First Times
A picture book that celebrates the important adventures children experience as they grow.
A picture book that celebrates the important adventures children experience as they grow.
This fully illustrated, nonfiction book for middle readers focuses on earthquakes, how they happen and what you need to know.
A wordless board book that follows the journey of one red button as it falls off a jacket and transforms into a doorknob and many other things along the way.
Nikki and her friends go foraging with Nikki's grandmother, her yayah. Yayah teaches them the Interior Salish—N?e?kepmxcín—words for the herbs and plants they find. Beautifully illustrated by the award-winning illustrator Julie Flett, young readers will appreciate how much we can learn from exploring our countryside.
In this short novel, a single mother goes back to school in order to run her own bakery.
When Peyton doesn't want to wear a dress or dance at Pow Wow anymore, her Auntie finds regalia and an elder to help her navigate her Two-Spirit identity.
Tajalli, Mujtaba, and Aasiya just want a break from adult conversations. They go to check out the old garden in their new mosque building, and end up making a new friend and learning an important lesson about caring for the earth.
When Lulu’s dad reveals just before Christmas that she’s a woman and has changed her name, Lulu is very worried about the tags on her Christmas gifts – they all say the wrong name! With the help of her friend William and a lot of craft supplies, she fixes everything and goes on an adventure to make sure Santa gets the news in time.
The whole family is crammed into Bubbie Rose and Bubbie Ida Flora’s apartment to celebrate Passover. The room is small, but love is abundant and the search for the afikomen is on!
In this early chapter book, Lark and her brother, Connor, find the culprit when a pair of diamond earrings goes missing from the general store.
This nonfiction book examines how we can foster reconciliation with Indigenous people at individual, family, community and national levels.
An Inuit child draws colorful creatures in the white landscape.
A counting board book that introduces little ones to all the animals around the farm that are going to bed.
In this novel for teens, Trevor, who has Huntington's disease, connects with an old man who helps him live his life more fully.
This work of nonfiction, in the PopActivism series for teens, looks at how you can use a smartphone as a tool for social justice.
Ryan, who uses a wheelchair, is at his most confident when he's in the water. When he rescues his schoolmate, Jack, from the water their lives become connected, whether they like it or not. Ryan keeps Jack's secret about that day, but with Jack dogged by rumours about his sexuality at school, Ryan feels that Jack still might need help.
A little girl sets out to help her grandfather discover the Cree language that was stolen from him when he was sent away to residential school as a boy.
The story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water.
In this picture book, the ripple effect of one child's small action shows how we can all make a big environmental difference.
This nonfiction picture book is full of stunning wildlife photographs of the bears of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia.
