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Prix littéraires (romans)Aventure et exploration, Essais et documents primés, Etats-Unis (histoire)
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An account of the conflagration that levelled much of Chicago in 1871. Chronicles events from the fire's outbreak and rapid…
spread to its extinguishment by rain, as reported by survivors and in documents of the period. Examines the origins, circumstances, and official failures that contributed to the disaster. Grades 5-8. A 1996 Newbery Honor Book. c1995.
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Prix littéraires (romans)Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Journaux personnels et mémoires, Femmes (biographies), Art de vivre
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Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who…
cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her story garnered international interest and assistance, which eventually brought her to Toronto. Her autobiography testifies to Kamara's horrific trauma, but with the aim of fostering hope and reconciliation. Winner of the 2011 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. For junior high and older readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2008.
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Prix littéraires (romans)Aventure et exploration, Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens
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Think about your worst fears - being attacked by a wild animal, swept away by a killer storm, trapped in…
a wrecked car or a burning building. Here are 29 stories of real people who survived life-threatening situations. Each section includes Survival Tips that give readers essential information about what to do in dangerous circumstances. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Bestseller 2005. 2003.
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Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Nature, Animaux et faune
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Smiley, a most remarkable Golden Retriever, was born without eyes. He was rescued from a puppy mill and has become…
a superb therapy dog, providing therapy to people all over the world through social media and television. This is his story. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Express Award. Winner of the 2019 Red Cedar Information Book Award. Winner of the 2019 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. Grades 4-6. 2017. Smiley, the therapy dog -- Smiley and Joanne -- Smiley and Joanne's new family -- St. John Ambulance therapy dogs -- Smiley, the blind therapy dog -- Smiley, the celebrity -- Ways you can help.
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Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Sociologie
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The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past…
few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.
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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Aventuriers et explorateurs (biographies)
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Biography of the adventurous English explorer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I. Describes the numerous expeditions to the New World…
in search of a golden kingdom and how court politics determined his fortunes. For junior and senior high readers. Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. 2000.
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Prix littéraires (romans)Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Histoire, Crime véritable
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What would you do for absolute power? Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evading…
death... or causing it. While Cleopatra of Egypt once rolled herself into a rug and was carried out past her enemies' noses, other royals were brutal when dealing with foes. Read the stories of ten sovereigns, including Vlad the Impaler, "Bloody Mary", and The Romanovs of Russia. Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2009 Red Maple Non-fiction Award. 2008.
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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Personnes aveugles ou ayant une vision partielle (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, opened a door to another world for Jeff Healey. Out…
of darkness he created music, becoming one of the most influential blues-rock and jazz performers of our time. Winner of the 2012 Golden Oak Award. Grades 5-8. 2010.
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Prix littéraires (romans)Aventure et exploration, Essais et documents primés
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The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…
survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.
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Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Guerre, Seconde Guerre mondiale
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The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, but that life was shattered in 1939 when Germany invaded…
Poland and Jewish people were forced into the streets, their homes, schools, and businesses burned. Eventually, the Golds hid in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2015.
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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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The heroes of this book are men, women, and even children from different points in Canadian history who have worked…
and fought for basic human liberties. Beginning with Jeanne Mance's tireless care of others in the earliest days of New France, and ending with young Hannah Taylor's campaign against homelessness, the book spans four hundred years in our nation's story. Grades 4-7. Winner of the OLA White Pine Award 2011. 2008.
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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Histoire (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi…
invasion of France. Edith's courage was remarkable, as was the bravery of those who helped her: an entire village, including its mayor, that heroically conspired to conceal the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in the safe house. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Award. 2006.
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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Guerre et militaire (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo, Japan, with the name Hana Brady…
painted in white on the outside. The centre's curator searches for clues across Europe and North America to find out who Hana was and what had happened to her. Her journey takes her back through seventy years to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Winner of the 2003 Silver Birch Award. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. Grades 4-7. 2002.
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Canada (romans)Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Guerre et militaire (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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It's 1993, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is going through major political changes. Five-year-old Michel is playing with friends…
one day when, without warning, a group of rebel soldiers pulls up to the school grounds. Forced onto trucks, the frightened boys are taken to a camp in the hills. There they are thrust into a terrifying and violent world. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2015.
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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Histoire (biographies)
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William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a bullwhacker, cattle driver, and American Indian fighter on the Great Plains of the 1850's,…
all before becoming a teenager. He claimed to have killed 5,000 buffalo and to have ridden with the Pony Express. Later, he started his Wild West Show - part circus, part rodeo, part history - that played across the United Stares and Europe for three decades. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. 2010. (Legends of the Wild West)
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Biographies, Essais et documents primés
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This first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience is the intense memoir of a North Korean…
boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers"; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2019 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2016.
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Essais et documents primés, Histoire
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Fifty thousand years ago, our ancestors ventured off the African savannah and into the wider world. Now, our technology reaches…
far into the cosmos. How did we get where we are today? From Hammurabi to Henry Ford, from Incan couriers to the Internet, from the Taj Mahal to the Eiffel Tower, from Marco Polo to Martin Luther King, from Cleopatra to Catherine the Great, from boiled haggis to fried tarantulas - this is the story of humanity. Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Children's Text. Grades 4-7. 2011.
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Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Essais et documents généraux
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A collection of questions and answers about strange superstitions and unusual customs, as well as everyday things that no one…
can remember a reason for doing. Questions ranging from "Can you go deaf from listening to a rock concert?" to "Why can't you tickle yourself?" are answered in a fun, informative way. Winner of the 1999 Silver Birch Award. Followed by "You asked for it!". Grades 4-7. 1998.
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Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Histoire (biographies)
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Long, an eight-year-old Amerasian boy, describes his hazy memories of his American father and vivid recollections of his Vietnamese mother's…
suicide and his grandmother's struggle to protect him during wartime. He remembers the fall of Saigon, leaving Vietnam in 1975's Operation Babylift, and his transition to his new identity as Matt Steiner. Concludes with Matt's 1995 return to Vietnam, where he finally understood the sacrifice his grandmother made for him. Grades 5-8. Booklist's Best of 2004. 2004.
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Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Loi et crime
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A killer has been caught, convicted, and sentenced, the case closed, all in 114 days. No one suspected – least…
of all the boy on death row – that it would take almost 50 years for a tiny piece of scientific evidence to answer the question: was he really the murderer? 40 amazing stories of how scientists solve crimes, reveal identities, untangle evidence, and discover the truth. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2011.