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Read for Reconciliation for Children and Teens

Fatty legs : a true story On the trapline When we were alone These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens A stranger at home : a true story I am not a number Stolen words The orange shirt story Phyllis's orange shirt You hold me up Shin-chi's canoe Residential schools. Righting Canada's Wrongs : the devastating impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings and calls for action Shi-shi-etko I'm finding my talk The train Orange shirt day : September 30th I lost my talk Sugar Falls a residential school story On the side of the angels Reflections from them days : a residential school memoir from Nunatsiavut

Honouring Residential School Survivors

Call me Indian : from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first Treaty Indigenous player The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir Up Ghost River : a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history Genocidal love : a life after residential school Broken circle : the dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school Beyond the orange shirt story : a collection of stories from family and friends of Phyllis Webstad before, during, and after their residential school experiences Thou shalt not be an Indian : a residential school survivor's story Following the good river : the life and times of Wa'xaid My decade at Old Sun, my lifetime of hell Resistance and renewal : surviving the Indian residential school Doug Knockwood, Mi'kmaw elder : stories, memories, reflections Indian school days Nishga Back to the red road : a story of survival, redemption and love From Bear Rock Mountain : the life and times of a Dene residential school survivor Resolve : the story of the Chelsea family and a First Nation community's will to heal You will wear a white shirt : from the northern bush to the halls of power Injichaag : my soul in story : Anishinaabe poetics in art and words The good, the bad and the innocent : the tragic reality behind residential schools, an Albert Etzerza story

Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate: Louise Bernice Halfe

Kisiskâciwan : Indigenous voices from where the river flows swiftly Burning in this midnight dream Sôhkêyihta : the poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe The crooked good Awâsis : kinky and dishevelled Blue marrow Bear bones & feathers Resisting Canada : an anthology of poetry Words aloud 4 spoken word festival archive Visitors from the four directions [Indigenous peoples in a globalized world]

Books in Vietnamese

Amelia Bedelia joins the club Amelia Bedelia takes the cake Beach race Amelia Bedelia tries her luck Bats at the ballgame Astro girl Bein' with you this way

Sustainability Speaker Series

Braiding sweetgrass : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants Islands of grass A brief history of Earth : four billion years in eight chapters Saskatchewan's bioscience resource guide. For the love of soil : strategies to regenerate our food production systems Food security : from excess to enough The next great migration : the beauty and terror of life on the move Dynamic forest : man versus nature in the boreal forest Greenovation : urban leadership on climate change Memory and Landscape : Indigenous Responses to a Changing North.

Characters with Disabilities for Kids

The pout-pout fish and the worry-worry whale Sam's super seats I can, too! My brother Otto and the birthday party Little Yellow Bus Charlie makes a splash! The bright spot : a story about overcoming anxiety Song in the city Everyone belongs Malik's number thoughts : a story about OCD Ali and the sea stars ADHD is my superpower : Will Mia play it safe? : a book about trying new things Happy again Little anxious Cat This little wonder : a no-limits primer In the blue A case of the Zaps Fiona gets the sniffles The summer of diving

Characters with Disabilities for Teens

The girl in the castle The parasite By the time you read this I'll be gone Heat wave You, me, and our heartstrings The whispering dark Lock the doors It looks like us The first thing about you The art of insanity A wilderness of stars Goth Girl, queen of the universe Don't call me a hurricane Breathe and count back from ten Frightmares We made it all up We weren't looking to be found A secret princess Union Chiara in the dark

Characters with Disabilities for Adults

Stella Maris The socialite's guide to murder : a novel Honor's refuge Two wrongs make a right The long knives So long, Chester Wheeler : a novel The winter guest : a mystery The storied life of A.J. Fikry : a novel The Tuesday night survivors' club The descendants Trail of the fallen : a novel The blue window : a novel The break : a novel Glitterland Love & other human errors Pacifique Desert creatures The book club The mushroom tree mystery Full immersion

Learning About Disabilities for Kids

Everyone feels anxious sometimes A different kind of normal : my real-life completely true story about being unique The self-regulation workbook for kids : CBT exercises and coping strategies to help children handle anxiety, stress, and other strong emotions Why do I feel so worried? : a kid's guide to coping with big emotions-follow the arrows from anxiety to calm A little spot of worry Befriend your brain : a young person's guide to dealing with anxiety, depression, freak-outs, and triggers ADHD is our superpower! : the amazing talents and skills of children with ADHD Anxiety Sometimes I'm shy : a child's guide to overcoming social anxiety A kids book about trauma A kids book about addiction What is the AIDS crisis? What to do when the news scares you : a kid's guide to understanding current events What if ...? : answers to calm first-day-of-school jitters Unstoppable : women with disabilities A kids book about autism What's worrying you? A kids book about Alzheimer's Having an eating disorder : stories from survivors My Crohn's bucket

