Newly Evaluated – April 2018
Check out 60 newly evaluated titles in this month’s newsletter. You’ll find novels as well as Science, Social Studies, French language, and Aboriginal resources, all evaluated by your peers – classroom teachers in BC. You can always find the most recently evaluated resources by going to the K-12 Resource Collection and clicking on the “NEW” filter near the top of the page. Do you know of a great resource that’s not in the K-12 Resource Collection? Click here to send us your suggestion.
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
From a young age, Elizabeth struggles with her weight and self-worth and as…
Abigail’s Wish
Ten-year-old Abigail and her family, Black Loyalists, have fled the U.S. fo…
Akilak’s Adventure
Akilak, a young Inuit girl, sets off on a great adventure to reach her uncl…
All Kinds of Families
This resource discusses how family units can come in many configurations bu…
All the World a Poem
This celebration of poetry shows readers that poetry is everywhere in the w…
Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, An
In this engaging autobiography, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tells the…
Be a Night Detective
This non-fiction picture book provides information about a wide range of no…
Book of Mistakes, The
A young artist makes mistakes in her paintings, yet rather than giving up s…
Boy Named Queen, A
Ten-year-old Evelyn lives an ordinary, dull, and routine life until Queen, …
Branch, The
When a young girl’s favourite tree branch is broken during an ice storm she…
Brother
Brothers Michael and Francis and their mother are immigrants from the Carib…
Canada Year by Year
This resource provides a chronological overview of Canada’s development ove…
Caterpillar Woman, The
This traditional Inuit transformation tale tells of Piujuq, who is transfor…
Change Your Name Store, The
Wilma Lee Wu does not like her name so she heads to The Change Your Name St…
City Chickens
City Chickens tells the story of an inner-city chicken rescue organization …
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do
This non-fiction picture book has big, colourful images of twenty-five anim…
Even Superheroes Have Bad Days
What would happen if superheroes were to lose their tempers or throw a tant…
Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined
Ingrid, daughter of a famous opera singer, lived an exciting life filled wi…
Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World
Award-winning author Steve Jenkins focuses on the evolution of the eye, how…
Family is a Family is a Family, A
A young girl worries that her family structure is too different from those …
First Time She Drowned, The
When Cassie is released from a mental institution, where she was forcibly p…
For Today I Am a Boy
Peter, from a traditional Chinese family, is the revered son in a family of…
Ghost Hawk
Little Hawk journeys to the wilderness to survive alone and become a man. A…
Good Morning City
Long before the city wakes, many people are hard at work to ensure that the…
Henri Cie : opération Béatrice
Henri, un jeune garçon de 12 ans, ne connait pas ses origines. Son imaginat…
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
This modern anthology explores feminism as well as race, sexuality, identit…
How do you Feel
When a little hedgehog walks through the forest and asks his animal friends…
How Things Work: Discover Secrets And Science Behind Bounce Houses, Hovercraft, Robotics, And Everything In Between
This engaging and informative resource for grades 3-8, with its colourful p…
In the Red Canoe
In this gentle, engaging picture book, a young girl and her grandfather set…
J’ai avalé un arc-en-ciel
Capucine écrit un blogue après le départ de son petit ami qui déménage dans…
Le meilleur coiffeur de Harare
Ce roman est une dénonciation de l’homophobie et du racisme. Il décrit auss…
Le merveilleux
Ce roman est un voyage qui nous fait rencontrer un vieil Indien philosophe,…
Le piège de l’araignée
Christopher vient de perdre sa mère et son père est en pleine dépression. I…
L’herbe verte, l’eau vive
Alberta a deux amants, mais elle veut un enfant sans avoir à se marier. Cha…
Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives
This non-fiction picture book creatively combines math and counting to prov…
Marrow Thieves, The
The future is plagued with global warming, wars, and chaos, and most humans…
Matchbox Diary, The
When a young girl visits her great-grandfather she discovers his special di…
Minds of Winter
Fay Morgan, wanting information about her grandfather who served in the Arc…
Morning with Grandpa, A
Spirited young Mei Mei watches Grandpa as he performs tai chi in the garden…
Pemmican Wars
This compelling graphic novel opens with 13-year-old Echo overlooking the Q…
Poetry Speaks Who I Am
This poetry anthology includes a variety of poems from different perspectiv…
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War
This resource gives a detailed account of the Japanese immigrant experience…
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century
This resource will help students understand the Chinese Head Tax and Canada…
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Komagata Maru and Canada’s Anti-Indian Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century
This resource uses text, images, and online video links to provide an under…
Satellite
Fifteen-year-old Leo and twins Libra and Orion were born in space and have …
Sockeye Mother, The
This Canadian resource explores the lifecycle of the sockeye salmon from th…
Story of Canada, The
This award-winning textbook follows a chronological timeline since Canada’s…
Strangers
Cole has not visited his home—Wounded Sky First Nation—for a decade, but wh…
Textos et Cie : #AINSIVALAVIE
Morgane, une jeune fille de 14 ans, doit déménager et changer d’école. Elle…
That Squeak
When Joe’s best friend dies, Joe struggles to cope with the death and decid…
To Hell and Back
This gritty and raw autobiography, a cautionary tale about choices, traces …
Tsiueten
À la fin de l’été 1959, Tsiueten, un jeune Innu de onze ans, et sa famille …
Unicorn’s Picnic
This B.C. picture book tells the story of unicorn families who head into th…
Using Electricity
This engaging resource discusses electricity and energy at a level suitable…
Water Walker, The
When an elder tells Nokomis (grandmother) Josephine that eventually an ounc…
Wenjack
Young “Charlie” Wenjak escapes from a residential school in Northern Ontari…
Woman Who Smashed Codes, The
This is the little-known story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, first hired by …
World Without You, A
When Bo’s girlfriend commits suicide at their residential school for studen…
Zoélie l’allumette : Le garçon oublié
Zoélie est une jeune fille attachante livrée à elle-même. Elle a 11 ans et …
