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+ | ===== Sukaq and the Raven, by Roy Goose, Kerry McCluskey, Soyeon Kim ===== | ||
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+ | 36 Pages | ||
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+ | Sukaq loves to drift off to sleep listening to his mother tell him stories. His favourite story is the tale of how a raven created the world. But this time, as his mother begins to tell the story and his eyelids become heavy, he is suddenly whisked away on the wings of the raven to ride along as the entire world is formed! This traditional legend from Inuit storyteller Roy Goose is brought to life through co-author Kerry Mc Cluskey' | ||
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+ | ===== One Winter Night – by Jennifer Lloyd, Lynn Ray ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | One winter night, out of their nest, ten little grey mice climb onto the ice. One by one they run back to the house scared off by a new animal that comes by until the last one find itself far down the ice and has to hurry back, past each of the ten animals. Hurry, hurry! Scurry scurry! Safe in the house, sneaked the small mouse, one winter night, under the moonlight. | ||
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+ | ===== Sick Simon by Dan Krall ===== | ||
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+ | 48 Pages | ||
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+ | Are germs gross, or great? Sick Simon learns how to be health-conscious during cold and flu season in this clever picture book from the author-illustrator of The Great Lollipop Caper. | ||
+ | Simon is going to have the best week ever. Who cares if he has a cold? He goes to school anyway, and sneezes everywhere, and coughs on everyone, and touches everything. | ||
+ | Germs call him a hero! Everyone else calls him… Sick Simon. When will it end? How far will he go? Will the germs take over, or can Sick Simon learn to change his ways | ||
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+ | ===== The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant, Kathryn Brown ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | How does an old woman who has outlived all her friends keep from being lonely? By naming the things in her life she knows she will never outlive - like her house, Franklin, and her bed, Roxanne. When a shy brown puppy appears at her front gate, the old woman won't name it, because it might not outlive her. Tender watercolors capture the charm of this heartwarming story of an old woman who doesn' | ||
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+ | ===== Dirty Cowboy by Amy Timberlake ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | After he finds a tumbleweed in his chaps and the numerous bugs buzzing around him affect his hearing, the cowboy decides it's time to head to the river. Once there, he peels off all his clothes and tells his trusty old dog to guard them against strangers. He takes a refreshing bath and emerges clean as corn – but so fresh-smelling that his dog doesn' | ||
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+ | ===== The Three Questions, by Jon J Muth ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | Nikolai is a boy who believes that if he can find the answers to his three questions, he will always know how to be a good person. His friends--a heron, a monkey, and a dog--try to help, but to no avail, so he asks Leo, the wise old turtle. "When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do?" Leo doesn' | ||
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+ | ===== The prairie fire by Marilynn Reynolds ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | A historical picture book set during the Westward expansion. Young Percy is impatient to help with the farm chores, but his father tells him he must wait till he is older. When a prairie fire threatens their homestead, the boy bravely joins in the efforts to save it. When the danger has passed, his father asks him to help bring the livestock back to the barn: " | ||
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+ | ===== Which Way Should I Go? by Sylvia Olsen, Ron Martin, Kasia Charko ===== | ||
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+ | 40 Pages | ||
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+ | Joey is a happy Nuu-chah-nulth boy, eager to help and quick to see the bright side of things. But when he loses his beloved grandmother, | ||
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+ | ===== The Kindhearted Crocodile by Lucia Panzieri, AntonGionata Ferrari ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | Once upon a time, there was a crocodile--not just any old crocodile with big sharp teeth and powerful jaws, but a crocodile with the kindest of hearts that was gentle and sensitive, and dreamed of one day being a beloved pet in a happy family. Through the magic of a picture book and with an irrepressible desire to please, this ferocious-looking crocodile that tidies toys, washes dishes, and fights monsters in bad dreams makes his own dream come true. | ||
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+ | ===== Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay, Renne Benoit ===== | ||
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+ | 24 Pages | ||
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+ | Much has been written about war and remembrance, | ||
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+ | ===== Best Friend Trouble by Frances Itani, Geneviève Després ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | Hanna is fed up with her best friend, Lizzy, who is always trying to be better than her. When Lizzy tells Hanna she can throw her ball farther and succeeds, it’s the last straw. Hanna is tired of feeling second best, but what she doesn’t realize is that sometimes she makes Lizzy feel that way too. Maybe there’s a way they can still be best friends after all.A funny and relatable story about best friends, competition and learning to see things from another’s point of view. | ||
