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ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS FROM INDOORS
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
NPM - JUV GRL V
NPM - JUV HISTORICAL FIC
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
NPM - JUV GRL V
NPM - JUV HISTORICAL FIC
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Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
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A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't speak much English, and May can't understand Chinese. She's hungry, and bored with Gong Gong's errands. Plus, it seems like Gong Gong's friends are making fun of her! But just when May can’t take any more, Gong Gong surprises her with a gift that reveals...
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"Young Wendy had a rare eye for unusual. She was always on the hunt for anything and everything -- gnarly rocks, buds and burrs, the brilliant blue of a jay's feather. When a class trip takes her to Alberta's amazing bonebed, a place known for its dinosaur fossils, twelve-year-old Wendy makes her first major discovery: a piece of fossilized coral from 100 million years ago! From then on, Wendy spends her time among the windswept hoodoos, searching...
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Nadia L. Hohn's prose, written in a blend of standard English and Caribbean patois, tells a warm story about the importance of family, especially when adjusting to a new home. Readers of the first Malaika book will want to find out what happens when she moves to Canada, and will enjoy seeing Malaika and her family once again depicted through Irene Luxbacher's colorful collage illustrations.--Provided by Publisher.
12) Migrant
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2011.
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English
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Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
14) The hockey song
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[2016]
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English
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In this illustrated version of the Stompin' Tom Connors song, a father carefully laces up his son's skates before joining a pick-up game on a city rink. Soon they're joined by skater after skater of every age, color, gender, and team alliance, until the game ends and "the home team wins."
15) Shi-shi-etko
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2011.
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English
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Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
20) The snow bear
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[2000]
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First American edition.
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English
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A lifelong friendship develops between a polar bear and Bruun, an Inuit boy. After Bruun saves her from starvation and she, in turn, saves him from a blizzard, eventually they are separated and don't meet again until Bruun is a man.
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