by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
They come from all over the continent — from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaii to North Carolina. Their stories are sometimes heartbreaking, but more often full of pride and hope. For two years, writer and activist Deborah Ellis traveled across the United States and...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Tess has visited her grandmother many times without really being aware of the garden. But today they step outside the door and Tess learns that all of nature can be a garden. And if you take care of the plants that are growing, if you learn about them — understanding...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how can she make a special picture for the art show? Andy teases that all she’ll be able to draw is mud and dog poop. Her teacher tries to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
In From There to Here, a little girl and her family have just moved across the country by train. Their new neighborhood in the city of Toronto is very different from their home in the Saskatchewan bush, and at first everything about “there” seems better than...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Clear Skies takes place during the very hot summer of 1961 when the Space Race was well underway but no one had yet stepped onto the Moon. Eleven-year-old Arno Creelman asks all kinds of big questions about the universe. He is sure that being an astronomer will be his...
