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A Silent Voice

A Silent Voice

Follows Shoya Ishida, a former bully who makes amends with Shoko Nishimiya, the deaf girl he tormented in elementary school.
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Yoshitoki Oima
The Summoning

The Summoning

When Chloe Saunders sees a terrifying and grotesque ghost she has a breakdown and is sent to Lyle House, a group home. But soon bizarre s...
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Kelley Armstrong
Heartstopper

Heartstopper

Shy and softhearted Charlie strikes up a friendship with rugby player Nick, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of h...
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Alice Oseman
The Summer I Turned Pretty

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
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Jenny Han
Six of Crows

Six of Crows

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they do...
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Leigh Bardugo
I Am Not Okay With This

I Am Not Okay With This

Sydney appears to be a normal, rudderless, suburban 15-year-old freshman. But she harbors a secret that threatens to overwhelm her.
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Charles Forsman
Shatter Me

Shatter Me

Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in s...
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Tahereh Mafi
Moon of the Crusted Snow

Moon of the Crusted Snow

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the f...
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Waubgeshig Rice
Shadow and Bone

Shadow and Bone

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Dark...
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Leigh Bardugo
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demi...
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Rick Riordan
Red Queen

Red Queen

Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the ...
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Victoria Aveyard
Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

he seventh generation is creating A sea of change. It was a soft voice, at first. Like a ripple. But with practice it grew louder. Indige...
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Carole Lindstrom
When You Can Swim

When You Can Swim

A reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water...
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Jack Wong
Deep, Deep Down

Deep, Deep Down

Deep, deep down, at the very bottom of the ocean, lies a secret world. Through lyrical narration, this spare-text STEM picture book takes...
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Lydia Lukidis
Together A Forest

Together A Forest

Joy and her peers are eager to visit a nearby forest for a class trip. But Joy's excitement quickly turns into anxiety when she is asked ...
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Roz MacLean
Fish and Crab

Fish and Crab

Crab wants to sleep, but Fish is full of "what if" worries, so Crab tells him to list them all.
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Marianna Coppo
The Song That Called Them Home

The Song That Called Them Home

One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they've arrived, th...
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David A. Robertson
I Am Big

I Am Big

In the middle of the ice, a young Black hockey player finds joy in his talent and confidence in the cheers of his family, his coach, and ...
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Itah Sadu
The House That Floated

The House That Floated

A family living on a cliff by the sea experiences rising water levels and a powerful storm, forcing them to relocate.
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Guojing
My Book of Frogs and Toads

My Book of Frogs and Toads

When Geraldo Valério was growing up in Brazil, he learned that the tiny creatures he saw swimming in a puddle by the river weren’t fish, ...
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Geraldo Valerio
The Fact-Finders Ocean

The Fact-Finders Ocean

Explore the wonderful world beneath the waves in this fun, non-fiction graphic novel packed with fun facts and engaging characters.
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Tracey Turner
Ocean Dive In and Discover

Ocean Dive In and Discover

From the deepest known sea trench to the underwater forests in the Pacific Ocean, kids can discover 10 of the world's most spectacular oc...
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Annie Roth
Spotting Dottie

Spotting Dottie

In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, fourteen-year-old Charlotte wants to use her new drone to prove that Dot...
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Spooky Lakes

Spooky Lakes

Some of Earth's strangest -- and creepiest -- wonders lie deep below the surface.
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Geo Rutherford
Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage

Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage

Where did all the water on our planet come from? How deep is the ocean? What exactly is a fish? Find out all of this and more in the newe...
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Dominic Walliman
Mending Life

Mending Life

Learn the art of visible mending--a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice--to repair the clothes and belongings you love!
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Sonya Montenegro
A Games of Thrones

A Games of Thrones

In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to t...
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George R. R. Martin
Dark Archives

Dark Archives

A medical librarian presents a fascinating, terrifying look into history's rarest books-- those bound in human skin-- and the stories of ...
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Megan Rosenbloom
I'd Rather Be Reading

I'd Rather Be Reading

Reading isn't just a way to pass the time -- it's a lifestyle. Books shape, define, and enchant us. They are part of who we are and we ca...
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Anne Bogal
Entangled Life

Entangled Life

In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This ex...
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Merlin Sheldrake
Breath

Breath

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physio...
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James Nestor
The Ten Thousand Doors of January

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

In the early 1900s, a young woman searches for her place in the world and the mystery behind a magical door in this captivating debut. In...
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Alix E. Harrow
The Mindful Art of Space Making

The Mindful Art of Space Making

The Mindful Art of Space Making is a transformative guide by April Scott Tandy, a decluttering expert who showcases real-life home transf...
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April Scott Tandy
The 5th Wave

The 5th Wave

It's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the co...
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Rick Yancey
The Lemon Sisters

The Lemon Sisters

Brooke Lemon has always led the life she wanted, wild adventures--and mistakes--included, something her perfect sister, Mindy, never unde...
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Jill Shalvis
Light From Other Stars

Light From Other Stars

Decades after her grieving father, a laid-off NASA scientist, triggers chaotic changes in his pursuit of life-extending technology, an as...
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Erika Swyler
The Heirloom Garden

The Heirloom Garden

In this new novel from the author of 'The Charm Bracelet' and 'The Hope Chest', two women separated by a generation but equally scarred b...
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Viola Shipman
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We are situated on land within the area of Treaty 18, also known as the Lake Simcoe-Nottawasaga Treaty, signed on October 17, 1818, between the Government of Upper Canada and the Anishinaabe Indigenous peoples. 

The Anishinaabe include the Ojibwe, Odawa and Pottawatomi Nations collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy. We are dedicated to honouring Indigenous history and culture and are committed to moving forward in the spirit of reconciliation and respect with all First Nations, Metis and Inuit People. We are grateful to work and live on this land.

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