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• Dear Baobab

  Foggo, Cheryl

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  A young boy leaves his home in Tanzania to live with his aunt and uncle in Canada.

• Apples and Butterflies

  Grant, Shauntay

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  A lyrical picture book about a family's autumn vacation on Prince Edward Island.

• Malaika's Winter Carnival

  Hohn, Nadia L.,

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  A young girl joins her mother in Québec and experiences her first winter Carnival—which is nothing like Carnival in the Caribbean.

• Up Home

  Grant, Shauntay

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  A lyrical picture book about a Black community in Nova Scotia.

• Mayann's Train Ride

  Francis, Mayann

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  A family travels from Cape Breton to New York by train.

• Africville

  Grant, Shauntay

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  A young girl visits the site of Africville, where her great-grandmother lived. Africville was a 150-year-old Black community in Halifax. The residents of Africville were denied basic services and then evicted when their neighbourhood was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Aboard!

  Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine

  Kulling, Monica

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  Elijah McCoy loved trains. His invention changed the face of travel around the world.

• Meet Viola Desmond

  MacLeod, Elizabeth,

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  Viola Desmond was arrested for sitting in a whites-only section in a movie theatre. Now she's on the ten dollar bill.

• Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged

  Warner, Jody Nyasha

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  Viola Desmond fights back against racism: "You people have to sit in the upstairs section."

• John Ware

  Hundey, Ian, 1945-

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  John Ware was enslaved in the American South. After the US Civil War, he became a rancher, cowboy, and folk hero in what would later become Alberta.

• Howdy, I'm John Ware

  Clough, Ayesha

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  A kid-friendly retelling of John Ware's real-life story.

• Meet Willie O'Ree

  MacLeod, Elizabeth,

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  Canadian Willie O'Ree was the first Black hockey player in the NHL.

• Oscar Lives Next Door

  a Story Inspired by Oscar Peterson's Childhood

  Farmer, Bonnie, 1959-

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  A fictional account of the childhood of virtuoso jazz pianist Oscar Peterson in 1930s Montréal.

• A Change of Heart

  Walsh, Alice, 1958-

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  A young American sailor shipwrecks off the coast of Newfoundland during World War II.

• Black Women Who Dared

  Moyer, Naomi M., 1977-

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  Learn about ten Black women who had profound impacts on their communities from 1793 to the present.

• Elijah of Buxton

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  A young boy in Canada discovers the horrors his parents escaped in the American South.

• Underground to Canada

  Smucker, Barbara Claassen,

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  A young enslaved girl separated from her mother makes a desperate bid for freedom on the Underground Railroad.

• Runner

  the Life of Harry Jerome, World's Fastest Man : a Novel

  Charles, Norma M.,

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  Harry Jerome grew up in small-town Manitoba and went on to become the world's fastest runner.

• A Desperate Road to Freedom

  the Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson, Virginia to Canada West, 1863-1864

  Bradford, Karleen

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  A young girl keeps a diary chronicling her family's escape from slavery, but her first step on the journey to freedom was learning how to read and write.

• The Journey of Little Charlie

  Curtis, Christopher Paul,

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  Twelve-year-old Charlie is torn between survival—tracking down some thieves—and conscience—helping fugitives from slavery.