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Lantern Festival

Chow, Bill,


Includes index. During a full moon, China and other Asian countries celebrate the end of Lunar New Year by holding the Lantern Festival, lighting up the dark sky. Learn about how the festival is celebrated in Canada and the importance it carries.
Date Published:2024

What's a By-election?


From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Sometimes seats in the Ontario legislature become open between general elections and have to be filled. When a seat becomes open, the Premier of Ontario calls a by-election. Learn all about how by-elections work in the province of Ontario.
Date Published:2011

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

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

Neil Flambé and the Tokyo treasure

Sylvester, Kevin.


Celebrity teenaged chef Neil Flambé heads to Japan to solve his next mystery when news arrives that his cousin Larry, a manga comic book writer visiting Tokyo, has died in a boating accident.
Date Published:2012

Power chord

Staunton, Ted, 1956-


Fourteen-year-old Ace starts a band and learns a tough lesson about plagiarism.
Date Published:2011

Tales from a not-so-glam TV star

Russell, Rachel Renée


"This diary belongs to Nikki J. Maxwell -- Private & Confidential -- No snooping allowed!!!"--Inside cover. Nikki is in the spotlight. A reality TV crew will follow her and her friends for the whole month of March as they record their hit song together. But will the excitement also cause unexpected problems, now that cameras are everywhere that Nikki and her friends go? Everyone's been rooting for Nikki Maxwell and her crush, Brandon -- and fans will finally learn if they had their first kiss in this seventh book of the Dork Diaries series!
Date Published:2014

"This diary belongs to Nikki J. Maxwell -- Private & Confidential -- No snooping allowed!!!"--Inside cover. Nikki is in the spotlight. A reality TV crew will follow her and her friends for the whole month of March as they record their hit song together. But will the excitement also cause unexpected problems, now that cameras are everywhere that Nikki and her friends go? Everyone's been rooting for Nikki Maxwell and her crush, Brandon -- and fans will finally learn if they had their first kiss in this seventh book of the Dork Diaries series!

Date Published:2014

Mr. Clumsy

Hargreaves, Roger, 1935-1988.


Mr. Clumsy has broken three alarm clocks this week. Three! He's just so clumsy: always walking into things and tripping over. He looks clumsy, too, don't you think?
Date Published:2001

Mr. Tickle

Hargreaves, Roger, 1935-1988.


Mr. Tickle spends his day looking for people to tickle.
Date Published:2011

Neil Flambé and the Tokyo treasure

Sylvester, Kevin


Celebrity teenaged chef Neil Flambé heads to Japan to solve his next mystery when news arrives that his cousin Larry, a manga comic book writer visiting Tokyo, has died in a boating accident.
Date Published:2012

A tiny bit lucky

Pichon, Liz


Tom's dad wants to make a kite so they can go out together and get some fresh air. This would be okay with Tom if he had a dog, but that's just not going to happen. Tom's grumpy sister Delia is allergic to dogs! Tom has other things on his mind. The Rock Weekly Band Battle Audition is coming up, and Tom, Derek and Norman need some serious band practice. But Tom's not panicking because they have loads of time . . . time that passes quickly . . . time that runs out! Will Tom and his friends pull it together in time for the audition?
Date Published:2015

Tom's dad wants to make a kite so they can go out together and get some fresh air. This would be okay with Tom if he had a dog, but that's just not going to happen. Tom's grumpy sister Delia is allergic to dogs! Tom has other things on his mind. The Rock Weekly Band Battle Audition is coming up, and Tom, Derek and Norman need some serious band practice. But Tom's not panicking because they have loads of time . . . time that passes quickly . . . time that runs out! Will Tom and his friends pull it together in time for the audition?

Date Published:2015

A robotics mission : a 4D book

Miller, Shannon (Shannon McClintock).


A Capstone Interactive eBook. Meet the specialist -- Meet the students -- Boxes and boxes -- The red planet -- The rover -- Glossary -- Build a robot! -- Further resources. When Cyrus and his friends join Ms. Gillian, the Specialist, on another Adventure in Makerspace, they find themselves on Mars. Can they build a Mars rover of their own? Written in graphic-novel format.
Date Published:2019

What is a snap election?


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Canadians are going to the polls after Prime Minister Mark Carney called a snap election. So what does that mean? CBC Kids News contributor Sophia Smoke explains. Published March 23, 2025.
Date Published:2025

Freedom Train

Coleman, Evelyn, 1948-


Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.
Date Published:2008

Emperor Pickletine rides the bus : an origami yoda book

Angleberger, Tom


The seventh graders of McQuarrie Middle School and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.
Date Published:2014

The band

Leber, Nancy



Date Published:2000

The man with the violin

Stinson, Kathy


When Dylan hears someone playing their violin in the subway he wants to stop and listen, but his mother and other commuters ignore the violinist completely.
Date Published:2013

Revoilà le chat

Ladd, Frances Ann


La couv. porte en outre: WB.
Date Published:2005

La fanfare

Ladd, Frances Ann


La couv. porte en outre: WB.
Date Published:2005

Le gâteau de Scooby

Ladd, Frances Ann


La couv. porte en outre: WB.
Date Published:2005