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+ | ===== Some Things Are Scary by Florence Parry Heide, Jules Feiffer ===== | ||
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+ | 40 Pages | ||
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+ | You’re skating downhill, but you don’t know how to stop. You’re having your hair cut, and you suddenly realize . . . they’re cutting it too short. There’s no question about it: some things are scary. And never have common bugaboos been exposed with more comic urgency than in this masterful mix of things horrible and humiliating, | ||
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+ | ===== Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!: A Sonic Adventure by Wynton Marsalis, Paul Rogers ===== | ||
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+ | 40 Pages | ||
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+ | What’s that sound? The back door squeeeaks open, sounding like a noisy mouse nearby — eeek, eeeek, eeeek! Big trucks on the highway rrrrrrrumble, | ||
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+ | ===== Mama, I'll Give You the World by Roni Schotter, S. Saelig Gallagher ===== | ||
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+ | 40 Pages | ||
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+ | Every day after school Luisa goes to Walter' | ||
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+ | ===== The Polar Bear’s gift, by Jeanne Bushey ===== | ||
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+ | 32 Pages | ||
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+ | Inspired by a traditional Inuit legend, The Polar Bear's Gift is about the compassion and resourcefulness of a young girl with ambitious dreams. It is Pani's trial and her triumph to discover that what makes a great hunter is not necessarily a straight aim. It is the lure of the heart on the cold arctic ice. | ||
===== Stolen Words, by Melanie Florence ===== | ===== Stolen Words, by Melanie Florence ===== | ||
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- | ===== Enzo Races in the Rain, by Garth Stein ===== | ||
- | 36 pages | + | ===== Stella, Fairy of the Forest, by Marie-Louise Gay ===== |
- | Life on the farm is pretty quiet—except when he races the cars that come down the barn road. Because Enzo is fast. He knows he's different from other dogs. But people never understand Enzo when he barks, and it drives him crazy! Then one day Enzo meets a little girl named Zoë and her father, Denny, and everything changes. | + | 32 pages |
- | ===== Noni Says No, by Heather Hartt-Sussman ===== | + | Stella’s little brother, Sam, wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and says that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some. So begins another adventure of Stella, the irrepressible redhead, and her slightly apprehensive little brother. But Sam surprises Stella and himself |
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- | Noni can do many things: she can give her baby brother his bottle, she can help her mother in the kitchen, and she can even walk over to her friend Susie’s house. But Noni just can’t say “no.” When she was very small, it was easy saying “no” to everybody, but now that she has a best friend, she wants to please. Noni can’t say “no” to her friend, even when it means she has to hand over a precious toy, or when it means agreeing to a hideous haircut, or even giving up her bed at a sleepover. But when Noni finally finds her voice, the consequences are not what she – or the reader – expects. | + | ---- |
- | ===== Stella, Fairy of the Forest, by Marie-Louise Gay ===== | + | ====== Children' |
- | 32 pages | + | ===== Some of the Kinder Planets: Stories by Tim Wynne-Jones ===== |
- | Stella’s little brother, Sam, wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and says that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some. So begins another adventure of Stella, the irrepressible redhead, and her slightly apprehensive little brother. But Sam surprises Stella and himself by having a few ideas of his own — ideas that ensure a wonderful end to a perfect day in the woods. | + | 136 Pages |
- | ===== Missuk' | + | Meet someone new... Harriet, who sees Mars and tastes pomengranates -- all in one day; Cluny, a girl who wants to publish a magazine for people with weird names; Ky, who lives in a geodesic dome deep in the country; Fletcher, the survivor of an almost fatal illness, who decides to paste the names of exotic places he would like to visit on his chest and stomach; Edward George, who made a discovery and became famous -- famous and forgotten -- on a hot day in 1867. |
- | 36 pages | + | ===== Johnny Kellock Died Today by Hadley Dyer ===== |
- | In the land under the Northern lights, a little girl dreams of carving snow geese out of soapstone, just like her father. He promises that he'll teach her when he returns from his hunt, so Missuk goes out to play in the snow, hoping to forget her worry that she lacks his skill as a carver. Then, when a terrifying storm blows in, Missuk has something far worse to worry about: Will her father return from his hunt? | + | 208 Pages |
+ | Rosalie Norman is facing the summer of 1959 as if she was being sentenced to boredom. Her best friend is away and she is stuck socializing with the boy next door, a strange young man called "the Gravedigger" | ||
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- | ====== Children' | + | ===== Last Chance Bay Paperback by Anne Laurel Carter |
- | ===== Dear Earthling: Cosmic Correspondent, | + | 188 Pages |
- | 183 pages | + | Set in Cape Breton in the early stages of the Second World War, Last Chance Bay tells the story of Meg, a young girl who dreams of flying. Inspired by her heroines Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham, Meg's dream is a lofty one and unlikely to ever come true. Meg's father, like most of the men in town, is employed in the coal mine, and life for all is a daily struggle for survival. When the bare essentials are all that's expected, how can anyone nourish hope? |
