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Probability


What are the odds? Hamza can’t figure out why Koolkatt always wins when they play Flip-the-coin. Can you really use probability to predict the future? Hamza will interview a real-life playing card, meet a flying pig, pop a LOT of popcorn, and find out what’s so ‘lucky’ about the number seven!
Date Published:2016

The way you make me feel

Goo, Maurene.


Cataloged from publisher supplied information. Spoken audio file. Duration: approximately 07:55:00 hr. Originally released by Tantor Media. "Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind?"--Amazon.com.
Date Published:2018

Cataloged from publisher supplied information. Spoken audio file. Duration: approximately 07:55:00 hr. Originally released by Tantor Media. "Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind?"--Amazon.com.

Date Published:2018

Aru Shah and the end of time : the graphic novel

Caramagna, Joe,


"Based on the novel by Roshani Chokshi." "Rick Riordan presents." Chiefly illustrations. Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
Date Published:2022

Urgent delivery


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Sparks picks up an oval box for a forgetful Dr. Repairo.
Date Published:2024

Make that a double


Two, four, six, eight - how can you make numbers great? In this episode, Hamza learns just how quickly doubling can make numbers grow from tiny to astronomical! Along the way the investigators will get tangled in Chinese noodles, the challengers will get covered in slime eggs, and Hamza will interview a zombie!
Date Published:2016

Aru Shah and the tree of wishes

Chokshi, Roshani,


After fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends fail to keep a prophecy from the Sleeper, they undergo a rebranding campaign to prove the Pandava's trustworthiness, but Aru believes they need to focus on finding the Tree of Wishes before the Sleeper and stopping war between the devas and the demons.
Date Published:2020

On the come up

Thomas, Angie.


Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
Date Published:2019

The hypnotists

Korman, Gordon


Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.
Date Published:2013

Dividing using repeated subtraction


Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 26, 2018. Mrs Barker has just bought some yummy treats for her dogs and they can’t wait to eat them. There is just one problem, if the dogs don’t get the same number of treats each, they get seriously cranky. This sounds like a job for Divider Girl. Can Divider Girl use sharing and repeated subtraction to help Mrs Barker share the treats out equally? How might her number line help? Will they manage to calm the dogs and save Mrs Barker from her position of peril?
Date Published:2016

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 26, 2018. Mrs Barker has just bought some yummy treats for her dogs and they can’t wait to eat them. There is just one problem, if the dogs don’t get the same number of treats each, they get seriously cranky. This sounds like a job for Divider Girl. Can Divider Girl use sharing and repeated subtraction to help Mrs Barker share the treats out equally? How might her number line help? Will they manage to calm the dogs and save Mrs Barker from her position of peril?

Date Published:2016

Child of dandelions

Nanji, Shenaaz


In 1972, Idi Amin had a dream in which God told him to expel Uganda’s 80,000 ethnic Indians. They had 90 days to leave. Set during this tumultuous period, Child of Dandelions is a stirring coming-of-age novel that follows 15-year-old Sabine as she copes with the reality that she and her family are no longer welcome in the land of her birth. Drawing on her own experiences for this, her first YA novel, Nanji creates a nuanced story that addresses issues of class and race. .
Date Published:2008

In 1972, Idi Amin had a dream in which God told him to expel Uganda’s 80,000 ethnic Indians. They had 90 days to leave. Set during this tumultuous period, Child of Dandelions is a stirring coming-of-age novel that follows 15-year-old Sabine as she copes with the reality that she and her family are no longer welcome in the land of her birth. Drawing on her own experiences for this, her first YA novel, Nanji creates a nuanced story that addresses issues of class and race. .

Date Published:2008

Sound of signals


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Togo honks his horn too loudly and must use the SOS pattern to get rescued.
Date Published:2024

The great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.


Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met when he was penniless. Now rich, he is determined to win her as his mistress, even though she has married another man for his money. When Daisy causes a fatal accident and Gatsby covers for her, a disaster results which reveals the failure of money to buy love or happiness.
Date Published:2021

They both die at the end

Silvera, Adam, 1990-


In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
Date Published:2017

Nature's most mysterious patterns


\ Have you ever wondered what video game graphics have in common with broccoli? Fractals, of course! Hamza learns that we can understand the shapes and patterns of nature using math! We’ll see what happens when fame goes to the “head” of a broccoli, our Challengers will try and make sense of a jumble of Ys, and we’ll see how nature’s hidden geometry has transformed art and special effects in movies!
Date Published:2016

\ Have you ever wondered what video game graphics have in common with broccoli? Fractals, of course! Hamza learns that we can understand the shapes and patterns of nature using math! We’ll see what happens when fame goes to the “head” of a broccoli, our Challengers will try and make sense of a jumble of Ys, and we’ll see how nature’s hidden geometry has transformed art and special effects in movies!

