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48 Grasshopper Estates

De Waal, Sara, 1990-,


A little girl uses imagination and inventiveness to spread friendship through her community. But will she find a friend of her own? Whether it's a supersonic sandwich maker or a twelve-tailed dragon, Sicily Bridges can make almost anything from materials she finds around her apartment complex. But when it comes to making friends, Sicily has yet to find the perfect fit. This story emphasizes the power of imagination and finding companionship where you least expect it.
Date Published:2021

A little girl uses imagination and inventiveness to spread friendship through her community. But will she find a friend of her own? Whether it's a supersonic sandwich maker or a twelve-tailed dragon, Sicily Bridges can make almost anything from materials she finds around her apartment complex. But when it comes to making friends, Sicily has yet to find the perfect fit. This story emphasizes the power of imagination and finding companionship where you least expect it.

Date Published:2021

Little pine cone : wildfires and the natural world

Wagstaffe, Johanna.


This STEM-based picture book explains what wildfires are and how they are started and managed, using the life cycle of a Jack pine cone to illustrate the concept.
Date Published:2022

Rose Ouellette : the Québécoise director and performer with an 80-year career


Best known as her character La Poune, Rose Ouellette was the first female director of two theatres in North America. "If there are those in the room who have troubles, as long as they laugh, they will be happy." The undisputed Queen of burlesque theatre in Quebec, and a comedian at heart, her unique presence delighted audiences on stage and screen for 80 years.
Date Published:2022

Kenzie's little tree

McGauley, Alison,


Kenzie's mom doesn't always feel well, but Kenzie learns that she is strong -- just like the little tree they plant in their yard -- and that together, they can get through the hard times.
Date Published:2025

Lunar New Year

Chow, Bill,


What is Lunar New Year? -- the history of the holiday -- Traditions of the holiday -- Canada celebrates Lunar New Year. "Discusses the history of Lunar New Year and how it is celebrated in Canada." --
Date Published:2023

Sam's Story : Sex Assault Survivor Speaks Out. April 2019


From the Curio channel: News in Review. At 17, Sam Fazio was just a regular teenager at a school dance in Vancouver. Then she was violently sexually attacked in a bathroom stall. Sam reported the crime and went through the grueling process of physical and mental recovery while having to deal with police and a court case that left her and others shaking their heads. Since then, Sam says she questions why any victim of sexual assault would come forward to report an attack. As a minor at the time of the attack, Sam could have kept her identity secret. But she took the extraordinary step of going to court to ask that the publication ban on her story be lifted. Now she's speaking out and discussing the ongoing challenges faced even in this era of #MeToo. Warning: this program contains disturbing language and subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Date Published:2019

From the Curio channel: News in Review. At 17, Sam Fazio was just a regular teenager at a school dance in Vancouver. Then she was violently sexually attacked in a bathroom stall. Sam reported the crime and went through the grueling process of physical and mental recovery while having to deal with police and a court case that left her and others shaking their heads. Since then, Sam says she questions why any victim of sexual assault would come forward to report an attack. As a minor at the time of the attack, Sam could have kept her identity secret. But she took the extraordinary step of going to court to ask that the publication ban on her story be lifted. Now she's speaking out and discussing the ongoing challenges faced even in this era of #MeToo. Warning: this program contains disturbing language and subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.

Date Published:2019

Fat chance, Charlie Vega

Maldonado, Crystal.


Title proper from title frame. Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
Date Published:2021

Introduction to climate and biomes

Howell, Izzi.


Takes readers on a journey across Earth's physical features, exploring oceans, atmosphere, biomes, and more!
Date Published:2025

Canada-India Tensions : An Accusation of Assassination. November 2023


From the Curio channel: News in Review. A Sikh separatist leader is shot dead in British Columbia. Canada accuses India of involvement in his assassination. As tensions mount between the two countries, fears grow over national sovereignty, safety and polarization.
Date Published:2023

Lark Has the Shivers.

Deen, Natasha.


In this illustrated early chapter book, Lark and Connor are asked to solve two mysteries in one day! When pets go missing from the local fair and Sophie's house appears to be haunted, the Ba twins have only a little time to figure out a lot of problems.
Date Published:2022

Sky Wolf's Call.

