Fémi et Lou et le trésor perdu

Illustrated By: Catarina Oliveira

Dans ce miniroman illustré, Fémi et son ami Lou aident une voisine à désherber son terrain et à recueillir des œufs de papillons en vue de gagner assez d’argent pour s’acheter un détecteur de métal et ainsi retrouver un coffret à bijoux qu’ils ont perdu à la plage.

Gotcha Day

Illustrated By: Udayana Lugo

In this sweet rhyming picture book, a stray dog wanders through a neighborhood, dirty and hungry, until he's brought to a local rescue center where he gets fed, groomed and perfumed—and finally finds his forever home when a young girl and her family adopt him.

Springtime in Kitkatla

Illustrated By: Karlene Harvey

In this beautiful picture book, Walaas and her dzi'i (grandmother) take a fishing boat to their family’s reserve, Kitkatla, for spring break, where Walaas enjoys spending time with family, eating traditional foods and wandering the shoreline. Even though she’ll have to leave, she knows she’ll always belong there.

Tiny Hiker

Illustrated By: Jaimie MacGibbon

In this rhyming picture book, the tiny hiker is excited for her first backpacking trip to camp on the beach, but when the trail is longer, steeper and much more difficult than she expected, she has to find a way to keep going—even when she wants to give up.

The Water You're Swimming In

In this moving middle-grade novel, Noah tries to be the perfect kid to keep his parents happy and his anxiety at bay after his teenage brother runs away, but he finds himself floundering and sets off to find his brother himself.

Reflection

Introduction by: Dr. Rosie Ramsden

Hedy Bohm is a Jewish teenager from Oradea, Romania, who survives Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Fallersleben concentration camp, where she is a forced laborer at the Volkswagen factory. After liberation, Hedy, now an orphan, escapes from Communist Hungary to Canada, where she starts a family and becomes involved in Holocaust education.

Color in Nature

Part of the nonfiction Orca Wild series for middle-grade readers and illustrated with color photographs throughout, this book examines how animals use color for survival.

Gone Forever?

Illustrated By: Xulin Wang

Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, this illustrated book introduces young people to places around the world that could disappear because of the effects of human-caused climate change.