Age: Americas

Materials from the Americas

Up Cat

By Book Importer | Published: April 12, 2012

A cat can get tangled up in all kinds of fun and mischief between wake-up time and nap time. Follow along with the playful text as Cat laps up milk, messes up the house, gets up to no good, stands up to a visiting dog, and finally curls up for a nap in the sun. [...]

Other Descriptors: Canada, Concept Book, Infant/toddler (ages 0-2), Picture Book » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Virginia Wolf

By Book Importer | Published: April 11, 2012

Vanessa’s sister, Virginia, is in a “wolfish” mood — growling, howling and acting very strange. It’s a funk so fierce, the whole household feels topsy-turvy. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her up, but nothing seems to work. Then Virginia tells Vanessa about an imaginary, perfect place called Bloomsberry. Armed with an [...]

Other Descriptors: Canada, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Kate and Pippin

By Book Importer | Published: April 11, 2012

Photographs and simple text reveal the true story of a fawn which, abandoned by her mother and brought to live on a farm, is raised by Kate, a Great Dane which has never had puppies of her own.

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Jo Jo the Giant

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

JoJo may be small, but his heart is big and so are his dreams. The red Rocket Racers in the window of Smiling Sam’s Shoe Shop could be his, but only if he can stand up to the big kids and run the race of his life. The boy in the mirror looks doubtful, but [...]

Other Descriptors: Canada, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Snowmobile: Bombardier’s Dream Machine

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

The true story of Joseph-Armand Bombardier’s journey to invent the snowmobile.

Other Descriptors: Biography, Canada, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

On December 6, 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn’t devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, [...]

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Waiting For The Biblioburro

By Book Importer | Published: April 6, 2012

When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana’s excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia’s BiblioBurro and [...]

Other Descriptors: Colombia, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Jade Notebook

By Book Importer | Published: April 3, 2012

After down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mother, Layla, settle in the idyllic beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta’s true love, Wendell, has an internship photographing rare sea turtles, Zeeta discovers that paradise has its dark side as she and Wendell dig deeper to unearth her elusive father’s past.

Other Descriptors: Mexico, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

In Darkness

By Book Importer | Published: April 3, 2012

In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L’Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from [...]

Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Haiti, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Spud Sweetgrass

By Book Importer | Published: April 3, 2012

Suspended from school for cussing at a mean teacher, John “Spud”’ Sweetgrass at least still has his job selling french fries from a curbside “chip wagon.” But he notices that something stinks — literally. It’s the smell of rancid cooking oil at a polluted Ottawa beach. His suspicions aroused, Spud follows Dumper Stubbs, a creepy [...]

Other Descriptors: Canada, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mystery, Realistic Fiction » Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment