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- The secret pocket / by Janicki, Peggy.; Victor, Carrielynn,1982-;
- The true story of how Indigenous girls at a Canadian residential school sewed secret pockets into their dresses to hide food and survive. Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the other girls had a genius idea: drawing on the knowledge from their mothers, aunts and grandmothers who were all master sewers, the girls would sew hidden pockets in their clothes to hide food. They secretly gathered materials and sewed at nighttime, then used their pockets to hide apples, carrots and pieces of bread to share with the younger girls. Based on the author's mother's experience at residential school, The Secret Pocket is a story of survival and resilience in the face of genocide and cruelty. But it's also a celebration of quiet resistance to the injustice of residential schools and how the sewing skills passed down through generations of Indigenous women gave these girls a future, stitch by stitch.
- Subjects: Illustrated works.; Off-reservation boarding schools; Carrier Indians; Carrier Indians; Dakelh; Indigenous students; Indigenous peoples;
- Land of no regrets : a novel / by Muktadir, Sadi,author.;
- "Nabil, freshly plucked from middle school in Scarborough, is struggling to find his place at Al Haque Islamic Academy. Between the intense religious studies and new rules, he still longs for his past life of baseball, video games, comic books and girls. When he stumbles upon two students, Maaz and Nawaaz, doing something they shouldn't be doing, he quickly falls into their company and joins them in their misdeeds. Together with the new transfer student and unruly class clown, Farid, the group executes their rebellion. One day, while exploring the Madrasa at night, the boys discover the diary of a student who lived on the grounds when it was an all-girls Catholic school. Cynthia Lewis' words connect them to a bygone era and inspires them to hatch a plot to escape. They form a pact, and together, their ultimate decision sends them hurtling down a path that changes their lives forever. Strikingly original, and as poignant as it is humorous, Land of No Regrets is a vibrant, compassionate exploration of faith, friendship, identity, and the true value of freedom."--
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Faith; Friendship; Identity (Psychology); Islamic religious education; Madrasahs; Schools;
- Everything Is Fine Here A Novel [electronic resource] : by Tushabe, Iryn.aut; CloudLibrary;
- A beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people. Eighteen-year-old Aine Kamara has been anticipating a reunion with her older sister, Mbabazi, for months. But when Mbabazi shows up with an unexpected guest, Aine must confront an old fear: her beloved sister is gay in a country with tight anti-homosexuality laws. Over a weekend at Aine’s all girls’ boarding school, sisterly bonds strengthen, and a new friendship emerges between Aine and her sister’s partner, Achen. Later, a sudden death in the family brings Achen to Mbabazi’s and Aine’s village, resulting in tensions that put Mrs. Kamara’s Christian beliefs to the test. Aine runs away to Mbabazi’s and Achen’s home in Kampala, where she reconnects with her crush, Elia, a sophomore at Makerere University. In acclaimed writer Iryn Tushabe’s dazzling debut novel, Aine must make hard choices, with inevitable and harrowing results.General adult.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Contemporary Women;
- © 2025., House of Anansi Press Inc,
- Artemis the brave / by Holub, Joan.; Williams, Suzanne,1953-;
- While protecting egotistical transfer student Orion, Artemis makes a mistake that later provides her with the chance that she has both hoped for and dreaded, to prove her courage to herself and others at Mount Olympus Academy."Ages 8-12"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
- Subjects: Artemis (Greek deity); Orion (Greek mythology); Courage; Schools; Goddesses, Greek; Mythology, Greek;
- © c2010., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,
- Infinitely polar bear [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Ruffalo, Mark; Saldana, Zoe; Wolodarsky, Imogene; Wolodarsky, Wallace; Dullea, Keir;
- Director, Maya Forbes.Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky, Wallace Wolodarsky, Keir Dullea.When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife Maggie applies to business school and is accepted. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited girls are not interested in making things easy for him.CHVRS rating: 14A.Blu-ray.
- Subjects: Comedy.; Comedy.;
- © 2016., Columbia,
- President of the whole fifth grade / by Winston, Sherri.;
- To gain leadership skills needed to run a cupcake-baking empire when she grows up, Brianna runs for president of the fifth grade--expecting little competition--until a new girl enters the race.LSC
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Student government; Leadership; Baking; Schools;
- © 2012, c2010., Little, Brown,
- Vinegar girl : the taming of the shrew retold / by Tyler, Anne,author.; adaptation of (work):Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.Taming of the shrew.;
- Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work - her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying - as usual - on Kate to help him.
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Fathers and daughters;
- Purplicious / by Kann, Victoria; Kann, Elizabeth;
- When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink."Ages 5-8"--P. [2] of jacket.
- Subjects: Pink; Individuality; Schools; Color;
- © c2007., HarperCollinsPublishers,
- Fuller house. [videorecording] / by Cameron-Bure, Candace,1976-actor.; Correll, Richard,film director.; Garretson, Katy,film director.; Stamos, John,1963-producer,actor.; Sweetin, Jodie,actor.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
- Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, John Stamos, Andrea Barber, Michael Campion.Originally broadcast on Netflix in 2016.Returning for its second season, the Fuller House family experiences a new year of life's moments big and small from the start of a new school year, to budding romances to coming together for the holidays. Season two welcomes back recently widowed D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron Bure) who still lives in her childhood home with younger sister and aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and DJ's lifelong best friend/fellow single mother Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber). DJ's three boys and Kimmy's feisty teenage daughter Ramona (Soni Bringas) are also under the same roof, and Fuller House favorites including “three dads” Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier), will also enter the mix with welcome guest appearances. There's nothing like spending Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's with the people you love, because life is fuller with family.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Television comedies.; Domestic comedy television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Situation comedies (Television programs); Best friends; Extended families; Families; Fatherless families; Widows;
- For private home use only.
- All adults here / by Straub, Emma,author.;
- "A warm, funny and keenly perceptive novel about the lifecycle of one family -- as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's 13-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Adult children of aging parents; Mothers; Child rearing; Brothers and sisters;
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