#ReadAtlanticEbooks: Youth Week / #LireAtlantiqueEnNumérique: Semaine du livre jeunesse
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This summer, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia public library users get unlimited access to 100 accessible eBooks from Atlantic Canadian authors or publishers with no holds or waitlists. This week, we’re highlighting eBooks in the collection for kids and teens.
Books can be borrowed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick’s OverDrive/Libby apps as well as on the accessible platforms of the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) and the Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA).
Summer Feet by Sheree Fitch (Nimbus Publishing)
Canada’s Dr. Seuss, Sheree Fitch, is back with a brand-new tongue-twisting picture book that celebrates all things summer. From those first barefoot days, wobble-dy walking over rocks and pebbles, to wandering-wild while searching for sea glass and, finally, huddled-up cozy at a late-summer bonfire, these summer feet flutter kick, somersault, hide-and-seek, and dance in the rain, soaking up all the season has to offer.
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
Finding Avalon by Pamela MacDonald (Chocolate River Publishing)
YA Fiction:
Avalon Monday doesn’t mind telling schoolmates that her mother ran off to California to live with a guy she met on the internet. After all, that’s way less embarrassing than the truth.
One fresh start and three years later Avalon discovers there are things you can never truly leave behind. When the past collides with the present it exposes her secret and threatens to leave her new life in ruins.
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
Sid the Kid and the Dryer by Lesley Choyce (Nimbus Publishing)
Milton the washing machine and W. P. (Whirlpool) the dryer are being delivered to a new home in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. The pair are excited to start their new jobs in the Crosby home, and are just getting settled in to the basement when “the kid” comes home from school. Sidney straps on a pair of Rollerblades, drags out a beat-up hockey net, and starts to practice. Every now and then a loud carrong echoes off W. P.’s shiny white enamel as the puck misses the net, prompting scolds from Sidney’s mother upstairs.
An imaginative interpretation of the history of Sidney Crosby’s famous dryer (now a popular attraction at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame), paired with vibrant artwork from award-winning illustrator Brenda Jones, Sid the Kid and the Dryer will have young readers and sports fans cheering from the sidelines.
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
Powwow Summer by Nahanni Shingoose (Lorimer)
Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. Teased about her Indigenous heritage as a young girl, she feels like she doesn’t belong and struggles with her identity.
On her family’s nearby reserve, she learns more than she expects about the lives of Indigenous people, including the presence of Indigenous gangs and the multi-generational effects of the residential school system. River also discovers a deep respect for and connection with the land and her cultural traditions. The highlight of her summer is attending the annual powwow with her new friends.
At the powwow after party, however, River drinks too much and posts photos online that anger people. Can River begin to resolve the complexities of her identity?
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
Cet été, les utilisateurs des bibliothèques publiques du Nouveau-Brunswick et de la Nouvelle-Écosse ont un accès illimité à 100 livrels du Canada atlantique sans liste d’attente. Cette semaine, nous présentons des livrels des auteurs PANDC:
Petit Pico par Fabien Melanson (Bouton d’or Acadie)
Un beau matin, Petit Pico sort de son oeuf. Tout juste éclos, il part à la recherche de son père. Petit Pico questionne la vache, le lama, le cheval… Cui-cui, qui peut bien être son père? Quand enfin ils se retrouvent, Petit Pico apprend à faire cocorico, bien comme il faut !
Emprunter: N.-É. | HFX | N.-B | CELA | NNELS
Zee par Su J. Sokol (Bouton d’or Acadie)
Depuis qu’elle est née, Zee a un talent, ou bien une intelligence particulière. Elle perçoit des choses que personne d’autre ne perçoit. Zee entend ce que les gens pensent, ressent ce que les gens ressentent. À travers leur regard, Zee se voit elle-même, et cette vision la transforme. Parfois, Zee est la fille précoce de ses quatre adultes. Des fois Zee est un ado voyou de Brooklyn, New York, un ado qui joue du basket et s’attire des ennuis. Ses quatre adultes s’inquiètent, lui font passer des tests, mais Zee anticipe leurs craintes, et les déjoue. Petit à petit, Zee apprend à grandir et à se mouler aux attentes de la société et du regard des autres, au risque de se perdre elle-même.
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