Through the Squamish language and cultural traditions, learn about Indigenous plant relationships and how we are all connected to nature through plant-based foods, medicines, and materials.
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Free Lunch
Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex’s voice is compelling and authentic, and Free Lunch is a true, timely, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America.
Abuela, Don’t Forget Me
Abuela, Don’t Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn’t yet know how to believe in himself.
Can You Hear The Plants Speak?
Mountain, river, wind, tree. Come, take a walk with me. What do we learn from plants when we listen to them speaking? Indigenous plantsman Nicholas Hummingbird calls on the legacy of his great grandparents to remember how one drop of rain, one seed, one plant can renew a cycle of hope and connection for him and for each of us.
Walking Together
This innovative picture book introduces readers to the concept of Etuaptmumk or Two Eyed Seeing, the gift of multiple perspectives in the Mi’kmaw language as we follow a group of young children connecting to nature as their teacher
Stand Like A Cedar
When you go for a walk in nature, who do you see? What do you hear?
Home
Love, comes a moving meditation on the places we feel most comfortable, loved, and protected, wherever that might be. Home is a tired lullabyand a late night traffic that mumbles inthrough a crack in your curtains.Home is the faint trumpet of a distant bargeas your grandfather casts his linefrom the edge of his houseboat.
When We Ride: A Novel
Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That’s why she gave him her car. Diego’s best friend, Lawson, needs a ride because Lawson is dealing. As long as Diego’s not carrying, not selling, it’s cool. It’s just weed. But when Lawson starts carrying powder and pills and worse, their friendship is tested and their lives are threatened. As the lines between dealer and driver blur, everything Diego has worked for is jeopardized, and he faces a deadly reckoning with the choices he and his best friend have made.
His Mortal Demise (The Last Bloodcarver Duology)
Kochin is a heartsooth, a rare being with the ability to heal any wound. Any wound, that is, except death.Intent on defying nature and bringing Nhika back to life, Kochin keeps her body in a life preserving casket and waits for a miracle. Stricken with grief and descending into madness, Kochin realizes the answer to his desperate quest can only lie in one place: Yarong, the lush yet battle ridden island the first heartsooths called home.Months later, Nhika wakes in a familiar manor-house, with Kochin nowhere to be found. As she traces his footsteps across Theumas, she discovers the haunting path he walked to bring her back, and a world changed by war. When Kochin discovers the true and grisly way to resurrect a person from the grave, he must decide exactly how much he is willing to sacrifice, in order to reunite with the woman he loves.
Our World: Mexico
The day-in the life continues with a bus to school, the class, a museum, and later on dinner and bedtime! What a sweet way to visit Mexico! A charming way to enjoy tiled streets, sunny sidewalks, and domestic scenes, and to take on new vocabulary.