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Bernoulli and company


Eric learns that Bernoulli's Principle can explain how planes fly! It's not magic, it's science...it's STEM! Educational Gist: As air moves around an object, it creates different pressures on that object-fast moving air equals low air pressure and slow moving air equals high air pressure.
Date Published:2019

Canoe kids : exploring Indigenous cultures through authentic Indigenous voices. Volume 2, The Haida people of Haida Gwaii.


This issue focuses on the Haida Nation of Haida Gwaii. The articles included celebrate the oceans, the soundscape, harvesting, history and culture, totem poles, canoes, longhouses, food and recipes, transportation, the Haida Gwaii Watchmen Program, the bent box, repatriating the name for the territory, the Peace Potlatch, the language, totem pole raising, archaeological sites, and the Inside Passage. .
Date Published:2016

This issue focuses on the Haida Nation of Haida Gwaii. The articles included celebrate the oceans, the soundscape, harvesting, history and culture, totem poles, canoes, longhouses, food and recipes, transportation, the Haida Gwaii Watchmen Program, the bent box, repatriating the name for the territory, the Peace Potlatch, the language, totem pole raising, archaeological sites, and the Inside Passage. .

Date Published:2016

Eric makes paper! (recycling/changes in matter)


Recycling is important! Eric discovers how to make new paper from old. It's not magic, it's science...it's STEM! Educational Gist: Recycled paper is made from a pulp created by shredding old newspapers, notebooks and the like which are then mixed with water and dried.
Date Published:2019

Ghosts of Gastown

Renwick, Jessica,


Twelve-year-old Hope Graves, who can see ghosts, moves to Gastown, Vancouver, where she encounters a strange boy named Oliver who shares her ability. When a ghost seeks her help, Hope and Oliver must confront a dangerous entity hunting the souls of Gastown.
Date Published:2024

Black Canadians in Canada's World Wars

D'Souza, Brian, 1981-


Learn about the lives and accomplishments of Black Canadians who served in Canada's military, despite facing discrimination, during the World Wars.
Date Published:2023

La lune est un étang d'argent

Cassidy, Sara.


Traduction de: The moon is a silver pond. Pendant qu'un enfant vaque à ses occupations quotidiennes, toutes sortes de choses lui font penser à la lune, là-haut dans le ciel. La lune est comme un étang gelé la nuit dans le bois. La lune est comme le lait dans le seau après la traite des vaches.
Date Published:2020

Whoosh : Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions

Barton, Chris,


Electronic reproduction. You know the Super Soaker. It's one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson's life. Growing up in a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence and a passion for problem solving became the cornerstone for a career as an engineer and his work with NASA. But it is his invention of the Super Soaker water gun that has made his most memorable splash with kids and adults.
Date Published:2016

Electronic reproduction. You know the Super Soaker. It's one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson's life. Growing up in a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence and a passion for problem solving became the cornerstone for a career as an engineer and his work with NASA. But it is his invention of the Super Soaker water gun that has made his most memorable splash with kids and adults.

Date Published:2016

Aroland blueberry initiative


The Aroland Youth Blueberry Initiative provides an opportunity for community members, young and old alike, to use their traditional economy, picking and selling blueberries. This helps to raise funds for the youth programs of the Aroland First Nation in Ontario's Thunder Bay district.
Date Published:2019

Tremendous things : a novel

Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-,


Branded by a middle school humiliation, fourteen-year-old Wilbur needs help from friends Alex, Fabrizio, and elderly neighbor Sal to impress Charlie, a French girl whose school band is doing an exchange with his.
Date Published:2021

Scout is not a band kid

Armstrong, Jade,


Scout joins her middle school's band in order to go on the band's annual trip and meet her favorite author, but she is forced to face the music when the trombone section leader realizes Scout does not know how to play.
Date Published:2022

Looking for X

Ellis, Deborah, 1960-


"A Groundwood book." Eleven-year-old Khyber embarks on a desperate, all-night search for her friend, X, that proves even more wild than any adventure she has ever imagined.
Date Published:1999

Spy school : secret service

Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-,


Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.
Date Published:2017

The light between worlds

Weymouth, Laura E.


Five years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter... and were transported to another realm called the Woodlands. In a forest kingdom populated by creatures out of myth and legend, they found temporary refuge. When they finally returned to London, nothing had changed -- except themselves. Overcome with longing, Ev is desperate to return no matter what it takes. Philippa is determined to find a place in this world, and moves to America to escape the memory of what was. When Evelyn goes missing, Philippa wonders if Ev truly did find a way home, or if the weight of their worlds pulled her under. .
Date Published:2018

Five years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter... and were transported to another realm called the Woodlands. In a forest kingdom populated by creatures out of myth and legend, they found temporary refuge. When they finally returned to London, nothing had changed -- except themselves. Overcome with longing, Ev is desperate to return no matter what it takes. Philippa is determined to find a place in this world, and moves to America to escape the memory of what was. When Evelyn goes missing, Philippa wonders if Ev truly did find a way home, or if the weight of their worlds pulled her under. .

Date Published:2018

Bent not broken : Madeline and Justin

Schultz Nicholson, Lorna.


"Before Madeline's bike accident left her with a traumatic brain injury, she and her twin sister were inseparable. So were her parents. But now, Madeline's parents are divorced and Becky has become rebellious, angry, and sneaky. Even worse, she doesn't seem to want Madeline around anymore. At least Madeline knows she can always rely on the miniature therapy horses she visits every week. Justin is a senior and the president of his school's Best Buddies club. Before his sister with autism died, he used to take her to the barn to visit her beloved therapy horses. Now, with Madeline, he goes there to escape the gloom of his mother's grief at home and the pressures of his final year in high school. Together, Justin and Madeline help each other to reconnect with the important people in their lives - and with the lives that they thought they'd lost."--
Date Published:2017

"Before Madeline's bike accident left her with a traumatic brain injury, she and her twin sister were inseparable. So were her parents. But now, Madeline's parents are divorced and Becky has become rebellious, angry, and sneaky. Even worse, she doesn't seem to want Madeline around anymore. At least Madeline knows she can always rely on the miniature therapy horses she visits every week. Justin is a senior and the president of his school's Best Buddies club. Before his sister with autism died, he used to take her to the barn to visit her beloved therapy horses. Now, with Madeline, he goes there to escape the gloom of his mother's grief at home and the pressures of his final year in high school. Together, Justin and Madeline help each other to reconnect with the important people in their lives - and with the lives that they thought they'd lost."--

Date Published:2017

Tokyo dreaming

Jean, Emiko,


When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
Date Published:2022

The war of the worlds

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.



Date Published:2003

Neil Flambé and the Tokyo treasure

Sylvester, Kevin


Celebrity teenaged chef Neil Flambé heads to Japan to solve his next mystery when news arrives that his cousin Larry, a manga comic book writer visiting Tokyo, has died in a boating accident.
Date Published:2012

I'm Ok

Kim, Patti, 1970-,


Ok, a Korean American boy, tries a get rich quick scheme of starting a hair braiding business and winning the school talent competition to hide the fact that he is struggling with the loss of his father and the financial hardships he and his mother must now bear.
Date Published:2018

Too far away to touch

Newman, Lesléa


Zoe's favorite uncle Leonard takes her to a planetarium and explains that if he dies he will be like the stars, too far away to touch, close enough to see.
Date Published:1995

The cats in Krasinski Square

Hesse, Karen


Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
Date Published:2004