Groundwood Books

  • The White Cat and the Monk: A Retelling of the Poem “Pangur Bán”

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    A monk leads a simple life. He studies his books late into the evening and searches for truth in their pages. His cat, Pangur, leads a simple life, too, chasing prey in the darkness. As night turns to

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    • Author: Bogart, Jo Ellen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 36
    • Publish Date: March 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1554987806
    • Language: English
  • Very Last First Time

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    A classic story of an Inuit girl’s first experience going alone under the ice to collect mussels.

    Eva’s journey is a very special one. Today, she will walk on the bottom of the sea alone. She will go

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    • Author: Andrews, Jan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: October 01 1987
    • ISBN10: 088899043X
    • Language: English
  • What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling

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    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

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    • Author: Moser, Elise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: August 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1554988934
    • Language: English
  • Loon

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    A gorgeously illustrated, lyrical non-fiction picture book about loons.

    It’s summertime, and as darkness falls there is a haunting sound from the lake — Ooh-hoo-oo, ooh-hoo-oo. It is a loon calling t

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    • Author: Vande Griek, Susan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: April 01 2019
    • ISBN10: 1773062360
    • Language: English
  • The Outsmarters

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    What can you do when the adult world lets you down?

    Suspended from school and prone to rages, twelve-year-old Kate finds her own way to get on with her life, despite the messed-up adults around her.

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    • Author: Ellis, Deborah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1773068571
    • Language: English
  • Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Communicate

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    A lyrical story of an aspen grove through the seasons, inspired by the ground-breaking work of Dr. Suzanne Simard on how trees and fungi talk to each other.

    In early spring, the Mother Tree wakens. Sh

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    • Author: Lebox, Annette
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1773069357
    • Language: English
  • Genocide: Revised and Expanded Edition

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    What is genocide? Why does it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again?

    At the end of the Second World War, with the establishment of the United Nations, the holding of the Nurember

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    • Series: Groundwork Guides
    • Author: Springer, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1773067605
    • Language: English
  • How Emily Saved the Bridge: The Story of Emily Warren Roebling and the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

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    The amazing story of Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who stepped in to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was completed in 1883.

    Emily was not an engineer, but she was educated in

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    • Author: Wishinsky, Frieda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: May 01 2019
    • ISBN10: 1773061046
    • Language: English
  • Blue Rider

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    “[A] dazzling vision of the way art transcends the everyday.” — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

    On a gray and crowded city sidewalk, a child discovers a book. That evening, the child begins to read

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    • Author: Valério, Geraldo
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 44
    • Publish Date: March 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 1554989817
    • Language: English
  • My Book of Butterflies

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    This stunning exploration of butterflies from around the world is a companion to My Book of Birds

    Geraldo Val?io grew up in Brazil, watching white butterflies visit the vegetable patch behind his hous

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    • Author: Valério, Geraldo
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 1773063359
    • Language: English
  • West Coast Wild at Low Tide

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    Explore the wild shoreline of the majestic Pacific west coast and discover the spectacular array of colorful creatures living in rhythm with the tides.

    At the edge of the Pacific Ocean, where land and

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    • Series: West Coast Wild #4
    • Author: Hodge, Deborah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 36
    • Publish Date: March 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1773064134
    • Language: English
  • The Composition

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    Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awards and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title

    Life is simple for Pedro — he goes to school, does his homework and, most import

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    • Author: Skarmeta, Antonio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 36
    • Publish Date: March 05 2003
    • ISBN10: 0888995504
    • Language: English
  • My Name Is Parvana

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    The fourth book in the internationally bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey and Mud City.

    In this stunning sequel, Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school

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    • Series: Breadwinner #4
    • Author: Ellis, Deborah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: May 01 2015
    • ISBN10: 1554982987
    • Language: English
  • City Streets Are for People

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    Congested city streets are noisy and thick with cars and trucks, while pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed to the dangerous edges–but does it have to be this way?

    Imagine a city where we aren’t st

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    • Series: Thinkcities #3
    • Author: Curtis, Andrea
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: May 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1773064657
    • Language: English
  • Three Wishes

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    Deborah Ellis presents the stories of children of the war-torn Middle East, based on interviews with Israeli and Palestinian children.

    In a rehabilitation center for disabled children, twelve-year-old

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    • Author: Ellis, Deborah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0888996454
    • Language: English
  • A Coyote Solstice Tale

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    Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book.

    Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little

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    • Author: King, Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1773069128
    • Language: English
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