Yellowhorn, Eldon.


Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication and Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Author's Note -- Chapter 1: Sky Wolf's Call -- Chapter 2: Water Knowledge Ways -- Chapter 3: Fire and Smoke Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Indigenous Knowledge and Food Security -- Chapter 5: Healing Knowledge Ways -- Chapter 6: Sky Knowledge -- Chapter 7: Keeping the Knowledge -- Chapter 8: Sky Wolf's Call -- Thanks and Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Selected Reading -- Sources and Contacts -- Image Credits -- Index. From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have shared their wisdom with younger people through oral history, stories, ceremonies, and records that took many forms. In Sky Wolf's Call, award-winning author team of Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by people who have a long history with the natural world. Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Date Published:2022

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication and Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Author's Note -- Chapter 1: Sky Wolf's Call -- Chapter 2: Water Knowledge Ways -- Chapter 3: Fire and Smoke Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Indigenous Knowledge and Food Security -- Chapter 5: Healing Knowledge Ways -- Chapter 6: Sky Knowledge -- Chapter 7: Keeping the Knowledge -- Chapter 8: Sky Wolf's Call -- Thanks and Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Selected Reading -- Sources and Contacts -- Image Credits -- Index. From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have shared their wisdom with younger people through oral history, stories, ceremonies, and records that took many forms. In Sky Wolf's Call, award-winning author team of Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by people who have a long history with the natural world. Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Date Published:2022

Canada Reads 2021 : Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Natalie Zina Walschots is a writer and journalist from Toronto. She is also the author of the poetry collections DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains and Thumbscrews. Hench is her first novel. Hench is a novel about Anna, a woman who pays the bills by doing administrative work for villains. But when an incident involving the world's most popular superhero leaves her injured and gets her fired, Anna realizes what happened to her isn't unique - and she might have the means to take down the so-called hero who hurt her. How? With every office worker's secret weapon: data. Actor and comedian Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is championing Hench on Canada Reads 2021.
Date Published:2021

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Natalie Zina Walschots is a writer and journalist from Toronto. She is also the author of the poetry collections DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains and Thumbscrews. Hench is her first novel. Hench is a novel about Anna, a woman who pays the bills by doing administrative work for villains. But when an incident involving the world's most popular superhero leaves her injured and gets her fired, Anna realizes what happened to her isn't unique - and she might have the means to take down the so-called hero who hurt her. How? With every office worker's secret weapon: data. Actor and comedian Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is championing Hench on Canada Reads 2021.

Date Published:2021

Eid ul Adha

Afzal, Shazia,


What is Eid ul Adha -- Who celebrates Eid ul Adha -- The history of Eid ul Adha -- Eid ul Adha traditions -- Eid ul Adha in Canada. "Discusses the history of Eid ul Adha and how it is celebrated in Canada." --
Date Published:2023

Les bas du pensionnat : une histoire vraie

Jordan-Fenton, Christy


Titre original: Fatty legs. Curieuse et entêtée, sachant qu'elle y apprendrait à lire comme sa soeur, Olemaun Pokiak demande à ses parents de l'envoyer à l'école des Blancs. Après plusieurs refus, son père fléchit, mais la prévient que la vie au pensionnat catholique d'Aklavik ne sera pas rose. On tentera d'y polir sa culture d'Inuvialiut en lui donnant un nom occidental, en lui coupant les cheveux, elle lui faisant effectuer de dures corvées tout en lui imposant une discipline autoritaire. Forte de son désir de savoir lire un jour, l'enfant de 8 ans quitte son petit univers familier de l'île de Banks pour rejoindre, après cinq jours de voyages en mer, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest. Aguerrie, elle en ressort quelques années plus tard amère et blessées mais sans y avoir oublié qui elle est et d'où elle vient.
Date Published:2024

