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The little mermaid

Pinkney, Jerry,


Melody, the littlest sea princess, is not content just to sing in the choir of mermaids like her sisters. She is an explorer who wonders about what lies above the water's surface . . . especially the young girl she has spied from a distance. To meet her requires a terrible sacrifice: she trades her beautiful voice for a potion that gives her legs, so that she may live on land instead. It seems like a dream come true at first. But when trouble stirs beneath the ocean, Melody faces another impossible choice -- stay with her friend, or reclaim her true identity and save her family.
Date Published:2020

Melody, the littlest sea princess, is not content just to sing in the choir of mermaids like her sisters. She is an explorer who wonders about what lies above the water's surface . . . especially the young girl she has spied from a distance. To meet her requires a terrible sacrifice: she trades her beautiful voice for a potion that gives her legs, so that she may live on land instead. It seems like a dream come true at first. But when trouble stirs beneath the ocean, Melody faces another impossible choice -- stay with her friend, or reclaim her true identity and save her family.

Date Published:2020

The very fluffy kitty, Papillon

Kang, A. N.,


Papillon is a cat who is so fluffy he floats, so his owner tries many silly ways to keep him on the ground.
Date Published:2016

White Raven

Spathelfer, Teoni, 1963-,


Sequel to Little Wolf. Little Wolf, grown up with children of her own, moves to the country where her mother, White Raven, shares a sad story from her childhood. All grown up with a family of her own, Little Wolf moves from the big city to the island of her ancestors. She wants to share the beauty and mysteries of nature with her children, and she wants them to learn as much about their culture as possible. One day, Little Wolf's mother, White Raven, visits and begins to tell her grandchildren stories from her own childhood. But the stories are not happy ones. As a child, White Raven left her family to attend St. Michael's Residential School in Alert Bay, BC. While there, she experienced hunger, loneliness, shame, and isolation from her language and her culture. Even years later, as a grown woman and Elder, she has nightmares about her time at the school. But by sharing her story with Little Wolf and her grandchildren, White Raven begins to heal and brings the family closer together.
Date Published:2021

Sequel to Little Wolf. Little Wolf, grown up with children of her own, moves to the country where her mother, White Raven, shares a sad story from her childhood. All grown up with a family of her own, Little Wolf moves from the big city to the island of her ancestors. She wants to share the beauty and mysteries of nature with her children, and she wants them to learn as much about their culture as possible. One day, Little Wolf's mother, White Raven, visits and begins to tell her grandchildren stories from her own childhood. But the stories are not happy ones. As a child, White Raven left her family to attend St. Michael's Residential School in Alert Bay, BC. While there, she experienced hunger, loneliness, shame, and isolation from her language and her culture. Even years later, as a grown woman and Elder, she has nightmares about her time at the school. But by sharing her story with Little Wolf and her grandchildren, White Raven begins to heal and brings the family closer together.

Date Published:2021

Yaffa and Fatima : shalom, salaam

Gilani-Williams, Fawzia


Yaffa and Fatima live on neighboring date farms. When very little rain leads to a poor harvest, both women go to extra measures to make sure that their neighbor doesn't go hungry.
Date Published:2017

When we were alone

Robertson, David, 1977-


When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history, and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength.
Date Published:2016

When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history, and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength.

Date Published:2016

When we are kind

Gray Smith, Monique, 1968-


Celebrates simple acts of everyday kindness and encourages children to explore how they feel when they initiate and receive acts of kindness in their lives.
Date Published:2020

We are water protectors

Lindstrom, Carole, 1964-


Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all. When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
Date Published:2020

Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all. When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.

Date Published:2020

The sharing circle

Larsen-Jonasson, Theresa


When two red foxes have an argument which breaks apart their community, a gentle buffalo decides to take a braid of sweetgrass to a local elder and asks her to help with a sharing circle for all the animals.
Date Published:2016

Almost sunset

Algarmi, Wahab,


Hassan faces a hectic month of homework, soccer and gaming while fasting every day for the holy month of Ramadan, in a story about balancing family traditions and secular middle school life.
Date Published:2025

Way off track : a Nansi graphic novel. 1 /

Brundtland, Carl,


Nansi has been a track star her whole life. When Tania, the girl who has everything, beats Nansi in a race, Nansi knows it was only Tania's new running shoes that gave her the edge. She is determined to get her own pair before the school track meet -- if only she can find $340. Luckily, she has Granny, who sets up Nansi with a job at her friend's salon. But another hurdle comes when she's needed at work and the track at the same time. Good thing Nansi was born to scheme!
Date Published:2025

Nansi has been a track star her whole life. When Tania, the girl who has everything, beats Nansi in a race, Nansi knows it was only Tania's new running shoes that gave her the edge. She is determined to get her own pair before the school track meet -- if only she can find $340. Luckily, she has Granny, who sets up Nansi with a job at her friend's salon. But another hurdle comes when she's needed at work and the track at the same time. Good thing Nansi was born to scheme!

Date Published:2025

Kindred dragons. 1 /

Mensinga, Sarah,


Alice has been unhappy ever since her parents sent her to Prince Edward Island to live with her strict grandmother. Alice is fanciful, prone to telling tall tales, and absolutely OBSESSED with dragons! Fairies deliver dragon eggs to a select few, known as Kindreds, but no egg has ever arrived for Alice. While wandering the woods alone, she finds and secretly befriends a mysterious old dragon named Brim. Alice is excited to finally have a dragon friend of her own, but when Brim suddenly falls ill, Alice must set out on a desperate quest to save him.
Date Published:2025

Alice has been unhappy ever since her parents sent her to Prince Edward Island to live with her strict grandmother. Alice is fanciful, prone to telling tall tales, and absolutely OBSESSED with dragons! Fairies deliver dragon eggs to a select few, known as Kindreds, but no egg has ever arrived for Alice. While wandering the woods alone, she finds and secretly befriends a mysterious old dragon named Brim. Alice is excited to finally have a dragon friend of her own, but when Brim suddenly falls ill, Alice must set out on a desperate quest to save him.

