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Looks Like Daylight
Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories.
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ages 4
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/ grades K
to 2
Tamalitos
Another playful book in the popular bilingual Cooking Poem series that shows that tamalitos, or little tamales, are easy to make!
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El pan de la guerra
Parvana tiene 11 años y vive en Afganistán bajo el mandato de los talibanes. Cuando detienen a su padre buscará una solución desesperada: convertirse en un chico.
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The Girl of the Wish Garden
This beautiful story is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale “Thumbelina” and the award-winning art of Nasrin Khosravi.
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Very Last First Time
A classic story of an Inuit girl's first experience going alone under the ice to collect mussels.
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No Vacancy
With the help of her Catholic friend, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl creates a provocative local tourist attraction to save her family’s failing motel.
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Lost Girl Found
In war-torn Sudan, a girl must make heart-rending choices as she fights for survival and a chance at a future.
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So, find your “Reading Chair”, sit down and lose yourself in the power of story.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM: Canadian Review of Materials\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Ellis’ cleverly crafted tales will encourage children to stand up for themselves and take risks to solve their problems.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and their situations, decisions and actions, with profound impacts.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeName_0":"Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award","PrizeName_1":"MYRCA Northern Lights","PrizeName_2":"MYRCA Northern Lights","PrizeName_3":"Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2017-10-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","Series":"Onward","ShortDescription":"With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and their situations, decisions and actions, with profound impacts.","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 10
to 13
/ grades 5
to 8
Sit
With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and their situations, decisions and actions, with profound impacts.
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ages 8
to 12
/ grades 3
to 6
Blue Mountain
A young bighorn must lead his herd on a perilous journey over the Rocky Mountains when their territory is threatened.
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{"id":7267102982203,"title":"No Ordinary Day","handle":"no-ordinary-day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Awards 2013 Diamond Willow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: Young Adult\/Middle Reader Award, the Governor General's Literary Awards: Children's Text and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's not much that upsets young Valli. Even though her days are spent picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. The only sight that fills her with terror are the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks -- the lepers. Valli and the other children throw stones at them. 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Even though her days are spent picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. The only sight that fills her with terror are the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks -- the lepers. Valli and the other children throw stones at them. No matter how hard her life is, she tells herself, at least she will never be one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen she discovers that she is not living with family after all, that her \"aunt\" was a stranger who was paid money to take Valli off her own family's hands. She decides to leave Jharia … and so begins a series of adventures that takes her to Kolkata, the city of the gods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not so bad. Valli finds that she really doesn't need much to live. She can \"borrow\" the things she needs and then pass them on to people who need them more than she does. 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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
No Ordinary Day
Deborah Ellis, author of The Breadwinner, brings us another feisty young heroine, Valli — an orphan with leprosy who lives on the streets of Kolkata.
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Cleaning houses is just a way for Jess to earn money for college – until she finds a hidden diary in the trashed bedroom of a fancy country house.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Two at the Top
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest.
