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Hard luck

Kinney, Jeff


After being dumped by his best friend and having a hard time finding new friends in middle school, Greg decides to change his luck and turn all his decisions over to chance.
Date Published:2013

Cabin fever

Kinney, Jeff


Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with his family, unable to prove his innocence.
Date Published:2011

Max Finder, 10. The case of the White Pine werewolf /

O'Donnell, Liam, 1970-


Crack the case with a collection of graphic mystery stories starring popular amateur detectives Max Finder and Alison Santos. Featuring 10 solve-it-yourself stories originally published in OWL Magazine, as well as new puzzles and illustrated character profiles. The vibrant comic illustrations and witty dialogue will have readers on the edge of their seats.
Date Published:2016

Old school

Kinney, Jeff


Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?
Date Published:2015

Dog days

Kinney, Jeff


In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
Date Published:2009

Black Canadians in politics

D'Souza, Brian, 1981-


Learn about the lives and accomplishments of groundbreaking Black Canadian politicians, despite facing discrimination and other obstacles, as well as ongoing efforts to address inequalities that prevent Black participation in politics.
Date Published:2023

Garden of lost socks

Edugyan, Esi,


Akosua, a budding Exquirologist, as she finds both a new friend and a remarkable world hidden right in her very own community.
Date Published:2023

Deadman's Castle

Lawrence, Iain, 1955-,


When Igor was five, his father witnessed a terrible crime–and ever since, his whole family has been hunted by a foreboding figure bent on revenge, known only as the Lizard Man. They’ve lived in so many places, with so many identities, that Igor can’t even remember his real name. But now he’s twelve years old, and he longs for a normal life. He wants to go to school. Make friends. Stop worrying about how long it will be before his father hears someone prowling around their new house and uproots everything yet again. He’s even starting to wonder–what if the Lizard Man only exists in his father’s frightened mind? Slowly, Igor starts bending the rules he’s lived by all his life–making friends for the first time, testing the boundaries of where he’s allowed to go in town. But soon, he begins noticing strange things around them–is it in his imagination? Or could the Lizard Man be real after all?
Date Published:2021

When Igor was five, his father witnessed a terrible crime–and ever since, his whole family has been hunted by a foreboding figure bent on revenge, known only as the Lizard Man. They’ve lived in so many places, with so many identities, that Igor can’t even remember his real name. But now he’s twelve years old, and he longs for a normal life. He wants to go to school. Make friends. Stop worrying about how long it will be before his father hears someone prowling around their new house and uproots everything yet again. He’s even starting to wonder–what if the Lizard Man only exists in his father’s frightened mind? Slowly, Igor starts bending the rules he’s lived by all his life–making friends for the first time, testing the boundaries of where he’s allowed to go in town. But soon, he begins noticing strange things around them–is it in his imagination? Or could the Lizard Man be real after all?

Date Published:2021

The last straw

Kinney, Jeff


Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
Date Published:2009

Star Wars Jedi Academy. 1 /

Brown, Jeffrey, 1975-


Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older brother, father, and grandfather. But just as Roan is mysteriously denied entrance to Pilot School, he is invited to attend Jedi Academy--a school that he didn't apply to and only recruits children when they are just a few years old. That is, until now...This inventive novel follows Roan's first year at Jedi Academy where, under the tutelage of Master Yoda, he learns that he possesses more strength and potential than he could have ever dreamed. Oh, and he learns other important things too--like how to make a baking soda volcano, fence with a lightsaber, slow dance with a girl, and lift boulders with the Force.
Date Published:2013

Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older brother, father, and grandfather. But just as Roan is mysteriously denied entrance to Pilot School, he is invited to attend Jedi Academy--a school that he didn't apply to and only recruits children when they are just a few years old. That is, until now...This inventive novel follows Roan's first year at Jedi Academy where, under the tutelage of Master Yoda, he learns that he possesses more strength and potential than he could have ever dreamed. Oh, and he learns other important things too--like how to make a baking soda volcano, fence with a lightsaber, slow dance with a girl, and lift boulders with the Force.

Date Published:2013

Wrecking ball

Kinney, Jeff,


When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
Date Published:2019

Do Not Track


A National Film Board of Canada Interactive. Do Not Track is a documentary series that explores how information about you is collected and used. Each episode explores a different aspect of how the modern web is increasingly a space where our movements, our speech and our identities are recorded and tracked. From our mobile phones to social networks, personalized advertising to big data, each episode has a different focus, a different voice and a different look.
Date Published:2015

A National Film Board of Canada Interactive. Do Not Track is a documentary series that explores how information about you is collected and used. Each episode explores a different aspect of how the modern web is increasingly a space where our movements, our speech and our identities are recorded and tracked. From our mobile phones to social networks, personalized advertising to big data, each episode has a different focus, a different voice and a different look.

Date Published:2015

Rodrick rules

Kinney, Jeff


Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
Date Published:2008

Iqbal

D'Adamo, Francesco.


A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen. Useful for teaching the Visualization strategy.
Date Published:2005

Making bombs for Hitler

Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, 1954-


Companion book to: Stolen child. In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she's moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
Date Published:2017

NASCAR

Buckley, James, 1963-


Includes index.
Date Published:2005

Eleanor Roosevelt : an inspiring life

MacLeod, Elizabeth


Includes index.
Date Published:2006

Alexander Graham Bell : an inventive life

MacLeod, Elizabeth


Includes index.
Date Published:1999

The day of Ahmed's secret

Heide, Florence Parry.


A young Egyptian boy describes the city of Cairo as he goes about his daily work and waits for the evening to share a special surprise with his family.
Date Published:1990

Branded

Walters, Eric, 1957-


Pagination varies : the hardcover edition has 109 pages. Please note the mature content of this book. When the principal of his school decides that the students must wear uniforms, Ian learns that the manufacturer of the uniforms is on the top-ten list for human-rights violations. When he tells the principal this, all he gets is a reminder that the penalty for refusing to wear the uniforms is suspension.
Date Published:2010

Pagination varies : the hardcover edition has 109 pages. Please note the mature content of this book. When the principal of his school decides that the students must wear uniforms, Ian learns that the manufacturer of the uniforms is on the top-ten list for human-rights violations. When he tells the principal this, all he gets is a reminder that the penalty for refusing to wear the uniforms is suspension.

Date Published:2010