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Somos como somos / A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

A Place for Pauline by Anouk Mahiout. Illustrations by Marjolaine Perreten. A girl with light skin tone and short red hair wears a red dress. She lies on a long green cushion with eight small pillows and a white and orange cat curled up beside her. The girl, Pauline, has a book face down on her chest. Her arms are spread out on both sides as she looks up. Beside the cushion is a stack of books. Above her are two shelves with books and knickknacks, with a string of red flowers hanging between them.

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The Book of Birds

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A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

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A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with "poems" appearing in white. In the center, a wolf springs forward, its head tilted toward the reader with a somewhat feral smile.

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Ultra Blue

Cover: Bury the Lead: a Quill and Packet mystery by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti. The cover illustration shows a woman with dark hair and stark features peeking out from behind a red curtain, as if looking out from backstage. There is a blurb at the top which reads, “A whodunit that had me turning pages as fast as I could … an absolute delight!” —Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky

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Bury the Lead

Because I Already Loved You. Written by Andrée-Anne Cyr and illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte. A child clutching a small stuffed animal stands in the middle of the page. Behind him is a baby, drawn in whites and blues.

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Because I Already Loved You

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I Am Ariel Sharon

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Mustafa

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The City of Words

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Dog Park

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The Clouds Tell Us

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Based on a True Story

When Spider Met Shrew by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrations by Geneviève Côté. These images were done in watercolour. A small black spider hangs down from her web that covers a corner of the image. The spider smiles at a small brown shrew who stands on his hind legs and smiles back with a wave. The sky is blue behind them.

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When Spider Met Shrew

An open door shows the view into a living room with a bookshelf, a sitting chair, and a side table with cookies and milk on it. A girl with light skin tone and brown hair looks around the open door from inside the living room. She wears purple glasses, purple headphones, and a yellow-striped sweater. She carries a book with a yellow flower between the pages as a bookmark. When the title has a letter “I” it is dotted with this yellow flower. Text: Violet Shrink. Christine Baldacchino. Pictures by Carmen Mok.

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Together by the Sea

Cover: I Make My Own Fun: A Novel by Hannah Beer. A martini glass filled with blood has a single barbie arm sticking out of the blood and is set on a bright pink background. The title appears in bold gold lettering above the glass.

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Cover: Blanket by Ruth Ohi. A white cat with grey fur around each eye is named Cat. Cat wears a pajama shirt and pants that are yellow with red polka dots. Cat sits and holds their knees to their chest under a blue blanket. Across from Cat sits a white dog with grey fur around the eyes and floppy ears. Their name is Dog. They wear a blue sweater with green stripes and white pants. Dog rests their hands on their knees and touches their forehead to Cat’s. They both smile.

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Blanket

Cover: Her First Palestinian and Other Stories by Saeed Teebi. 'Intelligent, original and bursting with vitality' - Ayelet Tsabari, Author of The Art of Leaving. A soft yellow background with an small orange, unpeeled with the peel spiraling to its right.

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Her First Palestinian

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Grandmother’s Visit

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

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Cover: Owlish, a novel by Dorothy Tse, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce. The cover features a surrealist illustration: The sun sets behind a mountain. A music box with an outstretched ballerina rests on a mossy stone. A figure with a trumpet on his head sits on a red chair, atop a large hourglass. An ear is screwed into rectangular concrete monolith, which is cracking. A man dangles from a purple bridge over a river which fills with a faucet.

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Does State Spying Make Us Safer?

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I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree

Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

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The Wren

Cover: Home For Margaret. Written by Denise Davy. Illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte. A young girl sits with a woman in the snow in front of a blue tent surrounded by bare trees. The girl has medium light skin tone and curly black hair in two buns, and the woman has light skin tone; medium length gray hair and both their cheeks and nose are rosy. The woman’s hands are tucked into her jacket pocket, while the girl raises her arm as she is talking. Beside the young girl in the snow is a white grocery bag.

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Home for Margaret

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

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The House Next Door

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

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The Two Roberts

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A Short History of Progress

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Sit

This image is a series of scenes. The scene above is a yellow photograph of a strip mall and a stoplight. Signs read, ÒDonuts, Muffins, CakesÓ and ÒGrocery StoreÓ. Two sections, one red and one yellow, with black polka dots, show the title. The scene below is a black and green image of the Toronto skyline on a red background. Text: Frying Plantain. Zalika Reid-Benta. Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist. ÒAn unforgettable debut.Ó Ð Paul Beaty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout.

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The Cat at the Wall

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Letters to Kafka

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Back in the Land of the Living

A girl with dark skin tone pulls a red wagon behind her against a beige background with an outline of dark beige window panels. In the wagon is a tall pile of red, yellow, blue, and green objects. They tower over her. In front of her is a yellow fire hydrant. Text: Maggie’s Treasure. Jon-Erik Lappano. Kellen Hatanaka.

