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Watch us rise

Watson, Renée


Title proper from title frame. Frustrated by the way women are treated--even at their progressive New York City high school--two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.
Date Published:2019

O.K., K.O., O.K.


Description based on volume 1, issue 1, June 2022. O.K., K.O., O.K. is a magazine of work by writers and artists from secondary schools in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The young people who contributed to this magazine were asked to submit work that is personally authentic; that challenges and disrupts past and present colonial narratives; and that inspires increasingly responsible relationships between Métis, Inuit, and First Nations Peoples and non-Indigenous communities now and into the future.
Date Published:2022

Description based on volume 1, issue 1, June 2022. O.K., K.O., O.K. is a magazine of work by writers and artists from secondary schools in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The young people who contributed to this magazine were asked to submit work that is personally authentic; that challenges and disrupts past and present colonial narratives; and that inspires increasingly responsible relationships between Métis, Inuit, and First Nations Peoples and non-Indigenous communities now and into the future.

Date Published:2022

Attack on Titan

Isayama, Hajime, 1986-


"First published in Japan in 2010 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo as Shingeki no Kyojin." Reads right to left. Eren Jaeger lives in city surrounded by monolithic walls. Outside dwell human murdering Titans. For decades members of the Scouting Legion have been the only humans who dared to leave the safety of the walls and gather information on the Titans. Every time they return, many of them are dead. Freedom loving Eren has no greater wish than to join them.
Date Published:2012

"First published in Japan in 2010 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo as Shingeki no Kyojin." Reads right to left. Eren Jaeger lives in city surrounded by monolithic walls. Outside dwell human murdering Titans. For decades members of the Scouting Legion have been the only humans who dared to leave the safety of the walls and gather information on the Titans. Every time they return, many of them are dead. Freedom loving Eren has no greater wish than to join them.

Date Published:2012

The outside circle

LaBoucane-Benson, Patti, 1969-


Pete, a young Aboriginal gang member, is sent to jail for killing his mother's boyfriend during a fight. While there, he realizes that he has become a negative influence on his younger brother and decides to turn his life around with the help of traditional Aboriginal healing circles and ceremonies.
Date Published:2015

Thomas Edison and electricity

Parker, Steve


Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 1992. Includes index.
Date Published:1995

A silent voice. 1 /

Oima, Yoshitoki,


Reads from right to left. "First published in Japan in 2013 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo as Koe no katachi volume 1."--Colophon. "A Kodansha Comics Trade Paperback Original"--Colophon. Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?
Date Published:2015

Reads from right to left. "First published in Japan in 2013 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo as Koe no katachi volume 1."--Colophon. "A Kodansha Comics Trade Paperback Original"--Colophon. Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?

Date Published:2015

Ghosts

Telgemeier, Raina,


Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
Date Published:2016

Banned book club

Kim, Hyun Sook,


The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protesters. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in. In BANNED BOOK CLUB, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading.
Date Published:2020

The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protesters. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in. In BANNED BOOK CLUB, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading.

Date Published:2020

Le club des baby-sitters. 2, Le secret de Stacey /

Telgemeier, Raina.


Traduction de l'adaptation de : The truth about Stacey / Ann M. Martin. Pauvre Stacey. Elle vient de déménager dans une nouvelle ville, son diabète lui cause des soucis, son travail de gardienne lui donne du fil à retordre et ses parents ne font rien pour l'aider.
Date Published:2015

On the rocks

Walters, Eric, 1957-


Fourteen-year-old Dylan is sent to live with his estranged grandfather, Angus. Basically strangers, the two avoid each other as best they can. One day Dylan discovers a young orca stranded high up on the rocky beach. Dylan runs to tell his grandfather. There's nothing that can be done, says Angus. The sun is coming up, and soon the orca will die of exposure. But Dylan knows he has to try to save the whale. He collects towels to cover the delicate skin of the orca and begins transporting buckets of water from the ocean below to keep it hydrated. It's grueling work, and it will be hours before the tide comes back in and the water is high enough for the orca to swim free. Angus is moved by his grandson's determination and helps as best he can. They both desperately hope that soon the orca will be able to join its family, who have been calling out to it just offshore.
Date Published:2020

Fourteen-year-old Dylan is sent to live with his estranged grandfather, Angus. Basically strangers, the two avoid each other as best they can. One day Dylan discovers a young orca stranded high up on the rocky beach. Dylan runs to tell his grandfather. There's nothing that can be done, says Angus. The sun is coming up, and soon the orca will die of exposure. But Dylan knows he has to try to save the whale. He collects towels to cover the delicate skin of the orca and begins transporting buckets of water from the ocean below to keep it hydrated. It's grueling work, and it will be hours before the tide comes back in and the water is high enough for the orca to swim free. Angus is moved by his grandson's determination and helps as best he can. They both desperately hope that soon the orca will be able to join its family, who have been calling out to it just offshore.

