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Tom McLeod is an eleven-year-old boy from Aklavik, of mixed Gwich'in and Inuvialuit heritage. Tom tells us why his home…
in the Mackenzie Delta is a special place and why he loves to live on the land. He describes hunting for survival while being careful about how his people use the land. Grades 3-6. 2008.
Advice for girls on everyday challenges, such as friendship and family, boyfriends and crushes, popularity and conflicts, self-esteem and body…
issues (menstruation, bras, braces), and "tough stuff" like moving and grief. Based on questions frequently handled by Girls' Life magazine. For junior and senior high readers. 2000.
Ma Yan is a teenager from Ningxia, China, a drought-stricken rural area. Education can be the difference between a life…
of crushing poverty and a better future, but money is scarce. Ma Yan's diary chronicles her struggle to escape hardship and bring prosperity to her family, through her persistent, sometimes desperate, attempts to continue her schooling. Grades 4-7 and older readers. 2002, 2004. Uniform title: Journal de Ma Yan.
A coast-to-coast tour of Canada, examining the history and geography of Canada's 10 provinces and three territories, filled with little-known…
facts and fascinating stories. Includes highlights of great historical moments, information about government and industries, and portraits of memorable men and women. There are also recipes for delicacies like Caribou Chilli, lists of the people who have gone over Niagara Falls, and things that people have seen in Lake Okanagan. For grades 4-7. c2002.
During the 1930s, the stories told by the elders of the Rama Ojibway Band were compiled and translated into English.…
These 16 stories tell of Nanabush, one of the most powerful, and most mischievous, spirits of the Ojibway world. Grades 4-7 and older readers. 1979.
Looks closely at our most common fears, including natural disasters, predators, spiders, disease, needles, dentists, crashes, darkness, speaking in public,…
heights, ghosts and monsters, to show us how much of that fear is perhaps unnecessary. The result is a fun mix of true-life stories with the psychology of fear, the statistical probabilities of things happening, and a lot of reassurance. Grades 4-7. 2011.
Hunter March, best known as the face of AwesomenessTV, brings his signature interview skills to "TBH: A True Story Collab".…
Today's most popular creators join him to share never-before-told stories about family, friendship, love, heartbreak, and more. With thousands of videos and millions of views, it might seem like they've got all the answers. But no one knows it all, so they've collabed about what they got right - and more often what they got wrong - to get a little closer to figuring it all out. Because TBH, growing up is tough and sometimes you need a little help from your friends. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.
The first part of the book tells the story of a young Amazon Munduruku boy, Kaxi, raised to be a…
shaman. In the second part, the author describes how he came to the city of Sao Paulo as a young man, and experienced culture shock and racism. The last part provides information about the Munduruku and other Amazon people and their ways of living. Grades 2-4. 2000, 1996. Uniform title: Histórias de índio.
Discusses the social and psychological aspects of dating and breaking up, as well as the elements of a healthy romantic…
relationship. Offers advice on surviving emotionally and obtaining help from others. For junior and senior high readers. 2000.
Pour vivre, il faut se nourrir. Notre organisme en a besoin pour fonctionner. Mais comment l'homme a-t-il appris à cuire,…
à cuisiner, à produire la nourriture? S'alimenter, manger, déguster, savourer, festoyer... voilà un livre passionnant qui nous permettra de découvrir la nourriture sous tous ses aspects. Années 3-6 et plus. 2005.
Cent écoliers d'origines ethniques et culturelles diverses ont répondu à cette question: si tu pouvais changer le monde, que ferais-tu?…
L'auteure a écrit toutes les réponses dans un cahier, sans échapper un seul mot, en prenant bien soin de noter le nom et l'âge de chacun des enfants. Années 2-4. 2013.
When North American kids think of a school, they probably see rows of desks, stacks of textbooks, and linoleum-tiled hallways,…
not boats, tents, or train platforms. There are green schools, mobile schools, and even tree house schools – people around the world have thought up all kinds of creative ways to get kids educated. Travel to India, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Russia, China, Uganda, and a dozen other countries to visit some of these schools and meet the students who attend them. Grades 3-6. 2011.
Trouver le mot juste, celui qui fait mouche, gouter l'art de la nuance à travers la sympathique tribu des faux…
synonymes de la langue française. 120 couples de mots voisins, mis en scène avec humour et malice, pour apprendre à exprimer justement ses sentiments, ses impressions, ses opinions et s'abandonner au délicieux plaisir de choisir ses mots. Années 5-8. 2004.
Saviez-vous que les Russes et les Chinois n'utilisent pas de déterminants, que le terme anglophone "set" a 194 significations différentes,…
que le mot de 25 lettres "anticonstitutionnellement" dont les Français sont si fiers fait piètre figure face à un mot suédois de 130 caractères, que le chinois courant requiert la connaissance de 3000 à 5000 sinogrammes, que les Arabes n'écrivent le plus souvent que les consonnes et laissent au lecteur le soin de deviner les voyelles, que le langage navajo a déjà été utilisé comme code secret pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ou encore que tutoyer un fonctionnaire allemand sans autorisation peut conduire à une amende de 500 euros? En multipliant les anecdotes étonnantes, amusantes, historiques et toujours enrichissantes, cet ouvrage propose un fabuleux tour du monde des langues, des différents alphabets et des systèmes d'écriture ainsi que des particularités culturelles qui y sont liées. Années 3-6 et plus. 2013.
Les expressions populaires se sont formées de bouche à oreille au cours des siècles. Pour découvrir leurs origines et apprendre…
à les employer convenablement, voici un guide cocasse et surprenant qui vous permettra de «damer le pion» à tous vos amis. Années 3-6 et plus. 1986.
Think Canada has no stories of intrigue and adventure? How about buried treasures, ice mummies, bootleggers and shipwrecks? Includes the…
unsolved mysteries of the ongoing hunt in Nova Scotia for the legendary treasure of Captain Kidd and his crew, the discovery of the mummified Franklin Expedition in Nunavut by modern-day scientists, and an exploration of the Great Lakes Triangle phenomenon. Grades 4-7. 2012.