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Running on empty

Aker, Don, 1955-


When Ethan Palmer crashes his dad's car into their garage he is forced to use his savings to pay for the repairs. Wanting to make easy money in order to buy his dream car, Ethan turns to gambling with disastrous results.
Date Published:2012

Linus and Etta could use a win

Huntoon, Caroline,


A hot-headed cynic befriends the new kid--a shy trans boy--when she takes on a bet to get him elected student body president.
Date Published:2024

Yasmin the zookeeper

Faruqi, Saadia.


A Capstone Interactive eBook. Field trip -- Meet the animals -- Hungry monkeys. Yasmin's class is going on a field trip to the zoo, and Yasmin is thrilled when she is chosen to help feed the monkeys; but when she trips and spills their food both she and the monkeys are upset--until she remembers that she has fruit in her lunch bag to share with her new "friends."
Date Published:2019

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

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

Shades of black

Anthony, Carlos,


Shades of Black is an honest and authentic portrayal of life as a young Black male teen in today's culture and environment at an urban school in Toronto's Etobicoke neighbourhood. Romero, a Guyanese Canadian, is a sensitive kid who is just starting to attend an inner-city-style school with a large racialized population. Romero falls in with a friendly crew but finds himself in trouble when a shot is fired in the school cafeteria - and he gets stuck with the gun. Meanwhile, the police, often using brutal tactics and targeting young Black males, try to find out who the shooter was. To humanize and critique the Black male experience and dispel the myth that vulnerability and empathy equal weakness, Carlos Anthony draws on his own recent experiences as a teen in school in Etobicoke. His novel is an authentic - and rare -- representation of Black youth culture and the experiences of Black teens in Canada's public schools.
Date Published:2023

Shades of Black is an honest and authentic portrayal of life as a young Black male teen in today's culture and environment at an urban school in Toronto's Etobicoke neighbourhood. Romero, a Guyanese Canadian, is a sensitive kid who is just starting to attend an inner-city-style school with a large racialized population. Romero falls in with a friendly crew but finds himself in trouble when a shot is fired in the school cafeteria - and he gets stuck with the gun. Meanwhile, the police, often using brutal tactics and targeting young Black males, try to find out who the shooter was. To humanize and critique the Black male experience and dispel the myth that vulnerability and empathy equal weakness, Carlos Anthony draws on his own recent experiences as a teen in school in Etobicoke. His novel is an authentic - and rare -- representation of Black youth culture and the experiences of Black teens in Canada's public schools.

Date Published:2023

Global Warming Warning : What Yukon's Glaciers Tell Us. January 2019


From the Curio channel: News in Review. Global warming is having a massive impact on the planet. In October 2018, the world's leading climate scientists met and warned that there are only a dozen years to limit global warming. They predict urgent change is needed or the planet is in peril. Much of that warming can be linked to human activity. Glaciers are barometers of climate change and their melts result in sea levels rising, causing potentially catastrophic results for coastal communities. The CBC's Susan Ormiston met with a glacier expert in the Saint Elias Mountains in Yukon to find out what she was seeing in terms of ice field melt.
Date Published:2019

From the Curio channel: News in Review. Global warming is having a massive impact on the planet. In October 2018, the world's leading climate scientists met and warned that there are only a dozen years to limit global warming. They predict urgent change is needed or the planet is in peril. Much of that warming can be linked to human activity. Glaciers are barometers of climate change and their melts result in sea levels rising, causing potentially catastrophic results for coastal communities. The CBC's Susan Ormiston met with a glacier expert in the Saint Elias Mountains in Yukon to find out what she was seeing in terms of ice field melt.

Date Published:2019

What's first past the post?


From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Aired on June 2, 2022. Who elects the premier? No one, technically. Ontario operates on a first-past-the-post system. What does that mean? And if we're in a democracy, why does no one elect the premier? TVO politics nerd Steve Paikin explains.
Date Published:2022

Héros fusion : Le laboratoire du Docteur Poison

Sicard, L. P.,


Dans un univers menacé par des créatures dangereuses, une magie maléfique et un capitaine sans pitié, des enfants ordinaires deviennent malgré eux de puissants super-héros… et le destin du monde repose entre leurs mains! Sans le savoir, Coloreine et Melon Kid suivent une piste identique qui les mènera tous deux au laboratoire du mystérieux Docteur Poison. Armés de nouveaux pouvoirs et accompagnés de leurs fidèles compagnons, les deux super-héros feront tout en leur pouvoir pour contrecarrer les plans du Capitaine Béton!
Date Published:2022

Dans un univers menacé par des créatures dangereuses, une magie maléfique et un capitaine sans pitié, des enfants ordinaires deviennent malgré eux de puissants super-héros… et le destin du monde repose entre leurs mains! Sans le savoir, Coloreine et Melon Kid suivent une piste identique qui les mènera tous deux au laboratoire du mystérieux Docteur Poison. Armés de nouveaux pouvoirs et accompagnés de leurs fidèles compagnons, les deux super-héros feront tout en leur pouvoir pour contrecarrer les plans du Capitaine Béton!