- | Dethbert Jones is your average ten-year-old – only he lives on the planet Crank with his pet chicken-snail and his robot best friend Andi Social. When he and Andi join the Space Cadets, a Scouts-like organization, | + | ===== Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle ===== |
- | To earn his cosmic correspondent badge, Dethbert begins writing to an earthling – and boy, does he have a lot to write about! Between questions about Earth food, culture, and activities, Dethbert recounts his experiences attempting to avoid his horrible little sister, impress his animal-obsessed crush, and fly a space shuttle. Misadventures – from hairy ankles to crash landings – abound, but Dethbert’s curiosity and enthusiasm can’t be crushed, not by anything in this galaxy, anyway! | + | 176 Pages |
- | ===== Those who run in the sky, by Aviaq Johnston ===== | + | Martin O' |
+ | But life in Ottawa' | ||
+ | It would all be very exciting, except for one thing. In their endless pursuit of more funds Martin and Billy have joined the church choir -- as summer boys. And the organist, Mr. T.D.S. George, is awfully fond of Martin. But Martin, despite his hardships, has a pure soul and his Granny' | ||
- | 200 pages | + | ===== Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Guelph, Ontario, 1897 by Jean Little ===== |
- | A coming-of-age story that follows a young shaman named Pitu as he learns to use his powers and ultimately finds himself lost in the world of the spirits. After a strange and violent blizzard leaves Pitu stranded on the sea ice, without his dog team or any weapons to defend himself, he soon realizes that he is no longer in the world that he once knew. The storm has carried him into the world of the spirits, a world populated with terrifying creatures—black wolves with red eyes, ravenous and constantly stalking him, and water-dwelling creatures that want nothing more than to snatch him and pull him into the frigid ocean through an ice crack—as well as beings less frightening, | + | 224 Pages |
- | After stumbling upon a fellow shaman who has been trapped in the spirit world for many years, Pitu must master all of his shamanic powers to make his way back to the world of the living, to his family, and to the girl that he loves. | + | Through |
- | =====Confessions of a Teenage Leper, | + | ===== Stephen Fair by Tim Wynne-Jones |
- | 304 pages | + | 192 Pages |
- | Abby Furlowe has plans. Big plans. She' | + | Stephen' |
- | But then she notices some spots on her skin. She writes them off as a rash, but things only get worse. She's tired all the time, her hands and feet are numb and her face starts to look like day-old pizza. By the time her seventeenth birthday rolls around, she's tried every cream and medication the doctors have thrown at her, but nothing works. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery illness goes into overdrive and finally gets diagnosed: Hansen' | ||
- | Abby is sent to a facility to recover and deal with this new reality. Her many misdiagnoses mean that some permanent damage has been done, and all of her plans suddenly come tumbling down. If she can't even wear high heels anymore, what is the point of living? Cheerleading is out the window, and she might not even make it to prom. PROM! | + | ===== Summer Of The Mad Monk by Cora Taylor ===== |
- | But it's during this recovery that Abby has to learn to live with something even more difficult than Hansen' | + | 145 Pages |
- | ===== Very Rich, by Polly Horvath ===== | + | There was no doubt he was strong. And he looked to Pip like a man who couldn' |
- | 304 pages | + | ===== The Crazy Man Paperback by Pamela Porter ===== |
- | Rupert lives with his parents and many siblings in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio. When he spends Christmas with his classmate Turgid Rivers, he is offered all the food he can eat, and the opportunity to win wonderful prizes in the family games—prizes he hopes to take home so he can share his Christmas bounty with his family. | + | 176 Pages |
- | Feeling secretly guilty, all of the adults | + | It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family |
- | Deftly blending magical realism with heartbreak, hope, and a wide cast of eccentric characters, Polly Horvath weaves a tale that is darkly funny and deeply poignant. | + | ===== Uncle Ronald by Brian Doyle ===== |
- | ===== Fire Song, by Adam Garnet Jones ===== | + | 168 Pages |
- | 232 pages | + | Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can't remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of what happened one hundred years ago, when he and his mother ran away from his violent father to take refuge in the hills north of Ottawa. Brilliantly combining humor and tragedy, the award-winning Uncle Ronald is one of Brian Doyle' |
- | How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she’s too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves―his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane’s dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone. Shane feels that his only chance of a better life is moving to Toronto, but David refuses to join him. When yet another tragedy strikes, the two boys have to make difficult choices about their future together. With deep insight into the life of Indigenous people on the reserve, this book masterfully portrays how a community looks to the past for guidance and comfort while fearing a future of poverty and shame. Shane’s rocky road to finding himself takes many twists and turns, but ultimately ends with him on a path that doesn’t always offer easy answers, but one that leaves the reader optimistic about his fate. | + | ===== Watching Jimmy Paperback by Nancy Hartry ===== |
- | ===== Here So Far Away, by Hadley Dyer ===== | + | 160 Pages |
- | 368 pages | + | Watching Jimmy is impossible-to-put-down; |
