Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them…

There's a monster under Leo's bed making a ruckus every night. When Leo needs to go to the bathroom, he leaps from the bed to the door careful not to put his feet on the floor within the monster's reach. But one night Leo gets tired of being scared and boldly calls out to the monster to see if they can't just work something out. Surprisingly, the monster listens, and Leo finds out that even enormous monsters have fears!

At ten, Melody Sparks, better known as Baby Girl, is excited to move to the tropical island of Trinidad with her single-parent dad, but she silently longs for her mother, a woman she can’t recall ever meeting and doesn’t have a photo of. She fits in to her new life in Paradise Lane quite well: she loves her school and makes new friends. However, her longing for blood family remains strong. But Baby Girl is suddenly and unexpectedly uprooted from her comfortable life in Paradise Lane by and forced to reside in Flat Hill Village, a depressed, crime-ridden community. She struggles to adjust to life in this village with the help of new friends, Arlie, a village activist and Colm, a young man who mentors her to write poetry. When Baby Girl witnesses a serious crime, her father insists she move in with relatives she doesn’t know very well, where she ultimately uncovers the truth about her mother. Under the Zaboca Tree is a contemporary coming of age novel that explores multiple issues including the challenges of being a motherless adolescent, searching for one’s identity, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the ability to adapt to difficult situations.

Googol and Googolplex have come back to earth to continue their scavenger hunt. Tutus, sand dollars and peacock feathers are on their list. Luckily Troy and Pippa are ready to help, and the ocean is nearby, but so is Martin Kelly, the boy next door, who will ruin everything if he gets a chance.

During a camping trip, 11-year-old Lee finds herself on a rough trail in a Vancouver Island forest. Halfway to an abandoned homestead, Lee trips and is knocked unconscious. She awakens in a world unfamiliar -- all the usual landmarks have disappeared and the terrain is unpopulated except for a strange trailer and a herd of dogs. Lee investigates only to find an ornery woman at an easel who says she's Emily Carr, and a family from the Depression-torn Prairies illegally logging the island's mighty cedars.

In this picture book, a shoe journeys through an imaginative world to encounter a variety of animals and insects along the way. This edition combines both written and spoken words.

Unbored is the most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published -jam-packed with information, ideas, and activities for children and their parents to share together. Vibrantly designed and illustrated, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable, but get kids engaged in the wider world--and provides information to expand their worldviews, too, inspiring them to learn more. Right at the age where kids start to disappear into various screens, Unbored encourages them to use those tech skills in creative ways. Activities parents will remember from their childhoods are presented alongside bold new possibilities: science experiments, crafts and upcycling, board game hacking, code-cracking, geocaching, skateboard repair, yarn bombing, stop-action movie-making - plus tons of trivia, best-of lists, and forward-thinking ideas made accessible to kids. Unbored expertly walks the line between cool and constructive: parents will appreciate its wisdom and humor, its lessons in civic-mindedness and self-esteem, as well as its anti-perfectionist spirit. Kids will just think it's awesome.

Ukpik's mother is eager to teach Ukpik how to prepare caribou skin, dry it, and use it to sew a pair of simple, useful mitts. But Ukpik can't stop thinking about the beautiful new beads her mother traded the Captain for on his last visit. They are so bright and beautiful! Anaana knows it is more important for Ukpik to learn the skills she will need to make her own clothing in the cold Arctic climate, so she insists that Ukpik sit with her and learn the basics, while having a bit of fun, too. Though Anaana won't let Ukpik sew with the new beads just yet, she does have a surprise for Ukpik that will let her enjoy the new-found treasures while also learning the skills she will need to provide for herself and her family.

Livre enrichi musical – Collection Je Lis – Je Chante De Gilles Vigneault, illustrations Stéphane Jorisch avec Yves Lambert et Sylvain Cossette Avec des mots qui riment, le grand poète Gilles Vigneault invite les enfants à découvrir un jardin de poésie, tendre et espiègle, peuplé de personnages loufoques. Les illustrations pétillantes et fantaisistes sont signées Stéphane Jorisch. Les enfants rencontreront Monsieur de la Carrière qui se dit tailleur de pierre, Monsieur de la Guimauve le dompteur de fauves, ou Monsieur de la Parlure qui conte mille aventures ! Avec « Un trésor dans mon jardin » les enfants apprennent à jongler avec les mots ! * L’enfant peut lire ou écouter l’histoire * Pendant la lecture, les mots se soulignent au fur et à mesure pour aider l’enfant à suivre le texte * Un doux fond sonore accompagne la lecture du livre * A la fin du livre, deux chansons sont offertes « Barati Baratin » et « Le trésor » A propos de La Montagne secrète : La Montagne secrète est un éditeur canadien de livres-cd et de livres numériques enrichis. Son catalogue inclut les œuvres d’auteurs-compositeurs québécois de renom tels Gilles Vigneault, Claude Léveillée, Richard Desjardins et Félix Leclerc. En douze ans, de textes fins et attachants, en français, en anglais et en espagnol ont été interprétés par plus de 200 artistes actifs sur la scène musicale actuelle : Francis Cabrel, Lynda Lemay, Georges Moustaki, Robert Charlebois, Diane Dufresne, Fred Pellerin et Garou ont participé à l’aventure, pour ne nommer que ceux-là. Depuis sa création, La Montagne secrète a reçu plusieurs prix au Québec, en France et aux États-Unis : le Prix TD du livre jeunesse canadien, le Coup de cœur jeunesse Charles-Cros le Parents Choice Award, le Prix Communications et Société en littérature jeunesse La Montagne secrète : Le site Web http://www.lamontagnesecrete.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/#!/MontagneSecrete?fref=ts Twitter : @MontagneSecrete