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Celebrate Canada: Where Am I? (Gr 1)
Where Am I? is a report that gives the First Nations and Inuit origins of many place names across Canada. For example Kamloops, British Columbia gets its name from a Secwepemstsin word meeting “the meeting of waters” because two rivers...
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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: Woof!: Our Canadian Dogs
Woof! Our Canadian Dogs is a report about three Canadian dogs: Newfoundland, Labrador, and Canadian Inuit. The characteristics and talents of each dog are profiled. Fact boxes titled “It’s a fact” provide additional...
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Celebrate Canada: YOU Can Make a Movie! (Gr 4)
Tips for kids on how to make a movie by Muslim Canadian filmmaker Nilufer Rahman.
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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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Cell Scientists: Discovering How Cells Work
Cell Scientists Discovering How Cells Work is an expository nonfiction text that explores different cell scientist and their work, such as Robert Hooke, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Hans Adolf Krebs, the Cori’s, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. The text...
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Chameleons
Chameleons is an expository text that invites readers to learn about a chameleon’s body, their food, their homes, and their young. Photographs are labeled. There are some captions beneath pictures that provide important information. A set of three...
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Charlie
Charlie is a humorous, realistic story about a class pet bird. The teacher does not like birds, but she likes Charlie even less when he starts saying “Give me a kiss.” The story is told in dialogue and simple narrative. All the...
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Chicken Food
Chicken Food is a humorous fantasy about Mr. McGuire and his very demanding chicks. Guided by Mrs. McGuire’s suggestions, Mr. McGuire goes to great lengths to concoct just the right food to please the chicks, with spectacular results. ...
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Chicken Food BIG BOOK
Chicken Food is a humorous fantasy about Mr. McGuire and his very demanding chicks. Guided by Mrs. McGuire’s suggestions, Mr. McGuire goes to great lengths to concoct just the right food to please the chicks, with spectacular results. ...
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Chimpanzees
Chimpanzees is an expository text that invites readers to learn about where chimpanzees live, what they eat, what they look like, and how they make their nests, and how they raise their young. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Photographs are...
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Circus Boy
Circus Boy is a narrative about Joe, a lowly popcorn seller because unlike the rest of his family – a famous high wire act – Joe is afraid of heights. But just when it seems Joe will never realize his dream of performing in the big...