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That's my sweater! / by Von Innerebner, Jessika.;
"Olivia LOVES her sweater. It's her most favourite thing to wear! It's helped her be cozy on camping trips, clean in the tub (really) and cool like a superhero. But as Olivia grew, her sweater didn't... and is passed down to her little brother. Can Olivia reclaim her cozy and cool fuzzy favourite?"-- Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Frustration; Brothers and sisters; Personal belongings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The one thing you'd save / by Park, Linda Sue.; Sae-Heng, Robert.;
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Subjects: Novels in verse.; Fire; Personal belongings; Emotions; Choice (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Makeda makes a mountain / by Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola.; Mba Blázquez, Lydia.;
Seven-year-old Makeda and her family are cleaning the house for a party and make a pile of things they don't use anymore, but Makeda isn't ready to throw anything out, in a book featuring a problem-solver who loves to create.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Parties; Problem solving; Families; Personal belongings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The long road home : on Blackness and belonging / by Thompson, Debra(Debra E.),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Thompson, Debra (Debra E.); Black people; Black people; Black people; Women college teachers, Black; Women, Black;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Restaurant kid : a memoir of family and belonging / by Phan, Rachel,author.;
"A warm and poignant narrative about finding one's self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter's attempts to connect with parents who have always been just out of reach. When she was three years old, Rachel Phan met her replacement. Instead of a new sibling, her mother and father's time and attention were suddenly devoted entirely to their new family restaurant. For her parents--whose own families fled China during Japanese occupation and then survived bombs and starvation during the war in Vietnam--it was a dream come true. For Phan, it was something quite different. Overnight, she became a restaurant kid, living on the periphery of her own family and trying her best to stay out of the way. As Phan grew up, the restaurant was the most stalwart and suffocating member of her family. For decades, it's been both their crowning achievement and the origin of so much of their pain and suffering: screaming matches complete with smashed dishes; bodies worn down by long hours and repetitive strain; and tenuous relationships where the family loved one another deeply without ever really knowing each other. In Restaurant Kid, Phan seeks to examine the way her life has been shaped by the rigid boxes placed around her. She had to be a "good daughter," never asking questions, always being grateful. She had to be a "real Canadian," watching hockey and speaking English so flawlessly that her tongue has since forgotten how to contort around Cantonese tones. As the only Chinese girl at school, she had to alternate between being the sidekick, geek, or Asian fetish, depending on whose gaze was on her. Now, three decades after their restaurant first opened, Phan's parents are cautiously talking about retirement. As an adult, Phan's "good daughter" role demands something new of her--and a chance to get to know her parents away from the restaurant. In Restaurant Kid, Phan deftly combines candour, wit and insight to craft a vibrant and important narrative on the strength and foibles of family, and how we come to understand ourselves."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Phan, Rachel.; Phan, Rachel; Children of immigrants; Restaurateurs; Restaurateurs; Chinese Canadian women;
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Nowhere, exactly : on identity and belonging / by Vassanji, M. G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract "nowhere," then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly. Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them, 'Nowhere, Exactly' examines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones.
Subjects: Belonging (Social psychology); Emigration and immigration; Identity (Psychology); Immigrants;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shame on me : an anatomy of race and belonging / by McWatt, Tessa,author.;
'Shame on Me' is an exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story. Tessa McWatt has been nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Toronto Book Awards. Her parents emigrated to Canada from Guyana when she was three. She lives in London. A Dewey Diva Pick. Book Club.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; McWatt, Tessa.; McWatt, Tessa; Authors, Canadian; Authors, Guyanese; Race.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Who am I? / by Buchholtz, Julie.; Ghare, Aliya.;
A young indigenous girl explores the ways she is connected to the Earth and to those who came before her.
Subjects: Picture books.; Belonging (Social psychology); Indigenous peoples;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My fanciest things / by Tucker, Krista.; Lee, Grace.;
Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Radio and television novels.; Fancy Nancy (Fictitious character); Families; Best friends; Personal belongings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The story of the Jews, by Schama, Simon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Jews; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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