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Animorphs. 2, Le visiteur

Grine, Chris,


Traduction de : The visitor. Rachel est encore sous le choc après avoir appris que la Terre est secrètement attaquée par des parasites extraterrestres. Ses amis et elle sont la seule défense de la planète contre les Yirks. Cinq jeunes qui, par hasard, sont tombés sur un vaisseau spatial et ont reçu le pouvoir de se métamorphoser en animaux. La principale piste du groupe est le directeur adjoint, M. Chapman, l'hôte humain d'un officier Yirk de haut rang. Rachel se porte volontaire pour s'introduire dans la maison de Chapman. Mais ce qu'elle découvre à l'intérieur est peut-être au-delà de ses capacités.
Date Published:2022

Traduction de : The visitor. Rachel est encore sous le choc après avoir appris que la Terre est secrètement attaquée par des parasites extraterrestres. Ses amis et elle sont la seule défense de la planète contre les Yirks. Cinq jeunes qui, par hasard, sont tombés sur un vaisseau spatial et ont reçu le pouvoir de se métamorphoser en animaux. La principale piste du groupe est le directeur adjoint, M. Chapman, l'hôte humain d'un officier Yirk de haut rang. Rachel se porte volontaire pour s'introduire dans la maison de Chapman. Mais ce qu'elle découvre à l'intérieur est peut-être au-delà de ses capacités.

Date Published:2022

Animorphs. 1, L'invasion

Grine, Chris,


Traduction de: Invasion. La Terre est envahie, mais personne n’est au courant. Lorsque Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie et Marco rencontrent par hasard un vaisseau spatial extraterrestre et son pilote mourant, ils reçoivent un incroyable pouvoir. Ils peuvent prendre la forme de n’importe quel animal qu’ils touchent. Ils deviennent alors les Animorphs, les champions improbables d’une guerre secrète pour la planète. Les ennemis qu’ils combattent peuvent être n’importe qui, même leurs proches.
Date Published:2021

Traduction de: Invasion. La Terre est envahie, mais personne n’est au courant. Lorsque Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie et Marco rencontrent par hasard un vaisseau spatial extraterrestre et son pilote mourant, ils reçoivent un incroyable pouvoir. Ils peuvent prendre la forme de n’importe quel animal qu’ils touchent. Ils deviennent alors les Animorphs, les champions improbables d’une guerre secrète pour la planète. Les ennemis qu’ils combattent peuvent être n’importe qui, même leurs proches.

Date Published:2021

Cat Kid comic club. 2, Perspectives /

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


Flippy, Molly, Li'l Petey, and twenty-one baby frogs each have something to say. Naomi and Melvin don't see eye to eye and Poppy perceives the world differently than her siblings. Will the baby frogs figure out how to work together and appreciate one another's point of view -- both inside and outside the classroom?
Date Published:2021

Secret of the dance

Spalding, Andrea


In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure he knew. Aboriginal elder Alfred Scow and award-winning author Andrea Spalding collaborate to tell the story, to tell the secret of the dance.
Date Published:2006

Lantern Festival

Chow, Bill,


Includes index. During a full moon, China and other Asian countries celebrate the end of Lunar New Year by holding the Lantern Festival, lighting up the dark sky. Learn about how the festival is celebrated in Canada and the importance it carries.
Date Published:2024

Under a prairie sky

Carter, Anne, 1953-


As a storm looms in the prairie sky, a boy rides out to find his wayward younger brother. The courageous story of one boy's exciting rescue adventure.
Date Published:2001

Angela


Also available DV3417. This short documentary explores a week in the life of Angela - a roller derby athlete and transgender rights activist in Alberta, Canada. As a jammer for the Calgary All-Stars team, she skates under the name Easy Break Oven and is a role model in the local derby community. While preparing for her first derby match of the season, she begins to see her teammates and her life in a new light.
Date Published:2016

Also available DV3417. This short documentary explores a week in the life of Angela - a roller derby athlete and transgender rights activist in Alberta, Canada. As a jammer for the Calgary All-Stars team, she skates under the name Easy Break Oven and is a role model in the local derby community. While preparing for her first derby match of the season, she begins to see her teammates and her life in a new light.

