premiers émois de l'adolescence se donnent rendez-vous dans cette aventure qui mènera nos jeunes héros dans le secret de la mine". -- 4e de couvHello, Dark
By Tamara Campeau, Wai Wong. 2021
The house on Prague Street
By Hanna Demetz. 1980
Evocative novel in which a young half-Jewish woman looks back on her Czechoslovakian childhood and an all too brief romance…
during one summer before World War II. As bigotry and hate come to rule, her innocent world evaporates; yet Helenka manages to endure and grow with a rare kind of spiritual graceThe angry tide: a novel of Cornwall, 1798-1799
By Winston Graham. 1977
Seventh novel in the "Poldark" series. Cornishman Ross Poldark is a successful lord of his manor, newly made member of…
Parliament, owner of two mines, husband to Demelza, and father of their two children. Warleggan, lifelong rival of the Poldark clan, sets in motion political and financial intrigues that could destroy all Ross has struggled for