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And So It Goes

Cover: The Last Last. Written by Wendy J. Whittingham and illustrated by Brianna McCarthy. A young girl floats in bright blue water, smiling with her arms spread wide. Four small, brightly colored fish swim around her. She has dark skin tone with black tight-curly hair parted into twisted pigtails on either side of her head and secured by pink bobbled hair ties. Her eyes are closed as she floats, and her cheeks are a deep rosy color. She wears a pink one-piece swimsuit that has light purple polka-dots.

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The Last Last

Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

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The Rayburn Affair

Cover: An Ordinary Violence, a novel by Adriana Chartrand. A black-and-white image of a rabbit against a black background spans the cover diagonally. The rabbit appears from the side with its eyes open. Its legs are bunched under its body, and its ears are laid flat against its back, with its nose pointed into the upper left corner. Red blood droplets spatter the cover.

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An open garbage bin sits on the corner of a neighbourhood street. Behind it is a house and around are trees and bushes with flowers. A woman and a girl with light skin tone stand by the bin and pull things out of it. The woman has a shopping cart beside her that is overflowing with things. The girl holds a small robot doll. Text: Aunt Pearl. Monica Kulling. Irene Luxbacher.

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McMafia

Cover: “Burying the Moon. By Andrée Poulin and Sonali Zohra.” A girl with medium-dark skin tone stands in a field, facing away from us. The girl wears sandals and a blue dress over a white shirt, and her dark hair is braided. She holds a pick and stares at the big full yellow moon. There is a hole in the ground beneath the moon. The field and sky are shades of purple, blue and pink. There are swirls in the sky behind the moon.

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Burying the Moon

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

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Procession

Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.

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Xanax Cowboy

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The Lost Spells

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No Safe Place

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Tokyo Digs a Garden

It is nighttime in a forest. A full moon is in the sky. The moon has a face and looks down on a fox, who looks up. The forest is red and blue. Text: Moon Wishes. Guy and Patricia Storms. Milan Pavlović.

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Moon Wishes

Cover: Temporary Palaces, a novel, by Jeff Miller. Photograph of an abandoned two-storey house sitting on a vacant lot. The ground floor windows are covered by boards, which have been spraypainted with graffiti, while the upper floor windows have been smashed out. The title and author’s name appear in large, black letters inside a white frame around the photograph. The words “A Novel” appear beside the title in large, pink letters.

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Temporary Palaces

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Dodge City

My Mom Is Like a Kite. Written by Lisl H. Detlefsen and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. A young child with light brown skin and straight black hair leans forward on a table with her arms crossed, looking up and to the right. She wears a tan sweater. To her right, Winkie, a white cat, stands on her hind legs and paws at four kite tails that have pink, yellow, red and teal bows on them.

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My Mom Is Like a Kite

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with "poems" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, "Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song." —Marya Hornbacher

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Pitiful

Cover: Lantern, poems by Sanna Wani. Above a cream-coloured background, a forest green border is stamped. Inside the border are three ginko leaves stamped in various directions, as though falling. The text appears in cursive lettering.

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Soft as Bones

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The Girl of the Wish Garden

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

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A Love Affair with the Unknown

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The Red Sash

Cover: Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World. Written by Maxim Samson. The cover has six deer walking towards and stopping at a boundary line. On one side of the line is white, and the other is red.

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Invisible Lines

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Noopiming

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Cockroach

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Shi-shi-etko

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Seamus’s Short Story

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Ghost Train

Go, stories by Deborah Ellis. The background is pale green. Clockwise from the top are six illustrations: A purple basket of various home items, two floor cushions around a wood Go game board covered in black and white pieces; an upside-down dog bowl surrounded by dog kibble and broken glass; an orange shirt, white towel, bar of soap and a toothbrush; a shovel in front of a gravestone; a white chair and a pink purse by a potted tree; and a pair of shoes, red cup and a race bib with the number forty-four.

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Go

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Hollywood Eden

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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

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Definitely Thriving

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Ninan

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Big Lonely Doug

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Layaway Child

Cover: Boozhoo! Hello! By Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. Translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. A wolf is drawn in a Woodland art style, made out of simple organic shapes with smoothed, rounded lines. The wolf walks across the page while looking up at the title. It has a black head, and its body is made up of several different shapes with varying designs in blue, orange, red and green. The background is orange.

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Boozhoo! / Hello!

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Mermaids and Ikons

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

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John Candy

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Stella and Sam ABC

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The Lost Words

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The Composition

A small patch of blue sky is visible through the green leaves of multiple trees. Some leaves are maple, some are oak, and in the background are coniferous trees. A squirrel, snail, bird, and dragon flies, and lady bugs are amongst the leaves. In the top right corner is a circled image of a green frog. Text: See to Learn. Forest. Kate Moss Gamblin. Pictures by Karen Patkau.

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Forest: A See to Learn Book

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Very Last First Time

A girl decides to bury her possessions in the garden to deal with her grief.
When the little girl in this story loses several members of her family in the same winter, including her grandmother and her beloved Persian cat, her feelings are overwhelming. From then on, she decides to bury the things she loves the most in the garden. Each ob

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