Date Published:2016

Eid ul Adha

Afzal, Shazia,


Discusses the history of Eid ul Adha and how it is celebrated in Canada.
Date Published:2023

Haudenosaunee farm


From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Rights expire on May 1, 2028. Gabby visits her friend Terry Lynn's farm in the Six Nations of the Grand River. She learns about the traditions of Terry Lynn's role as Seedkeeper and together they gather food from the land.
Date Published:2021

Wednesday Wilson gets down to business

Galbraith, Bree,


In the first entertaining installment in a new early chapter book series, one unfortunate kale incident isn't enough to stop the unbeatable Wednesday Wilson from pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams --- or is it? The most important thing to know about Wednesday Wilson is that she's an entrepreneur. She hasn't started any businesses yet, but she's pretty sure today is the day. She and her best friend, Charlie (Wednesday's future Vice President of Operations), with some help from her little brother, Mister, have made a list of potential businesses. But before they get to move forward on one, there's an unfortunate incident in class with the Emmas (whose last initials happen to spell M.E.A.N.) involving a bearded dragon named Morten and a piece of kale . . . it's a long story. It figures that Wednesday's arch nemeses would be the ones to mess up her plans! But maybe all is not lost. Maybe this is just the opportunity Wednesday and her friends needed to come up with a brilliant business idea that will save the day and make them millionaires. Or . . . not?
Date Published:2024

In the first entertaining installment in a new early chapter book series, one unfortunate kale incident isn't enough to stop the unbeatable Wednesday Wilson from pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams --- or is it? The most important thing to know about Wednesday Wilson is that she's an entrepreneur. She hasn't started any businesses yet, but she's pretty sure today is the day. She and her best friend, Charlie (Wednesday's future Vice President of Operations), with some help from her little brother, Mister, have made a list of potential businesses. But before they get to move forward on one, there's an unfortunate incident in class with the Emmas (whose last initials happen to spell M.E.A.N.) involving a bearded dragon named Morten and a piece of kale . . . it's a long story. It figures that Wednesday's arch nemeses would be the ones to mess up her plans! But maybe all is not lost. Maybe this is just the opportunity Wednesday and her friends needed to come up with a brilliant business idea that will save the day and make them millionaires. Or . . . not?

Date Published:2024

Owen and Mzee : the true story of a remarkable friendship

Hatkoff, Isabella


"This book has been adapted from the original e-book, Owen and Mzee, which was first launched on the WNBC New York Five O'Clock News as part of the Tribeca Film Festival"--T.p. verso. The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee.
Date Published:2006

Wings of fire : the graphic novel. 5, The brightest night /

Sutherland, Tui, 1978-


Cover title. "The Dragonet Prophecy didn't call for a RainWing dragonet, but Glory knows she's far more powerful than she gets credit for. So it's devastating when she finally finds the rest of her tribe and discovers that RainWings do seem a little lazy. They nap every day, no one really wants to be queen, and worst of all, only a few have noticed that RainWings are disappearing--mysteriously vanishing from the safety of the rain forest without a trace. Glory is determined to find the missing dragons, even if it means dragging her peaceful tribe where they never wanted to be: right into the middle of the war."--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

Cover title. "The Dragonet Prophecy didn't call for a RainWing dragonet, but Glory knows she's far more powerful than she gets credit for. So it's devastating when she finally finds the rest of her tribe and discovers that RainWings do seem a little lazy. They nap every day, no one really wants to be queen, and worst of all, only a few have noticed that RainWings are disappearing--mysteriously vanishing from the safety of the rain forest without a trace. Glory is determined to find the missing dragons, even if it means dragging her peaceful tribe where they never wanted to be: right into the middle of the war."--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2021

Measurement


Hamza wants to measure everything about Koolkatt that has changed since he was a teeny-weeny little robot-kitten - but how? It turns out there are a lot of different ways to measure the world around us. To find out more, we’ll meet a Viking ship builder, walk the plank in clown shoes, and make our own gooey worms! Viewers learn about measuring volume, circumference, time, distance, weight, length and temperature.
Date Published:2016

Hamza wants to measure everything about Koolkatt that has changed since he was a teeny-weeny little robot-kitten - but how? It turns out there are a lot of different ways to measure the world around us. To find out more, we’ll meet a Viking ship builder, walk the plank in clown shoes, and make our own gooey worms! Viewers learn about measuring volume, circumference, time, distance, weight, length and temperature.

