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Tales for Late Night Bonfires is a collection of short stories that contain elements of the fantastic, and all are well suited for oral storytelling around a bonfire. Each story has a different theme and … [Click to Read More]
By G.A. Grisenthwaite (Author)
- Curriculum Connections
- English Language Arts
- Social and Emotional Wellness
- Fine Arts
- Indigenous Matters
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of seven writers created a collection of short scenes exploring themes of past, future, and identity. Written in a standard script format, the scenes in Many Mothers, Seven Skies … [Click to Read More]
By Joan Crate (Author), Cheryl Foggo (Author), Linda Gaboriau (Author), Tchitala Nyota Kamba (Author), Sherry Letendre (Author), Karen W. Olson (Author), Susan Ouriou (Author)
- Curriculum Connections
- English Language Arts
- Health and Life Skills
- Social and Emotional Wellness
- Social Studies
- 2SLGBTQI+
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In The Definition of Beautiful, Bellows tells her story of dealing with anorexia and coming of age as a young gay woman. This memoir explores the social and internal struggles in a painfully real and … [Click to Read More]
By Charlotte Bellows (Author)
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Told through the eyes of Jacqueline, Wan is a story about privilege, power, and how those elements ripple outward to impact everyone involved. With a gut-wrenchingly honest narrator, this book tells the story of a … [Click to Read More]
By Dawn Promislow (Author)
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Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies is a collection of short poems and images meant to evoke feelings on everyday phenomena such as seasons, places, and objects. The black-and-white photographs do not illustrate the poems but offer a … [Click to Read More]
By Jan Zwicky (Author), Robert V. Moody (Photographer)
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In Who Has Seen the Wind, Mitchell tells the fictional story of Brian, a young boy growing up in Saskatchewan in the 1930s. As readers follow Brian’s coming-of-age story, they are introduced to many secondary … [Click to Read More]
By W.O. Mitchell (Author)
- Curriculum Connections
- English Language Arts
- Social and Emotional Wellness
- Immigrants Experiences in Alberta
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You Still Look the Same is a collection of poems ranging from the troublesome process of getting the free Wi-Fi login, dating, and female genital cutting. Doctor has a blunt but often witty tone to … [Click to Read More]
By Farzana Doctor (Author)
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In this mixture of fact and fiction, Alison Watt weaves the stories of three fictitious characters with factual events such as the Halifax Explosion and the experience of Canadian soldiers fighting in France during 1917. … [Click to Read More]
By Alison Watt (Author)
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Inspired by the true story of a group of Indigenous dancers who toured Europe in the 1970s, The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour is a whirlwind misadventure that highlights stereotypes of Indigenous people, both in Canada … [Click to Read More]
By Dawn Dumont (Author)
- Curriculum Connections
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Immigrants Experiences in Alberta
- Religions of the World
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Homes: A Refugee Story takes us into the experience of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young man who had to flee Syria as violence became an everyday occurrence. Written with his English language arts teacher, … [Click to Read More]
By Abu Bakr al Rabeeah (Author), Winnie Yeung (Author)