Date Published:2025

Inkling

Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-,


The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school, even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. So much more than they can say. Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance's sketchbook. But one night the ink of his drawings runs together, and then leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything. Ethan finds him first. Inkling has absorbed a couple chapters of his math book, not good, and the story he's supposed to be illustrating for school, also not good. But Inkling's also started drawing the pictures to go with the story, which is amazing! It's just the help Ethan was looking for! Inkling helps the rest of the family too, for Sarah he's a puppy. And for Dad he's a spark of ideas for a new graphic novel. It's exactly what they all want. It's not until Inkling goes missing that this family has to face the larger questions of what they, and Inkling, truly need.
Date Published:2020

The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school, even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. So much more than they can say. Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance's sketchbook. But one night the ink of his drawings runs together, and then leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything. Ethan finds him first. Inkling has absorbed a couple chapters of his math book, not good, and the story he's supposed to be illustrating for school, also not good. But Inkling's also started drawing the pictures to go with the story, which is amazing! It's just the help Ethan was looking for! Inkling helps the rest of the family too, for Sarah he's a puppy. And for Dad he's a spark of ideas for a new graphic novel. It's exactly what they all want. It's not until Inkling goes missing that this family has to face the larger questions of what they, and Inkling, truly need.

Date Published:2020

The feelings book

Parr, Todd


The Feelings Book vibrantly illustrates the wide range of moods we all experience. Kids and adults will appreciate Todd Parr's quirky intelligence as he pays special attention to the ever-changing, sometimes nonsensical emotions that we all feel.
Date Published:2009

Not a box

Portis, Antoinette.


Cover title. On board pages. To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box.
Date Published:2006

The great dinosaur sleepover

Bailey, Linda, 1948-


Jake loves dinosaurs, so with his birthday coming up, he knows just what kind of party he wants -- a dinosaur sleepover! Dino games, dino balloons, dino cake, dino movies. Dino everything! But when the day of the party arrives his friends all come down with the flu, and the party seems to be on the edge of extinction. Then, in the middle of the night, Jake hears a strange noise and goes to investigate. To his surprise, he finds some new prehistoric party guests right there in his living room! The dinos have invited themselves in to make sure Jake has a birthday he'll never forget.
Date Published:2025

Jake loves dinosaurs, so with his birthday coming up, he knows just what kind of party he wants -- a dinosaur sleepover! Dino games, dino balloons, dino cake, dino movies. Dino everything! But when the day of the party arrives his friends all come down with the flu, and the party seems to be on the edge of extinction. Then, in the middle of the night, Jake hears a strange noise and goes to investigate. To his surprise, he finds some new prehistoric party guests right there in his living room! The dinos have invited themselves in to make sure Jake has a birthday he'll never forget.

Date Published:2025

Chocolate fever

Smith, Robert Kimmel, 1930-


Henry breaks out in brown bumps as a result of eating too much chocolate. He then gets caught up in a hijacking and learns a valuable lesson about self-indulgence.
Date Published:2006

Case closed? : nine mysteries unlocked by modern science

Hughes, Susan, 1960-


Includes index. Examines how developments in modern science, such as DNA analysis and spectroscopy, have helped to reopen archaeological mysteries about ancient cities, Egypt's first female pharaoh, a missing expedition to find the Northwest Passage, and more, with illustrations, maps, and photographs.
Date Published:2010

The book of Black inventors and scientists

Fièvre, M. J. (Michèle-Jessica)


Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.
Date Published:2021

The journey continues

Layton, T. Z.,


The continuing story of Leo K. Doyle, now on the roster of England's Youth Premier League's U14 Lewisham Knights soccer squad and having to manage his school, sports and social life away from his Ohio home.
Date Published:2025

The Academy

Layton, T. Z.,


Born and raised in a small town, Leo K. Doyle is a star soccer player with big dreams in life. When a professional scout pays a chance visit to one of Leo's games and extends an invitation to try out for the London Dragons youth squad, known as The Academy, Leo is stunned. The London Dragons isn't just any old soccer team. It's a world-famous English Premier League team. Soon Leo is off to a whole new country, embarking on the greatest adventure of his life. The downside? Along with the grueling competition, Leo must also face a bully intent on torpedoing his summer, a roomie who doesn't know how to have fun, a terrifying camp director, and, most of all, Leo's own lack of formal training and the fear he will never succeed. Will he be good enough to make the Academy?
Date Published:2025

Born and raised in a small town, Leo K. Doyle is a star soccer player with big dreams in life. When a professional scout pays a chance visit to one of Leo's games and extends an invitation to try out for the London Dragons youth squad, known as The Academy, Leo is stunned. The London Dragons isn't just any old soccer team. It's a world-famous English Premier League team. Soon Leo is off to a whole new country, embarking on the greatest adventure of his life. The downside? Along with the grueling competition, Leo must also face a bully intent on torpedoing his summer, a roomie who doesn't know how to have fun, a terrifying camp director, and, most of all, Leo's own lack of formal training and the fear he will never succeed. Will he be good enough to make the Academy?

Date Published:2025