Tundra: 431 books
Innovation Nation
How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, Happier
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a...
We Are the Goalies
THE NHLPA/NHL'S TOP NETMINDERS
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
With thirty teams in the NHL, We Are the Goalies showcases the starting netminder of each club and provides young fans with exciting photos, a detailed history, and an introduction to each of these star players. Along with full color photos, young and eager fans will enjoy reading about their goalie heroes.
by Arlene Alda
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Iris finds out that having a stomach virus is exhausting, especially when her brother, Doug, lets her know that she always gets sick at the wrong time. The sibling rivalry and misunderstanding of what germs are when they are called bugs unfold in this lighthearted story of Iris’s ordinary illness...
by Rick Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
When Marco is sent into apprenticeship with the young master, Michelangelo Buonarroti, much rides on his success. His father has worked very hard as a chemist so that Marco can have a better life, and the boy simply cannot let his family down. Armed with good advice, but more importantly, secret color...
Heart and Soul
The Story of Florence Nightingale
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In Florence Nightingale’s day, if a person was sick – and lucky – he or she was nursed at home with caring family members tending the bedside. Hospitals were horrible places from which few emerged alive. The nurses were often drunks and prostitutes. Doctors had rudimentary skills.
Thus...
Oscar Peterson
The Man and His Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, received the Order of Canada and is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. This new biography from award-winning author Jack Batten,...
We Are the Goal Scorers
THE NHLPA/NHL'S ELITE POINT LEADERS
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In We Are the Goal Scorers, the NHL's top point leaders are celebrated for their contribution to the game. Along with photos, player history, and personal information, young and eager fans will enjoy learning about each of their hockey heroes.
by Marnelle Tokio
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
**Winner of the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Language Arts, Grades 7-12 Novels
Winner of the 2005 White Pine Awards, Fiction category
Selected for inclusion in the Best Books for the Teen Age 2004 List by the New York Public Library
Nominated...
Good-bye Marianne
A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
A heartbreaking story of loss and love.
As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was the burning of the neighbourhood shops. Then her father, a mild-mannered bookseller, must leave the family and go into hiding....
Rescuing the Children
The Story of the Kindertransport
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
This important book tells the story of how ten thousand Jewish children were rescued out of Nazi Europe just before the outbreak of World War 2. They were saved by the Kindertransport — a rescue mission that transported the children (or Kinder) from Nazi-ruled countries to safety in Britain.
The...
Tell No One Who You Are
The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Régine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to place, told to tell no one she is Jewish, she...
by L. M. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on my toes by the new twins, Dora and Davy, life at Green Gables is just as eventful as ever.
I do try to be a little...
by Brian McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In Peter Puck and the Runaway Zamboni Machine, Peter's good friend, Tony the Zamboni, longs for adventure. When Tony disappears, Peter and referee George Phair head out to find him. Tony loves being out in the big wide world, especially when he enters a race at the speedway. Peter arrives just in...
To the Rescue! Garrett Morgan Underground
Great Ideas Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The son of freed slaves, Garrett Morgan was determined to have a better life than laboring in the Kentucky fields with his parents and ten siblings. He began by sweeping floors in a clothing factory in Cleveland, Ohio, where he decided to invent a stronger belt for sewing machines. When he was promoted...