National Network for Equitable Library Service

Night-time themed artistic view of animals, fish and insects of the Northwest Coast.

Lucy lives in a house full of decorative dragons that her mother makes. When Lucy is convinced that there's a monster in her bedroom, her mother sprinkles a bit of magic into clay and creates Gruffen the Guard Dragon.

Board a commuter train in New York, then follow the journey west and see the stations, the scenery, the different types of trains, and all the people who travel and work on the railroad system.

A child decides to invite a few friends for a birthday party, encouraging guests to bring food and friends, but the guest list soon gets out of control and becomes the craziest, wildest party ever.

Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s. Sandy was adopted by a Ukrainian family and grew up as the only First Nations child in a town of white people. Ostracized by everyone around her and tired of being different, at the early age of five she tried to scrub the brown off her skin. But she was never sent back into the foster system, and for that she considers herself lucky.