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Solving The Puzzle Under The Sea by Robert Burleigh
Marie Tharp was a geologist/mathematician/oceanographic cartographer who made a significant contribution to geology and our knowledge of the oceans. Born in 1920, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Marie spent...
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DVD: Wonder
Wonder is an incredibly wonderful adaptation of R. J. Palacio's outstanding debut novel of the same name. It is the story of August (Auggie) Pullman who was born with a serious facial deformity and has...
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Suspect Red by L. M. Elliot
Set in Washington, D.C. during the Cold War, Suspect Red captures the paranoia and fear as politicans and the FBI are determined to hunt down potential Communists and subversives.Fourteen-year-old...
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Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
Gentle Ben is a classic story set in the wilderness of the Alaskan Territory. Thirteen-year-old Mark Andersen lives in Orca City a fictional fishing village along the Alaskan coast with his father Karl...
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Algonquin Spring by Rick Revelle
In Algonquin Spring, Revelle picks up the story six years after the Haudenosaunee raid that saw Mahingan's wife Wabananang captured and most of his warriors massacred. Revelle tells his story...
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Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine by Heather Lang
"I believe Ruth has performed a useful mission in the world. She has proved a woman can do things and I believe she has benefited aviation by shaming some of the men who lacked the nerve to help...
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Shame The Stars by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Shame the Stars is the story of two families set in Texas in 1915 during the Mexican revolution. The prologue sets the context for the story with the events that occurred at Easter, 1913 between the...
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DVD: Darkest Hour
Darkest Hour is an account of the first weeks of Winston Churchill's time as Prime Minister of England. The story begins on May 9, 1940. By this time Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark...
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Pocket Full of Colors: The magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist...
Disney artist, Mary Blair was born Mary Browne Robinson in 1911 in McAlester, Oklahoma. Her family was quite poor and so they moved frequently, from Oklahoma to Texas, and then finally settled in...
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The World Is Not A Rectangle by Jeanette Winter
Jeanette Winter's picture book, The World Is Not A Rectangle, written for younger readers, explores the life of Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Mohommad Hadid. Winter was inspired to learn more about...
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Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar
Ten-year-old Anjali and her friend Muslim friend Irfaan are caught vandalizing the house of Captain Brent the British officer who is the British Raj authority in her small (fictional) town of...
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Levi Strauss Gets A Bright Idea by Tony Johnston
"Gold!" somebody yelled. Next thing anybody knew,the whole world rushed to California andstarted digging up the place. The trouble wasthey rushed so fast, they lost their pants."(that's American for...
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Across A War-Tossed Sea by L.M. Elliott
Fourteen-year-old Charles Bishop and his ten-year-old brother Wesley are celebrating Labor Day 1943 with their American host family, the Ratcliffs at a pond that feeds Four Mile Creek. Charles and...
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Lion's Island by Margarita Engle
Lion's Island is set on the island of Cuba during the late nineteenth century, spanning the years from 1871 to 1878 and focuses on the struggles of the Chinese indentured labourers to obtain their...
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Escape From Aleppo by N.H. Senzai
Escape From Aleppo tells the story of the Syrian War through the eyes of a young girl as she makes her way across the city of Aleppo after getting separated from her family.Early on the morning of...
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The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
The Night Diary is a fictional account of one family's experience during the partition of India into two countries in 1947. The story is told in the form of diary entries written by the main character,...
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The Sound of Freedom by Kathy Kacer
The Sound of Freedom is a fictionalized account of a young girl whose family manages to escape Poland with the help of world-renowned violinist, Bronislaw Huberman. Huberman was a child prodigy who...
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Fania's Heart by Anne Renaud
Fania's Heart tells the moving story of Fania (Landau) Fainer who was a forced labourer at the munitions factory at Auschwitz. In 1944, Zlata Sznajderhaus also a worker at Auschwitz, came up with the...
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Liana's Dance by Rosanne Hawke
The novel opens with Liana and her best friend Evie shopping at the bazaar in the village of Murree in northern Pakistan. Because Pakistan is a Muslim country, the two girls must be accompanied by a...
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The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
"...I dress my thoughts in the clothing of a poem."The Poet X is about a young girl's struggle with faith and identity and trying to find her own voice. Fifteen-year-old Xiomara Batista lives in...
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