Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2031)
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Out of the Ice: How Climate Change Is Revealing the Past by Claire Eamer EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Earthês melting ice contains unexpected discoveries! Some frozen places on Earth contain ice thatês hundreds or even thousands of years old. Now, as the planet warms, some of that ice is melting, revealing fascinating artifacts long preserved in its depths. Tools, clothing and human bodies have been discovered, shedding new light on the lives of our ancestors and the world that was. But researchers are in a race against time ã because as soon as these treasures are exposed, they begin to disintegrate! A wealthy man buried 2500 years ago with his sixteen horses! Cave-lion cubs from a species ex... continue
272.
Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best [a Parody] : Bedtime Stories for Trying Times by Jennie Egerdie EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
29 stories about debt, anxiety and how friendship can help in trying times.
273.
I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-autho... continue
274.
A Stranger at Home : A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
The powerful memoir of an Inuvialuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school.
275.
Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact.
276.
Le Rocher Tombé Du Ciel by Jon Klassen FR
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
See below for English description. Saviez-vous que les rochers peuvent tomber du ciel? Lorsqu'un énorme rocher apparaît sur le lieu de rassemblement préféré d'un groupe d'amis, ils ne savent pas vraiment quoi faire... C'est pourtant le début d'une aventure qui les confrontera à leur destin, à leurs amitiés et à leur futur. Le célèbre créateur d'albums Jon Klassen invite les lecteurs de tous les âges dans une aventure hilarante et intemporelle, qui débute avec un rocher tombé du ciel. Have you ever had the inexplicable feeling that something is just off? When a large boulder falls from the sky ... continue
277.
The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Reveals how the American government is using public disorientation after massive shocks such as wars, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters, to push through unpopular and controversial decisions and policies, creating an atmosphere of "disaster capitalism" that has shaped the global market in recent years.
278.
French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billon EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France. At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness, French Kids Eat Everything features recipes, practical tips, and ten easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters—a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules.
279.
Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Adventure Travel Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2021 One of The Globe and Mail’s “100 favourite books of 2020” On CBC’s list of “the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020” An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan from the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize for Emerging Writers "Two Trees Make a Forest is a finely faceted meditation on memory, love, landscape--and finding a home in language. Its s... continue
280.
The Dobe Ju/'hoansi by Richard B. Lee EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to !Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage and kinship system. It documents their determination to take hold of their own destiny'despite exploitation of their habitat and relentless development'to assert their political rights and revitalize their communities. Use of the name Ju/'hoansi (meaning "real people") acknowledges their new sense of empowerment.