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Collection Spotlight: Orange Shirt Day 2023
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, is Saturday, September 30, 2023. Below you will find resources that may be found at UBC Education Library.
X̱wi7x̱wa Library’s “Indian Residential School System in Canada” research guide also includes materials that address the reality of the Indian Residential Schools.
Many contain additional resources for teaching or encouraging discussion at home.
Fiction
The orange shirt story / author, Phyllis Webstad; illustrations, Brock Nicol.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=9294317
I am not a number / written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer; illustrated by Gillian Newland.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=8536611
Stolen words / written by Melanie Florence; illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=9161137
When we were alone / David Alexander Robertson; Julie Flett.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=8774028
Shi-shi–etko / Nicola I. Campbell; pictures by Kim La Fave.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3559311
Shin-chi’s canoe, written by Nicola I. Campbell, illustrated by Kim LaFave
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3935868
Fatty legs: a true story / Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; artwork by Liz Amini-Holmes.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=4297323
You hold me up / Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=8926213
FULL TEXT ONLINE: http://tinyurl.com/yys2eaqn
Non-Fiction
Speaking our truth: a journey of reconciliation / Monique Gray Smith.
FULL TEXT ONLINE: http://tinyurl.com/yy3a7d7v
Collection Spotlight: Science Literacy Week, September 18-24, 2023
This year’s theme is energy.
New Books at Education Library: August 2023
BF789.C7 S64 2017 The secret lives of color / Kassia St. Clair.
LB1028.24 .M388 2023 Doing critical research in education: from theory to practice / Kathryn Bell McKenzie and Linda Skrla.
LB2341 .T683 2023 Transforming leadership pathways for humanities professionals in higher education / edited by Roze Hentschell and Catherine E. Thomas.
LB2353.62 .A27 2023 Shortchanged: how Advanced Placement cheats students / Annie Abrams.
LB2828.8 .S36 2023 The school voucher illusion: exposing the pretense of equity / edited by Kevin Welner, Gary Orfield, Luis A. Huerta.
LB3013 .C37 2015 Classroom management matters: the social-emotional learning approach children deserve / Gianna Cassetta and Brook Sawyer.
LC149 .B36 2023 Literacy moves outdoors: learning approaches for any environment / Valerie Bang-Jensen.
LC1085.4.C3 G53 2019 Captive audience: how corporations invaded our schools / Catherine Gidney.
LC1200 .W43 2021 Inclusive education in a strengths-based era: mapping the future of the field / Michael L. Wehmeyer and Jennifer A. Kurth.
PZ7.L8814 Wa 2021 Wayward creatures / Dayna Lorentz.
PZ7.G77224 Tw 2022 Two degrees / Alan Gratz.
PZ7.K526495 Zar 2022 Zara’s rules for record-breaking fun / Hena Khan; illustrated by Wastana Haikal.
PZ7.A733964 Aqq 2021 Are you a cheeseburger? / Monica Arnaldo.
PZ7.1.S26 Ch 2021 Children of the fox / Kevin Sands.
PZ7.1.G7407 My 2022 My brother is away / by Sara Greenwood; illustrated by Luisa Uribe.
PZ7.1.B7269 Ru 2022 Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion / K. Tempest Bradford.
PZ7.5.L39 Af 2022 African Town: inspired by the true story of the last American slave ship / Irene Latham & Charles Waters ; introduction by Jocelyn M. Davis.
PZ8.3.M459574 Bat 2021 Bathe the cat / written by Alice B. McGinty; illustrated by David Roberts.
QC981.8.G56 B3725 2021 The story of climate change: a first book about how we can help save our planet / Catherine Barr and Steve Williams; illustrated by Amy Husband and Mike Love.
QH541.5.F7 B37 2023 Water: how we can protect our freshwater / Catherine Barr; illustrated by Christiane Engel.
QL637.9.L6 A44 2022 Anglerfish: the seadevil of the deep / Elaine M. Alexander; illustrated by Fiona Fogg.
Collection Spotlight: New French Picture Books
Our new Collection Spotlight is up. “French Picture Books” is a gathering of current French titles in the Children’s Literature genre.
