The Case of the Missing Auntie
Title | The Case of the Missing Auntie PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hutchinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Adoption |
ISBN | 9781772601480 |
"About: Book Two in the Mighty Muskrats Mystery series. The Mighty Muskrats have a new case to solve: to find the whereabouts of their grandpa's long-lost sister. Once in the bright lights of the big city, the cousins get distracted, face off with bullies, meet some heroes and unlikely teachers, and experience many of the difficulties First Nations kids can face in the city. The Muskrats' search for their missing auntie takes them all the way to the government, and reveals hard truths about their country's treatment of First Nation families. --
The Case of the Burgled Bundle: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 3
Title | The Case of the Burgled Bundle: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hutchinson |
Publisher | Second Story Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1772601675 |
The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats—cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake’s reputation! What’s worse, prime suspect Pearl takes off to the city with her older brother and known troublemaker, Eddie. If they have the burgled bundle with them, the Mighty Muskrats fear it may be lost for good. With clues pointing in too many different directions, the cousins need to find and return the missing bundle before the assembly comes to an end. The history and knowledge passed down to each generation through the bundle is at stake.
Secrets on 26th Street
Title | Secrets on 26th Street PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2014-07-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1497646596 |
As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movement Eleven-year-old Susan O’Neal is sick of always having to look after her two younger sisters. But ever since their father died, her mother depends on her. To make ends meet, she’s just taken a boarder, an Englishwoman named Beatrice Rutherford, into their Chelsea tenement apartment. Susan and Bea become fast friends, but when Susan finds a folded piece of paper with six cryptic words—must be kept secret for now—she wonders what her new friend is hiding. Is Bea a spy? Is she trying to involve Susan’s mother in something dangerous? Susan’s fear becomes a reality when her mother vanishes on the day five thousand women from every state in the Union come to New York for a suffrage rally. A riot erupts, and Susan knows something truly momentous has happened. Terrified for her mother’s safety, she begins a search that exposes some hard truths about her city—and their new boarder. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong
Title | Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong PDF eBook |
Author | A.J. Low |
Publisher | Epigram Books |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9810747519 |
--Winner of Red Dot Book Awards 2013-2014, Younger Readers’ Category, 1st Place-- --Selected for National Library Board’s READ! Singapore 2014-- Meet Sherlock Sam, Singapore’s greatest kid detective. With his trusty robot Watson, Sherlock Sam will stop at nothing to solve the case, no matter how big or small! In Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong, Auntie Kim Lian’s precious Peranakan cookbook disappears, and Sherlock Sam cannot eat her delicious ayam buah keluak anymore! Will Sherlock Sam be able to use his super detective powers to find this lost treasure?
The Case of the Missing Auntie: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 2
Title | The Case of the Missing Auntie: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hutchinson |
Publisher | Second Story Press |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2020-03-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1772601187 |
The Mighty Muskrats are off to the city to have fun at the Exhibition Fair. But when Chickadee learns about Grandpa’s missing little sister, who was adopted by strangers without her parents’ permission many years ago, the Mighty Muskrats have a new mystery to solve.
I Am Not a Number
Title | I Am Not a Number PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Kay Dupuis |
Publisher | Second Story Press |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1772602329 |
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis’ grandmother, I Am Not a Number is a hugely necessary book that brings a terrible part of Canada’s history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.
When We Were Alone
Title | When We Were Alone PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Robertson |
Publisher | Portage & Main Press |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2017-02-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1553796969 |
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history, and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength. Also available in a bilingual Swampy Cree/English edition. When We Were Alone won the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award in the Young People's Literature (Illustrated Books) category, and was nominated for the TD Canadian's Children's Literature Award.