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{"id":7524424024123,"title":"My Name Is Seepeetza (1st edition)","handle":"my-name-is-seepeetza-1st-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:03:15-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T15:13:50-05:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":[],"price":1095,"price_min":1095,"price_max":1095,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43233574617147,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780888991652","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"My Name Is Seepeetza (1st edition) - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1095,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780888991652","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780888991652.jpg?v=1768594405"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780888991652.jpg?v=1768594405","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292848164923,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":2251,"width":1498,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780888991652.jpg?v=1768594405"},"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":2251,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780888991652.jpg?v=1768594405","width":1498}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":7524422123579,"title":"Mother Number Zero","handle":"mother-number-zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFay was adopted when he was a baby. He knows only that his birth mother escaped the war in Bosnia and that he arrived in his new home with nothing more than a squeaky toy and a few clothes. His older sister Bing was adopted too, from China, where she was found abandoned on the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Fay's friend Maud discovers he is adopted, she urges him to search for his birth mother, but this creates mayhem at home, since there is no possibility of Bing ever being able to find her birth mother. Gradually Fay's complicated feelings about searching for his mother and his ambivalent feelings for Maud unfold. Hof's insight into human nature results in a truthful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful rendering of family life and the challenges of being adopted.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T16:29:10-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T15:06:26-05:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":[],"price":1295,"price_min":1295,"price_max":1895,"available":false,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43135969624123,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781554980789","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Mother Number Zero - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781554980789","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":43135969656891,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781554980796","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Mother Number Zero - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781554980796","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980789_HR.jpg?v=1768593960"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980789_HR.jpg?v=1768593960","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292814938171,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":2257,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980789_HR.jpg?v=1768593960"},"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":2257,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980789_HR.jpg?v=1768593960","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFay was adopted when he was a baby. He knows only that his birth mother escaped the war in Bosnia and that he arrived in his new home with nothing more than a squeaky toy and a few clothes. His older sister Bing was adopted too, from China, where she was found abandoned on the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Fay's friend Maud discovers he is adopted, she urges him to search for his birth mother, but this creates mayhem at home, since there is no possibility of Bing ever being able to find her birth mother. Gradually Fay's complicated feelings about searching for his mother and his ambivalent feelings for Maud unfold. Hof's insight into human nature results in a truthful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful rendering of family life and the challenges of being adopted.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Mummy explains that her daddy passed away long ago, and Grandma decides it’s time Malaika knew more about her father’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe family drives to a far-off farm where they receive a warm welcome and visit the orchard where Malaika’s father picked fruit. The farm workers tell Malaika that her daddy had always dreamed of celebrating carnival there, just like back home. Will Malaika agree to be their Carnival Queen for the harvest festival?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNadia L. Hohn and Irene Luxbacher have created another compelling story about Malaika, who finds a way to cope with her sadness about her father through their shared love of carnival. Includes an author's note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Text Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003edialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eglossary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eillustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003evignettes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk and answer questions about key details in a text.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781773068527","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","KeyTextFeatures":"\u003cp\u003edialogue;glossary;illustrations;vignettes\u003c\/p\u003e","MetaKeywords":"blended family;French language;patois;own voice;agricultural history;children and parents;community;extended family;migration;Fall books;creativity;curiosity;heritage;first person narration;child as narrator;figurative language;imagery","NumberOfPages":"32","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is the fourth book in a popular series — \u003cem\u003eMalaika’s Costume\u003c\/em\u003e was chosen for the 2021 TD Grade One Book Giveaway, and \u003cem\u003eMalaika’s Surprise\u003c\/em\u003e was nominated for the Forest of Reading’s Blue Spruce Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe story shows a young child coming to terms with the knowledge that a parent has passed away.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe experience of migrant farm workers is woven into the story as Malaika learns more about her father’s life and is addressed in an author's note.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe book features the sharing and celebration of Caribbean carnival culture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A lovely story that intertwines a girl's past and present into an honest reflection of her family.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“A heartwarming story.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“This breathtaking addition to the Malaika picture book series does not disappoint … \u003cem\u003eMalaika, Carnival Queen\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful depiction of the desire to connect to personal genealogy, but it is also a depiction of black culture and Jamaican heritage.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM: Canadian Review of Materials\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMalaika learns about her father, who came to Canada as a migrant farm worker when she was just a baby and who shared her love of carnival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","PublicationDate":"2023-05-02","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","Series":"The Malaika Series","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMalaika learns about her father, who came to Canada as a migrant farm worker when she was just a baby and who shared her love of carnival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"10","WidthCode":"in"}
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Malaika, Carnival Queen
Malaika learns about her father, who came to Canada as a migrant farm worker when she was just a baby and who shared her love of carnival.
