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Stormy seas: stories of young boat refugees
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.Pride: celebrating diversity & community
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.How kids make friends: secrets for making lots of friends, no matter how shy you are
By Lonnie Michelle. 2007
Are you shy? Maybe you just moved to a new school? This book has the tips and strategies to help…
you make lots of friends, no matter how shy you are. It's all a matter of the choices you make and the responsibility you take for the task. Grades 3-6. 2007.Can your smartphone change the world? (PopActivism)
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.Walter Gretzky: on family, hockey and healing
By Walter Gretzky. 2001
Walter Gretzky is considered by many to be the ultimate dad, the man who first coached son Wayne Gretzky in…
hockey. Here he tells the story of his life, including growing up on a small farm, his marriage, children, work, and most importantly, his values. He also describes his debilitating stroke in 1991, his recovery, and his discovery of a calling to help others. 2001.Quand je suis heureux ((Les sentiments))
By Tracey Moroney. 2008
"Ce splendide livre cartonné et magnifiquement illustré montre aux enfants de 3 à 5 ans qu'il est normal d'être heureux…
et de l'exprimer. L'ouvrage contient également une section à l'intention des parents, écrite par un psychologue pour enfants, qui apporte de précieux conseils afin de les aider à faire face à ces émotions". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: When I'm feeling happy.Quand je me sens aimé ((Les sentiments))
By Tracey Moroney. 2008
"Ce splendide livre cartonné et magnifiquement illustré montre aux enfants de 3 à 5 ans qu'il est normal de ressentir…
de l'amour et de l'exprimer. L'ouvrage contient également une section à l'intention des parents, écrite par un psychologue pour enfants, qui apporte de précieux conseils afin de les aider à faire face à ces émotions". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: When I'm feeling loved.Quand je suis jaloux ((Les sentiments))
By Tracey Moroney. 2008
"Ce splendide livre cartonné et magnifiquement illustré montre aux enfants de 3 à 5 ans qu'il est normal de ressentir…
de la jalousie et de l'exprimer. L'ouvrage contient également une section à l'intention des parents, écrite par un psychologue pour enfants, qui apporte de précieux conseils afin de les aider à faire face à ces émotions". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: When I'm feeling jealous.Quand j'ai peur
By Tracey Moroney. 2008
"Ce splendide livre cartonné et magnifiquement illustré montre aux enfants de 3 à 5 ans qu'il est normal de ressentir…
de la peur et de l'exprimer. L'ouvrage contient également une section à l'intention des parents, écrite par un psychologue pour enfants, qui apporte de précieux conseils afin de les aider à faire face à ses émotions". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: When I'm feeling scared.Quand je suis triste ((Les sentiments))
By Tracey Moroney. 2008
"Ce splendide livre cartonné et magnifiquement illustré montre aux enfants de 3 à 5 ans qu'il est normal de ressentir…
de la tristesse et de l'exprimer. L'ouvrage contient également une section à l'intention des parents, écrite par un psychologue pour enfants, qui apporte de précieux conseils afin de les aider à faire face à ces émotions". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: When I'm feeling sad.Quand je me sens seul ((Les sentiments))
By Tracey Moroney. 2008
"Ce splendide livre cartonné et magnifiquement illustré montre aux enfants de 3 à 5 ans qu'il est normal de ressentir…
de la solitude et de l'exprimer. L'ouvrage contient également une section à l'intention des parents, écrite par un psychologue pour enfants, qui apporte de précieux conseils afin de les aider à faire face à ces émotions". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: When I'm feeling lonely.Quand je suis en colère
By Tracey Moroney. 2008
" Ce splendide livre cartonné et magnifiquement illustré montre aux enfants de 3 à 5 ans qu'il est normal de…
ressentir de la colère et de l'exprimer. L'ouvrage contient également une section à l'intention des parents, écrite par un psychologue pour enfants, qui apporte de précieux conseils afin de les aider à faire face à ces émotions. -- 4e de couv." Titre uniforme: When I'm feeling angry.Stick to your vision: how to get past the hurdles & haters to get where you want to be
By Maestro Fresh-Wes, Tamara Hendricks-Williams. 2010
Wes "Maestro" Williams has had to overcome many challenges in his life - some come from within, whether it's a…
fear of failure or low self-esteem, and some come from your circumstances. Wes shows you how to define your vision, how to achieve it, and what to do once you're there. He offers useful tips and advice, as well as inspirational stories and quotes, and exercises that will keep you moving towards your own vision. For junior and senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2011, c2010.Women's health: a quick and easy guide (For your information)
By Unknown. 1997
Women have special health needs. This guide shows women how to adopt healthy habits, eat right, manage stress, and be…
sexually healthy from menstruation to menopause and beyond. Find out how to build on your own strength to stay healthy. 1997.Une vie en plus: la longévité, pour quoi faire?
