In this timeless picture book, an old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea and awaits the whales' return each year to the bay. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
Juvenile fiction
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Author:McFarlane, SherylSummary: - Author:McFarlane, SherylSummary:
Waiting for the Whales illuminates the unique friendship between grandparent and child and celebrates the restorative power of the natural world. An old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea, tends his garden and waits. Only...
- Author:Nason, RielSummary:
A beautiful celebration of small town life, friendship, and opening up to change! Hope's world is shaken when her parents announce that they're leaving their small New Brunswick town and moving to Toronto for her father's job. Hope's...
- Author:Gibson, SabinaSummary:
Join chicks, turtles, and their fuzzy countryside friends as they stretch and yawn and start the day in this new board book series! These adorable board books follow a group of fuzzy backyard families as parents guide their babies...
- Author:West, TraceySummary:
Drake has a dream about a new dragon that is somehow trapped in a cave, so Drake, Ana and their two dragons set off to find the Rainbow Dragon's dragon master, Obi, and together they must rescue Rainbow dragon, Dayo, from Kwaku, a giant...
- Author:Oldland, NicholasSummary:
One day, the three friends, a bear, a moose and a beaver, who loved adventure set off to climb a mountain together. But on the way there, they decide to make it more exciting by turning the climb into a race to the top. It's only after...
- Author:Austen, CatherineSummary:
When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you? Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the...
- Author:Zimanyi, Louise, Marshall, AlbertSummary:
This innovative picture book introduces readers to the concept of Etuaptmumk--or Two-Eyed Seeing in the Mi'kmaq language--as we follow a group of young children connecting to nature as their teacher. A poetic, joyful celebration of the...
- Author:Alexander, HeatherSummary:
The Read & Bloom line offers high interest, character driven stories for newly independent readers that feature full-color illustrations throughout and will transition kids from leveled readers to a lifetime of reading. In this...
- Author:Alexander, HeatherSummary:
Read & Bloom offers high interest, character driven stories for newly independent readers that feature full-color illustrations throughout and will transition kids from leveled readers to a lifetime of reading. In this charming...
- Author:Alexander, HeatherSummary:
The Read & Bloom line offers high interest, character driven stories for newly independent readers that feature full-color illustrations throughout and will transition kids from leveled readers to a lifetime of reading. In this...
- Author:Crow, KatrineSummary:
Walter had spent all summer counting down the days until the first day of school. He couldn't wait to make new shark friends and finally swim into his classroom for the first time. But the first class picture of the year changes...
- Author:Khan, RukhsanaSummary:
Winner of the Middle East Book Award, Youth Fiction category. Jameela lives with her mother and father in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that there is no school in their poor, war-torn village, and Jameela lives with a birth defect that...
- Author:Kunigis, Paul, Hellman, Thomas, Minière, Jérôme, Lévesque, Marie-Marine, Duchesne, Christiane, Côté, GenevièveSummary:
Livre enrichi musical – Collection Je Lis – Je Chante De Christiane Duchesne et Paul Kunigis, illustrations Geneviève Côté avec Jérôme Minière et Marie-Marine Lévesque A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P …………………..Z !!! Wapiti est un...
- Author:Lasky, KathrynSummary:
The final book in Lasky's best-selling animal series. The strange, maniacal blue owl known as the Striga has been rousted from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Nyra, leader of the vicious Pure Ones, is either dead or laying low in some distant...
- Author:Korman, GordonSummary:
There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village,...
- Author:Maruno, JenniferSummary:
Etienne is called on an adventure in the new world… In 1647, ten-year-old Etienne yearns for a life of adventure far from his family farm in Quebec. He meets an orphan destined to apprentice among the Jesuits at Fort Sainte-Marie....
- Author:Lehrhaupt, AdamSummary:
Monkeys, toucans, and alligators unleash mayhem.
- Author:Liparulo, RobertSummary:
The Kings are focused on rescuing a lost family member, until a stranger comes to take their bizarre house. What secret is he hiding, as he hides the scars on his body? Can the Kings harness the house's secrets and discover who is...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. An unforgettable middle-grade novel with elements of James and the Giant Peach meets Waterworld and The Road. One morning Rafe wakes up to discover...
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