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Tales of the Prehistoric World: Adventures From the Land of the Dinosaurs by...
For dinosaur aficionados, Tales of the Prehistoric World is book filled with some of the most interesting fossil discoveries over the last two hundred years or so.Tales of the Prehistoric World opens...
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Yours 'Til Niagara Falls by Brenda Z. Guiberson
In this colourful picture book, Niagara Falls tells its own story beginning when millions of years ago the land was covered by an ocean filled with trilobites and crinoids. At this time it was not a...
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African Town by Irene Latham & Charles Waters
It is 1859. Eighteen-year-old Kossola, which means "I do not lose my fruits anymore." is the eldest child of his father's second wife Iya. Kossola, a young Yoruba man living in the village of Bante, is...
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Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist For Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes &...
Set against the backdrop of the 200 metre race at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, Tommie Smith tells his story in this excellent graphic novel, Victory. Stand!The book opens with Tommie remembering the...
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Brothers In Arms by Susan Hood
During World War II, Poland was invaded first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany. Men, women and children fled south to Allied army training camps located in the Middle East. In Persia (now...
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A Walk Through The Rainforest by Martin Jenkins
In this exquisite picture book, the author takes his readers on a short walk through the tropical rain forest using the beautiful artwork of illustrator Vicky White.The journey begins with an...
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On Her Wings: The Story of Toni Morrison by Jerdine Nolen
Toni Morrison began life as Chloe Ardelia Wofford. She was the second oldest of four children: an older sister Lois and two younger brothers, George and Raymond.Chloe loved to listen to the stories...
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Northwind by Gary Paulsen
Northwind is a survival tale set along the coast of Norway. It tells the fictional tale of an orphan boy named Leif who goes on a journey north after yet another life-altering event.Leif's mother died...
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Earth's Extraordinary Places: Galapagos by Tom Jackson
Galapagos is a fact-filled, colourful book for young readers about this extraordinary place. Galapagos opens with a detailed map showing the main islands (there are one hundred twenty-eight!) in the...
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FLY by Alison Hughes
Fourteen-year-old Felix Landon Yarrow, known as FLY "to anyone and everyone in a ten-mile radius" is on a quest of Don Quixote proportions. FLY lives with his mother who works as a caretaker: his...
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Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock by Linda Bailey
In recent years there have been several movies and a series about Sherlock Holmes, that great English detective. But who came up with the idea of Sherlock and what inspired the creation of one of...
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Call Me Bill by Lynette Richards
The story begins with a family on Marrs Island, Nova Scotia, March, 1873. The Clancy's have lived on the protected side of the island for three generations. Sarah Jane's husband, John O'Reilly fished...
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Life In Hot Water by Mary Batten
This picture book explores the fascinating and unique world that exists around thermal vents found in the world's ocean trenches.At the bottom of the oceans lie the most extreme environments on Earth:...
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Cher Ami by Melisandre Potter
Many different animals have been recruited during wars to help soldiers. In World War I, homing pigeons were one animal that was used.Cher Ami was a little pigeon who lived on a farm in England. She...
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Island of Spies by Sheila Turnage
Best friends twelve-year-old Neb, ten-year-old Rain and twelve-year-old Stick form the Dime Novel Kids, (the Dimes) a detective agency on Hatteras Island, off the coast of North Carolina. Their...
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Radium Girls by Cy
Grace Fryer arrives at work to find that Miss Rooney wants her to train a new hire, Edna Bolz. Grace is to teach Edna "lip-pointing". She tells Edna, it's not difficult and that by the end of the week,...
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Numb To This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely
When Kindra was thirteen-years-old, she and her mother moved from Wichita Falls, Texas to Oregon. Life was very different in Oregon compared to Texas. In Texas she played in storm drains, her school...
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Berani by Michelle Kadarusman
Berani weaves together the narratives of three characters, two young teens seeking to make their world better and an orangutan in captivity in a novel about identity, activism and coming of...
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Days of Sand by Aimee de Jongh
In 1937, twenty-two-year-old John Clark is rushing down the streets of Washington, D.C. to make an interview. He runs into a newsboy, scattering his newspapers on the sidewalk. But John can't stop to...
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The Silent Unseen by Amanda McCrina
Sixteen-year-old Maria Kaminska is being held prison in the NKVD headquarters in Lwow, Poland. She has been captured with no identification papers, and a German pistol, a Walther. The Soviets have been...
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