Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues, Values & Virtues
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NoseBleedz
Keep Your Head Up by Troy Porter
NoseBleedz: Keep Your Head Up is a wild, vibrant rhyming book about sibling rivalry. Red and White are two drops who go to school together. They love to ride their bikes and hang out with each other. But when they’re late to school, White leaves...
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Little Green Mera
by A. Heer and A. Lee
Mera is a little green dog with a great big love for the world outside! As she has adventures all across the city, Mera sees how beautiful the planet is—and how much more we can do to take care of it. There are so many other animals sharing our...
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Autism Through the Eyes of a Child
Brayden's Story by Jennifer Zuniga
Have you ever heard the word autism? Do you understand what it means, or how to act when one of your friends has autism? Autism is hard enough for adults to understand—for children, it can be bewildering. In Autism Through the Eyes of a Child,...
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Hobbledy Gobbledy Learns to be Thankful
by Sharlene Yarish
At the beginning of the story we find Hobbledy Gobbledy’s day starting off a bit glum as he watches his friends out playing with all their new toys…he wishes he could have new stuff too. His father takes him aside, sits him down, and reminds him...
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Billy's Broken Pages
by Laura Orlando
Billy lives in a world of rectangles and that is all he has ever known. One day, he finds a rip and begins the journey of realizing all is not what it seems! With the help of those around him, he learns that it is okay to have these rips and that...
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Uncle Bill's Hearing Humour
by L.M. Elliott
It’s Saturday morning, and the Mills family is heading out of town to visit Uncle Bill. But Alex doesn’t want to go. The drive is way too long, there’s nothing to do when they get there, and Uncle Bill never hears anything that anyone tells him!...
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Bob's Trumpet Trembles
Taking on Perry Dime and the Fear of Making Mistakes by Susan D Elliott
Bob is determined to play his trumpet perfectly, but it won’t be easy! He will have to overcome a lot of obstacles and stick to his path. Can he do it? Or will the voice of Perry Dime chip away at his self-confidence until he no longer believes...
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Shawn and Flash
Prepare Their Community For Fire Season by Melanie Stutt
Shawn couldn’t be more excited for his summer holidays to begin. But when wildfires threaten his rural community, it sure puts a damper on the fun. Worried about the future, Shawn sets out to visit his old friend Flash the weasel. Flash and the...
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Kids Like Me
An Inclusive Character-Based Colouring Book by Melissa Deschênes
Kids Like Me is an inclusive, character-based bilingual French and English colouring book. It features detailed illustrations of diverse youth paired with simple, fun character stories. Kids are invited to colour pages and read about children...
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Searching for Grains
by Anna de Souza
Farmer Zee lived in an old farmhouse that looked like a small barn on a medium-sized hill in a large valley. Zee was a little different from his farmer neighbours. For one, he was a vegetarian farmer who eats grains. He also happened to be a...
