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Celebrate Canada: It's a Record!
It’s a Record! is a report on Canadian animals and birds that hold amazing records for size, speed, and travelling distances. Fact boxes titled “It’s wild!” provide additional information. The style is conversational...
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Celebrate Canada: It's Big
It’s Big is a description of some of Canada’s weird and wonderful roadside structures, from Glooscap to the Big Nickel to the gigantic Ukrainian pysanka. Fact boxes titled “Big fact” add additional information. The...
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Celebrate Canada: St. John's: A Community by the Ocean
St. John’s: A Community by the Ocean is a report on the landmarks and festivals of the unique city of St. John’s, Newfoundland, the oldest city in Canada. Fact boxes provide additional information. The style is conversational and...
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Celebrate Canada: Welcome to Ha Ha Bay
Welcome to Ha Ha Bay is an explanation that takes readers on a cross-country trip and reveals the stories behind such novel town names as Red Deer, Eyebrow, and Tiny. Fact boxes titled “Only in Canada” provide additional information...
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Celebrate Canada: Welcome to Paldi: A Place for Everyone (Gr 2)
A girl learns from her grandparents about Paldi, BC, a small town founded by Mayo Singh, a Sikh lumber mill owner.
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Celebrate Canada: Winter Wonderland: The Quebec Winter Carnival
Winter Wonderland is a description of the famous Québec Winter Carnival. Readers meet Bonhomme and are invited to make a visit to the carnival to join in the fun. Fact boxes titled “Frosty fact” provide additional...
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Celebrate Canada: Yum!
Yum! is a description of distinctive, Canadian regional foods, such as fiddleheads and wild rice. The book closes with a delicious procedural text – a recipe for pancakes with maple syrup and Saskatoon berries. Fact boxes titled “Fact...
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Cool School
Cool School is a fictional brochure advertising Cool School. The brochure describes the school’s beach, forest, and farm, the interesting timetable, the cool staff, what kids say about the school, and how much it costs (free!). The story includes...
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Dad's Pasta
Dad’s Pasta is a realistic and humorous fiction story about a girl recounting when her and her brother spent the weekend at their dad’s. They were supposed to go fishing, but the rain would not stop. Dad said he would cook the best pasta in...
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Disappearing Sharks
Disappearing Sharks is an informational report. The text describes how fishers catch sharks, why people catch sharks, why it’s unlikely anyone will experience a shark attack, how sharks are bred, and how sharks can be helpful. The style...
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Dog's Diary
Dog’s Diary is a dog’s humorous diary. In it, we are let in on a week’s worth of events, thoughts, and feelings in a world with an annoying cat, a snooty poodle, and a granny with more than a few complaints. The first-person...
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Fiction Readers 2: A Polar Bear Journey
A mother polar bear and her two cubs emerge from their den in search of food. But they find that global warming has made their search more difficult. Teach 2nd grade students about climate change with this illustrated fiction reader.