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  Forever Birchwood - A Novel

  Anonymous

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  The middle-grade debut of star picture-book author and illustrator Danielle Daniel 
  Adventurous, trail-blazing Wolf lives in a northern mining town and spends her days exploring the mountains and wilderness with her three best friends Penny, Ann and Brandi. The girls’ secret refuge is their tree-house hideaway, Birchwood, Wolf’s favourite place on earth. When her beloved grandmother tells her that she is the great-granddaughter of a tree talker, Wolf knows that she is destined to protect the birch trees and wildlife that surround her. 
  But Wolf’s mother doesn’t understand this connection at all. Not only is she reluctant to engage with their family’s Indigenous roots, she seems suspiciously on the wrong side of the environmental protection efforts in their hometown. To make matters worse, she’s just started dating an annoying new boyfriend named Roger, whose motives—and construction company—seem equally suspect. 
  As summer arrives, so do bigger problems. Wolf and her friends discover orange plastic bands wrapped around the trees near their cherished hangout spot, and their once stable friendship seems on the verge of unravelling. Birchwood has given them so much—can they even stay together long enough to save this special place? 
  With gorgeous yet understated language, Danielle Daniel beautifully captures an urgent and aching time in a young person’s life. To read this astonishing middle-grade debut is to have your heart broken and then tenderly mended.

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  Grandma's Roof Garden

  Tang Wei

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  Granny may be old, but she’s certainly not feeble—or idle! She’s built a splendid vegetable garden from scratch on the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building. 
   
  She collects thrown-away produce to feed her animals or make compost for the garden. 
   
  She waters, weeds, and shows the neighborhood kids how to care for her plants: with love, patience, and pride. 
   
  Come harvest time, Granny gathers her fresh produce and cooks up a delicious feast for her friends and family. She even sends them off with extra bags of goodies so people can make their own yummy, healthy meals at home! 
   
  Debut author/illustrator Tang Wei creates a love letter to an indomitable grandma of the city, inspired by her own childhood and a beloved relative. Using a fun, rhythmic text reminiscent of Chinese folk nursery rhymes, Wei shows how one person can create a beautiful  
  green space in the heart of the concrete jungle and bring together an entire community.

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  The Woofmore on Thin Ice

  Lori Haskins Houran, Donna Gephart

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  Return to the luxury hotel for dogs in The Woofmore on Thin Ice, the third book in the pawsome full-color chapter book series from authors Donna Gephart and Lori Haskins Houran and illustrator Josh Cleland 
   
  Welcome to the Woofmore, where the water bowls are always full and there’s kibble on every pillow! Rufus and his boss, Ms. Coco, work hard to make every guest feel like a VIP (Very Important Pooch). 
   
  It’s winter at the Woofmore and the hotel is down to one guest—famous figure skater Furya LaBone. Ms. Coco wants her visit to be pawfect. The Woofmore needs more guests to stay open, and a good review from a VIP like Furya could save the hotel. But when the local ice rink closes and Furya is left with nowhere to practice for her big competition, it looks like the hotel may be on thin ice. If Rufus can’t help this skating superstar come up with a showstopping move for her routine, it could be a ruff winter for the Woofmore. 
   
  With adorable illustrations and hilarious text, this new early chapter book series will hit young dog lovers smack in the funny bone!

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  Good Night Little Sea Otter...

  Janet Halfmann

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  Little ones will soon settle down for bedtime just like Little Sea Otter as he snuggles with Mama in a cozy bed of sea kelp and calls good night to all his ocean friends. Sea lions, sea snails, seagulls, seals, and sea urchins - they all reply. The gently rocking seas and Mama's loving arms soon send Little Sea otter to dreamland.

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  Whose Favourite Am I? - A...

  Chigozie A Mbadugha

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  A Captivating Early Readers Colour-Illustrated Story About Sibling Rivalry 
  Olu is the middle child in his family. He often feels unloved and left out and is convinced his brother is his daddy's favourite child. He also believes his sister, Funmi, is his mother's favourite. Olu tries to win his parents' love and become their favourite child. Olu's parents tell him they love all their children equally and that there is no need to compete. Olu doesn't believe them. When his birthday arrives, he compares his birthday celebration events to his brother's birthday events and realizes, to his surprise, that he is as loved as his siblings. 
  Sibling Rivalry helps nobody and its effects can last a lifetime and more. Shouldn't we be discussing it with our children?

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  Hansel and Gretel

  Brothers Grimm

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  "Hansel and Gretel"  is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
  The story is about two siblings, Hansel and Gretel, who are abandoned in the forest by their parents after their stepmother convinces their father to leave them in the woods because of famine. On their first attempt, they are able to find their way back home using a trail of pebbles. However, they fail the second time when they used a trail of breadcrumbs because they were all eaten by animals. Hansel and Gretel encounter a gingerbread house made of candies and sweets.

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