Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement: Arts, Media, and Literacy in the Lives of Adolescents

Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today’s culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic engagement and cultural critique: homelessness, violence, and performing adolescence. The authors explore how youth appropriate the arts, media, and literacy as resources and how this enables them to express their identities and engage in social and cultural engagement and critique. The book describes how the youth in the various projects represented entered the public sphere; the claims they made; the ways readers might think about pedagogical engagements, practice, and goals as forms of civic engagement; and implications for critical and arts and media-based literacy pedagogies in schools that forward democratic citizenship in a time when we are losing sight of issues of equity and social justice in our communities and nations.

Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement

Politics & Social Sciences

Winters, Kari-Lynn

Rogers, Theresa

Perry, Mia

LaMonde, Anne-Marie

Sociology

Routledge

Let's Play a Hockey Game!

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

North Winds Press

What If I'm Not a Cat? (-)

Animals

Kids Can Press

Jeffrey can't think of a thing to write, so he doodles instead, only to have his doodle begin to order him about. Jeffrey struggles with the situation until he discovers that the most strong-willed doodle is powerless against a well-told tale. Jeffrey and Sloth is bound to have children rushing for their colored pencils and their pens to see who and what they can create.

Jeffrey and Sloth

Orca Book Publishers

Storytelling World Award honour book 2014 
 Rainforest of Reading Award nominee, 2013 
 Young Nassali longs to read and write like her brother, but since her mother's death, Nassali is responsible for looking after her younger siblings and running the household. There is no time for books and learning. Then one day, she wakes up to discover that her chores have been taken care of. It is her first gift day. From that day on, once a week, her brother gives Nassali the gift of time so that she can pursue her dream of an education, just as her mother would have wanted.

Gift Days

Education & Reference

Fitzhenry and Whiteside

2014 Silver Birch Express Award nominee 
 Canadian Science Writers' Association Outstanding Youth Book 2013 shortlist 
 On CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens list 2013 
 On Resource Links Best of 2013 list 
 On Ontario Library Association Best Bets List 2013 
 Imagine a world without bees. Not only would it be less colorful - with fewer wildflowers and flowering plants - it would be less fruitful as well. A world without bees would mean a world where the food supply would be significantly diminished. Global bee researcher Laurence Packer estimates that bees are responsible for 1/3 of our food supply. 
 Buzz About Bees is the latest addition to the series that includes Lowdown on Earthworms and follows the same formula offering an in-depth look at an endangered and vital part of the natural world. 
 Accompanying information about the history, social structure and science behind the world of bees and honey are conservation activities to make the world a place where hives of bees can thrive.

Buzz About Bees (Up Close With Animals)

Kari-Lynn Winters and Lori Sherritt-Fleming team up again for another poetry collection for young readers with the emphasis on math concepts including measuring time, patterns, counting, symmetry, numbers, shapes, estimating and more! 
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 He was hungry for math, always ready to munch. Math for his breakfast, math for his lunch. He'd pig out on pie charts and bar graphs galore, binge on skip-counting, and still ask for more. 
 Shapes - he discovered - were less filling fare. He'd taste test a rhombus, sparing room for a square. 
 He'd devour the dollars atop his dessert, then slurp on the coins he'd slopped on his shirt. 
 At night, in the dark, he'd gnaw on base ten, toss back some clocks, and crunch numbers again. 
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Hungry for Math: Poems to Munch On

Sherritt-Fleming, Lori

Finalist for the 2016 Animal Behavior Society's Outstanding Children's Book Award 
 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award finalist 
 On the Fall 2016 edition of the CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens 
 Most people hear the word "vampire" and they think of shady, nocturnal characters with capes and pointed teeth. But that's all pretend...right? Wrong! Blood-thirsty creatures are real -- but not in the ways you might be imagining them! In fact, there are trillions of vampires creeping, crawling, swimming, buzzing and even flying among us. Whether they are the fleas that love your pets as much as you do, the bedbugs that snuggle in with you at night, the lampreys that eat your fish dinner before you do, or the seemingly innocent butterflies that flutter above, these vampires come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and species. 
 Bloodsucking creatures are known for their irritating habits. They pierce your skin, drink your blood, and sometimes spread diseases. They range from highly annoying to deadly. It's difficult to love them, but these hungry critters are a necessity in our global ecosystems and they can even be beneficial. 
 Filled with fascinating and sometimes gory information, full-color photos, interactive activities, and educational diagrams and charts, Bite into Bloodsuckers is sure to get under your skin and run through your veins! 
 Read more about: Why bloodsuckers crave blood Types of real-life vampires Where bloodsuckers live and breed Lifecycles of different blood-thirsty creatures Dangers and fears of bloodsuckers Benefits of vampire creatures-both environmental and medical How to protect yourself from nasty bites

Bite into Bloodsuckers (Up Close With Animals)

Mercurio, Ishta

Hungry for the Arts: Poems to Chomp On

Arts, Music & Photography

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