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Black Widow Beauty.

Schraff, Anne


Greg is determined to find out why all of Monique's boyfriends mysteriously die.
Date Published:2002

Gnome is where your heart is

Lyall, Casey,


Eleven-year-old Lemon Peabody is certain that aliens visited her grandfather thirty years ago, but she is running out of time to prove it before Grandpa Walt's memory fades.
Date Published:2023

Count me in

Bajaj, Varsha.


"Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2019

Propaganda


Propaganda is information in many forms - true, partially true, or false - designed to influence people's opinions and actions. Leaders use it to influence political, economic or military conditions. 3000 years ago, the temple of Ramses depicted a fictional glorious battle victory; recently Iran photoshopped a fighter plane into a picture to imply military might. Propaganda can effectively confuse the truth, polarize opinion, and destabilize an enemy.
Date Published:2023

Propaganda is information in many forms - true, partially true, or false - designed to influence people's opinions and actions. Leaders use it to influence political, economic or military conditions. 3000 years ago, the temple of Ramses depicted a fictional glorious battle victory; recently Iran photoshopped a fighter plane into a picture to imply military might. Propaganda can effectively confuse the truth, polarize opinion, and destabilize an enemy.

Date Published:2023

Happy and you know it

Anderson, Steven.


Includes glossary. A Capstone Interactive eBook. An interactive eBook with words and music to a children's song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement.
Date Published:2016

The word collector

Reynolds, Peter H. (Peter Hamilton), 1961-,


Jerome enjoys collecting and using words that he hears, reads, or sees, and then decides to share his collection with others.
Date Published:2018

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


Description based on volume 1, issue 1, June 2022. 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:2022

Description based on volume 1, issue 1, June 2022. 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:2022

Comeback.

Grant, Vicki


Ria is rich, slim, pretty, popular. If you only knew her at school, you'd think she led a charmed life—and until recently you'd have been right. But her situation has taken a sudden, unfortunate change. Her parents' seemingly perfect marriage has broken up, and before she's had a chance to absorb the blow, her beloved father disappears in a plane crash. What's worse, rumors begin to surface that he may have perpetrated a multimillion-dollar investment scam and everybody — Ria's mother, her best friends, even her boyfriend—believes them. Ria sees no choice but to take her little brother and run. She vows to keep the memory of her father alive. Soon, though, she begins to wonder: is her memory playing tricks on her—or is he?
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Ria is rich, slim, pretty, popular. If you only knew her at school, you'd think she led a charmed life—and until recently you'd have been right. But her situation has taken a sudden, unfortunate change. Her parents' seemingly perfect marriage has broken up, and before she's had a chance to absorb the blow, her beloved father disappears in a plane crash. What's worse, rumors begin to surface that he may have perpetrated a multimillion-dollar investment scam and everybody — Ria's mother, her best friends, even her boyfriend—believes them. Ria sees no choice but to take her little brother and run. She vows to keep the memory of her father alive. Soon, though, she begins to wonder: is her memory playing tricks on her—or is he?

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Cuts Like A Knife.

Ryan, Darlene, 1958-


Briar has a vision for the one-act play she's been chosen to direct at her performing arts high school. She's going to create a masterpiece. If only everyone involved in the production shared her vision. Her leading lady is gifted but troubled, her leading man has a crush on the leading lady, her stage manager doesn't have a clue, and her best friend, who wrote the play, is worried that Briar's production is cursed. As Briar struggles to motivate her cast and crew, she learns some important truths about the fine art of directing—and about herself.
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Briar has a vision for the one-act play she's been chosen to direct at her performing arts high school. She's going to create a masterpiece. If only everyone involved in the production shared her vision. Her leading lady is gifted but troubled, her leading man has a crush on the leading lady, her stage manager doesn't have a clue, and her best friend, who wrote the play, is worried that Briar's production is cursed. As Briar struggles to motivate her cast and crew, she learns some important truths about the fine art of directing—and about herself.

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The gift of words

Reynolds, Peter H. (Peter Hamilton), 1961-


When positive words prove hard to come by in his bustling town, Jerome shares holiday wishes with his community by stringing joyful words on a tree.
Date Published:2025

Randall Finnerty : From fine arts to animation


Randall Finnerty's name appears in the credits of over a hundred NFB films. With a background in fine arts painting, Randall brings a unique expertise to his role as Technical Specialist in our Animation Studio. Learn more.
Date Published:2020

Propaganda today


In the digital age, we are vulnerable to manipulation and information warfare by governments and individuals with their own agenda. What does propaganda as a covert action look like in the 21st century - and how effective is it? Fake Facebook pages and social media profiles as well as false stories and videos on the Internet are widespread and effective. A study showed that disinformation travels faster than the truth, but the public is becoming more aware of these destabilizing influences.
Date Published:2023

In the digital age, we are vulnerable to manipulation and information warfare by governments and individuals with their own agenda. What does propaganda as a covert action look like in the 21st century - and how effective is it? Fake Facebook pages and social media profiles as well as false stories and videos on the Internet are widespread and effective. A study showed that disinformation travels faster than the truth, but the public is becoming more aware of these destabilizing influences.

Date Published:2023

Breaking Point.

