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The Girl and the Ghostby Hanna AlkafSource: Purchase/ HardcoverPublished: Aug. 2020Publisher: HarperCollins CanadaLength: 288 pages Genre: Ghost/folk taleTarget Age: 9+#OwnVoices: Author and protagonist are Muslim Malay Summary 💬 Suraya is delighted when her witch grandmother gifts her a pelesit. She names her ghostly companion […]
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Bloom/Hatchby Kenneth OppelSource: ebook/libraryPublished: 10 Mar./15 Sept.Publisher: HarperCollins CanadaLength: 320/384 pages Series: The OverthrowGenre: Scifi thrillerTarget Age: Upper middle grade (suitable for 11+) Summary 💬 The invasion begins–but not as you’d expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout–overnight, everywhere. These […]
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I’d Rather Be Readingby Anne BogelSource: ebook/ LibraryPublished: Sept. 2018Publisher: Baker Books (Baker Publishing Group)Length: 156 pages Genre: Non-fiction (essays/memoir)Target Age: Adult (suitable for 14+) For so many people, reading isn’t just a hobby or a way to pass the time–it’s a lifestyle. Our books […]
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The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother, David A. Robertson was raised with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family’s Indigenous roots. His father, Don, spent his early childhood on a trapline in the bush northeast […]
![Ready or Not, Here IT Comes… [MG Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/hide-and-seeker.jpg?fit=1000%2C1500&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend.Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was . . . different. Nobody knows what happened to him. At Zee’s welcome home party, Justin and the […]