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A Smart Girl’s Guide to Babysitting
Offers practical advice for babysitters, covering such basic topics as feeding, crying, keeping children amused, first aid, and bedtime.
Read MoreFamilies Change
Introduces young readers to the ways that families might change, including those times when a sibling is gained, when parents leave, or when a child joins an adoptive or foster family.
Read MoreA Smart Girl’s Guide: Worry
Sometimes when we worry about something, it feels like we’re the only ones – and that makes us even more worried! But really, everyone worries about something from time to time. Sometimes the worries are about big things, like an argument with a friend, taking an important test, or having to perform in front of…
Read MoreSharing Time
Sometimes it’s fun to share, and sometimes it’s hard. This book offers toddlers simple choices (take turns, use the toy together, wait for another time) to make sharing easier, and shows them where to turn for help when sharing is difficult. Little ones learn that sharing can mean double the fun—and sharing a while can…
Read MoreI, Robot
Nine science fiction stories explore the development of robot technology to a perfection by future civilizations.
Read MoreDiary of an Awesome Friendly Kid
Washington Black TP
Winner of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize A dazzling, original novel of slavery and freedom, from the author of the international bestseller Half-Blood Blues When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black – an eleven year-old field slave…
Read MoreIndestructibles Plip-Plop Pond!
Witness New and Selected Poems, 1962-2010 Patrick Lane
“Lane is a poet . . . of the individual, hard-hitting poem; like physical blows, he wields his pieces like small threats of intense beauty.” –Globe and Mail”One of the few poets who can leave you not just shaken, but shaking.” –Vancouver Sun
Read MoreStrung Up
From New York Times bestseller Lorelei James…Rancher Creston Grant retreats from the world after he loses the love of his life… Can his former flame, rodeo cowboy Breck Christianson prove he’s a changed man who can give Cres a second chance at love?
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