Date Published:2020

Blue period. 5 /

Yamaguchi, Tsubasa


Reads from right to left. Translation of: Burū piriodo. 5. Yatora makes the best of a bad situation during TUA's first exam, and he must surpass these efforts for the second. But after all he’s gone through, Yatora is feeling a little out of sorts. To get back on track, he’ll have to step out of the studio and into new lighting… With the help of an old friend, Yatora bares his soul and some skin to take on his latest challenge: the nude self-portrait.
Date Published:2021

Reads from right to left. Translation of: Burū piriodo. 5. Yatora makes the best of a bad situation during TUA's first exam, and he must surpass these efforts for the second. But after all he’s gone through, Yatora is feeling a little out of sorts. To get back on track, he’ll have to step out of the studio and into new lighting… With the help of an old friend, Yatora bares his soul and some skin to take on his latest challenge: the nude self-portrait.

Date Published:2021

Fifteen dogs : an apologue

Alexis, André, 1957-


To settle a bet about the nature of humanity, Greek gods Hermes and Apollo grant human intelligence to a group of fifteen dogs at a Toronto veterinary clinic and then watch from above as the dogs escape from the clinic and form a pack, only to become divided among themselves as they struggle with their new thoughts and feelings.
Date Published:2015

Fantômes

Telgemeier, Raina.


Traduction de : Ghosts. Catrina et sa famille déménagent sur la côte de la Californie du Nord parce que Maya, la petite soeur de Catrina, est malade. Cat n'est pas contente de quitter ses amies pour Bahía de la Luna, mais Maya est atteinte de la fibrose kystique et l'air frais et salin de la mer lui sera bénéfique. Alors que les deux filles explorent leur nouvel environnement, un voisin leur laisse entendre que des fantômes hantent Bahía de la Luna. Maya veut absolument en rencontrer un, mais Cat ne veut pas en entendre parler. À l'approche du temps où les fantômes vont à la rencontre de leurs proches, Cat doit trouver une façon de surmonter ses peurs.
Date Published:2016

Traduction de : Ghosts. Catrina et sa famille déménagent sur la côte de la Californie du Nord parce que Maya, la petite soeur de Catrina, est malade. Cat n'est pas contente de quitter ses amies pour Bahía de la Luna, mais Maya est atteinte de la fibrose kystique et l'air frais et salin de la mer lui sera bénéfique. Alors que les deux filles explorent leur nouvel environnement, un voisin leur laisse entendre que des fantômes hantent Bahía de la Luna. Maya veut absolument en rencontrer un, mais Cat ne veut pas en entendre parler. À l'approche du temps où les fantômes vont à la rencontre de leurs proches, Cat doit trouver une façon de surmonter ses peurs.

Date Published:2016

Loveless

Oseman, Alice,


It was all sinking in. I'd never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean? Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she's sure she'll find her person one day. As she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia's ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream' is in sight. But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?
Date Published:2020

It was all sinking in. I'd never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean? Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she's sure she'll find her person one day. As she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia's ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream' is in sight. But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?

Date Published:2020

Healthy cities : improving urban life

Lomberg, Michelle.


Examines the urbanization of the world's population, discussing the growth of megacities, model city planing, projects and plans that deal with clean water and proper sanitation, the health of city residents, and the urban economy.
Date Published:2004

The scorpion rules : a novel

Bow, Erin,


The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
Date Published:2015

Tokyo ghoul

Ishida, Sui


Translated from the Japanese. Reads from right to left. Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way -- except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers.
Date Published:2015

A guide to detracking math courses : the journey to realize equity and access in K-12 mathematics education

Torres, Angela, (Mathematics educator),


"Acceleration and tracking are not the same thing. Tracking sorts students into qualitatively different pathways, where some are and some are not on track to go to a four year institution - where the "smart kids" get treated as those to preference and accelerate and the "average kids" or "low kids" are left to lag, or to fend and fight based on their own community's and family's resilience and understanding of institutional education. We as authors believe that the literature of tracking and acceleration are conflated. Tracking does harm, and acceleration can provide access if the classes are kept as heterogeneous as possible. Educators, journalists, researchers, parents, and activist groups need to stop conflating these terms, and treating them as synonymous"-- Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

"Acceleration and tracking are not the same thing. Tracking sorts students into qualitatively different pathways, where some are and some are not on track to go to a four year institution - where the "smart kids" get treated as those to preference and accelerate and the "average kids" or "low kids" are left to lag, or to fend and fight based on their own community's and family's resilience and understanding of institutional education. We as authors believe that the literature of tracking and acceleration are conflated. Tracking does harm, and acceleration can provide access if the classes are kept as heterogeneous as possible. Educators, journalists, researchers, parents, and activist groups need to stop conflating these terms, and treating them as synonymous"-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2023

Industry and manufacturing.


Includes index. "An exploration of the transformative impact of inventions and discoveries in industry and manufacturing. Features include fact boxes, sidebars, biographies, timeline, glossary, list of recommended reading and Web sites, and index"
Date Published:2009

Forests and wetlands.


General overview of forest and wetland ecosystems, including an exploration of disturbances these ecosystems face due to human interference and climate change, and current conservation and reclamation efforts. Features include fact boxes, sidebars, activities, glossary, list of recommended reading and Web sites, and index.
Date Published:2009