Newly Evaluated – March 2018
Check out more than 50 newly evaluated titles in this month’s newsletter. You’ll find novels as well as Science, French language, and Aboriginal resources. 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.
Asking for It
Emma, a beautiful, charismatic eighteen-year-old ties her self-worth into h…
Book of Dust, The
Malcolm, who helps at his family’s pub and aids the nuns who live across th…
Born a Crime
Comedian Trevor Noah details his childhood under apartheid in South Africa …
Bronx Masquerade
This unique novel follows the voices, in prose and poetry, of students in a…
Butterfly Park
This compelling picture book tells the story of a young girl who moves to a…
Call of the Fiddle
A young boy attends a Metis Society event with his mother and grandfather a…
Climate Change: Discover How it Impacts Spaceship Earth
This current and visually interesting resource can help students develop an…
Diamond Willow Walking Stick, The
This Canadian picture book tells of a young Metis boy who goes to live with…
Do Not Say We have Nothing
This award-winning Canadian novel begins with young Li-Ling who lives in Va…
Egg: Nature’s Perfect Package
This appealing non-fiction picture book will inspire curiosity and inquiry …
Fifteen Dogs
Greek gods Hermes and Apollo, while drinking in a bar in Toronto, decide to…
Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film
Filmish is a journey through the history of film through comics and text th…
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment
This First Nations parable of the hummingbird is written as a legend and il…
Flora and the Peacocks
When Flora sees two beautifully coloured peacocks, she wishes to join their…
Genius: The Game
Three teen computer geniuses from China, Mexico, and Nigeria are online bes…
Girl in Pieces
Seventeen-year-old Charlotte has experienced much loss in her life – her fa…
Goodnight Hockey Fans
A young boy is watching the hockey game with his family but before the game…
Greenglass House
Twelve-year-old Milo is home for Christmas vacation with his adoptive paren…
Hello Ruby, Adventures in Coding
This storybook introduces students in K-5 to coding through stories about R…
Hidden Figures
This compelling non-fiction book tells of a team of black female mathematic…
In the Lake of the Woods
John Wade loses a Democratic primary for Senator when his secret is exposed…
InvisiBill
Bill has a very busy family, so busy that when they are at dinner and he as…
Karma Khullar’s Mustache
Karma Khullar’s life is falling apart – she is about to start middle school…
Keepers, The: The Box and the Dragonfly
When twelve-year-old Horace discovers an underground warehouse full of stra…
Les aventures de Pollux et d’Optimus
Les Aventures de Pollux et d’Optimus : Le Château Noir est le premier tome …
Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought)
This entertaining collection presents a brief, 2-5 page article on 20 key s…
Madame Zoé et les olympiques
C’est la fin de l’année scolaire et Madame Zoé a organisé une journée d’épr…
Mahika, la planète n’attend pas!
Mahika est née le jour de la Terre. Tous les ans, elle va dans une pépinièr…
Manny’s Memories
A grandfather tells his grandchildren about his life in the 1940s in the Me…
Méchant Far West 1 : Le méchant qui voulait être pire
Le Méchant est un bandit qui terrorise les habitants de Blancheville en leu…
My First Metis Lobstick
A young Metis boy in 1820 Manitoba tells of his first experience carving a …
Name for a Métis, A
A young Metis boy longs for a new name and visits family and friends to ask…
Nimoshom and his Bus
Nimoshom (my grandfather in Cree) drives the school bus and as he drives th…
No Room for Baby
Leon is a new big brother for the first time and so long as the baby pengui…
OCDaniel
Thirteen-year-old Daniel thinks he is going insane as it’s becoming harder …
Orange
Naho receives a letter from herself, written ten years in the future, warni…
Pants Project, The
Liv, who is struggling with gender identity and identifies as a boy, attend…
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
This deeply personal journey through the history of brain research and lobo…
Peter Fidler and the Metis
Metis artist and author Donna Dumont reflects on her Metis ancestor Peter F…
Powwow: Counting in Cree
This Canadian concept book for early learners explores the traditions and c…
Raindrops Roll
This beautifully illustrated picture book presents readers with a microscop…
Release
Adam Thorn must deal with all the normal challenges of being a young adult,…
Road Allowance Kitten
This Canadian picture book tells the story of two young Metis girls who wer…
Roller Girl
Le passage de l’enfance à l’adolescence n’est pas toujours facile. Les amit…
Roogaroo Mickey
Mamayr (grandmother) tells Louis and Charlie a traditional Metis story abou…
Science Encyclopedia: Atom Smashing, Food Chemistry, Animals, Space, and More!
This attractive and well-organized National Geographic resource provides sy…
Scorpion Rules, The
Earth is under the control of Talis, an artificial intelligence, who mainta…
Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You
This comic book resource for grades 3-7 discusses male and female body part…
Sleeper and the Spindle, The
The night before her wedding day, a young queen sets out on a quest to resc…
Sometimes I Feel Like A Fox
This award-winning Canadian picture book introduces the characteristics, tr…
Star Trek Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive
This resource looks at over 25 futuristic, cutting-edge technologies used o…
Stolen Words
A young First Nations girl who is walking home from school with her grandfa…
This Is Where It Ends
This graphic and gripping novel details a minute-by-minute account of a hig…
Turtles All the Way Down
Sixteen-year-old Aza suffers from many anxiety disorders, including obsessi…
Un ami pour Kiwi
Kiwi n’a rien d’ordinaire : c’est un chat vert qui se sert de sa queue comm…
What Makes Us Unique Our First Talk About Diversity
This Canadian picture book, aimed at children in K-3, introduces the topic …
Why Am I Me?
Two children, who do not know each other, find themselves traveling home on…
Young Elites, The
In this fantasy world, a blood fever has killed all adults who contracted i…
