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Will you, won't you?
By Jessie Haas. 2000
Shy Madeline "Mad" Parker spends the summer before high school at her grandmother Gam's farm. In addition to taking care…
of her horse, she reluctantly enrolls in Scottish dance classes. Gam is also a state senator, and through her Mad learns how to overcome her insecurities and assert herself. For grades 6-9. 2000The bear says north: tales from northern lands
By Bob Barton. 2003
Ten folktales from Scandinavia and other northern hemisphere countries. In "Good Neighbors", a family happily coexists with mountain trolls. In…
"Grandfather Bear", a fox tricks an old bear into dropping his dinner. Grades 4-7. 2003.La ruelle de Tristouille (Mini toon)
By Jess Vendette. 2019
Dans la ruelle de Tristouille, les humains se sont mis au compostage! Adieu, les belles poubelles remplies de nourriture alléchante…
! Manger du compost? Impossible! Tristouille est de plus en plus affamé! Avec l'aide de ses deux amis écureuils, arrivera-t-il à se remplir la bédaine? C'est ce que tu découvrira dans ce Mini Toon!J'avais tout prévu sauf les bélugas (Collection Zèbre)
By Andrée Poulin. 2019
Peu de temps après avoir établi le record Guinness de la plus grosse poutine du monde, Thomas est obsédé par…
le désir d'entrer en contact avec sa mère qui l'a abandonné, il y a dix ans. Il se sent négligé par ses amis dont il ne partage pas les nouvelles passions : Élie mène une campagne pour dénoncer les effets de la pollution sur la santé des bélugas et Sam rêve de créer une vidéo virale. Quand Thomas découvre que sa mère milite aussi en faveur des bélugas, il conçoit un plan qui la forcera à lui parler. Mais rien ne se déroule comme prévuNoble madness
By Maye Preston Hill. 1978
Incredible Jumbo: a novel
By Barbara Claassen Smucker. 1990
Tod Tolliver, a poor and lonely boy, works for the London Zoo, caring for its star attraction, Jumbo the Elephant.…
When Jumbo is sold to P.T. Barnum's Circus in New York, Tod stows away on the ship. Grades 5-8. 1990.The ghost horse of the Mounties
By Sean O Huigin. 1983
A mysterious storm sends the Mounties' horses in all directions. All but one horse is found. This is the story…
of that one horse. Winner of the 1983 Canada Council Children's Literature Award. Grades 3-6 and older readers. c1983.Big bear hug
By Nicholas Oldland. 2009
There once was a bear so filled with love and happiness that whenever he roamed the forest and came across…
another living thing, he would give it a hug. One day, the benevolent bear meets up with a human who raises his axe and begins to cut down a tree. Suddenly the bear doesn't feel like hugging anymore and must make a difficult decision on how to stop this destruction in his forest. Grades K-3. 2009.Pounce de Leon
By Tim Wynne-Jones, Alfredo Tapia. 2008
Pounce de Leon, a mischievous, loving cat, adopts Mrs. Florida Brown as his constant companion. Pounce's job is to look…
after the aging Mrs. Brown. Most of all, Pounce is fascinated by the view from the jumbled house into the jungle-like garden filled with overgrown plants and trees. When Mrs. Brown speaks of a mysterious, beautiful girl and a lost fountain of youth, Pounce sets out on a quest to find it for his loving owner. Grades K-3. 2008.Farley follows his nose
By Lynn Franks Johnston, Beth Cruikshank. 2009
Good-natured and ever-hungry, Farley goes wherever his nose leads him. But as one delicious smell follows another, soon Farley is…
meeting new friends and exploring parts of town he's never seen before. Just how far has he wandered? Will he find a familiar smell to lead him back home? Grades K-3. 2009.Franklin and the stopwatch (Kids Can read (Toronto, Ont.))