Choyce, Lesley, 1951-


I could have been a good boy and done what I was told. But that wasn't my style. I just kept paddling, straight into the morning sun. Escape seemed like a good idea at the time. Now survival is all that matters. Cameron has been in trouble with the law more than once for breaking and entering. After his latest conviction, he's sent to an outdoors program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. There he meets Brianna, a girl who has been caught selling drugs at her school. They bond quickly, and she convinces Cameron to steal two sea kayaks and head off with her into the wilderness of bays and coves of Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. It's a fearless but ill-timed escape as a hurricane is about to pound the coast. They must use all their courage and newfound survival skills if they are going to make it back to shore alive. And Cameron suspects that Brianna may not be telling him the truth about her real plans.
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I could have been a good boy and done what I was told. But that wasn't my style. I just kept paddling, straight into the morning sun. Escape seemed like a good idea at the time. Now survival is all that matters. Cameron has been in trouble with the law more than once for breaking and entering. After his latest conviction, he's sent to an outdoors program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. There he meets Brianna, a girl who has been caught selling drugs at her school. They bond quickly, and she convinces Cameron to steal two sea kayaks and head off with her into the wilderness of bays and coves of Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. It's a fearless but ill-timed escape as a hurricane is about to pound the coast. They must use all their courage and newfound survival skills if they are going to make it back to shore alive. And Cameron suspects that Brianna may not be telling him the truth about her real plans.

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Tuatoru - Whiro: The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana Series.


Tuatoru - Whiro" Circa 1769 AD. This story reveals the importance of love, loss and the rituals of honoring those passed and present. After the loss of her kuia, Whiro is unable to wail. She watches from the dunes as her whanau mourn the loss. Her aunties accuse her mother of not raising Whiro to respect. She is blamed for putting a curse on the village when strange things begin to happen in the sand dunes after her grandmother's burial. 'The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana', a dramatic Maori anthology series, brings us three ancient oral whakapapa stories of the Ngāi Tara people. Born of the stars and rooted in the homelands of ancient Aotearoa, the series features some of New Zealand's top Māori actors.
Date Published:2022

Tuatoru - Whiro" Circa 1769 AD. This story reveals the importance of love, loss and the rituals of honoring those passed and present. After the loss of her kuia, Whiro is unable to wail. She watches from the dunes as her whanau mourn the loss. Her aunties accuse her mother of not raising Whiro to respect. She is blamed for putting a curse on the village when strange things begin to happen in the sand dunes after her grandmother's burial. 'The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana', a dramatic Maori anthology series, brings us three ancient oral whakapapa stories of the Ngāi Tara people. Born of the stars and rooted in the homelands of ancient Aotearoa, the series features some of New Zealand's top Māori actors.

Date Published:2022

Bugged.

Lorimer, Janet


Home from college for the summer, Jean and Jared find disturbing changes in the tiny community of Warm Springs. Something suspicious is going on in HybriGene's top-secret laboratory. The twins make it their business to solve the mystery.
Date Published:2017

The Sixties Scoop and the stolen lives of Indigenous children

Bomberry, Andrew,


"An examination of the Sixties Scoop – a child welfare policy in Canada that saw the removal of Indigenous children from their families, often by force. Starting in 1951, Indigenous children in Canada were taken by social welfare agencies from their families and placed in the care of non-Indigenous families. These children grew up without their birth families, cultural roots, and language. Many tried to run away and some died in the attempt. The taking of the children is known as the Sixties Scoop, though the policies and practices started before the 1960s and lasted long after. Today, Indigenous children are shockingly over-represented in the child welfare system across Canada."
Date Published:2024

"An examination of the Sixties Scoop – a child welfare policy in Canada that saw the removal of Indigenous children from their families, often by force. Starting in 1951, Indigenous children in Canada were taken by social welfare agencies from their families and placed in the care of non-Indigenous families. These children grew up without their birth families, cultural roots, and language. Many tried to run away and some died in the attempt. The taking of the children is known as the Sixties Scoop, though the policies and practices started before the 1960s and lasted long after. Today, Indigenous children are shockingly over-represented in the child welfare system across Canada."

Date Published:2024

Merci Suárez changes gears

Medina, Meg.


"Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna's jealousy. Things aren't going well at home, either: Merci's grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately -- forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what's going on, so she's left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school."--Provided by publish.
Date Published:2018

"Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna's jealousy. Things aren't going well at home, either: Merci's grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately -- forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what's going on, so she's left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school."--Provided by publish.

Date Published:2018

Early neural development


In my 2-Minute Neuroscience videos I explain neuroscience topics in 2 minutes or less. In this video, I discuss early neural development. I explain how the neural plate develops into the neural tube, and then the process by which the neural tube forms the brain and spinal cord. I discuss the primary (prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon) and secondary (telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon) vesicles and what parts of the brain they will eventually form.
Date Published:2019

In my 2-Minute Neuroscience videos I explain neuroscience topics in 2 minutes or less. In this video, I discuss early neural development. I explain how the neural plate develops into the neural tube, and then the process by which the neural tube forms the brain and spinal cord. I discuss the primary (prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon) and secondary (telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon) vesicles and what parts of the brain they will eventually form.

Date Published:2019

Boxing


This episode joins Kenzie Wilson of Cross Lake as she speaks of her hard work and accomplishments that got her in life through boxing. Follow Olympic Boxer, Mary Spencer, as she talks about her role in boxing and as she mentors the youth of Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario. Also, the Sinclair brothers look back on their father, trailblazer Sam Sinclair, who fought and boxed in the war, and later fought for his community.
Date Published:2019

This episode joins Kenzie Wilson of Cross Lake as she speaks of her hard work and accomplishments that got her in life through boxing. Follow Olympic Boxer, Mary Spencer, as she talks about her role in boxing and as she mentors the youth of Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario. Also, the Sinclair brothers look back on their father, trailblazer Sam Sinclair, who fought and boxed in the war, and later fought for his community.

Date Published:2019

The hero two doors down : based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend

Robinson, Sharon, 1950-


Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not. When Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited -- and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
Date Published:2017