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Welcome to the Neighbourhood
In Clea Young’s arresting sophomore collection of stories, friendships fail, families stumble, and neighbours know each other’s business.
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The One and Only Question
It's Zeke's first day at a new school and his head is filled with one question: what will he do when they call him the N-word like at his old school?
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The Scooter Twins
Twins Melvin and Melanie are excited to get their first mobility scooters. But will it change how the world sees them and how they see themselves?
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Disembark
Award–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.
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Hopscotch
When her family must move once more, Ophelia uses her imagination to make magic out of a scary situation.
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Iceberg
Follow an iceberg's seasonal life cycle as it shears, drifts, melts and moves in the Antarctic Ocean, kept company by animals, fish, birds and organisms.
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Amos's Sweater
A curmudgeonly old sheep reluctantly gives up his wool and then plots to get it back, even though it has been knit into a brightly colored sweater.
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All I Ask by the award-winning and highly acclaimed author Eva Crocker is a defining novel of a generation.
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Trinity Street
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.
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Nice Try, Charlie!
A new picture book about friendship and community from Matt James, acclaimed author and illustrator of The Funeral.
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ages 4
to 8
/ grades K
to 3
Fern and Horn
Fern and Horn look like two peas in a pod, but they have very different ways of seeing the world in this joyful picture book about creativity.