By Sharon Jennings, Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda Clark, Sean Jeffrey, Jelena Sisic, Sasha McIntyre. 2007
Franklin finds a stopwatch in the junk drawer and proceeds to drive family and friends crazy by timing everything they…
do. When Franklin gets a taste of his own medicine, will he realize that sometimes a stopwatch needs to stop watching? Grades K-3. 2007.Gummytoes
By Sean Cassidy. 2004
A gray tree frog is tired of always blending in with his surroundings and longs to be admired. One day,…
when Gummytoes is basking in the sun, he hears children playing nearby and seizes the opportunity to be noticed. The youngsters take him home and place him in a terrarium. And every day, they try to make Gummytoes do new tricks and rarely leave him alone! Grades K-3. 2004.Stanley at sea
By Linda Bailey, Bill Slavin. 2008
It's picnic time in the park, and Stanley wanders down by the river where he runs into other dogs. Soon…
their keen noses lead them to a delicious treat on a small boat with no people in sight. When the boat's mooring comes loose, they float away with the current down the river, under a bridge, and then out to sea! Grades K-3. 2008.Pigs (Munsch for kids.)
By Michael Martchenko, Robert N Munsch. 1989
Megan is told to feed the pigs, but not to open the gate. She does of course, and the results…
are hilarious as the pigs help themselves to coffee and the newspaper at the breakfast table, follow Megan to school, and ride home by way of the school bus. Grades K-3. 1989.That stripy cat
By Norene Smiley, Tara Anderson. 2007
At the Hummingbird Animal Shelter, Mrs. Cosy and her co-workers find homes for stray animals. Unfortunately their latest newcomer, a…
stripy little cat, won't cooperate. Mrs. Cosy might smile at his antics, but who wants to adopt a troublemaker that howls, hides under couches, and climbs the drapes? Grades K-3. 2007.Franklin and the duckling (Kids Can read)
By Sharon Jennings, Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda Clark, Sean Jeffrey, Jelena Sisic, Sasha McIntyre. 2007
Franklin knows he's not allowed another pet but when he finds a lone duckling, he can't resist bringing his new…
friend home. When the duckling turns his bedroom into a regular aquatic habitat, Franklin must ask himself: does he really want another pet after all? Grades K-3. 2007.Roundup at the palace (Northern lights books for children)
By Alan Daniel, Kathleen Cook Waldron, Lea Daniel. 2006
Zack is looking forward to taking Buster the bull to the National Western Stock Show in Denver. As Zack and…
his dad sing their way down the road, Buster the bull doesn't find his first trip away from the ranch much fun. When the snow turns into a blinding blizzard and Zack's dad must detour through downtown, Buster sees his chance to make his own hay. Thundering out of the truck, Buster gallops straight through the doors of the Brown Palace Hotel where, he confronts Alice, daughter of the owner of the hotel gift shop. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2006.Caramba
By Marie-Louise Gay. 2005
Caramba is ashamed that he cannot fly like the other cats. Confiding in his flightless friend Portia the pig, he…
practices flying in secret. He lands in some comical predicaments but remains frustrated and grounded. When his cousins try teaching him to get airborne by carrying him over the ocean and letting go, a scary fall to the bottom teaches Caramba that even though he can't perform like they do, he can do something they cannot. Grades K-3. 2005.Stanley's wild ride
By Linda Bailey, Bill Slavin. 2006
Stanley is dog-tired of his yard, and he longs for the big wild world beyond the fence. So when he…
discovers a way out, he's gone! A few escapes later, five dogs are on the lam. And with Stanley in the lead, they're off to have the kind of fun you can't find in a yard. Then, late at night, atop the steepest hill in town, they come upon a mysterious wheeled thing. Grades K-3. 2006.ttuM (A charlotte Novel Ser.)
By Teddy Jam. 1999
Charlotte finds a stray dog who seems to do everything backwards so she names him "ttuM", Mutt if you're pronouncing…
it the forward way. Charlotte and ttuM have an adventure filled summer when Charlotte suspects a witch has moved into the cottage down the street - and then ttuM disappears. Grades 3-6. 1999.