By Joël De Rosnay. 2005
City of omens: search for the missing women of the borderlands
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. 2019After life: ways we think about death
By Merrie-Ellen Wilcox. 2019
Moving between science and culture, Wilcox takes a straightforward look at the fascinating, diverse ways in which we understand death,…
both today and throughout our history. Each chapter includes a brief telling of a death legend, myth or history from a dScotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other
By Ken Dryden. 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA hockey life like no other.A hockey book like no other.Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in…
hockey history, and one of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more Stanley Cups than anyone else. Remarkably, despite all the changes in hockey, he coached at the very top for more than four decades, his first Cup win and his last an astonishing thirty-nine years apart. Yet perhaps most uniquely, different from anyone else who has ever lived or ever will again, he has experienced the best of hockey continuously since he was fourteen years old. With his precious standing room pass to the Montreal Forum, he saw "Rocket" Richard play at his peak every Saturday night. He saw Gordie Howe as a seventeen-year-old just starting out. He scouted Bobby Orr as a thirteen-year-old in Parry Sound, Ontario. He coached Guy Lafleur and Mario Lemieux. He coached against Wayne Gretzky. For the past decade, as an advisor for the Chicago Blackhawks, he has watched Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, and Connor McDavid. He has seen it all up close. Ken Dryden was a Hall-of-Fame goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens. His critically acclaimed and bestselling books have shaped the way we read and think about hockey. Now the player and coach who won five Stanley Cups together team up once again.In Scotty, Dryden has given his coach a new test: Tell us about all these players and teams you've seen, but imagine yourself as their coach. Tell us about their weaknesses, not just their strengths. Tell us how you would coach them and coach against them. And then choose the top eight teams of all time, match them up against one another in a playoff series, and, separating the near-great from the great, tell us who would win. And why.This book is about a life—a hockey life, a Canadian life, a life of achievement. It is Scotty Bowman in his natural element, behind the bench one more time.Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Willie O'Ree (Scholastic Canada Biography)
By Elizabeth MacLeod. 2020
Meet Willie O'Ree—Hockey Hall of Famer and a trailblazer for diversity on and off the ice! On January 18, 1958,…
Willie O'Ree made history as the first black player in the NHL when he suited up with the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens. O'Ree went on to play a total of 45 games with the Bruins, a remarkable achievement considering what he overcame to get there.In addition to dealing with racism, bigotry and name-calling, Willie lived with a secret disability: he was blind in one eye -- a fact he had to keep to himself, or he'd never play in the NHL. Thanks to his relentless positivity and love of the game, Willie's time with the Bruins was only one of his many achievements in hockey.The Scholastic Canada Biography series aims to introduce young readers to remarkable Canadians whose lives and contributions have shaped our country and led the way for others to follow in their footsteps. Meet Willie O'Ree is no exception. This wonderful book is a celebration of his life from childhood to playing career, to his later work as an ambassador for NHL diversity, and to his eventual induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018.Written by award-winning author Elizabeth MacLeod, this portrait of Willie O'Ree couples simple yet compelling writing with full-colour, comic-flavoured illustrations by Mike Deas that help bring this fascinating story to life!What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows?: True Stories of Imagination and Courage
By Heather Camlot. 2020
What if the impossible were actually possible? What if we turned our dreams into action? What if our imagination could…
help solve real-world crises, like war, famine, and human rights violations? Through a series of seemingly whimsical questions, this middle-grade nonfiction book introduces readers to people and organizations that are subverting violence, war, and totalitarian power. What if soldiers refused to carry weapons? What if fighter pilots dropped seeds instead of bombs? What if music could be a creative force for democracy? None of these ideas are impossible—in fact, they are all true historical examples of ideas that have been put into action. Accessible, engaging text introduces a different question and example on each spread. Evocative conceptual illustrations provide a light-hearted reminder of the power of imagination. This timely book encourages readers to think critically and dare to ask big questions, which might just change the world.