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Le nuage policier
By Christoph Niemann, Christelle Henry. 2011
Depuis toujours, ce petit nuage rêve de devenir policier dans la grande ville : arrêter les voleurs, régler la circulation,…
surveiller le parc municipal. Bref, porter une casquette bleue et aider les gens ! Aidé par son ami l'hélicoptère, il entre dans la police. Et là, catastrophe ! Tout ce quil entreprend rate lamentablement. Que faire quand on a une vocation qui ne correspond pas à ses talents ni aux circonstances ? En changer, bien sûr ! Le hasard et les sentiments vont voler au secours du petit nuage. Années M-2. Titre uniforme: The police cloud.Le roi du château
By Françoise Viroux. 2012
C'est un magnifique château qu'Émile a passé la matinée à construire. Le plus beau de toute la plage, et le…
plus gros. Tellement beau que tout le monde le convoite et veut y habiter. Il suffit qu'Émile ait le dos tourné et parte se baigner pour qu'une famille de bigorneaux, puis un jeune crabe déboulent, entrent et prétendent être les rois du château. Évidemment, Émile nest pas d'accord. Le roi, c'est lui. Mais il lui faudra apprendre que, sur la plage, tout près des vagues, les monarchies ne sont pas très durables. Années 1-3.Stone soup
By Tony Bonning. 2001
A weary fox stops by a farm with the hope of getting some spare food, but when the stingy animals…
decide that they won't share with him, he resorts to his wily ways to get some. Asking for a "drop of water to make some soup," the fox pulls a pot from his backpack, lights a fire, and drops a stone into the pot. He then declares that the soup is "not quite right," wondering whether some salt and pepper, turnip, carrot, cabbage, and corn would enhance its flavour. Grades K-3. 2001.Aaron's awful allergies
By Troon Harrison. 1996
Aaron loves animals -- he has a dog, a cat, six kittens, and six guinea pigs to prove it. He's…
having a wonderful summer until he starts sneezing and his head aches. Grades K-3.Shoot for the moon, Robyn (First novels - the new series ; #4)
By H. J Hutchins. 1997
When the teacher asks her to sing for the class, Robyn knows it's her chance to be the world's best…
singer. Should she perform like Celine Dion, or do "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean," or the matchmaker song? It's hard to decide, even for the world's best singer -- and the three boys who throw spitballs don't make it any easier. Grades 2-4.Mooch and me (First novel series. 1 #1)
By Sarah Cummins, Gilles Gauthier. 1991
Carl and his best friend, Mooch, are nine. But Mooch is a dog and that makes her sixty-three! She has…
some problems and gets Carl into lots of trouble, but Carl still thinks she is the best dog that ever lived. Grades 2-4. Uniform title: Ne touchez pas à ma Babouche.The patch of blue (Living books ; #34)
By Grace Livingston Hill. 1932
For Chris Walton, life is great. He is part of a warm and loving family, and in a few weeks…
he will return for his senior year in college with a brand new car. But his world is turned upside down when his bank-president father must close the bank. Chris soon learns that one person in town understands his new circumstances. 1992, c1932.The search for Joyful
By Benedict Freedman, Nancy Mars Freedman. 2002
A long-awaited sequel to the beloved Canadian book, "Mrs. Mike". We see the world through the eyes of a young…
Cree woman adopted by Mrs. Mike and her husband. Young Kathy decides to go into nursing and moves to Montreal for her training. The time is World War II and Kathy is soon swept up in it all. Two different men enter her life as well. 2002.Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-pooh Ser.)
By A. A Milne. 1992
World's fair
By E. L Doctorow. 1985
This nostalgic recreation of a sensitive boy's life captures the sights and sounds of the Great Depression and the intimacies…
of Jewish family life. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985.Wives and daughters (The Penguin English library)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Frank Glover Smith, Laurence Lerner. 1969
This story of Mr. Gibson's new marriage and its influence on the lives of those closest to him is underpinned…
by a sense of social change, and of the more basic realities of birth and death. First published in 1866. 1969.When I was young and in my prime
By Alayna Munce. 2005
A young woman watches her grandparents begin to decline. As she sorts through the couple's belongings, she reflects on the…
untold stories and unsung bonds that make up our lives. Meanwhile, modern urban life places strains on her own marriage and on her sense of what, ultimately, we owe each other. Some strong language. 2005.Va ou ton coeur te porte
By Susanna Tamaro. 1995
Dans la solitude de sa maison, une femme agee decide d'ecrire une longue lettre a sa petite-fille sous forme de…
journal intime. Elle sait que le temps lui est compte et veut, par cette lettre d'amour, renouer une relation rendue difficile non seulement par la crise d'adolescence mais aussi par la mort tragique de sa propre fille. Cette histoire de plusieurs generations de femmes parle de sentiments sans le moindre sentimentalisme. 1995.Une enfance lingère
By Guy Goffette. 2006
Uncle Jacob's ghost story
By Donn Kushner. 1984
Un verger dans le ventre
By Simon Boulerice. 2013
Le jeune narrateur a l'habitude de manger ses pommes en entier, à l'exception de la queue. Et voilà que Rémi,…
un camarade de classe dont les parents sont pomiculteurs (et qui sait par conséquent de quoi il parle!), affirme que, s'il avale ne serait-ce qu'un seul pépin, un pommier poussera dans son ventre. Le petit blondinet a beau tenter de prouver à son interlocuteur qu'il est impossible qu'un arbre grandisse en lui puisqu'il a besoin d'eau et de soleil, Rémi rétorque qu'il boit de l'eau tous les jours et que la lumière du soleil pénètre en lui dès qu'il ouvre la bouche! À bout d'arguments, le narrateur doit admettre qu'il est fort probable qu'un verger se développe dans son ventre et s'attend à tout moment à voir sa peau se transformer en écorce! Années 1-3. 2013.Tom Fobble's day
By Alan Garner. 1977
To school through the fields: an Irish country childhood
By Alice Taylor. 1988
The changing seasons shape this beautiful, gentle account of growing up on a farm in the 1940s. It is a…
story not without sadness but dominated by light and colour and by affection for a childhood spent close to nature. 1988.Through Grandpa's eyes
By Patricia MacLachlan. 1979
John learns to see things in a new way after spending a day with Grandpa. A very gentle portrayal of…
blindness and the love of a boy for his grandparents. Grades K-3. 1979.They say blue (Class Set.)
By Jillian Tamaki. 2018
In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, Tamaki follows a young girl through a year or a day as…
she examines the colors in the world around her. Egg yolks are sunny orange as expected, yet water cupped in her hands isn't blue like they say. But maybe a blue whale is blue. She doesn't know, she hasn't seen one. Winner of the 2018 Governor General’s Award for Young People's Literature – Illustrated Books. Grades K-3. 2018.