Age: Americas

Materials from the Americas

50 Poisonous Questions

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

Warning: do not kiss golden dart frogs!It’s a toxic world out there. Poisonous snakes, toxic herbicides, noxious fumes — poisons in one form or another are all around us. An innocent-looking flower may be lethal, and smog can make it impossible to breathe. Poisons can be the death of us, but they can also cure [...]

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The Never Weres

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

Late in the next century, the human race is on the verge of extinction. A mysterious virus has resulted in no births in almost a generation. Despite the impending doom, three urban teenagers try to live their lives with hope. Mia strives to preserve humanity’s compassion through her art and her volunteer work with Mrs. [...]

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Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

Amos Daragon’s life changes forever the day a mermaid gives him a mask capable of harnessing the strength of the wind—and appoints Amos as the new Mask Wearer. His task: to find the masks for the other elements, earth, fire, and water. Only then will Amos be fully empowered to battle the evil forces that [...]

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Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

In 1679, a French ship called theGriffonleft Green Bay on Lake Michigan, bound for Niagara with a cargo of furs. Neither theGriffonnor the five-man crew was ever seen again. Though theGriffonrs”sfate remains a mystery, its disappearance was probably the result of the first shipwreck on a Great Lake. Since then, more than six thousand vessels, [...]

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Fog Magic (Puffin Newbery Library)

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

A child of Nova Scotia who loves the fog is transported by it to a secret world of her own.

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Noni Says No

By Book Importer | Published: February 10, 2011

Noni can do many things: she can give her baby brother his bottle, she can help her mother in the kitchen, and she can even walk over to her friend Susiers”s house. But Noni just canrs”t say “no.” When she was very small, it was easy saying “no” to everybody, but now that she has [...]

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Running the Road To ABC

By Book Importer | Published: February 10, 2011

Six island children are running at daybreak — over the hills, through the fields, across the city square — to school! Never before has the love of learning (and learning together) been such a joyous time. Denise Lauture’s buoyant, poetic text captures the happiness and youth of energetic children on the way to school; Reynold [...]

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In Front of My House

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

A whimsical celebration of a child’s imagination and all the places it can travel. Filled with inventive twists, this charming circular story begins and ends in a tidy front yard, but in between winds its way through the wilds of a magical reality.

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I Know Here

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

The little girl in this story lives in a trailer near a forest where her father is building a dam. Everything in her world is familiar and precious to her. But the dam is nearly finished and the family is moving to the city, which the little girl knows only as a place marked by [...]

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Canadian Railroad Trilogy

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot’s heart-stirring song to readers young and old. Commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada’s centennial year it eloquently describes the construction of the transcontinental railway — “an iron road runnin’ from the sea to the sea” — a great feat of nation building that changed Canada [...]

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