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Forced to flee her home and change her name to disguise her Jewish identity, Anna Krawitz becomes Maria Nowak, a Catholic farm girl, to hide from the Nazis. But when the war ends, how will her sister find her? Content Advisory: rape, sexual assault

Kate Graham introduces us to the thirteen women who have become first ministers (provincial premiers and, in one case, prime minister) in Canada, and shows how their strength and ingenuity led them each to govern like a girl.

Desperate to escape joining the Hitler Youth, Paul stumbles across the Edelweiss Pirates, a secret German organization of teenage rebels leading a dangerous campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.

When an earthquake and tidal wave batters Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula and destroys her family's home, thirteen-year-old Celia must dig deep for courage she didn't know she had.

Life is anything but ordinary for non-binary trans teen Ciel and their friends Stephie and Liam, from growing their YouTube channel to campaigning for their school's LGBT Alliance!

A bittersweet memoir of "radical acceptance, " filled with scenes of courage and activism, from a life in the shadow of four generations of mental illness and addiction.

Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and contradictions about a remarkable woman who used her privilege to support social change and the battle to better women's lives.

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Beth's predictable life in her Mennonite family is disrupted by a cross-border cookie war when a New York City lawyer comes asking for her family's secret recipe.

The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats --cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake's reputation. The history and knowledge passed down to each generation through the bundle is at stake!

A children's picture book inspired by author Nhung N. Tran-Davies's experience as a child refugee from Vietnam, and then sponsoring a family of Syrian refugees as an adult."--

The story of the approximately 2, 500 Jewish tailors and their families who immigrated to Canada between 1948 and 1949 with the help of the Garment Workers' Scheme after surviving the Holocaust.

An American benefactor sponsors a musical group of Jewish orphans to travel from Poland to a new life in Canada.

The Covid-19 virus changed the world and made daily life much more challenging. This book tells the true stories of what kids around the world did to help others. From making 3-D printed medical equipment to food bank fundraising, to a neighbourhood joke stand, to creating a semi-automatic hand-washing machine, these kids made a difference in their communities. The book features 12 kids from around the world, along with photos and sidebars abo...

Full of fantasy, this picture book for the very young features Allison, whose jungle-filled imagination makes every experience an exciting new adventure. Her wild colored clothes make her think she is a peacock. When she is angry she sees herself as a roaring lion. As she tells her big sister, "It's a jungle in here.

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Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of a tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture.

A howling snowstorm envelops the city, and the body of a young woman is discovered in its wake. The only clue to her identity: a photograph in her pocket with the scribbled phone number of Detective Inspector Romeo Leduc. Meanwhile, Marie Russell is trying to help a student at her college who is the victim of a terrible assault.