Date Published:2022

Urban Voices = L'écho de la ville.


Original poetry by students in Elementary and Secondary Schools of the Toronto District School Board. Includes some text in French.
Date Published:2000

Hiding Edith : a true story

Kacer, Kathy, 1954-


Hiding Edith tells the true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi invasion of France.
Date Published:2006

Boy soup

Lesynski, Loris


Originally published under title: Boy soup, or, When Giant caught cold. When Giant wakes up with a big, hurting head and a sore, raspy throat, he finds the cure is a bowl of Boy Soup! Giant captures five boys and Kate, who all protest his plan. But Kate soon comes up with her own remedy.
Date Published:2008

Grumpy Bird

Tankard, Jeremy


Feeling too grumpy to fly, Bird begins to walk and finds that his mood changes as other animals join him.
Date Published:2007

The bad mood and the stick

Snicket, Lemony,


Curly's bad mood travels from person to person, unexpectedly leaving opportunities for forgiveness, laughter, and love in its wake.
Date Published:2017

Downside up

Scrimger, Richard, 1957-,


Fred is a sixth-grader reeling from the loss of his beloved dog, Casey. Every day he walks home from school bouncing Casey's old worn-out tennis ball. One day, the ball falls down a sewer grate, and Fred can't bear to leave it down there. He pries open the grate and stumbles down...
Date Published:2016

Mother Bruce

Higgins, Ryan T.,


Title appears on cover and title page as "Mother Goose" where the word Goose is crossed out and replaced with Bruce. Bruce is a grumpy bear who likes no one and nothing but cooked eggs, but when some eggs he was planning to boil hatch and the goslings believe he is their mother, he must try to make the best of the situation.
Date Published:2015

Mr. McMouse

Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999.


"Troll Associates." Timothy, a city mouse who has been transformed into a tiny man, searches for his true identity among a group of field mice.
Date Published:1992

Mandeep's cloudy days

Brar, Kuljinder Kaur,


A book exploring how to cope with difficult and complex emotions when we're away from the people we love.
Date Published:2024

Greta Thunberg : Climate Activism and the Youth Movement. November 2019


From the Curio channel: News in Review. Climate change is on everybody's mind but a teen from Sweden has taken it to a new level of awareness. Greta Thunberg, 16, has taken her activism around the world as she brings her unfaltering message that we must stop damaging our planet now. From school walkouts to global marches and strikes, she fearlessly faces off against politicians, pundits and critics. And her bravery is hitting a chord with youth around the world as they step up to fight climate change, emboldened by Greta.
Date Published:2019

From the Curio channel: News in Review. Climate change is on everybody's mind but a teen from Sweden has taken it to a new level of awareness. Greta Thunberg, 16, has taken her activism around the world as she brings her unfaltering message that we must stop damaging our planet now. From school walkouts to global marches and strikes, she fearlessly faces off against politicians, pundits and critics. And her bravery is hitting a chord with youth around the world as they step up to fight climate change, emboldened by Greta.

Date Published:2019

Jungleland

Walters, Eric, 1957-


DJ is always thrilled to spend time with his grandfather, a person he idolizes. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take all of his grandsons on individual adventures, it seems only fair that DJ, as the oldest grandchild, will get his adventure first. An adventure that sees his grandfather at the controls of a small plane as the two fly to Central America for a week. But when someone tries to kidnap him, DJ must flee through the jungle and down a crocodile-infested river, pursued by armed gunmen. When he isn't busy trying to stay alive, DJ discovers things about himself he never suspected and uncovers information that leads him to believe his beloved grandfather is living a secret life.
Date Published:2016

DJ is always thrilled to spend time with his grandfather, a person he idolizes. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take all of his grandsons on individual adventures, it seems only fair that DJ, as the oldest grandchild, will get his adventure first. An adventure that sees his grandfather at the controls of a small plane as the two fly to Central America for a week. But when someone tries to kidnap him, DJ must flee through the jungle and down a crocodile-infested river, pursued by armed gunmen. When he isn't busy trying to stay alive, DJ discovers things about himself he never suspected and uncovers information that leads him to believe his beloved grandfather is living a secret life.

Date Published:2016