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(0)Cary Fagan
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School's out, and Marky looks forward to summer, including helping his friend and neighbor, Mr. Tempkin, with his garden. But, when Mr. Tempkin's plan to thwart the squirrels that have been raiding his birdfeeder goes awry, Marky learns how special a friendship can be.
This is a delightful picture book that conveys Jewish, and universal, themes of the importance of intergenerational friendship and helping one's neighbors. The illustrations are brightly...
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When a circus train derails in Toronto in 1925, a lion escapes and finds shelter in High Park, a four-hundred-acre park in the west end of the city. No one knows about the creature except for Sadie Menken, the feisty daughter of a pie-maker. As various squirrels, dogs and an expensive peacock meet unfortunate ends, and the park "beast" is spotted by visitors, the lion's presence draws the attention of the authorities. Can Sadie save the lion? Can...
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express Award
Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits — and the company of a poetry-spouting mole...
Danny's parents have always been a bit flaky, but this time they have gone too far. Now his mother wants to bake cheesecakes in the mountains, and his father wants to be an opera singer. That
...5) Boney
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English
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Annabelle discovers an animal bone in the woods and decides to make it her new plaything. But nature ends up moving Annabelle in mysterious ways. At first, Boney, as Annabelle names him, makes the perfect companion. While Mom is busy with the baby, Boney and Annabelle share a meal, play at the park, and share a bedtime story before Annabelle tucks Boney into his shoebox-bed for the night. But when creatures run wild through her dreams, Annabelle considers...
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English
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Is there someone out there for everyone? Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from award-winning comic writer Cary Fagan. In her North American debut, illustrator Banafsheh Erfanian brings ornate artistry to the cage and birds that inhabit this surprisingly human story.
7) The Big Swim
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English
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When Ethan arrives at summer camp for the first time, he has just three modest goals. First, to survive. Second, not to be hated. Third, not to be the worst at anything. But these goals turn out to be relatively easy to achieve. Instead, his real challenge comes in the form of a new cabin mate. Zachary arrives at camp late, surrounded by a cloud of rumors, and Ethan finds himself intrigued and somehow envious of the new arrival. Zach doesn't seem...
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Groundwood Books Ltd
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English
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Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program.
Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very
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When Morris the fishmonger and Minnie the hat seller fall in love, Morris comes up with a wedding plan designed to deliver the very best for his beloved bride-to-be... with unexpected consequences. Morris sells all kinds of fish from the lake, in Kensington Market. Across the way, Minnie sells hats straight from Paris. One day their eyes meet, and they fall in love. Morris wants to give Minnie a beautiful home with fine furnishings, but he is only...
10) Son of Happy
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English
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The boy in this story never wants to go to his friends' birthday parties, because Happy the Clown is always there. And Happy is ... his dad.
He wishes his dad had a regular job, like all the other kids' parents. He didn't mind his dad being a clown when he was a little kid, but now it's just embarrassing. And even worse, since business is slow, his dad is putting a sign on the front lawn advertising his clown services!
But one night at dinner Dad...
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Tundra
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Who is Gretchen Oyster? The discovery of a series of mysterious handmade postcards distracts Hartley from trouble at home. A poignant novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Holly Goldberg Sloan. Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappling with the fact that his older brother has run away from home, when he finds a handmade postcard that fascinates him. And soon he spots another. Despite his losing interest in pretty much everything...
12) Water, water
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Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A boy wakes up to find the entire world has turned into a sea of endless water. As hours turn to days, he realizes that help is not coming and he must learn to rely on his own wits to survive this bizarre new world."--
13) Mr. Zinger's hat
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Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Mr. Zinger's hat keeps blowing in the wind, and he reckons a story is trying to escape from it. He begins to tell Leo that story, but cleverly has Leo provide all the important details.
16) King Mouse
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Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A mouse comes upon a tiny crown in the grass, and puts the crown on his head. When a bear comes upon him and asks if he's king, the mouse says he is. The mouse then settles into his new role very comfortably... until a snake comes upon a crown of his own and claims she is queen.
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Master Melville's Medicine Show volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Canada
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz helps his family run the Stardust Home for Old People. He has few friends, and is thrilled to discover an old-fashioned medicine show with performers who are his own age. Sullivan's excitement turns to dread, though, when he steps onstage for a magic act only to wake up imprisoned inside the traveling show's caravan. His fears subside as he meets the other kids, and he wonders if his family would...
18) Wolfie & Fly
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Series
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Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Renata Wolfman (Wolfie), a lone wolf who likes facts and reading, becomes friends with Livingston Flott (Fly), a slightly weird boy who loves to make up songs and games.
19) Band on the run
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Series
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Tundra
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Fly has convinced Wolfie to join him in his one-man band. Before they know it, they're playing live onstage in front of a stadium of screaming fans. But these fans are about to get out of control and Wolfie and Fly have to make a daring escape!