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{"id":7524410261563,"title":"I'll Be Watching","handle":"ill-be-watching","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else’s business. Everyone knows that the Loney family has been barely hanging on -- the father, George, reduced to drink and despair since the loss of his farm and the death of his wife, Margaret. That the four Loney children do not get along with George’s second wife, the pious, bitter Effie. Then George dies in a drunken stupor -- locked out, it seems, by Effie to freeze to death on his own doorstep. Effie takes off with a traveling Bible salesman, and it looks as though the children are done for. Who’s to save them when everyone is coping with their own problems -- the lingering depression and the loss of the town’s young men to the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet somehow the children find a way, under the watchful eye of their ghostly parents and through the small kindnesses of a few neighbors, but mostly by dint of their own determination and ingenuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an extremely powerful novel about children at risk because of adult hypocrisy, indifference, self-interest and outright immorality, all cloaked in a self-righteous exterior. In the end they redeem their own lives by drawing good people to them and by rising to the occasion themselves. And when they at last are able to leave Argue, they do so together, as a family looking ahead to a future of promise and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:03:14-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T14:41:00-05:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":[],"price":1295,"price_min":1295,"price_max":1295,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43233575960635,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781554980963","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"I'll Be Watching - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781554980963","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980963.jpg?v=1768592392"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980963.jpg?v=1768592392","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292702511163,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"width":1725,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980963.jpg?v=1768592392"},"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554980963.jpg?v=1768592392","width":1725}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else’s business. Everyone knows that the Loney family has been barely hanging on -- the father, George, reduced to drink and despair since the loss of his farm and the death of his wife, Margaret. That the four Loney children do not get along with George’s second wife, the pious, bitter Effie. Then George dies in a drunken stupor -- locked out, it seems, by Effie to freeze to death on his own doorstep. Effie takes off with a traveling Bible salesman, and it looks as though the children are done for. Who’s to save them when everyone is coping with their own problems -- the lingering depression and the loss of the town’s young men to the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet somehow the children find a way, under the watchful eye of their ghostly parents and through the small kindnesses of a few neighbors, but mostly by dint of their own determination and ingenuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an extremely powerful novel about children at risk because of adult hypocrisy, indifference, self-interest and outright immorality, all cloaked in a self-righteous exterior. In the end they redeem their own lives by drawing good people to them and by rising to the occasion themselves. And when they at last are able to leave Argue, they do so together, as a family looking ahead to a future of promise and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePAMELA PORTER\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and she lived in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Washington and Montana before emigrating to Canada with her husband, the fourth generation of a farm family in southeastern Saskatchewan, the backdrop for much of Pamela's work. She is the author of three collections of poetry, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals across Canada and the US as well as being featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. She is also the author of a number of children’s books, including \u003cem\u003eSky and Yellow Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eApple Moon\u003c\/em\u003e (illustrated by Matt James).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePamela's first novel in verse, \u003cem\u003eThe Crazy Man\u003c\/em\u003e, received the TD Children's Literature Award, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the Governor General's Award, as well as several children's choice awards. It was also named a Jane Addams Foundation Honor Book and won the Texas Institute of Letters, Friends of the Austin Public Library Award for Best Young Adult Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePamela lives near Sidney, B.C., with her husband, children and a menagerie of rescued horses, dogs and cats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Porter, Pamela","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","NumberOfPages":"288","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd"}
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{"id":7524408950843,"title":"Genocide (Groundwork Guides #3)","handle":"genocide-1st-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is genocide? Why does it happen, and what can be done to prevent it from happening again? These urgent questions are clearly and concisely explored for young adult readers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome view the systematic killing, rape and destruction of homes in Darfur as a grave humanitarian crisis. For others, it’s a clear example of the ultimate crime against humanity — genocide. Who is right? What is genocide? What is the impact on humanity of wiping out entire groups of people? Who are the endangered human beings in today’s world?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis thoughtful book helps young readers understand these and other difficult questions. 