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Jump at Home: Grade 6
Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 6.
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How to Restore a Timeline
A kaleidoscopic blend of personal essays and cultural criticism exploring PTSD, trauma as entertainment, and living during the apocalypse.
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The 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Heartache and hardship are no match for the disarming whimsy, the layered storytelling shot through with love. The power of land, the pull of family, the turbulence of poverty are threads woven together with explorations of reality, tackling truth with a trickster slant.” — Eden Robinson, author of \u003cem \u003eSon of a Trickster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem \u003eClifford\u003c\/em\u003e is a story only Harold Johnson could tell. By turns soft and harsh, intellectual and emotional, Johnson weaves truth, fiction, science, and science fiction into a tapestry that is rich with meaning and maybes. A natural storyteller, Johnson seeks imagined pasts and futurity with equal parts longing and care. 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I know many white alcoholics but it’s always ‘the drunk Indian.’ Why? \u003cem \u003eFirewater\u003c\/em\u003e is a great book; it burns in the hand.” — \u003cem \u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR HAROLD JOHNSON AND \u003cem \u003eCORVUS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, 2016 Saskatchewan Book Awards Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“An impassioned, formally innovative twist on the dystopian genre.” — \u003cem \u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Johnson’s done some solid thinking about a world killing itself with its intellect while it denies its heart and soul in favour of more luxury goods” — \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eSaskatoon Star Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Corvus pushes back … playing with the space between the real and the imagined, the organic and the alive, the human and the animal.” — \u003cem \u003eBull Calf Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Johnson fortifies the place of Indigenous peoples in his frightening dystopia, offering up Cree ways of knowing as key to the hyper-technological aspirations of continental North America. For that, \u003cem \u003eCorvus\u003c\/em\u003e is an important intervention into climate-based, futuristic sci-fi.” — \u003cem \u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHarold R. Johnson is the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFirewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) \u003c\/em\u003eand an important voice in Indigenous literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Björkan Sagas \u003c\/em\u003eis at the forefront of positive, complex, and diverse Indigenous stories that exemplify the diversity of Indigenous cultures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis book is a combination of Indigenous storytelling traditions and the sci-fi and fantasy genres.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. 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The Björkan Sagas
Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Song for the Snow
Can a long-forgotten song bring the snow back to Freya’s town?
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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves his classroom’s dress-up center and its tangerine dress.
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Barrelling Forward
Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.
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Sidewalk Flowers
A quiet but powerful testament to the joy that children can find in ordinary things.
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Seven Heavens Away
A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.
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The Rehearsal Club
A mystery spans decades at a New York boarding house for actresses in this story of sisterhood and following your dreams under marquee lights.
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The Golden Daughter
Secret wartime letters, a volatile love triangle, an unmarked grave—a revelatory mother-daughter memoir about discovery, love, and forgiveness.
