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Gold rush pups!


At head of title: Nickelodeon PAW patrol. When Chase, Rubble, and the rest of Nickelodeon's PAW patrol strike gold in Adventure Bay, will Mayor Humdinger and the mischievous kittens from Foggy Bottom let them keep it? Includes textured pages featuring sparkling glitter.
Date Published:2017

Cuba

Gregory, Joy,


Includes index.
Date Published:2017

Coded bias


Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture in 2020. Strong Language - Previewing recommended. "CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT media lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legisation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. --Coded bias website.
Date Published:2020

Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture in 2020. ** Strong Language ** - Previewing recommended. "CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT media lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legisation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. --Coded bias website.

Date Published:2020

I survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944

Ball, Georgia,


Paul Colbert’s French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn’t seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper stuck in a tree. When Paul helps the soldier, he discovers a secret resistance movement―and he learns the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis. But first, the resistance needs Paul’s help. This is Paul’s chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the largest invasion in history. Can he do his part to turn horror into hope?
Date Published:2024

Paul Colbert’s French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn’t seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper stuck in a tree. When Paul helps the soldier, he discovers a secret resistance movement―and he learns the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis. But first, the resistance needs Paul’s help. This is Paul’s chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the largest invasion in history. Can he do his part to turn horror into hope?

Date Published:2024

Max, a little axolotl : an original graphic novel

Spiotto, Joey


It's Max's first day at Coral Elementary school. The school is filled with marine animals, like dolphins, crabs, and octopus. But none of the other students have ever seen an axolotl before... and they have SO MANY QUESTIONS. Where did Max live before? Is it true he can regrow any of his limbs? What happened to his old friends? This is too much attention for Max! Hiccup! Uh-oh... Max gets the hiccups when he's nervous. Can this little axolotl adjust to his new underwater school or will the pressure just be too much?
Date Published:2025

It's Max's first day at Coral Elementary school. The school is filled with marine animals, like dolphins, crabs, and octopus. But none of the other students have ever seen an axolotl before... and they have SO MANY QUESTIONS. Where did Max live before? Is it true he can regrow any of his limbs? What happened to his old friends? This is too much attention for Max! Hiccup! Uh-oh... Max gets the hiccups when he's nervous. Can this little axolotl adjust to his new underwater school or will the pressure just be too much?

Date Published:2025

Mine!

Hyde, Natalie, 1963-,


Chris Dearing comes from a long line of losers, namely a mildly criminal, semi-alcoholic father, an absent mother and a history of bad luck that's plagued the Dearing family for generations. But with his father in jail and Social Services threatening to land him in foster care, now Chris's luck is running out, too. His only hope runs through the wild rivers of the forbidding North. What is up there other than moose snot and mosquitos the size of bats? Gold. More specifically, a gold claim won and then lost by Chris's grandfather, Wally Dearing. Reclaiming the old family gold stake looks to Chris like his only hope to get his father back on the straight and narrow, and Social Services off his back. And maybe, just maybe, he can finally turn the Dearing family luck around once and for all. First, Chris has to travel thousands of kilometres north and register the expired gold claim before anyone else realizes it's up for grabs. But Social Services is hot on his trail and danger lurks around every twist and turn of the long journey. Even with the help of a food truck-running misfit, a motorcycle-loving restaurant owner and Chris's best friend, Shard, it's getting harder and harder to know who to trust.Will Chris strike out like the rest of his family or strike gold and finally get a chance to rewrite Dearing history? Depends if that giant, slobbering moose lets him down from that huge pine tree.
Date Published:2017

Chris Dearing comes from a long line of losers, namely a mildly criminal, semi-alcoholic father, an absent mother and a history of bad luck that's plagued the Dearing family for generations. But with his father in jail and Social Services threatening to land him in foster care, now Chris's luck is running out, too. His only hope runs through the wild rivers of the forbidding North. What is up there other than moose snot and mosquitos the size of bats? Gold. More specifically, a gold claim won and then lost by Chris's grandfather, Wally Dearing. Reclaiming the old family gold stake looks to Chris like his only hope to get his father back on the straight and narrow, and Social Services off his back. And maybe, just maybe, he can finally turn the Dearing family luck around once and for all. First, Chris has to travel thousands of kilometres north and register the expired gold claim before anyone else realizes it's up for grabs. But Social Services is hot on his trail and danger lurks around every twist and turn of the long journey. Even with the help of a food truck-running misfit, a motorcycle-loving restaurant owner and Chris's best friend, Shard, it's getting harder and harder to know who to trust.Will Chris strike out like the rest of his family or strike gold and finally get a chance to rewrite Dearing history? Depends if that giant, slobbering moose lets him down from that huge pine tree.