+ | With the dreadful secret locked away, Carolyn walks an emotional tightrope. No matter what else is happening in this post-war era, she must keep an eye on her now poor, brain damaged Jimmy. But when Uncle Ted threatens his beleaguered family with even more abuse and the loss of their home, Carolyn must find the courage to match wits with him and to speak out, using the truth as her only weapon. | ||
+ | Set in 1958, Watching Jimmy is a brilliant portrait of the post-war era, a family of strong women, and a resourceful heroine who exudes character, resilience, and most of all, love. | ||
- | Feisty and fearless George Warren (given name: Frances, but no one calls her that) has never let life get too serious. Now that she’s about to be a senior, her plans include partying with her tight-knit group of friends and then getting the heck out of town after graduation. | + | ===== Dear Earthling: Cosmic Correspondent, by Per Avey ===== |
- | But instead of owning her last year of high school, a fight with her best friend | + | 183 pages |
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+ | Dethbert Jones is your average ten-year-old – only he lives on the planet Crank with his pet chicken-snail and his robot best friend | ||
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+ | To earn his cosmic correspondent badge, Dethbert begins writing to an earthling – and boy, does he have a lot to write about! Between questions about Earth food, culture, and activities, Dethbert recounts his experiences attempting | ||
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+ | ===== Very Rich, by Polly Horvath ===== | ||
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+ | 304 pages | ||
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+ | Rupert lives with his parents and many siblings in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio. When he spends Christmas with his classmate Turgid Rivers, he is offered all the food he can eat, and the opportunity to win wonderful prizes in the family games—prizes he hopes to take home so he can share his Christmas bounty with his family. | ||
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+ | Feeling secretly guilty, all of the adults in Rivers family try to make it up to him by taking Rupert on one unlikely adventure after another, embroiling him in everything from time travel to bank robberies. | ||
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+ | Deftly blending magical realism with heartbreak, hope, and a wide cast of eccentric characters, Polly Horvath weaves a tale that is darkly funny and deeply poignant. | ||
- | So when George meets Francis, an older guy who shares her name and her affinity for sarcastic banter, she’s thrown. If she lets herself, she’ll fall recklessly, hopelessly in love. But because of Francis’s age, she tells no one—and ends up losing almost everything, including herself. | ||
===== Black Chuck, by Regan McDonell ===== | ===== Black Chuck, by Regan McDonell ===== | ||
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The tighter Evie and Réal get, the faster things seem to fall apart. And falling in love might just be the card that knocks the whole house down. | The tighter Evie and Réal get, the faster things seem to fall apart. And falling in love might just be the card that knocks the whole house down. | ||
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- | Wistful and profoundly intimate, Adele' | ||
===== Pulse Point, by Colleen Nelson ===== | ===== Pulse Point, by Colleen Nelson ===== | ||
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Told from three different points of view, this fast-paced adventure novel explores how group dynamics change under dire circumstances. Do the students of Mr. Baker’s class really know each other at all? Or do they just think they do? It turns out, it’s hard to hide in the dark. | Told from three different points of view, this fast-paced adventure novel explores how group dynamics change under dire circumstances. Do the students of Mr. Baker’s class really know each other at all? Or do they just think they do? It turns out, it’s hard to hide in the dark. | ||
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- | ===== A True Home (Heartwood Hotel, Book 1), by Kallie George ===== | ||
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- | 176 pages | ||
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- | When Mona the Mouse stumbles across the wondrous world of the Heartwood Hotel in the middle of a storm, she desperately hopes they' | ||
===== Sit, by Deborah Ellis ===== | ===== Sit, by Deborah Ellis ===== | ||
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These children find the courage to face their situations in ways large and small, in this eloquent collection from a master storyteller. | These children find the courage to face their situations in ways large and small, in this eloquent collection from a master storyteller. | ||
- | ===== The Cat at the Wall, by Deborah Ellis ===== | ||
- | 152 pages | ||
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- | On Israel’s West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards. Should she help him? After all, she’s just a cat. Or is she? It turns out that this particular cat is not used to thinking about anyone but herself. She was once a regular North American girl who only had to deal with normal middle-school problems — staying under the teachers’ radar, bullying her sister and the uncool kids at school, outsmarting her clueless parents. But that was before she died and came back to life as a cat, in a place with a whole different set of rules for survival. It's not long before the boy's teacher and classmates come looking for him, and the house is suddenly surrounded by Palestinian villagers throwing rocks, and the sound of Israeli tanks approaching. Not my business, thinks the cat. And then she suddenly understands what happened to the boy’s parents, and knows it's up to her to diffuse the situation. But what can a cat do? | ||
===== Looking for X, by Deborah Ellis ===== | ===== Looking for X, by Deborah Ellis ===== | ||
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