Titre original: Fatty legs. Curieuse et entêtée, sachant qu'elle y apprendrait à lire comme sa soeur, Olemaun Pokiak demande à ses parents de l'envoyer à l'école des Blancs. Après plusieurs refus, son père fléchit, mais la prévient que la vie au pensionnat catholique d'Aklavik ne sera pas rose. On tentera d'y polir sa culture d'Inuvialiut en lui donnant un nom occidental, en lui coupant les cheveux, elle lui faisant effectuer de dures corvées tout en lui imposant une discipline autoritaire. Forte de son désir de savoir lire un jour, l'enfant de 8 ans quitte son petit univers familier de l'île de Banks pour rejoindre, après cinq jours de voyages en mer, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest. Aguerrie, elle en ressort quelques années plus tard amère et blessées mais sans y avoir oublié qui elle est et d'où elle vient.

Date Published:2024

Lever de soleil sur la moisson

Collins, Suzanne



Date Published:2025

Olivia wrapped in vines

Nepveu-Villeneuve, Maude.


A picture book about a young girl who imagines her anxiety as vines that grow around her body making it hard to function.
Date Published:2022

Aaron Slater, illustrator.

Beaty, Andrea.


When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
Date Published:2021

Overbooked. 2, the economy of tourism


From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Expires on: November 1, 2030. Tourism is a $9 trillion industry - and growing. But where does all that money go? Are you getting the best bang for your buck? And are your host destinations benefitting? In Cancun, often less than 20 cents of every dollar stays locally. The French Riviera has managed to diversify its tourism industry in keeping up with the digital age and a luxury hotel on Canada’s Fogo Island is reinventing the business model of travel and tourism.
Date Published:2024

From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Expires on: November 1, 2030. Tourism is a $9 trillion industry - and growing. But where does all that money go? Are you getting the best bang for your buck? And are your host destinations benefitting? In Cancun, often less than 20 cents of every dollar stays locally. The French Riviera has managed to diversify its tourism industry in keeping up with the digital age and a luxury hotel on Canada’s Fogo Island is reinventing the business model of travel and tourism.

Date Published:2024

Rental Housing Disrepair


From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Episode of the Agenda aired in March, 2019. Thousands of tenants in the past year were forced from their high-rise apartments after the buildings they call home failed safety audits. With power, water, and heat shut off as a result, residents scrambled for accommodation in an already extremely tight rental market. Part of a generation of purpose-built rentals - some now approaching 70 years old - such buildings are a crucial part of the rental market, housing many thousands across the GTA. The Agenda discusses whether these building can be kept onstream, safe and affordable.
Date Published:2019

From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Episode of the Agenda aired in March, 2019. Thousands of tenants in the past year were forced from their high-rise apartments after the buildings they call home failed safety audits. With power, water, and heat shut off as a result, residents scrambled for accommodation in an already extremely tight rental market. Part of a generation of purpose-built rentals - some now approaching 70 years old - such buildings are a crucial part of the rental market, housing many thousands across the GTA. The Agenda discusses whether these building can be kept onstream, safe and affordable.

Date Published:2019

Bharatanatyam in ballet shoes.

Jain, Mahak.


A girl explores her love of dancing and her cultural identity in a lively picture book with echoes of the real-life collaboration between Bharatanatyam icon Rukmini Devi Arundale and ballerina Anna Pavlova. Paro comes from a dancing family. At home, she dances Bharatanatyam with her mom, and now she’s excited to learn ballet. But what if she can’t dance like the other kids in her class? Ballerinas move like fairies, while Bharatanatyam dancers seem like queens. Paro can’t be both...can she? Anu Chouhan’s vibrant, energetic illustrations emphasize themes of creative flexibility and navigating the intersections of different cultural identities."-- Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

A girl explores her love of dancing and her cultural identity in a lively picture book with echoes of the real-life collaboration between Bharatanatyam icon Rukmini Devi Arundale and ballerina Anna Pavlova. Paro comes from a dancing family. At home, she dances Bharatanatyam with her mom, and now she’s excited to learn ballet. But what if she can’t dance like the other kids in her class? Ballerinas move like fairies, while Bharatanatyam dancers seem like queens. Paro can’t be both...can she? Anu Chouhan’s vibrant, energetic illustrations emphasize themes of creative flexibility and navigating the intersections of different cultural identities."-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2022