This moving tale of self-discovery takes place during the Oka uprising in the summer of 1990. Adopted as an infant, Carrie has always felt somehow out of place. Recurring dreams haunt her, warning her that someone close to her is in...
Belonging (Social psychology)
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Author:White, TaraSummary: -
Author:Boon, SonjaSummary:Author Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon's family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa,...
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Author:Spafford-Fitz, KarenSummary:Highlighting girls' volleyball, a sport which has overtaken girls' basketball in popularity, Volleyball Vibe shows how engagement in sports can boost self-esteem, confidence, and foster responsibility and teamwork. The main character,...
- Author:Jenkins, EmilySummary:
What do you do when you try to turn into a dragon or a kitten, but you accidentally turn into a dritten instead? Or you try to conjurefire but can only make flurries? Or maybe you get to fly, but you can't come back down? For Nory...
- Author:Farrell, MarchelleSummary:
What is home? It's a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. A longed-for career in psychiatry saw her leave behind the pristine beaches and emerald hills of Trinidad. Until, disillusioned, she uprooted...
- Author:Jean, EmikoSummary:
Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in--it isn't easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it's always been Izumi--or Izzy, because "It's easier this way"--...
- Author:Umezurike, Uchechukwu PeterSummary:
In there's more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, home created with others and with the land, home as "anywhere we find something to love." Giving voice...
- Author:AsphyxiaSummary:
Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong. Smart, artistic, and independent, sixteen year old Piper is tired of...
- Author:Meadows, SallySummary:
When Quinn's mom gets sick and Quinn has to go live with his grandfather in the big city, a nearby pond becomes a place of comfort and peace for him. But when Quinn spots a duckling all on its own, his own feeling of not belonging...
- Author:Klassen, Pamela E., Scheer, MoniqueSummary:
Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces, provoking both...
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Author:Richler, NoahSummary:The North-South Project is an original work of collective storytelling made up of prose pieces that consider what it means to be lost, the significance of memory, imagination, and history, and how all of these intersect and contribute...
- Author:Parasram, JiveshSummary:
The play's structure is based on the form of "prayers" pujas and yagnas, as practised in the Trinidadian Smarta tradition. Take d Milk, Nah? has been performed in Toronto and Vancouver, and will be performed in Ottawa, Toronto, and...
- Author:Laronde, SandraSummary:
A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story. The last thing that twelve-year-old...
- Author:Woods, JaneSummary:
Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted...
- Author:Ishola-Ayodeji, AbiSummary:
For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. More than anything, Patience wants to...
- Author:McDermott, SiobhanSummary:
A 12-year-old girl wins an invitation to train as an apprentice to immortals in the first book of the new must-read magical series destined to take the world by storm -p erfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers, Skandar and...
- Author:Doody, LoriSummary:
The town where she's so unexpectedly landed looks very nice, and might be a good place to settle down, but she isn't quite sure she'll fit in. She tries to find a flock of her own; unfortunately, all her looking comes to nothing. But...
- Author:Nguyen, Linh S.Summary:
Lan, a teenager who recently came to Canada from Vietnam, spends every day searching for a sense of belonging. Books are the only things that make her feel at ease. But it comes as a shock when a mysterious wind whisks her right into...
- Author:Oshiro, MarkSummary:
San Francisco and Orangevale may be in the same state, but for Héctor Muñoz, they might as well be a million miles apart. Back home, being gay didn't mean feeling different. At Héctor's new school, he couldn't feel more alone. When...
- Author:Qamaniq-Mason, Kevin, Qamaniq-Mason, MarySummary:
Pakak is in a new foster home, with new people, new food, and new smells. Feeling alone and uncertain, Pakak finds comfort in a secret shared with him by his anaanattiaq, his grandmother, and in the knowledge that he is loved no matter...
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