Benjamin's thunderstorm by Florence, Melanie 

BTSB Prebound(Kids Can Press, 2023)

BTSB #: 343364 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   
Lexile: 550 AD

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Cree Indians - Fiction Native Americans - Social life and customs - Fiction Thunderstorms - Fiction Rain - Fiction

Summary: A thunderstorm evokes a boy's family traditions.

On the trapline by Robertson, David A. 

BTSB Prebound(Tundra, 2021)

BTSB #: 758937 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 560

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Grandparent-grandchild relationship - Fiction Cree Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Wilderness areas - Fiction

Summary: A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. Along the way, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago-a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life now.

Other side of perfect by Florence, Melanie 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2024)

BTSB #: 343374 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Child abuse - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Runaway teenagers - Fiction Social classes - Fiction Cree Indians - Fiction

Summary: Two kids from two different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, too-often terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is a wealthy girl from an indigenous family. One night Autumn comes across Cody face down in a laneway behind her house. She agrees to let him hide in her dad's studio. There, their stories come out.