National Network for Equitable Library Service

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Ten-year-old Rosario Ramirez and her family are political refugees from Mexico, trying to make a new life in Canada.

This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-grades shows how people all over the world are working to keep our planet from drowning in a sea of garbage.

Yeny and her family have escaped from the violence in their mountain village in Colombia to live in the city.

Dian has been coming to the Dominican Republic with her doctor parents for years.

Life is smoothest for thirteen-year-old Ellie when she keeps her opinions to herself, gets good grades and speaks carefully when her parents ask her to settle their arguments.

Pedal It!

Until a few hundred years ago, people were embarrassed to buy bread in a store. Families took pride in making almost everything they owned.

Humans have always generated garbage, whether it’s a chewed-on bone or a broken cell phone.

In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle.

Did you know that cars can run on french-fry grease or that human poop can be used to provide power to classrooms?

Going wild. We don't see it as a good thing. And why would we? For most of our time on earth, humanity has been running from lions and other wilderness dangers.

In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race".

A 2-hour series about the tradition of Christmas mummering Long before Santa, Bing Crosby and the Mattel Toy Company stole the occasion, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals lik