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For generations Amani's family has grazed sheep above the family homestead near Hebron, but now her home is being threatened by Jewish settlements.
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Travels in Cuba
Even for an experienced traveler like Charlie, Cuba is a place unlike any he has visited before — an island full of surprises, secrets and puzzling contradictions.
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Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds
An eloquent and timely plea for understanding refugees.
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Parvana's Journey
This gripping novel and sequel to the international bestseller The Breadwinner tells the story of Parvana's quest to find her family in Afghanistan.
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She is one of the world's 600 million people who do not have access to toilets, and she decides to do something about it. The story is beautifully, poetically told and the book is illustrated with the breathtaking artwork of Sonali Zohra. Readers will come away thinking, \"Here's a problem that can be solved. Let's help solve it.\" Wonderfully done!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Deborah Ellis, bestselling author of The Breadwinner series","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is an important taboo topic made accessible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe book includes an author’s note with key information about the impact of the lack of sanitation facilities for women and children worldwide. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrée Poulin has travelled and worked in India, and done thorough research to broach this topic respectfully. 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An important book to be read and discussed with older readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Calgary Herald","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e[An] intense and moving novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eAndrée Poulin's verse and Sonali Zohra's colourful illustrations are paired perfectly in this book that brings awareness to a very important issue.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Canadian Children's Book News","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eAn essential read and a great way to discuss often-ignored questions of sanitation, menstruation, and equity with young readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eInspiring. The text is heavy with meaning and emotion but short on filler.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"CanLit for LittleCanadians Blog","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eA well-balanced mix of poignant, humorous, interesting, and profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Cloud Lake Literary","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations by Indian artist Sonali Zohra fit seamlessly with the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003eThis title will inspire matter-of-fact classroom conversations about a basic utility service that is likely taken for granted in most of North America.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"School Library Connection","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003ePowerful.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Horn Book","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"07","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeName_0":"South Asia Book Award","PrizeName_1":"Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year","PrizeName_2":"Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Awards, Diamond Willow Award","PrizeName_3":"Rocky Mountain Book Award","PrizeName_4":"Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Best Books for Kids and Teens","PrizeYear_0":"2022","PrizeYear_1":"2022","PrizeYear_2":"2022","PrizeYear_3":"2023","PrizeYear_4":"2022","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2021-10-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
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Burying the Moon
A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village.
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That, along with her clothes and her beauty, made her unlike any woman I had ever seen. My father had secured a large two-storey house on the outskirts of town and staffed it with half a dozen servants, all in an effort to make his new wife comfortable, but as soon as they arrived he was stricken by all he had not foreseen. The house had no running water, and despite the need Grace refused to use the privy, which had no seat and emitted at that time of year an audible drone. After pleading with Grace in hushed tones, my father ordered Old Chao into town for a portable commode, a trip of at least three hours. For the rest of the afternoon my new mother paced the courtyard, smoking one Lucky after another, which made her seem feral and caged. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e[…] \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eNeedless to say, Grace was unhappy in China. Though my father had no particular desire to leave, he began to eye the foreign service. 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The crowds that greeted them were lusty, adoring, as was I, my schoolboy fantasies of soldiers and guns come to life. My father did not raise his arm but he didn’t stop me from raising mine. That night, in a scene that would soon become commonplace, hoodlums took to the streets, smashing the windows of certain homes and shops. Thereafter, walking to and from school, I passed storefronts marked \u003cem\u003eJude\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNicht arisches Geschaeft\u003c\/em\u003e and blocked by baby-faced men in jackboots and flared helmets. As a visible foreigner and part of the diplomatic corps, my father felt undeterred and often went into these stores despite the piercing glares — and once, an arm held stiffly against his chest. For my mother, annexation was yet another rung of descent in a private tragedy. She chided my father for bringing her to a Nazi-occupied country. His answer: Better the Germans than the Japanese. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eAt the end of October, thousands of Polish-born Jews were rounded up and sent back to Poland. When a seventeen-year-old boy learned that his family was among those languishing at the border, unwanted by either side, he walked into the German Embassy in Paris and pumped five bullets into the viscera of a minor German diplomat. Two days later, Ernst vom Rath died of his wounds. The seething of the Germans, checked so long as their countryman clung to life, would now be unleashed. This was what my father knew when he came home that afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A collection that announces an important new voice in contemporary fiction … Beyond Vancouver, Shanghai, Vienna, Port Elizabeth, and London, the stories in \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e encompass Tallahassee, Los Angeles, and Boston. Wang is committed to rendering his backdrops accurately; with perfectly presented details, he showcases the disharmony of the Chinese diaspora, as individuals endure salient moments in twentieth-century history and more recent times … \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e shows that Jack Wang is a master of the short story, a writer who has mapped his own space, neither Canadian nor American, nor anywhere else. Each episode in this collection is a moving tribute to its characters as well as an indictment of the ostracism that remains when racist taunts and human failures continue to bedevil the modern world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Rich and poignant … History lovers and literary buffs will sink joyfully into his moving collection … Wang manages to underscore the importance of cultural heritage while stressing humanity’s common ties … His ability to create vivid and believable settings, in beautiful and readable prose, will deeply move readers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang is a welcome new voice in Canadian letters … [\u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e] is serious, engaging, well crafted, thought-provoking. Wang clearly has something to say, and this accomplished collection not only says it but also promises a great deal more to come.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang’s extraordinary debut book of stories, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, weaves a path across the world, following the Chinese diaspora over nearly a hundred years. It’s the kind of collection that comes along only once in a while, to be savoured by readers for its sharp, smart portraits of longing, connection, and identity.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, Jack Wang has written an instantly engaging and achingly poignant collection of stories about people struggling to preserve their way of life and seeking stability, connection, and meaning. Focusing on Chinese immigrant experiences, Wang’s stories range freely and easily across many decades and a dizzyingly assortment of geographies. All of Wang’s characters are vividly rendered, their struggles and agonies richly conceived and indelibly portrayed. The writing throughout is atmospheric, highly visual, and peppered with startling and persuasive detail. Long after finishing it, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e lingers in the mind as a compassionate work by a profoundly talented writer who cares deeply about what it means to be human in turbulent times.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation, \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeName_0":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"CBC Canada Reads","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2020-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
We Two Alone
A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.
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Shi-shi-etko
A gently moving and poetic account of a child who finds solace all around her even though she is on the verge of great loss.
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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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ages 13
and up
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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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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Small in the City
The first picture book that award-winning Sydney Smith has both written and illustrated is about feeling small in the city and finding your way home.
