Groundwood Books

  • I Have the Right to Be a Child

    $19.99
    Hardcover
    Add to cart

    Selected for the IRA Notable Books for a Global Society List, selected for the Children’s Literary Assembly 2013 Notable Children’s Books and the USBBY Outstanding International Book List

    With a very

    [more below]

    • Series: I Have the Right #1
    • Author: Serres, Alain
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: June 01 2012
    • ISBN10: 1554981492
    • Language: English
  • Go Home

    $19.99
    Hardcover
    Add to cart

    In a world beset by anger and fear, what does it mean to protect one’s home and family?

    Olive and Gabe — her older brother’s best friend — are deeply in love. They want nothing more than to make a h

    [more below]

    • Author: Farish, Terry
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1773069101
    • Language: English
  • What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling

    $14.99
    Paperback
    Read more

    The extraordinary story of the woman who made plastics recycling possible.

    Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the

    [more below]

    • Author: Moser, Elise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: August 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1554988934
    • Language: English
  • The Big Bad Wolf in My House

    $19.99
    Hardcover
    Add to cart

    A young girl describes what it’s like when her mom’s new friend comes to stay — a moving story about domestic violence that ends on a hopeful note.

    The young girl tells us that her mom’s new friend i

    [more below]

    • Author: Fontaine, Valérie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: March 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 1773065017
    • Language: English
  • Shin-Chi’s Canoe

    $18.95
    Hardcover
    Add to cart

    Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General’s Award: Children’s Illustration

    This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two

    [more below]

    • Author: Campbell, Nicola
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: August 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0888998570
    • Language: English
  • Grandmother’s Visit

    $17.95
    Hardcover
    Read more

    Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss.

    Grandmother lives with Grace’s family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up

    [more below]

    • Author: Quan, Betty
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: September 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 155498954X
    • Language: English
  • The Secret Legacy

    $14.95
    Paperback
    Read more

    Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Mench? Tum returns once more to the world of her childhood in The Secret Legacy.

    Seven-year-old Ixkem is chosen by her grandfather amongst al

    [more below]

    • Author: Mench?, Rigoberta
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 66
    • Publish Date: August 04 2020
    • ISBN10: 177306455X
    • Language: English
  • Buddy and Earl Go Exploring

    $16.95
    Hardcover
    Read more

    Our favorite odd-couple friends explore the wilds of their house after dark in book two of the Buddy and Earl series.

    Buddy is just settling in for the night when Earl announces that he’s going on a tr

    [more below]

    • Series: Buddy and Earl #2
    • Author: Fergus, Maureen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: March 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1554987148
    • Language: English
  • Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!

    $12.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Finalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction

    “On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scoti

    [more below]

    • Author: Warner, Jody Nyasha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: October 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 177306035X
    • Language: English
  • Lost Girl Found

    $12.99
    Paperback
    Read more

    In war-torn Sudan, a girl must make heart-rending choices as she fights for survival and a chance at a future.

    “This short, quickly paced narrative will stay with readers for the rest of their lives.”

    [more below]

    • Author: Bassoff, Leah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: October 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 177306195X
    • Language: English
  • Good for Nothing

    $14.99
    Paperback
    Read more

    Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction

    The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, wher

    [more below]

    • Author: Noel, Michel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 324
    • Publish Date: May 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0888996160
    • Language: English
  • A Forest in the City

    $19.99
    Hardcover
    Read more

    This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees.

    “Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green … Is th

    [more below]

    • Series: Thinkcities #1
    • Author: Curtis, Andrea
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: April 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 1773061429
    • Language: English
  • Sunny Days Inside: And Other Stories

    $16.99
    Hardcover
    Read more

    When the “grownup virus” hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings.

    And they survive brilliantly, each in

    [more below]

    • Author: Adderson, Caroline
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 1773065726
    • Language: English
  • Avis Dolphin

    $16.95
    Hardcover
    Read more

    Inspired by the story of actual passengers on the ill-fated Lusitania, this is a novel of great adventure and suspense, including graphic novel-style illustrations.

    Avis Dolphin doesn’t want to leave

    [more below]

    • Author: Wishinsky, Frieda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 01 2015
    • ISBN10: 1554984890
    • Language: English
  • A Boy Named Queen

    $9.99
    Paperback
    Read more

    Who will be brave enough to make friends with the boy named Queen? Sara Cassidy’s acclaimed novel, A Boy Named Queen, is now available in paperback!

    Evelyn is both aghast and fascinated when a new boy

    [more below]

    • Author: Cassidy, Sara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 1773063782
    • Language: English
  • Migrant

    $18.95
    Hardcover
    Read more

    A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2011, an Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award Honour Book, and finalist for the Governor General’s Award: Childr

    [more below]

    • Author: Trottier, Maxine
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: March 05 2011
    • ISBN10: 0888999755
    • Language: English
  • Suck It in and Smile

    $17.99
    Paperback
    Read more

    A funny, touching look at the life of a social media influencer who starts to question the #goals life she has created for herself.

    Every day, Ellie motivates her hundreds of thousands of followers to

    [more below]

    • Author: Beaudoin-Masse, Laurence
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1773068091
    • Language: English
  • Coyote Tales

    $16.95
    Hardcover
    Read more

    Two tales, set in a time “when animals and human beings still talked to each other,” display Thomas King’s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early cha

    [more below]

    • Author: King, Thomas
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 56
    • Publish Date: October 01 2017
    • ISBN10: 1554988330
    • Language: English
  • Read Me a Story, Stella

    $16.95
    Hardcover
    Read more

    In the first new Stella book in four years — in a series that has sold two million copies in ten languages — Stella introduces little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading. Sam is as busy and worr

    [more below]

    • Series: Stella and Sam #7
    • Author: Gay, Marie-Louise
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: August 01 2013
    • ISBN10: 1554982162
    • Language: English
Shopping Cart