Diversity
Books in Diversity
A Gift for Gita
Gita and her family are in turmoil. During her grandmother's visit, Gita's father announces that he has received a job offer back in India. They have been living in North America for a few years, a...
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A Long Way From Home
An Afghan girl, an American boy, and the resilient residents of a small town are thrown together on 9/11.
Thirteen-year-old Rabia, her mother, and her younger brother have escaped Afghanistan and ...
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Child of Dandelions
Sabine has a happy life in Uganda, until the "countdown monster" changes everything - ordering her and everyone like her to leave their home and their country.
It is 1972, and fifteen-year-old Sab...
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Dear Baobab
Maiko knows what it is like to be small and to feel planted in the wrong place...
Maiko has left his village in Africe far behind, moving to North America to live with his aunt and uncle. When he...
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Lights for Gita
Gita's family has only recently emigrated from India. Although she misses her relatives and friends, she has already made some friends in her new home. Today, she is looking forward to her favourit...
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Our New Home
From the diverse cultures of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Guyana, Somalia, and others, immigrant children write of their experiences leaving their homes and moving to a n...
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Roses for Gita
"This is a lovely, gentle book. ... [It's] about the adjustment of one immigrant child, but it is also about the importance of beauty in life, and the ability of kindness to overcome isolation and ...
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Splish, Splat!
A fun introduction to the world of sign language...
Colin's mom hires painters to paint his bedroom. The company she calls recommends that she hire two women who happen to be deaf. The company exp...
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The Color of Silence
Two girls, both without a voice. One refuses to speak, the other is trapped in a body that won’t let her.
At seventeen, Alex feels as if her life is over. She will never recover from the tra...
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The First Nations Series for Young Readers Teacher Resource
This comprehensive teacher's guide is designed to accompany Second Story Press' First Nations Series for Young Readers. This resource has been developed around the First Nations/Native American hol...
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The Scratch on the Ming Vase
An attack on her kung fu master leads a budding spy on a mysterious adventure...
Born in China, Nicki Haddon was adopted by a wealthy North American family as a baby. Now sixteen, she has a talent...
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The Way It Is
It may be the '60s - the era of equal rights and free love - but two teens find that change is slow in coming to their small town...
To Ellen Manery, a brilliant, introverted, socially isolated f...
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Treasure for Lunch
"Yvonne Cathcart's brightly coloured illustrations add to the fun of this totally delicious book." - Reader's Showcase. Shaira loves her grandmother and the wonderful Indian foods that she prepares...
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We Are Their Voice
Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust?
This question prompted a writing project that brought heartfelt responses from students from across North America and abroad. Their voices &nda...
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Publishers
Search Books
by Author/Illustrator
by Audience by Genre by Special Interests by Series- The Rachel Trilogy
- Helen Keremos Mystery
- Jane Yeats Mystery
- Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers
- A Nicki Haddon Mystery
- Notherland Journeys
- Kids' Power Series
- I'm A Great Little Kid Series
- First Nations Series for Young Readers
- Women's Hall of Fame Series
- Gutsy Girl
- Lunch Bunch
- La collection Azrieli des mémoires de survivants de l'Holocauste












