Juvenile & Young Adult / Themes / Social Situations / New Experience

Last Summer in Louisbourg

by Clare Mowat

Fifteen-year-old Andrea Baxter is thrilled when she is offered a summer job on Cape Breton Island. Although her mother worries that Andrea is too young to move so far away, Andrea welcomes the chance to strike...

A Little Something

by Sarah Hartt-Snowbell & June Bradford

When Sandy’s daddy leaves for work in the morning, he blows Sandy a kiss. What follows is a wild adventure through the town, the countryside, the bogs and the marshes of the Land of Everywhere… to try to...

The Fragrant Garden

by Day's Lee & Josee Bellemare

Jade is a curious nine-year-old who likes to help out at her family’s Chinese restaurant, The Fragrant Garden, after school. Though she is often allowed to help set tables or clean up, she longs to be part...

A Walk in the Park

by Grace Casselman

In a new town, in a new school, fourteen-year-old Terra is experiencing many of the trials and tribulations that face her peers. She isn’t finding it easy to make new friends, nor leave behind her old ones....

What’s Wrong with Grandma?

by Amanda Max

One day, Grandma tries putting shoes on her hands, and Emma can’t understand why Grandma is confused. Grandma does other strange things like wearing her winter coat during the summer and putting her car keys...

Una Huna?: What Is This?

by Susan Aglukark, Danny Christopher & Amiel Sandland

"A meaningful portrait of a young child living and loving in a unique period of North American history." — Kirkus

Ukpik loves living in her camp in the North with her family and she especially loves thinking...

Kamik

by Donald Uluadluak & Qin Leng

When Jake finally gets a puppy to call his own, all he can think about is the fast, strong sled dog that his puppy will become. But Kamik is far from an obedient sled dog. He won't listen, he tracks mud all...

Kamik's First Sled

by Matilda Sulurayok & Qin Leng

Jake's puppy is growing quickly, but as Jake soon realizes, he isn't becoming any easier to handle. All Jake wants is to raise his puppy to be a strong, fast sled dog, but Kamik is far from ready to pull a sled...

Painted Skies

by Carolyn Mallory & Amei Zhao

Leslie is new to the Arctic, and no one told her there would be so much snow, and so many interesting animals to see. Along with her new friend, Oolipika, Leslie soon discovers one the Arctic's most unique and...

The Pocket Chaotic

by Ziggy Hanaor & Daniel Gray-Barnett

Praise for Pocket Chaotic

'Pops of golden yellow dominate the watercolor, ink, and pencil illustrations of this tongue-in-cheek story about helping children embrace their independence'. -- Foreword Reviews

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Libby at the Gallery

by Basabi Banerjee & Jeffrey Seow

Libby, a delightful Labrador who loves new experiences, hears of a wonderful art gallery which she really wants to visit. Though disappointed when told that dogs are not allowed in museums, Libby is nevertheless...

Finders Keepers

by Melanie McFarlane

Twelve-year-old Macy is an amateur treasure hunter who finds lost things along the southern Saskatchewan shores of Buffalo Pound Lake. When her mom announces she?s leaving her park ranger job at the lake to...

Shy Willow

by Cat Min

Willow is shy. VERY shy.

Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's...

There Is a Rainbow

by Theresa Trinder & Grant Snider

A hopeful picture book that reminds readers we are all connected. Sometimes we are separated by distance, sometimes by the way we feel. Even though the world is full of barriers that can make us feel alone,...

My Friend Moe

by Jennifer Sattler

An endearing, unforgettable story that helps children realize you don't have to be exactly alike to be best friends.

"In some ways we're different. I'm big and Moe's little. I can hula hoop. He just stands in...

Waiting Under Water

by Riel Nason

A beautiful celebration of small town life, friendship, and opening up to change!

Hope?s world is shaken when her parents announce that they?re leaving their small New Brunswick town and moving to Toronto for...

Wish on All the Stars

by Lisa Schroeder

Juliet is now an official member of the Starry Beach Club, and loves working with her new friends, Emma and Carmen, to make people's wishes come true. Living away from her dad is still hard, and she misses her...

George se resfría (Peppa Pig)

by Scholastic & Eone

Peppa and George love to play outside in the rain, but George does not want to wear his rain hat. He has a great time jumping in muddy puddles with Peppa--but then he catches a cold! It's time for a visit from...

Be Brave, Little Penguin

by Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees

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Dentist Trip (Peppa Pig)

by Scholastic

Peppa and George are going to the dentist today. It's George's first visit, so he's a little nervous--but Peppa shows him that a trip to the dentist can be lots of fun!