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Top Grade Spring 2012 Selections

Created by Top Grade on February 29, 2012
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tagged: children's, Canadian, school, library, K-8
New titles for children published in spring 2012.
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(Picture This)
by Norah McClintock
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : mysteries & detective stories, orphans & foster homes, city & town life

Ethan vit dans une famille d'accueil et s'efforce de rester dans le droit chemin. Enrôlé dans un programme de photographie pour jeunes, il se trouve menacé à plusieurs reprises par quelqu'un qui veut s'emparer de son appareil photo. Que sait Ethan? Pour quelles images quelqu'un serait-il prêt à tuer? Ethan tente de résoudre le mystère tout en évitant les ennuis. Il découvre qu'il a toutes les réponses. Il ne lui reste plus qu'à découvrir les questions.

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Un gars est arrivé derrière moi, m'a pressé quelque chose de dur dans le dos et m'a offert un autre choix : lui donner mon sac à dos, sinon...

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Rookie

Rookie

by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : bullying, hockey, physical & emotional abuse, violence

Fresh off the plane from Vancouver, sixteen-year-old hockey player Aaron Wong is excited to be starting his first year at Podium, the Calgary school for top teen athletes. Aaron has to make friends and fit in at a new high school, while also adjusting to a new home and a family with a different culture than his own. Luckily, he finds a tight-knit group of friends who are elite athletes in their own sports to help show him the ropes.

Things seem to be going well for the rookie -- but the hockey te …

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Kamakwie

Kamakwie

Finding Peace, Love and Injustice in Sierra Leone
by Kathleen Martin
edition:Paperback
tagged : african american, values & virtues

Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature finalist, 2013The Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada's Information Book Award finalist, 20122013 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature nominee

Sierra Leone is the poorest country in Africa. Yet it is populated by people who are hopeful, and aspire to better themselves through education, proper health care, and through putting behind them the horrors of civil war.

Kathleen Martin spent several weeks in the tiny village of Kamak …

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Red Power

Red Power

A Graphic Novel
by Brian Wright-McLeod
edition:Paperback
tagged : political, native american & aboriginal, historical

At the request of tribal elders in a southern community, Billy and his Native Movement chapter are called in to assist community members caught in the middle of a manufactured land struggle. The Native Movement, a political and spiritual group, spread far and wide across North America is active on both sides of the Canadian and United States border. Narrated by the wolf, the past is explained as current events unfold around the main characters who find themselves immersed in a bloody range war c …

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