Idaa Trail

This is a fictional story of a modern-day canoe trip along the Idaa trail, a traditional route that the Dogrib people traveled from Great Slave Lake to Great Bear Lake.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Vocabulary Acquisition, Comprehension Strategies, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning

Topics: Indigenous Voices, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 7 to 10 / grades 2 to 5

How to Bee

A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

Good For Nothing

Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Text Forms & Genres, Vocabulary Acquisition, Integrated Learning, Further Research

Topics: Indigenous Voices, Prejudice & Racism, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 13 and up / grades 8 and up

George Johnson’s War

George's cloistered life in New York changes as the War for American Independence looms and he must struggle with what it means to be half Mohawk.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Further Research, Integrated Learning, Comprehension Strategies, Developing & Creating Texts

Topics: Indigenous Voices, Politics & Government, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 12 and up / grades 7 and up

A Forest in the City

This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 8 to 12 / grades 3 to 7