Learn the meaning behind the phrase, 'Every Child Matters.' Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt movement. Every Child Matters honours the history and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle...
Juvenile nonfiction
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Author:Webstad, PhyllisSummary: - Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary:
In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle. But for millions of families worldwide, finding clean water is a daily challenge, and kids are often the ones responsible for carrying water...
- Author:Rooney, FrancesSummary:
From Rachel Carson, the woman who started the modern environmental movement, to Severn Cullis-Suzuki, former host of Suzuki’s Nature Quest, to Marina Silva, who fights to keep the Brazilian rain forest from disappearing, read about...
- Author:Snively, Gloria, Gillmore, KarenSummary:
Join eleven-year-old Crystal and her seven-year-old brother, Sam, as they travel by boat along the rugged Pacific coastline to visit their aunt Kate, a marine biologist, and uncle Charlie, a retired fisherman, at their home in a...
- Author:Hartson, TamaraSummary:
For this edition of Super Explorers, you better bundle up! Come explore the Arctic and Antarctic and all the creatures that make these icy places their homes. To survive in such places, these plants and animals have to be tough. -...
- Author:McDonald, JillSummary:
Kids who enjoy looking up at space and dreaming of exploring the solar system will love this lively, fact-filled, illustrated tour of our galaxy, with engaging information on every page.
- Author:Brower, Kate AndersenSummary:
Have you ever wondered what exactly goes on inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Sure, the president of the United States works and resides there, but do you know who helps keep this historic house running? It's no simple task,...
- Author:Kagume, KristaSummary:
Super Explorers take you for a wild ride into the jungle. You will explore the canopy and the wildlife that live there and also the floor of the jungle, dark and mysterious!
- Author:Rooney, FrancesSummary:
A thirst for adventure, a deep desire to push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and an innate curiosity about the world and its peoples drive the biographies of the ten women explorers profiled here. As explorers they bring skills...
- Author:Watson, GaladrielSummary:
These people did what?!
Join author Galadriel Watson as she takes us on a journey of discovery—a tour of the human body’s amazing abilities, featuring masters of muscle, speed demons, brain bosses, and more! Extreme Abilities is... - Author:Dixon, JoanSummary:
Despite it's characterization in the rest of the world as a land of bush and blizzards, Canada is a country of geographical and climatic variations. It experiences just about every type of extreme weather possible - tornadoes,...
- Author:Mogil, H. MichaelSummary:
Recent decades have brought record temperatures, devastating storms, and killer waves, which have in turn spurred widespread curiosity about how such weather systems develop. Organized by weather event—including hurricanes, winter...
- Author:Eamer, ClaireSummary:
Ripley's Believe It or Not meets National Geographic in this book about some of the grossest yet most fascinating ways animals have adapted to survive. Survival of the Grossest explores how some of the most effective -- and often truly...
- Author:Wuthrich, Belle, Kyi, Tanya LloydSummary:
Who is watching you… and why? Written for middle-grade and older readers, Eyes and Spies looks at the way information and data about us is collected and used by individuals, governments, companies, and organizations. Each chapter covers...
- Author:Kirsh, Sharon, Kirsh, FlorenceSummary:
Presents biographical sketches highlighting the contributions of women to the field of medicine.
- Author:Sheinkin, SteveSummary:
As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima,...
- Author:Ruurs, MargrietSummary:
This colorful cross section of families introduces readers to fourteen real children from around the world and the people they love the most, from Sanne in the Netherlands, who has two moms; to Gilad, whose parents and siblings live on...
- Author:Bergeron, Emilie, Villeneuve, CorineSummary:
Family Portrait is a engaging story that shows different kinds of families, living in various circumstances. Even if they are all different, they have one thing in common: LOVE! This story is offered with narration, and will appeal to...
- Author:Blaevoet, EmmanuelSummary:
This two-volume book contains tactile images of twenty of the world's most iconic buildings.
- Author:Pankhurst, KateSummary:
'Significantly more engaging and inspiring than the rival Rebel Girls' GUARDIAN 'It's hard to imagine any group of primary-aged children who wouldn't be inspired' BOOKSELLER 'An absolute must-have for...
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