Fiction - Social Themes

Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction From the mid-1800s to the late 1990s, the education of Indigenous children wa...

Have you ever met someone and wondered where they might be from? Hi, I'm Tolu! I play steelpan, I love the saxophone, and I like art. Dad always sa...

* 2022 NYC BIG BOOK AWARD WINNER * 2022 WORLD ILLUSTRATION AWARDS SHORTLIST "Kitty O'Meara's The Rare, Tiny Flower, illustrated by Quim Torres, re...

Rana's on the team -- but is he still all alone? Short-listed for the 1996 Silver Birch Award As a Sikh living in small-town British Columbia, Ra...

When the little girl arrives at her new home, the guard at the border takes away a little piece of her name. Then the teacher at her new school tak...

When Miss Onya's class has the chance to create a mosaic piece of art depicting Canada, they are each given a different tile to glue down. As they ...

Set in late-1920s Sydney Mines, Us & Them is the story of sixteen-year-old JW Donaldson, who interrupts his high school education to work in th...

"A meaningful portrait of a young child living and loving in a unique period of North American history." — ★ Kirkus Ukpik loves living in her ...

A Young Adult novel by Louisa Onomé, Twice As Perfect follows a Nigerian Canadian girl dealing with an estranged older brother, helping her cousin ...