Learning About Disabilities for Teens

Getting comfortable with uncertainty for teens : 10 tips to overcome anxiety, fear, and worry Life inside my mind : 31 authors share their personal struggles Wired differently : 30 neurodivergent people you should know Find your fierce : how to put social anxiety in its place The teenage girl's guide to living well with ADHD : improve your self-esteem, self-care and self knowledge Free from panic : a teen's guide to coping with panic attacks and panic symptoms It's not a perfect world, but I'll take it : 50 life lessons for teens like me who are kind of (you know) autistic Diabetes Winning with ADHD : a playbook for teens and young adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Die young with me : a memoir It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you : a teenager's guide to preventing eating disorders -- and loving yourself Semi-famous : a true story of near celebrity Mindfulness & self-compassion for teen ADHD : build executive functioning skills, increase motivation, and improve self-confidence Nujeen : one girl's incredible journey from war-torn Syria in a wheelchair How not to kill yourself : a survival guide for imaginative pessimists Just like the lotus : a remarkably honest account of a young girl's battle with epilepsy When dogs heal : powerful stories of people living with HIV and the dogs that saved them Depression : insights and tips for teenagers Anxiety : the ultimate teen guide Depression

Learning About Disabilities for Adults

I'm glad my Mom died Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory Kiss the red stairs : the Holocaust, once removed Invisible storm : a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD Radical love : learning to accept yourself and others The year of the tiger : an activist's life Yoga Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir A woman's story Fractured : a memoir Deaf utopia : a memoir--and a love letter to a way of life The beauty of dusk : on vision lost and found The mind and the moon : my brother's story, the science of our brains, and the search for our psyches The precipice of mental health : becoming your own safe space The year of the horses : a memoir Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism This boy we made : a memoir of motherhood, genetics, and facing the unknown Unraveled : a climber's journey through darkness and back My nonidentical twin : what I'd like you to know about living with Tourette's Confessions of a Jewish shiksa

First Nation Community Read for Kids

Buffalo wild! The dancing trees The Frog Mother Hockey with Dad Jigging for halibut with Tsinii Learning to carve argillite Little Bear in foster care = mkoons iiyaad naagidwendgamaik Little Moar and the moon Little Wolf Louis Riel Day : the fur trade project On the trapline The shaman's apprentice This is what I've been told = Mii yi gaa-bi-wiindmaagooyang Thunder and the noise storms We all play = kimêtawânaw We dream medicine dreams White Raven The wolf mother Wolverine

First Nation Community Read for YA & Adults

Aggie & Mudgy : the journey of two Kaska Dena children All the quiet places Avenue of champions Awâsis : kinky and dishevelled The barren grounds Call me Indian : from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first Treaty Indigenous player Christi Belcourt Creeland. Four faces of the moon Gather : Richard Van Camp on the joy of storytelling Go down Odawa way The great bear Hunting by stars Indigenomics : taking a seat at the economic table Indigenous Toronto : stories that carry this place Indigenous women and street gangs : survivance narratives Kitotam = (he speaks to it) Letters in a Bruised Cosmos. Life in the city of dirty water : a memoir of healing The lover, the lake

CBC Canada Reads

Ducks two years in the oil sands Greenwood Hotline Mexican gothic Station Eleven

Booker Prize

Small things like these The seven moons of Maali Almeida : a novel Oh William! : a novel The trees : a novel Treacle Walker Glory : a novel

Governor General’s Literary Awards

All the quiet places Probably Ruby Pure colour Finding Edward Mina Generation dread : finding purpose in an age of climate crisis Time is a flower The summer of bitter and sweet Kā-āciwīkicik = The move Rehearsals for living The most precious substance on earth Sorry for your loss Aki-wayn-zih : a person as worthy as the Earth The big bath house All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler The sour cherry tree A boy is not a ghost Step Persephone's children : a life in fragments Dream of no one but myself

Snow Willow Awards

Borders Sisters of the wolf Guardians of Porthaven Pine Island home Under the iron bridge Homewrecker Given The life and deaths of Frankie D. Lessons in fusion Barry Squires, full tilt

STEAM Kits

Osmo for iPad with coding Awbie and tangram Makey Makey kit Think & learn code-a-pillar kit

2022/23 Kristine Scarrow

The gamer's guide to getting the girl If this is home Throwaway girl The 11th hour

2021/22 Di Brandt

Now you care The sweetest dance on Earth : new and selected poems Questions I asked my mother Mother, not mother : poems So this is the world & here I am in it Speaking of power : the poetry of Di Brandt Glitter & fall : Laozi's, Dao De Jing transinhalations

2020/21 Danny Ramadan

The foghorn echoes Salma the Syrian chef The clothesline swing 1000 lashes : because I say what I think Tongues : on longing and belonging through language Salma et les saveurs de la Syrie

2018/19 Elizabeth Philips

The afterlife of birds : a novel A blue with blood in it Torch River Beyond my keeping Time in a green country Breaking through ice