Date Published:2016

Multiples of two, five and ten


Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2016. Multiplication Boy and Divider Girl keep their math superpowers sharp with a competition to count in twos, fives and tens. Looking around the world, they count objects that come in multiples. Spotting patterns in the times tables, they race against each other to win the competition. These math heroes know that counting in multiples helps with multiplying and dividing. But who has got the speediest skills? Let’s find out!
Date Published:2016

Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2016. Multiplication Boy and Divider Girl keep their math superpowers sharp with a competition to count in twos, fives and tens. Looking around the world, they count objects that come in multiples. Spotting patterns in the times tables, they race against each other to win the competition. These math heroes know that counting in multiples helps with multiplying and dividing. But who has got the speediest skills? Let’s find out!

Date Published:2016

Reach your potential


Reach Your Potential is a course designed for everyone at any level. People can expect multiple jobs in their lifetime, and a career path that is anything but a straight line to the top. What is important is to find ways to reach your potential. In this course psychologist Peter Quarry invites you to consider how you can reach your potential. You will learn to consider capacity-building questions: Am I in the right career? Have I identified my purpose and my path? Am I achieving results in my current role? Am I my own best friend or worst enemy? What is holding me back? Am I taking practical steps to reach my potential? Reaching your potential is finding your purpose and your path to achieving it. Reach your potential by first finding your true purpose in life; Ask yourself whether you are achieving maximum results; Address what holds you back; Take practical steps to take you forward;
Date Published:2022

Reach Your Potential is a course designed for everyone at any level. People can expect multiple jobs in their lifetime, and a career path that is anything but a straight line to the top. What is important is to find ways to reach your potential. In this course psychologist Peter Quarry invites you to consider how you can reach your potential. You will learn to consider capacity-building questions: Am I in the right career? Have I identified my purpose and my path? Am I achieving results in my current role? Am I my own best friend or worst enemy? What is holding me back? Am I taking practical steps to reach my potential? Reaching your potential is finding your purpose and your path to achieving it. Reach your potential by first finding your true purpose in life; Ask yourself whether you are achieving maximum results; Address what holds you back; Take practical steps to take you forward;

Date Published:2022

Planet hockey : first star of the game

Torres, J., 1969-,


Isaac may be the Greatest Of All Time in his hockey video game, but after a championship game-losing accident, he's an epic fail on actual ice. Unfortunately, the robot scouts from Planet Galaxia don’t know this and warp him away to be the new superstar of their terrible team. Fortunately, Isaac’s friend Lily tags along — she just might be the best goalie this side of the Milky Way. But interstellar hockey isn’t like hockey on Earth. Opposing players are electrified, or shaped like trees, or built like actual boulders. And even if Isaac is able to whip the octopus-like Pods into shape, Emperor Mad Maroon, the ruler of Galaxia, might not release the Earthlings. Can Isaac score a win in the Galaxia Championship Tournament . . . and get back to home ice?
Date Published:2020

Isaac may be the Greatest Of All Time in his hockey video game, but after a championship game-losing accident, he's an epic fail on actual ice. Unfortunately, the robot scouts from Planet Galaxia don’t know this and warp him away to be the new superstar of their terrible team. Fortunately, Isaac’s friend Lily tags along — she just might be the best goalie this side of the Milky Way. But interstellar hockey isn’t like hockey on Earth. Opposing players are electrified, or shaped like trees, or built like actual boulders. And even if Isaac is able to whip the octopus-like Pods into shape, Emperor Mad Maroon, the ruler of Galaxia, might not release the Earthlings. Can Isaac score a win in the Galaxia Championship Tournament . . . and get back to home ice?

Date Published:2020

Valley of the giant skeletons

Stilton, Geronimo


When Geronimo gets lost looking for hidden treasures in the Gobi Desert, he comes across giant dinosaur bones.
Date Published:2008

Disarm the alarm


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Togo has to fit in a rectangle tunnel to restart the system.
Date Published:2024

Trials and tubulations, part 1


In this two part episode, the tube system breaks and Olive and Otto are left stranded in a dangerous forest. Ms. O sends them a map with special landmarks so they can navigate their way out. Be careful, Olive and Otto!
Date Published:2016