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Pete the Cat and the cool cat boogie

Dean, Kim, 1969-,


Practicing a totally groovy new dance, Pete the Cat is told by a grumpy neighbor that his moves are all wrong, so he resolves to become a better dancer before receiving advice from wise Owl that he will be most cool when he's just himself.
Date Published:2023

Grandfather Tang's story

Tompert, Ann


Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.
Date Published:1990

Esi Edugyan: Writing Black Histories


From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Episode of the Agenda aired on June 4, 2019. . Esi Edugyan won the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize or her acclaimed book, "Washington Black," a novel of slavery and freedom. She talks to Nam Kiwanuka about how real snippets of Black history inform the stories she tells in her novels.
Date Published:2019

Pete's big lunch

Dean, James, 1957-


Pete the cat shares his big lunch with his friends.
Date Published:2014

The high cost of ship breaking


What are we dumping into our oceans and who is most impacted? What are the costs of global trade? An environmental lawyer challenges the global ship breaking industry that has used Bangladesh waters as a dumping ground.
Date Published:2018

Secret identity

Van Draanen, Wendelin


"A Yearling book." Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
Date Published:2004

Washington Black : a novel

Edugyan, Esi.


"Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life"--OCLC.
Date Published:2018

"Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life"--OCLC.

Date Published:2018

Freedom : a mixtape


An artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, and spoken-word pieces
Date Published:2024

Maps and mapping for Canadian kids

Peetoom, Laura


Includes index.
Date Published:2011

Astrid and Apollo in concert

Bidania, V. T.


A Capstone Interactive eBook. Duet -- Trumpet man -- Bravo -- Don't worry -- Bow. As Astrid and Apollo practice for their duet in the third-grade recorder concert they become increasingly frustrated with their little sister Eliana, who keeps getting in the way, but when events leading up to the concert do not go as planned the twins realize just how much Eliana feels left out. Includes facts about the Hmong.
Date Published:2021

A Capstone Interactive eBook. Duet -- Trumpet man -- Bravo -- Don't worry -- Bow. As Astrid and Apollo practice for their duet in the third-grade recorder concert they become increasingly frustrated with their little sister Eliana, who keeps getting in the way, but when events leading up to the concert do not go as planned the twins realize just how much Eliana feels left out. Includes facts about the Hmong.

Date Published:2021

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

Place value

Adler, David A.


The mathematical concept of place value is explained using a place value chart, descriptions of how money is notated, and humorous examples from a recipe that a group of monkeys is using to make a gigantic banana muffin.
Date Published:2016

Turtle Radio


Leo learns about the Head Start program with Parks Canada Biologist, Julia. The program helps Blanding's turtles begin their lives in Rouge Urban National Park. By picking up radio signals from their backs, turtles can be tracked. This helps create wetland habitats that sustain populations of the future.
Date Published:2020

Who needs a swamp? : a wetland ecosystem

Patkau, Karen



Date Published:2012

D'où viennent les machines?


De la collection audiovisuelle Curio. Emil est remonté dans le temps pour nous montrer les toutes premières machines utilisées par les humains. Segment du 15 mars 2020.
Date Published:2020

Evil star

Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-


Sequel to: Raven's gate. Prequel to: Nightrise. Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Date Published:2007

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

Learning about earth's cycles with graphic organizers

Nadeau, Isaac.


Includes index.
Date Published:2005

A girl called Echo. Vol. 3, Northwest resistance /

Vermette, Katherena, 1977-


"Echo Desjardins just can't stop slipping back and forth in time. In Northwest Resistance, she travels to a period of turmoil. The bison are gone, settlers from the East are arriving daily, and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their traditional way of life is threatened. The Canadian government has ignored their petitions, but hope rises when Louis Riel returns to help. However, battles between Canadian forces and the Métis and their allies lead to a defeat at Batoche. Through it all, Echo gains new perspectives about where she came from and what the future may hold"--Back cover.
Date Published:2020

"Echo Desjardins just can't stop slipping back and forth in time. In Northwest Resistance, she travels to a period of turmoil. The bison are gone, settlers from the East are arriving daily, and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their traditional way of life is threatened. The Canadian government has ignored their petitions, but hope rises when Louis Riel returns to help. However, battles between Canadian forces and the Métis and their allies lead to a defeat at Batoche. Through it all, Echo gains new perspectives about where she came from and what the future may hold"--Back cover.

Date Published:2020

O.K., K.O., O.K. v. 3 no. 1


Description based on volume 3, issue 1, June 2024. 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:2024

Description based on volume 3, issue 1, June 2024. 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:2024