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  • The Circle Cast: The Lost Years of Morgan Le Fay

    Alex Epstein

    Paperback (Tradewind Books, Aug. 1, 2011)
    The sorceress Morgan le Fay - King Arthur's lover and worst enemy - was a girl once. But how did an exiled girl become the most powerful witch in legend?Britain, 480 AD. Saxon barbarians are invading, pushing the civilized British out of their own island. Morgan is the daughter of the governor of Cornwall. But when her father is murdered and her mother taken as the Uther Pendragon's new wife, she has to flee to Ireland to avoid being murdered herself. But Ireland is no refuge. She's captured in a slave raid and sold to a village witch. As Morgan comes of age, she discovers her own magical powers. She falls in love with a young Irish chieftain, and makes him powerful. But will her drive for revenge destroy her one chance for love and happiness?
  • A Day With Yayah

    Julie Flett

    Hardcover (Tradewind Books, March 15, 2017)
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  • Night Sky Wheel Ride

    Sheree Fitch, Yayo

    Hardcover (Tradewind Books, Feb. 1, 2013)
    Poet Sheree Fitch and artist Yayo take readers young and old on a spectacular ride through the imagination. We fly past illustrations displaying a kalaidoscope of colors. Magical, fun fair creatures appear and disappear in a jungle of cotton-candy trees.
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  • A Grain of Rice

    Nhung N. Tran-Davies

    Paperback (Tradewind Books, Jan. 15, 2019)
    Thirteen-year-old Yen and her family have survived a war, famine and persecution. When a powerful flood ruins their village in rural Vietnam, matters only get worse. With the help of neighbors and family, they decide to take the ultimate risk on a chance for a better life.
  • Abby's Birds

    Ellen Schwartz

    Hardcover (Tradewind Books, Nov. 15, 2006)
    Abby makes an unlikely friend in her neighborhood—her elderly Japanese neighbor, Mrs. Naka. All spring and summer, the two delight in the robins that live in the maple tree that straddles their yards, following the birds' progress as they nest and the babies hatch and learn to fly. Mrs. Naka teaches Abby how to make tori—origami birds. Later, when Mrs. Naka has an accident, will Abby be able to use her new skill to conjure up a surprise to comfort her ailing neighbor?
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  • City Kids: Street and skyscraper rhymes

    X.J. Kennedy, Phillippe BĂ©ha

    Hardcover (Tradewind Books, )
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  • Pikiq

    Yayo

    Library Binding (Tradewind Books, Sept. 15, 2017)
    In the far, far north, Pikiq finds paint, paintbrushes and a book with pictures of tropical animals and faraway places, abandoned in the deep snow. Inspired, he draws fantastic creatures everywhere, and color bursts onto the white landscape.
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  • Where Are My Onions?

    Paulette Sarmonpal, Silvia Vignale

    Hardcover (Tradewind Books, Jan. 1, 1997)
    This charming story is based on a real-life onion peddler from France who has been selling onions from his bicycle in London for many years. In this story, Quizz, the cat, steals the onions and everyone in the neighborhood joins a search to find them!
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  • The Circle Cast

    Alex Epstein

    eBook (Tradewind Books, June 15, 2016)
    Morgan le Fay—sorceress, —seducer of King Arthur and destroyer of Britain—was a girl once. When Uter Penndragon uses Merlin's magic to seduce her mother and murder her father, Morgan flees to Ireland to avoid being killed herself. There she is captured in a slave raid and sold to a village witch. As Morgan comes of age, she discovers her own magical powers. She eventually falls in love with a young Irish chieftain. But will her drive for revenge destroy her one chance for love and happiness?
  • Honey Cake

    Joan BettyM Stuchner

    Hardcover (Tradewind Books, June 14, 2007)
    Rare Book
  • The Princess Dolls

    Ellen Schwartz, Mariko Ando

    eBook (Tradewind Books, July 15, 2018)
    Vancouver, 1942. When best friends Esther and Michiko spot the beautiful Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret dolls—in vogue at the time—in the local toy store window, they long to get the dolls for their shared birthday. But when Esther receives the doll and Michiko doesn’t, their friendship starts to unravel.The story is set against the backdrop of an atmosphere of increasing hostility and racist attacks upon the Japanese community—culminating in the Internment.As the story opens, restrictions on Japanese Canadians are increasing. Then Michiko and her family are sent away. With such enormous barriers erected between them, Esther and Michiko are left to their own devices as to how to mend their friendship.
  • The Princess Dolls

    Ellen Schwartz, Mariko Ando

    Hardcover (Tradewind Books, Sept. 1, 2018)
    Vancouver, 1942. When best friends Esther and Michiko spot beautiful Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret dolls, in vogue at the time, in the local toy-store window, they long to get the dolls for their shared birthday. But when Esther receives a doll and Michiko doesn't, their friendship starts to unravel. The story is set against the backdrop of an atmosphere of increasing hostility and racist attacks upon the Japanese community that culminates in the internment. During much of the story, restrictions on Japanese Canadians are increasing. Then Michiko and her family are sent away. With such enormous barriers erected between them, Esther and Michiko are left to their own devices as to how to mend their friendship.
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