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Play Like a Pro (12SL)

Play Like a Pro covers the essentials of what you need to play six professional team sports, from starting early to what pros do once they retire from their careers as athletes. Readers learn about the drive, dedication, preparation, hard work, skills, sacrifices, choices, and decisions involved in becoming a top athlete. With illustrative examples from the lives of well-known athletes, readers will learn more about the sports and games they love.

Playing War: A Story About Changing the Game

One summer day, Luke and his friends decide to play their favourite game of war, using sticks for guns and pine cones for bombs. But Sameer, who is new to their neighbourhood, doesn't want to join in. When the kids learn that Sameer lost his family in a real war, they realize that war is not a game. The gracefulness of their response and the power of friendship are the real stories here.

Pods, Troops, and Other Animal Groups (Crabtree Crown)  

From orcas and emperor penguins to white-tailed deer and spotted hyenas, many animal species live, hunt, raise young, and protect themselves in groups. With eye-catching images and carefully crafted text, Pods, Troops, and Other Animal Groups helps readers understand how animals form groups for survival. Free downloadable Teacher's Guide available.

Poetry Pages  

Young readers will enjoy the lively, original illustrations and rhyming stories in Rise-n-Rhyme. Written in verse, each story familiarizes readers with poetry and encourages their creativity. Notes to caregivers and educators include question prompts and a poetry-related activity.

Policing and Race: The Debate Over Excessive Use of Force

How and when police use force, and what constitutes excessive force, is central to the debate over policing and race. This book examines use-of-force policies and training, militarization of police, the role of body cameras and video, officer accountability, and the future of policing.

Pop Flies, Robo-Pets, and Other Disasters

Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team-a slugger with pro potential, according to his coach. Now that his father's work in the US has come to an end, he's moved back to his hometown in rural Japan. Living abroad has changed him, and now his old friends in Japan are suspicious of his new foreign ways. Even worse, his childhood foe Shintaro, whose dad has ties to gangsters, is in his homeroom. After

Port City High

Each story covers a semester and focuses on one of the three main characters, with swirling subplots involving the other girls. These best friends are determined to make the most of high school. And not get swallowed up.

Power Button

Kaz and Truly, two mismatched cousins, have discovered a pair of mysterious matching wristbands. And when they bump the bands together, they summon an outer-space superhero. Meet Trinn Cyclo, the Omega Knight! It's a weird afternoon. But as Kaz, Truly, and the rest of Oregon become targets of alien invaders Maximo Skulldigg and the Galactic Horde, they'll need all the help they can get!

Power of Social Media, The

Social media has been used to turn average teens into celebrities, shake financial markets, and drive the masses into the streets in protest. It has also been blamed for increasing addictive behaviour, spreading lies, and lowering the self-esteem of users. This book brings together academic research, personal stories, and current events to explore the power of social media in today’s world.

Prehistoric (12SL)

The Prehistoric series is about early humans, the world they lived in, and the lives they led. The five titles span the Paleolithic Era (the Old Stone Age) through the Iron Age; from c 3.3 million years ago to c. 1000 years ago. Readers will learn how each era or age is defined, how we learned about each, the geographic locations of humans then, the animals that existed, tools that were used, how humans lived and the challenges of everyday life, culture, art, religion, and more.