Newly Evaluated – May 2018
Check out the newly evaluated titles in this month’s newsletter. You’ll find novels as well as Science, Home Economics, 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.
Alan Cole is Not a Coward
Alan Cole’s family is unsupportive and intolerant, and his father and broth…
Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story
This personal memoir of Arun Gandhi explores the teachings of his grandfath…
Big Book of Makerspace Projects, The: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn
This resource provides an array of projects at a range of skill levels—from…
Book of Bones: 10 Record Breaking Animals
This engaging, light-hearted non-fiction picture book combines a guessing g…
Boy in the Moon, The
This compelling memoir details the journey of the Brown family to deal with…
Caravaggio: Signed in Blood
Beppo, an indentured servant in 17th century Italy, witnesses his master’s …
Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water, The
Crocodile is different from his brothers and sisters – he simply does not l…
Different Pond, A
Phi and his father, Vietnamese immigrants in America, get up early and go t…
Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding, The
Prosper, a 12-year-old boy, shares his body with Alastor, a malefactor who …
Echo
A magical harmonica touches the lives of three young children, all obsessed…
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
This award-winning memoir relates the story of Sungju Lee, who grew up in N…
False Prince, The
When a king and his family die, the kingdom is close to civil war, and a ne…
Fault Lines: Understanding The Power Of Earthquakes
This Canadian reference work will help students explore earthquakes and nat…
Fire Starters
When two indigenous youth find an old flare gun and decide to have some fun…
Food Lab, The
This award-winning food and cooking reference book explores the science beh…
Food Rules
Food writer Michael Pollan offers 64 rules that readers can use to take a f…
Forgiveness
During WWII, the author’s maternal grandmother, Mitsue, and her family were…
Future of the Mind, The: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
This supplementary resource can help build a general understanding of brain…
Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, The
This rollicking historical novel follows Monty Montague, his sister, and be…
Hidden Figures: The True Story Of Four Black Women and the Space Race
The young readers’ edition of Hidden Figures tells the story of four amazin…
How to Make a Universe with 92 Ingredients: An Electrifying Guide to the Elements
This captivating secondary resource for grades 6-9 explores chemistry appli…
Inexplicable Logic of My Life, The
This contemporary coming of age story follows Sal during his final year of …
Je ne suis pas un numéro
Irene et ses deux frères sont enlevés à leur famille et doivent aller vivre…
Kiviuq and the Mermaids
The great Inuit hunter Kiviuq sets out in search of food but becomes lost a…
Kuessipan
Ce récit émouvant et sans concession n’est pas un roman à proprement parler…
L’été où papa est devenu gay
Arvid et son père, récemment séparé de sa femme, se retrouvent en vacances …
Leap
A young boy works hard to convince his classmates that he will make a journ…
Les bas du pensionnat
Olemaun, une jeune Inuite, veut aller à l’école des Étrangers pour apprendr…
Les Papinachois et les ours
Les Papinachois (un clan amérindien de la famille des Algonquiens) partent …
Leveller, The
Nixy Bauer, a bounty hunter in an online virtual reality world called MEEP,…
Lila and the Crow
Lila and her family move to a new town and she is so excited to go to schoo…
List, The
After the fall of society, Ark is divided between those who believe John No…
Littlest Bigfoot, The
Alice feels different and uncomfortable with herself, a feeling shared by h…
Long Way Down
Will’s brother Shawn was shot the day before, and according to the code of …
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
This resource provides a snapshot of the material life of families in 30 na…
Mauve
Pome et Verte sont deux apprenties sorcières qui se sont liées d’amitié. Ma…
One of Us is Lying
Five high-school students go into detention, but only four leave as the fif…
Out Standing in the Field
Sandra Perron was raised in a military family and followed that path to bec…
Outside People and Other Stories
The short stories in this contemporary collection are either set in Canada …
Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077
When writer Craig Davidson finds himself in a writing slump, he finds a job…
Saints and Misfits
Janna is a modern North American Muslim girl who wears a hijab, does well i…
Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
This popular science book deals with seven elements – iron, carbon, gold, s…
Shatter Me
Seventeen-year-old Juliette has a mysterious ability to kill simply by touc…
Sheep Who Hatched an Egg, The
Lola the sheep has the most beautiful silky, soft wool. She is very proud o…
Sign Around My Neck, The
Lucy/Lou, an eleven-year-old, likes himself but hates his body as he was bo…
Six of Crows
In Ketterdam, outlaw Kez is offered the ultimate heist but he can’t do it a…
Super Cool Tech
This resource covers many areas of science and technology, including transp…
Thousand Pieces Of You, A
Seventeen-year-old Marguerite has groundbreaking physicists for parents, an…
Three Pleasures, The
Daniel Sugiura, a reporter for a Japanese-Canadian newspaper during World W…
To Look A Nazi In The Eye
This Canadian work is the true story of Jordana Lebowitz, a university stud…
Totem Poles and Railroads
This collection of contemporary poetry, by indigenous Canadian poet Janet R…
Ugly
This inspirational memoir recounts the story of Robert Hoge, born with a fa…
Une fille à l’école des gars
Léonie, une petite fille de 10 ans, perd son frère aîné de 16 ans dans un t…
Walk on the Tundra, A
Inuujaq is not at all excited about going for a walk on the tundra with her…
We Are Okay
When Marin’s world falls apart, she leaves San Francisco for college in New…
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets
This engaging text examines cultural eating practices and food security aro…
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
This science fiction novel is structured as a collection of interviews, con…
Zack
Zack souhaite fuir très loin de son village de Saint-Là-Là-du-Bout-du-Monde…
