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A little boy plants an apple seed, and as soon as it sprouts the boy can see the apple tree it is meant to be. But the little apple tree isn't so sure. Young and impatient, the tree begins to doubt its calling, especially after apples fail to appear that first October. How can the little boy encourage the tree to give the seasons and years the time to work their magic?
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On an outing in Nicola Valley, British Columbia, a Native American family forages for herbs and mushrooms while the grandmother passes down her language and knowledge to her young grandchildren. Includes glossary.
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone
E Tah
1 available
E Tah
1 available
Cumberland Elementary - Everyone
E TAH
1 available
E TAH
1 available
Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Everyone
E TAH
1 available
E TAH
1 available
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A Navaho family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that first special laugh. Includes brief description of birth customs in different cultures.
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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E Min
1 available
E Min
1 available
Glengarry Elementary - Everyone
E Min
1 available
E Min
1 available
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"I like to eat, eat, eat," choruses young Johnny as he watches Grandma at work in the kitchen. Wild rice, fried potatoes, fruit salad, frosted sweet rolls -- what a feast! Johnny can hardly contain his excitement. In no time, he'll be digging in with everyone else, filling his belly with all this good food. But wait. First there is the long drive to the community center. And then an even longer Ojibwe prayer. And then -- well, young boys know to follow...
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Collection of quotations by Native Americans divided into eleven categories, including the ways of learning, the ways of living, and the ways of the white man, with historical background.
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 BRU
1 available
398.2 BRU
1 available
Amqui Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 BRU
1 available
398.2 BRU
1 available
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
E BRU
1 available
E BRU
1 available
7) Stolen words
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Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Flo
1 available
E Flo
1 available
Explore! Community School - Everyone
E FLO
1 available
E FLO
1 available
Glengarry Elementary - Everyone
E Flo
1 available
E Flo
1 available
Description
"This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks...
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Glengarry Elementary - Everyone
E Kal
1 available
E Kal
1 available
Mt. View Elementary - Everyone
E Kal
1 available
E Kal
1 available
Norman Binkley Elementary - Everyone
E KAL
1 available
E KAL
1 available
Description
"This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. Lyrically and tenderly told by a mother speaking to her own little "Kulu," an Inuktitut term of endearment often bestowed upon babies and young children, this visually stunning book is infused with the traditional Inuit values of love and respect for the land and its animal inhabitants."--...
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E ALE
1 available
E ALE
1 available
Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E ALE
2 available
E ALE
2 available
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
E ALE
1 available
E ALE
1 available
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"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 BRU
1 available
398.2 BRU
1 available
Goodlettsville Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
398.2 Bru
1 available
398.2 Bru
1 available
Ida B. Wells Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 BRU
1 available
398.2 BRU
1 available
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When Beaver challenges Turtle to a swimming race for ownership of the pond, Turtle outsmarts Beaver, and Beaver learns to share.
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 TIN
1 available
398.2 TIN
1 available
Chadwell Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 TIN
1 available
398.2 TIN
1 available
Cole Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 TIN
1 available
398.2 TIN
1 available
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Choctaw variant of Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, in which Turkey assists Turtle in defeating Rabbit.
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Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Rob
1 available
E Rob
1 available
Tusculum Elementary - Everyone
E Rob
1 available
E Rob
1 available
Westmeade Elementary - Everyone
E Rob
1 available
E Rob
1 available
Description
"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...