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Seventeen-year-old Nigerian Canadian Adanna Nkwachi must deal with an estranged older brother, uncertainty about her future, and helping her cousin plan a big Nigerian wedding.

"When TJ Powar--a pretty, popular debater--and her cousin Simran become the subject of a meme, with TJ being the 'expectation' of dating an Indian girl and her Sikh cousin who does not remove her body hair being the 'reality,' TJ decides to take a stand. She ditches her razors, cancels her waxing appointments, and sets a debate resolution that she will go all in to defend: 'This House Believes That TJ Powar can be her hairy self, and still be beautiful.' Only, as she sets about proving her point, she starts to seriously doubt anyone could care about her just the way she is--even when the infuriating boy from a rival debate team seems determined to prove otherwise. As her carefully crafted sense of self begins to crumble, TJ realizes that winning this debate may cost her far more than the space between her eyebrows. And that the hardest judge to convince of her arguments might just be herself"--Jacket flap.

"Young Fred Urquhart was fascinated by insects, especially his favorite, the monarch butterfly. He wondered where monarchs spent the winter. No one knew. After he became an entomologist (bug scientist), Fred and his wife, Norah, tagged hundreds of butterflies, hoping to solve the mystery of the monarchs. But they soon discovered that they needed help. They started a 'butterfly family,' a community of children, teachers, and nature enthusiasts from three countries--Canada, the United States, and Mexico--to answer the question: Where do the monarchs go? Detailed materials in the back of the book include maps of monarch migration, the life cycle of the butterfly, and the cultural relevance of monarch butterflies in Mexico, as well as information on environmental efforts towards monarch conservation"--From the publisher's web site.

"An entomologist and his wife solve the mysteries of monarch butterfly migration with the help of schoolchildren in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, in this colorful picture book based on a true story"--Provided by publisher.

Grace Parker, abandoned as an infant at a Chinese orphanage and adopted by a Canadian family, has rejected her Chinese heritage, until reports of the massacre of student protesters in Tiananmen Square prompt her to begin a search for her birth parents.

An iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture--inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--Neil Young has written his eagerly awaited memoir.

"Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and is working to manufacture and weaponize the virus that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are dying. The community has been quarantined. And time is running out. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko?"--OCLC.

"For three summers beginning when he was sixteen, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. "Factory Summers" chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery"--.

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, things change for Sandy Saito and his family. They are shunned by those who used to be their friends and eventually rounded up and sent to internment camps in remote British Columbia. While he and his family try to make the best of the crowded, cramped living arrangements, and their separation from his father, Sandy and the other kids at camp take refuge playing baseball, using it as their tool for survival.

"The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Accompanied by . . . illustrations by Luke Swinson and an author's note at the end, Aim?e Craft affirms the importance of understanding an Indigenous perspective on treaties . . ."--Provided by publisher.