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{"id":7524251238459,"title":"The Wrecking Light","handle":"the-wrecking-light","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwithering\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Forward Poetry Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary: the poet's gaze -- whether on the natural world or the details of his own life -- is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry and disarming humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside fine translations from Pablo Neruda and Eugenio Montale and dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wrecking Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. Ghosts sift through these poems -- certainties become volatile, the simplest situations thicken with strangeness and threat -- all of them haunted by the pressure and presence of the primitive world against our own, and the kind of dream-like intensity of description that has become Robertson's trademark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wrecking Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a work of considerable grandeur and sweep, and confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:03:10-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T11:37:28-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43233625800763,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842580","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Wrecking Light - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842580","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842580.jpg?v=1768581445"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842580.jpg?v=1768581445","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292253753403,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2326,"width":1525,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842580.jpg?v=1768581445"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2326,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842580.jpg?v=1768581445","width":1525}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eRobin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwithering\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Forward Poetry Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary: the poet's gaze -- whether on the natural world or the details of his own life -- is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry and disarming humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside fine translations from Pablo Neruda and Eugenio Montale and dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wrecking Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. Ghosts sift through these poems -- certainties become volatile, the simplest situations thicken with strangeness and threat -- all of them haunted by the pressure and presence of the primitive world against our own, and the kind of dream-like intensity of description that has become Robertson's trademark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wrecking Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a work of considerable grandeur and sweep, and confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":7524249796667,"title":"Pigeon English","handle":"pigeon-english","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Pigeon English is a triumph.\" -- Emma Donoghue, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Guardian First Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate in London, England. The second-best runner in his grade, Harri races through his new life in his personalized trainers -- the Adidas stripes drawn on with black marker -- blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith equal fascination for the local gang -- the Dell Farm Crew --and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements that surround him: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA deeply funny, moving, and unforgettable story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePigeon English\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:03:09-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T11:33:08-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":[],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43233626030139,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842603","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Pigeon English - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842603","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110","options":["Title "],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292246347835,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":666,"width":432,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110"},"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":666,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110","width":432}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Pigeon English is a triumph.\" -- Emma Donoghue, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Guardian First Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate in London, England. The second-best runner in his grade, Harri races through his new life in his personalized trainers -- the Adidas stripes drawn on with black marker -- blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith equal fascination for the local gang -- the Dell Farm Crew --and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements that surround him: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA deeply funny, moving, and unforgettable story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePigeon English\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":7524231446587,"title":"Annabel","handle":"annabel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as \"Annabel\" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:03:07-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T10:31:42-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":3295,"available":false,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43135213404219,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842368","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Annabel - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":3295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842368","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":43135213436987,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842900","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Annabel - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842900","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292106166331,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as \"Annabel\" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Me enoja / Angry Me
The Spanish-language edition of bestselling Angry Me, in which a child tells us what makes her angry and how she tries to let the anger come and go.
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What the Kite Saw
In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away.
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Not That Kind of Place
A rising literary star delivers a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of systemic violence.
