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Four cousins, the Mighty Muskrats, solve a mystery on the Windy Lake First Nation.

The Case of Windy Lake

Michael Hutchinson

$11.95

Ages 9 - 12

In the bright lights of the big city, the Mighty Muskrats search for an auntie...

The Case of the Missing Auntie

Michael Hutchinson

$11.95

Ages 9 - 12

The Mighty Muskrats, four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation, are back for another...

The Case of the Burgled Bundle

Michael Hutchinson

$12.95

Ages 9 - 12

The Mighty Muskrats are back with a chilly new mystery!

The Case of the Rigged Race

Michael Hutchinson

$11.95

Ages 9 - 12

The Mighty Muskrats’ new case affects the future of Windy Lake itself!

The Case of the Pilfered Pin

Michael Hutchinson

$12.95

Ages 9 - 12

Hello world, meet Edweena!

The Fabulous Edweena

Edwin Dumont

$21.95

Ages 6 - 8

Hello world, meet Edweena!

Omaamakaadendaagozi Edwiina / The Fabulous Edweena

Edwin Dumont

$21.95

Ages 6 - 8

Brave Bernice is ready for an adventure!

Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold

Jessica Outram

$12.95

Ages 9 - 12

A powerful story about the importance of family acceptance.

Phoenix Gets Greater

Marty Wilson-Trudeau

$21.95

Ages 6 - 8

A powerful story about the importance of family acceptance now in dual language!

Phoenix ani’ Gichichi-i’/Phoenix Gets Greater

Marty Wilson-Trudeau

$21.95

Ages 6 - 8

Indigenous educator Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis teams up with award-winning author Kathy Kacer to tell...

I Am Not a Number

Jenny Kay Dupuis

Kathy Kacer

$19.95

Ages 9 - 12

An award-winning true story from Canada's residential school past, now a dual language book.

Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii / I Am Not a Number

Jenny Kay Dupuis

Kathy Kacer

$14.95

Ages 9 - 12

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Karin Wells

Karin Wells was a CBC radio documentary maker and is a three time recipient of the Canadian Association of Journalists documentary award. She is also a lawyer and in 2011 was inducted into the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Honour Society. Wells has documented the lives of influential (but often overlooked) Canadian women in her books: The Abortion Caravan: When women shut down government in the battle for the right to choose (finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and winner of the Ontario Historical Society's Alison Prentice Award), More Than a Footnote: Canadian women you should know and her newest, Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the cases that changed women's rights in Canada.

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