National Network for Equitable Library Service

From the creator of Small in the City and the illustrator of Town Is by the Sea and Sidewalk Flowers, comes a moving look at how memories are made. Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all of those memories happened is far away.

Un jour, une illustratrice rencontre les élèves d'une petite école pour leur parler de son métier. Quelle surprise de constater qu'il leur est tous arrivé des choses incroyables! Ronny raconte qu'il a un hamster géant comme animal de compagnie, Youri prétend avoir construit une fusée, Antonietta avoir reçu un dragon en cadeau d'anniversaire. De retour à son atelier, Caroline commence à mettre en images les anecdotes que lui ont confiées les enfants. Voici donc réunis les étonnants récits de cette classe à l'imagination bien foisonnante...

Sainte-Foy, 1984. Tous les repères de Mireille s'effondrent lorsque le retour aux études de sa mère force toute la famille à adopter une nouvelle vie. L'adolescente se réfugie alors dans les livres, sa seule échappatoire. Heureusement, elle rencontre Nath, une amie à la famille aussi dysfonctionnelle que la sienne, qui l'aidera à traverser la dernière année du secondaire en un morceau.

Margot adore les moustaches. Les petites, les longues, les frisées et les pointues. Elle se met donc en tête d'en avoir une elle aussi, qu'importe les moqueries. Très vite, Margot va s'apercevoir qu'une moustache amène son lot de difficultés au quotidien. Un album sur les obsessions, tenaces et fugaces, des enfants.

"Brilliant, funny, unputdownable." - Alice Kuipers, award-winning children's author. For fans of Remarkably Ruby and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, comedy and cringe come together in this sweet novel about facing your fears. It's nothing short of a catastrophe when someone secretly signs up Belinda Houle, the school's shyest kid, to audition for a play. Belinda turns to Sally - her unflappable best friend and resident witch - for help. Belinda doesn't believe in magic, but if Sally says she has a spell for confidence...well, it couldn't hurt to try it. Could it?

Let's go! Experience the magic of skating on wild ice. Two children wake up to hear the lake singing, then the wind begins wailing ... or is it a wolf? They bundle up and venture out into the cold, carrying their skates. On the snow-covered shore, they spot tracks made by fox, deer, hare, mink, otter ... and the wolf! In the bay, the ice is thick and smooth. They lace up their skates, step onto the ice, stroking and gliding, and the great lake sings again. In her signature poetic style, Jean E.

The bond between a child and his grandmother grows as they tend her garden together. A young boy spends his mornings with his beloved Baba, his grandmother. She doesn't speak much English, but they connect through gestures, gardening, eating, and walking to school together. Marked by memories of wartime scarcity, Baba cherishes food, and the boy learns to do the same. Eventually, Baba needs to move in with the boy and his parents, and he has the chance to care for her as she's always cared for him.

By Newbery Honor author Polly Horvath, comes a sequel to her popular middle-grade novel Pine Island Home about orphaned sisters who find a way to make a new family. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha and Charlie McCready have been adopted by their unlikely guardian, Al, and finally settled into their new home on Pine Island in British Columbia. Fiona is struggling under the weight of trying to keep everything together, not to mention worrying about expenses, while Marlin tries to adjust to her new high school and faces rejections for her cookbook, Thirty Meals a Twelve-Year-Old Could Make and Did!.

Come get to know three neighboring families, each with a young child learning about themselves in this wondrous world. This poetic picture book is a parent's ode to everything their child is-and will be-capable of doing as they grow. Tonight, each small hand fits inside their parent's hand. But soon, this hand will grow-to dig deep in the dirt, make masterpieces and mistakes, and tell stories only it can tell. With text that captures the potential in every child and glowing art that exudes warmth, this book braids three children's stories into one of family love.

From the award-winning author of On the Trapline comes a cinematic fantasy-adventure story inspired by Indigenous legends. One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they've arrived, the children decide to fish for dinner while Moshom naps. They are in their canoe in the middle of the lake when the water around them begins to swirl and crash.