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Gold

This wordless picture book plays with our assumptions. What do we think we see as we turn the pages and how is the ending not at all what we expected? The fractured fairy tale provides a perfect format for thinking about story-telling and how families can be different-and how they are the same.Enjoy a cozy evening with the sweetest family you’ll find between the pages of a book.

Gold Medal Games

The Olympic Games are a showcase of the world's best athletes. The Games feature the best of individual competition and team sports. Each of these titles provides background on Olympic and Paralympic history and context for games as varied as track-and-field, biathlon, curling, bobsled, and gymnastics.

Gold Mountain

Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father’s release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother’s contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America. When someone threatens to expose Ling Fan’s secret, she must take an even greater risk to save what’s left of her family . . . and to escape the Gold Mountain alive.

Golden Boys: The Winnipeg Falcons of 1920

In 1920, hockey teams across Canada played for the privilege to represent their country at the Olympics. In the end, one team remained standing the Winnipeg Falcons, a small group of unknown superstars. Comprised of players of Icelandic descent, the Falcons experienced considerable prejudice from the other Canadian hockey teams, yet easily defeated them before going on to compete in the Olympics. Overseas, their incredible talents were finally recognized when the Falcons made Canada the first country in history to win a gold medal in the sport. From humble beginnings, a pure love for hockey catapulted the team to victory and global prominence.

Golden Prince, The

Goldie Takes a Stand: Golda Meir's First Crusade

Even at the age of nine, Golda Meir was a leader. As president of the American Young Sisters Society, she organizes her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates. A glimpse at the early life of Israel’s first female Prime Minister. Based on a true story.

Gold's Gym Guide to Fitness

With accessible, easy-to-understand language and thorough explanations, this set provides readers with a well-rounded picture of health, including nutrition, strength, flexibility, cardio, and safety. With this age-appropriate road map for health, students will learn both how to take care of their bodies and the importance of doing so. Written in an encouraging and supportive tone, readers of all fitness levels and body shapes will find a place for themselves.

Gone Fishing

Each Gone Fishing title explores fascinating facts about fishing, along with the different tools and techniques used in one of the country’s most popular pastimes.

Good Crooks

Join Billy and Jillian Crook as they band together to perform good deeds behind their parent’s back, the Crooks! The potty humour of the good Crooks' misadventures will have even the most reluctant of readers laughing out loud.

Good Eating: The Short Life of Krill

In this nonfiction picture book an unidentified narrator follows one krill among billions as it pursues its existence, eating and eating while metamorphosing from one thing into another and trying to avoid being eaten. Krill are among the largest animals able to catch and eat phytoplankton, and they in turn are eaten by the largest animals ever to live on earth-blue whales-as well as by seals, penguins, and a host of other animals. That makes them the keystone animal species in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.