Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics

Panamanian golden frogs aren't just cute, little, and yellow.

How do you organize a big project?

What steps can you take to help the environment?

Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes.

Short-nosed sea snakes and blue iguanas are two examples of endangered reptiles.

Asian elephants and Mexican long-nosed bats are two examples of endangered mammals.

Oahu tree snails and pink velvet worms are two examples of endangered invertebrates.

Cape seahorses and speartooth sharks are two examples of endangered fish.

Northern rockhopper penguins and colorful pufflegs are two examples of endangered birds.

Hewitt's ghost frogs and arroyo toads are two examples of endangered amphibians.

As a child, David watches his grandfather, a Torah scribe or sofer, finish a Torah scroll for the synagogue.

"e;What is Lag Ba'Omer?

Myles McReary is trying to save up enough money to bring his family over from Ireland.

Will's father is running for mayor.

Young Waluk is all alone.

On January 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi, the world's most revered champion of nonviolent civil disobedience, was murdered in cold blood by a man he'd never met.

Happy Tu B/Shevat!

Always busy doing good deeds like recycling, feeding birds, working in the garden and donating items to others, a little boy has earned the nickname "e;Tikkun Olam Ted.

There's something fishy going on in the lake at Camp Dakota .

Did you know starvation kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined?

Christmas is coming!

Caleb is excited to spin the dreidel!

When Sadie runs to show her mother the Hanukkah menorah she made in school, she trips, the menorah shatters, and she is devastated.

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner****Middle School Book of the Year Northern Lights Book Awards****Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner**For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired a worldwide call for peace.

How well can we know the mind of Christ?

This is an illustrated storybook for all ages.

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner****Middle School Book of the Year Northern Lights Book Awards****Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner**For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired a worldwide call for peace.

Sixteen-year-old Lauren Harts summer is shaping up to be a first-rate disaster.

A Winnipeg Free Press Bestseller!

A Winnipeg Free Press Bestseller!

2018 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted * High Plains Book Award - Shortlisted, Young Adult categoryWhen Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends .

2018 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted * High Plains Book Award - Shortlisted, Young Adult categoryWhen Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends .

2018 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted * 2017 Sigurd F.

2018 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted * 2017 Sigurd F.

Short-listed for the 2009 Red Maple Award for Non-Fiction, OLA Forest of Reading and commended for the 2009 OLA Best Bets This book presents the story and issues of the First World War in a clear, concise and objective manner, accompanied on every page by photographs, original sketches or maps.

World War Two was the greatest conflict in human history.

World War Two was the greatest conflict in human history.

Short-listed for the 2009 Red Maple Award for Non-Fiction, OLA Forest of Reading and commended for the 2009 OLA Best Bets This book presents the story and issues of the First World War in a clear, concise and objective manner, accompanied on every page by photographs, original sketches or maps.

It's the spring of 1984 in British Columbia, and life is just getting exciting for Esha.

It's the spring of 1984 in British Columbia, and life is just getting exciting for Esha.

The discovery of an old Ouija board sends three kids back in time to wartime 1915 to help a spirit find peace.

The discovery of an old Ouija board sends three kids back in time to wartime 1915 to help a spirit find peace.

A special ravine and its revered history with First Nations people inspires Jak to save the ravine from demolition.

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British Columbia.

Imagine sharing your world with the trees, like koalas do.

Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story.

Sirens are blaring.

'They tell you that most lumps are nothing.

Patrick is a boy out of his time.

Sara is not your typical teenage girl.