Date Published:2017

Sofia Valdez, future prez

Beaty, Andrea,


When her abuelo is injured at the local landfill, second-grader Sofia is determined to transform the dangerous Mount Trashmore into a park, taking on City Hall in the process.
Date Published:2019

Salt of the sea


After checking out Dr. Jane's new saltwater fish over at the pet shop, Luna, Jupiter and Clyde start to wonder... why is salt water salty? Could someone have added salt to it? They've just gotta find out! It's time for another exciting make believe in search of answers. They learn that sediments from rocks, and minerals, including salt, wash into rivers and flow to the sea. Educational Objective: Discover why the ocean is salty.
Date Published:2015

After checking out Dr. Jane's new saltwater fish over at the pet shop, Luna, Jupiter and Clyde start to wonder... why is salt water salty? Could someone have added salt to it? They've just gotta find out! It's time for another exciting make believe in search of answers. They learn that sediments from rocks, and minerals, including salt, wash into rivers and flow to the sea. Educational Objective: Discover why the ocean is salty.

Date Published:2015

Waiting is not easy!

Willems, Mo


Piggie tells Gerald she has a surprise for him, but it is not there yet, so Gerald must be patient.
Date Published:2024

All are welcome

Penfold, Alexandra


Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.
Date Published:2018

Why do we need bees?

Murray, Laura K., 1989-


Explains why bees are important to our world, including how they help pollinate a lot of plants, and make the honey we like to eat.
Date Published:2024

Something wonky this way comes

DiCamillo, Kate


Duration for read-aloud playback: 22 minutes 45 seconds. Some may find it wonky to take a pig to the drive-in. But not the Watsons. And not their beloved Mercy, who is lured by the scent of real butter from the theater's buckets of popcorn.
Date Published:2014

Watch me throw the ball!

Willems, Mo


Gerald the elephant tries to tell Piggie that ball-throwing is serious business, but Piggie just wants to have fun.
Date Published:2018

The Bad Guys in The furball strikes back

Blabey, Aaron,


The Bad Guys are about to have a very BAD day! Mr. Wolf and his bad buddies have messed with the wrong guinea pig--one who is secretly an evil mad scientist. And the nasty little furball wants revenge! Will they survive? Will they be heroes? And will they ever stop trying to eat each other?!?
Date Published:2016

Wood

Kras, Sara Louise



Date Published:2004

Juliet the Valentine fairy

Meadows, Daisy


Card-making mishap -- The red rose romp -- The candy heart compromise. When Jack Frost's goblins steal Juliet the Valentine fairy's magical treats, causing people to fight with their friends and families, Rachel and Kirsty try to put aside their own fight and work together to get the treats back.
Date Published:2025

A girl called Echo. 1, Pemmican wars /

Vermette, Katherena, 1977-


Echo Desjardins, a 13 year-old Métis girl, is struggling with her feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars.
Date Published:2017

Echo Desjardins, a 13 year-old Métis girl, is struggling with her feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars.

Date Published:2017

Listen to my trumpet!

Willems, Mo


When Piggie plays her new trumpet for Gerald, the elephant decides he must be honest in his response.
Date Published:2012

I'm a frog!

Willems, Mo


Piggie introduces his reluctant friend, Gerald the elephant, to the wonderful world of pretend.
Date Published:2013

Daylight time, fall time change and changing your clocks explained


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Daylight time and the time change have you confused? Wondering why we set our clocks back an hour each fall and an hour ahead each spring? It happens for most provinces in Canada every year on the first Sunday in November and on the second Sunday in March. The point is to take advantage of something known as daylight time - the times of day when there's natural light in the sky, with the goal of conserving energy that might otherwise be used on things like lights. Moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring gives us more natural light during summer evenings. Moving the clocks back one hour in the fall gives us more natural light on winter mornings. Although officials in some parts of Canada and the U.S. have taken steps in recent years to get rid of the time change, it still happens in many Canadian provinces. First published on November 3, 2022.
Date Published:2022

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Daylight time and the time change have you confused? Wondering why we set our clocks back an hour each fall and an hour ahead each spring? It happens for most provinces in Canada every year on the first Sunday in November and on the second Sunday in March. The point is to take advantage of something known as daylight time - the times of day when there's natural light in the sky, with the goal of conserving energy that might otherwise be used on things like lights. Moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring gives us more natural light during summer evenings. Moving the clocks back one hour in the fall gives us more natural light on winter mornings. Although officials in some parts of Canada and the U.S. have taken steps in recent years to get rid of the time change, it still happens in many Canadian provinces. First published on November 3, 2022.

Date Published:2022