Browse Our Books

You can browse our books easily with any of the following filters, hover over the filters or their titles to see their descriptions.

Reading Level

Search Results (Found 1851 results)

Binding

Celebrate your favourite holidays with Holiday Fun!. Books in this series show and tell how and why holidays are celebrated and on what days or times of year. Universal symbols of each holiday are introduced and labeled, helping new readers learn to read while also learning about cultural traditions. Tightly controlled vocabulary, repetitive text patterns, and crisp, colourful photographs work together to create an engaging and supportive reading experience.

Holiday Symbols

Tap into children3s interests in holiday celebrations with fascinating, familiar symbols. Each book in the Holiday Symbols series explains the origins of a specific celebration, the significance of its related symbol, and the ways that the holiday is celebrated today. Large, colorful photographs with captions accompany the clearly written text to help children reflect on what they are learning. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, an activity, informative sidebars, sources for further research, a phonetic glossary, critical-thinking questions, an index, and an introduction to the author.

Holiday Wonders (Bigfoot Jr.)

Get ready to celebrate! Whether a holiday is full of fun parties or quiet moments of respect, each holiday is a time to spend with people you care about and love. Simple, easy-to-understand text helps readers learn about each holidayÎs traditions, symbols, and history.

Holidays and Celebrations Around the World (BrightPoint Press)

Holidays and Celebrations Around the World provides a glimpse into five cultures and the holidays and events they honor. These celebrations may be tied to religious observances or linked to other important dates that have helped shape the culture. This series examines the history, traditions, and significance of these special days. Each book includes a graphic that presents key information visually, source notes, and resources to aid in further research.

Holidays in Our Home

Explore the beauty and significance of holidays and festivals around the world! Children have the opportunity to embrace multiculturalism and understand the world around them at a young age. Each book includes cultural backmatter and an activity or craft to continue the celebration in the classroom or in your own home.

Holocaust

The dramatic story of neighbours in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden. Based on a true story.

Holocaust Atrocities: Nazi Death Camps

The Nazi regime, headed by Adolf Hitler, sought to punish its enemies, as well as to exterminate Jews, Gypsies, and other groups deemed inferior, by starving, shooting, and gassing them in a vast network of concentration camps. Most lethal of all were six death camps built in Poland, the largest being the infamous Auschwitz. Filled with eyewitness testimony, this volume tells the story of the shocking war crimes enacted in those camps and how those awful places were eventually liberated.

Home

In the brown house, Claire and Wes were home. But home turned to nowhere, and nowhere turned to anywhere. Then somewhere finally came, and finally, always. This lyrical story is timely and thoughtful, depicting the life of two children thrust into homelessness and uncertain housing situations as they move out of their house, to a motel, to a shelter, and finally another more permanent home. Throughout, the duo is challenged by uncomfortable new places and inquiries from strangers, but ultimately, they never lose their optimism or determination. They have each other, no matter at home, nowhere, anywhere, or somewhereCalways.

Home for a While

Calvin is in foster care, and he wants to trust someone, anyone, but is afraid to open his heart. He has lived in a lot of houses, but he still hasn't found his home. When he moves in with Maggie, she shows him respect, offers him kindness, and makes him see things in himself that he's never noticed before. Maybe this isn't just another house, maybe this is a place Calvin can call home, for a while.

Home on the Page, A

Nou loves her family, and she likes the brown house where they live, surrounded by trees with sheltering branches. But the young Hmong American girl3s sense of safety and belonging is shattered after she wakes one day to find a hateful message spray-painted on the family3s mailbox: ""Asians Go Home."" So Nou asks her parents if they can leave. Nou3s question leads her on a journey to discover where each member of her family finds home. For her father, it is in his songs. For her mother, it is in the garden. In a world that doesn3t always welcome her, where can Nou find home? This extraordinary story from author Kao Kalia Yang and illustrator Seo Kim tenderly explores how a young girl navigates racism and ultimately turns to writing, creating a home for herself on the pageCand in the world.

Dewey