Matt James
1) The funeral
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"Norma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank's funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing: Uncle Frank would have enjoyed his funeral. This sensitive and life-affirming...
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"Out in the neighborhood, Charlie finds things. He finds Margaret's ball, and he finds Aunt Myrtle's cat up in a tree. He finds Aunt Myrtle and his friend Steve looking at a big lemon pie. 'Whose pie is it?' Aunt Myrtle wants to know. Charlie always tries to be helpful, so he sets off to find the owner of the mystery pie ... but it doesn't seem to belong to anyone. Fortunately, Aunt Myrtle knows just what to do"--Provided by publisher.
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When Chuck Ealey was growing up in Portsmouth, Ohio, he lived in a segregated neighborhood that was divided from the rest of town by a set of train tracks. There wasn't much money at home - even for food. In high school, Chuck's football coach and teammates believed he could be a great quarterback, but other teams and their fans shouted back at him and taunted him because he was black. Even so, Chuck was determined to lead his team during this turbulent...
4) I know here
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A story about a girl who lives in rural northeastern Saskatchewan. Her family is moving in the summer to Toronto and the girl's teacher helps her find a way to remember everything she loves about her home.
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Chronicles the search for a safe passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific through the lyrics of a Canadian folk song. Features historical facts and background on the expeditions, the author's own re-imagining of the journey, and information on global warming and the struggles of Canada's First Peoples. Includes the musical score of the song.
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At first, a bed belonging to a noisy, smelly pirate is overjoyed when it tips overboard and goes sailing away on its own across the ocean. But eventually the bed grows lonely and misses the pirate's exciting dreams. When the bed washes ashore it is cleaned up and sold to a little boy, who enjoys dreaming about adventures.