Date Published:2016

Cat Kid comic club. 1 /

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


Li'l Petey, Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with practice and persistence.
Date Published:2020

The last kids on Earth and the monster dimension

Brallier, Max,


The last kids may have escaped the forbidden fortress by the skin of their teeth, but there isn't much to celebrate. Thrull has what he needs to complete the Tower, Rezzoch will most certainly come to Earth, and the world as they know it will cease to exist. Except Jack's Cosmic Hand is now even more powerful than he realized, and it might just be able to stop the inevitable from happening. To get the answers he seeks, he'll need to travel farther than he's ever been. He must go . . . to the monster dimension.
Date Published:2023

The last kids may have escaped the forbidden fortress by the skin of their teeth, but there isn't much to celebrate. Thrull has what he needs to complete the Tower, Rezzoch will most certainly come to Earth, and the world as they know it will cease to exist. Except Jack's Cosmic Hand is now even more powerful than he realized, and it might just be able to stop the inevitable from happening. To get the answers he seeks, he'll need to travel farther than he's ever been. He must go . . . to the monster dimension.

Date Published:2023

Hollie's Dress


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Through the story of Hollie's first dress, we see a Mennonite mother passing family values and community traditions to her daughter, Hollie. Hollie, like all other girls in her community, has some big decisions ahead of her. And the new responsibilities in her approaching adulthood are symbolized by the making of her first dress. This rite of passage for a young Mennonite girl is recounted by Hollie's mother Deborah, whose own mother helped her cut and sew her first dress at 15, as she describes their community's traditions of dressmaking.
Date Published:2020

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Through the story of Hollie's first dress, we see a Mennonite mother passing family values and community traditions to her daughter, Hollie. Hollie, like all other girls in her community, has some big decisions ahead of her. And the new responsibilities in her approaching adulthood are symbolized by the making of her first dress. This rite of passage for a young Mennonite girl is recounted by Hollie's mother Deborah, whose own mother helped her cut and sew her first dress at 15, as she describes their community's traditions of dressmaking.

Date Published:2020

The chaos curse

DasGupta, Sayantani,


Prince Lal has been spirited away to, of all places, Parsippany, so Kiranmala must leave the the Kingdom Beyond and return home to rescue him; but reality seems to be wavering around her because something is causing a dangerous disruption in the multiverse, and she must face the disturbing prophecy about her own role in the approaching conflict between good and evil--not to mention her own growing feelings for Prince Neel.
Date Published:2020

Prince Lal has been spirited away to, of all places, Parsippany, so Kiranmala must leave the the Kingdom Beyond and return home to rescue him; but reality seems to be wavering around her because something is causing a dangerous disruption in the multiverse, and she must face the disturbing prophecy about her own role in the approaching conflict between good and evil--not to mention her own growing feelings for Prince Neel.

Date Published:2020

Super Chien. 8, Attrape-22

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


Traduction de: Fetch-22. Deux amis, George et Harold, se rencontrent à la maternelle. Ensemble, ils vont inventer un super flic en bande dessinée. Au départ, ils présentent un policier et son chien. Lors d'une mésaventure impliquant un chat criminel du nom de Pistache, les deux collègues se retrouveront à l'article de la mort. La seule solution pour les sauver est de greffer la tête du chien sur le corps du policier. Super Chien devient ainsi le meilleur policier au monde et, au fil de ses aventures, il essaie de mettre en déroute les animaux malfaiteurs qui agissent dans la ville.
Date Published:2020

Traduction de: Fetch-22. Deux amis, George et Harold, se rencontrent à la maternelle. Ensemble, ils vont inventer un super flic en bande dessinée. Au départ, ils présentent un policier et son chien. Lors d'une mésaventure impliquant un chat criminel du nom de Pistache, les deux collègues se retrouveront à l'article de la mort. La seule solution pour les sauver est de greffer la tête du chien sur le corps du policier. Super Chien devient ainsi le meilleur policier au monde et, au fil de ses aventures, il essaie de mettre en déroute les animaux malfaiteurs qui agissent dans la ville.

Date Published:2020

Legend of the star dragon

West, Tracey, 1965-,


One step closer to stopping the Shadow Dragon from blanketing the world with its sky-shadow, Drake and the rest of the Dragon Masters must learn how to play the Star Flute in order to summon the Star Dragon.
Date Published:2023

Pride parades

Saunders, Abbie,


Includes index. Since the 1970s, Canada has celebrated LGBTQ2+ pride in different ways. One of the most popular festivities is a pride parade. Learn more about this diverse tradition that takes place all over the country.
Date Published:2024