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By Mary Beth Leatherdale. 2017
The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past…
few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.By Wendy Kitts. 2011
Though it was discovered almost 500 years ago, few people have visited Sable Island. Despite modern navigational tools, excessive fog…
and stormy weather still make travelling to Sable a challenge. But the island is part of Maritime lore--dubbed the "graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the number of ships wrecked on its shores. Sable Island also hosts wild horses, thousands of seals, and enchanting "singing" sands and "wandering" dunes. Sable Island is as dangerous as it is alluring. Grades 2-4. 2011.By Robin Stevenson. 2016
For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world, Pride is both protest and celebration. It's about embracing diversity.…
It's about fighting for freedom and equality. It's about history, and it's about the future. It's about all of us. Grades 4-7. 2016.By Sylvain Tesson. 2005
Pour ralentir la fuite du temps, Sylvain Tesson parcourt le monde à pied, à cheval, à vélo ou en canot.…
Cet amoureux des reliefs poursuit le merveilleux et l'enchantement. Dans nos sociétés de communication, Sylvain Tesson en appelle à un nouveau nomadisme, à un vagabondage joyeux. Ce Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde est un précis de désobéissance naturaliste, une philosophie de poche buissonnière, un récit romantique contre l'ordre établi. 2005.By Michelle Mulder. 2013
"Pedal It!" encourages young readers to be part of the joy of cycling. From the very first boneshakers to today’s…
sleek racing bikes, from handlebars to gear sprockets, this book shows you how bikes can make the world a better place. Not only can bikes be used to power computers and generators, they can also reduce pollution, promote wellness and get a package across a crowded modern city - fast! Grades 4-7. 2013.Fascinés par les grands raids automobiles du début du siècle, Dominique Lapierre et Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, tous deux reporters à Paris…
Match, arrachent l'autorisation de parcourir l'Union soviétique de Khrouchtchev en voiture, accompagnés de leurs femmes. À bord d'un break Simca bicolore "Marly", les quatre jeunes Français vont vivre treize mille kilomètres d'aventures. De la Pologne à l'Oural, de la Biélorussie au Caucase, des clochers du Kremlin aux palais des tsars sur les bords de la mer Noire, ils découvrent des lieux mythiques et des paysages de rêve et, surtout, ils font la connaissance des Russes. Au fil de leurs rencontres, se pose une question obsédante: comment le régime soviétique a-t-il réussi à persuader un peuple privé de liberté qu'il était le plus heureux de la terre? 2005.By Jennifer Gardy. 2014
Kids will become immersed in information about pus, bacteria, DNA, genomes, and more. They will learn how germs have shaped…
human history and also about the individuals who are working to hunt them down. Additional elements, like trading card-style profiles of a variety of diseases, a board game, and a detailed index, make this infectious read both useful and entertaining. Grades 3-6. 2014.By Susan Hughes. 2010
What ever happened to the thriving city of Ubar? Why did the Anasazi people disappear? Was Hatshepsut really a female…
pharaoh? The author takes on nine historic mysteries from around the world and explains how they have been solved by modern scientific techniques, such as satellite imagery, CAT scans, DNA analysis and sonar. Hughes explains why the cases were re-opened, details the personnel involved and their investigations, and ultimately their findings. Grades 3-6. c2010.By Joel A Sutherland. 2016
Get underneath the covers, because between these book covers are stories about a supernatural sea hag that haunts Dobbin’s Gardens…
marsh on Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, a used book from a Barrie, Ontario book shop that conjures up a ghostly figure that accompanies the buyer home, and a haunted playground at St. Ignatius School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Grades 3-6. 2016.By Erinne Paisley. 2017
"Can Your Smartphone Change the World?" is a twenty-first-century guide for anyone who has access to a smartphone. This how-to…
manual looks at specific ways you can create social change through the tap of a screen. Filled with examples of successful hashtag campaigns, viral videos and new socially conscious apps, the book provides practical advice for using your smartphone as a tool for social justice. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.By Kenn Nesbitt, J. Patrick Lewis. 2015
A poetry collection about cryptozoological creatures (the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, etc.) from around the world, written so as…
to allow the design of the book to disguise the fact that the collection is poetry. Grades 2-4. 2015. Uniform title: Poems.By Mireille Messier, Per-Henrik Gürth. 2008
"Célébrez les couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel et plus encore au cours d'une visite du Canada haute en couleur. Des paysages typiques…
et des personnages adorables feront de ce parcours multicolore une aventure inoubliable pour les petits voyageurs ainsi que pour les artistes en herbe! Avec ses dessins aux couleurs vives et ses textes simples et rimés, ce livre est particulièrement attrayant pour les enfants d'âge préscolaire. Ils apprendront les couleurs tout en découvrant des paysages canadiens". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Canada in colours.By Alain Bouquet. 2006
"Comment naît une étoile? Les étoiles ont-elles une famille? Comment vit une étoile? Comment meurt une étoile? Où sont les…
cendres des étoiles? Mais finalement, les étoiles sont-elles vivantes ? Jade, Aziz, Ambre et Alex vont effectuer un drôle de voyage... dans les étoiles! Et c'est Proxima du Centaure " en personne" qui va leur raconter comment se déroule la " vie " des astres... Des réponses sérieuses et drôles aux questions que les enfants se posent sur le monde". -- 4e de couv.By Angela Royston. 2001
By Gladys E Neale. 1991
By Tatsu Nagata, Dedieu. 2016
Catapulté en pleine Préhistoire, Tatsu Nagata observe le terrifiant tyrannosaure. Ce lézard géant pouvait peser jusqu'à 7 tonnes et mesurer…
12 mètres. Ce terrible prédateur, friand de chair fraîche Heureusement lorsqu'ils étaient sur terre, les hommes n'existaient pas encore ! Années M-2 et plus.By Angèle Delaunois, Bellebrute. 2013
Qu'est-ce que deviennent les journaux, les cartons et tous les vieux papiers une fois que nous les avons déposés dans…
le bac de recyclage? Venez le découvrir dans ""Le grand voyage de monsieur Papier""! Allez!! On recycle! " Années M-2 et plus.By Núria Jiménez, Empar Jiménez, Rosa Maria Curto, Annick Lalucq, Christine Barozzi. 2010
By Joël De Rosnay. 2005
By Dan Werb. 2019
Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San…
Diego, its sister city across the border wall. But then something changed. Over the past ten years, Mexico's third-largest city became one of the world's most dangerous. Tijuana's murder rate skyrocketed and produced a staggering number of female victims. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast. When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could only be understood as one symptom among many. Environmental toxins, drug overdoses, HIV transmission: all were killing women at overwhelming rates. As an epidemiologist, trained to track epidemics by mining data, Werb sensed the presence of a deeper contagion targeting Tijuana's women. Not a virus, but some awful wrong buried in the city's social order, cutting down its most vulnerable inhabitants from multiple directions. Werb's search for the ultimate causes of Tijuana's femicide casts new light on immigration, human trafficking, addiction, and the true cost of American empire-building. It leads Werb all the way from factory slums to drug dens to the corridors of police corruption, as he follows a thread that ultimately leads to a surprising turn back over the border, looking northward. 2019