Strong Nations Bundles

This bundle includes all of the current releases in The Misewa Saga: 

• The Barren Grounds (paperback)
• The Great Bear (paperback)
• The Stone Child (paperback)
• The Portal Keeper (paperback)
• The Sleeping Giant (paperback)
• The World's End (hardcover)

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle-grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.

The Misewa Saga series reflects stories of the sky and the constellations held within its great canvas. The word “misewa” is Cree for “all that is” — elders say that what is above is mirrored below, and this is the connection we have with misewa.

This series of middle-grade fiction fantasy novels is recommended for grades 5 to 8.

Scroll below to learn more about each of the resources included in this bundle. Title availability may fluctuate, as titles go in and out of print. The status of each title, indicating whether it will be included in the bundle, is displayed below. Depending on availability, a mix of paperback and hardcover books may be included; book format is indicated in each individual book listing below.

This bundle includes all three books in The Reckoner series by David A. Robertson:

• Strangers
• Monsters
• Ghosts

The Reckoner series, from Governor General Award-winning author David A. Robertson, follows 17-year-old Cole Harper as he reluctantly returns home to save his ravaged community and face his troubled past in this supernatural mystery. With the help of his friends, Cole encounters unexplained supernatural phenomena, trickster spirits, and ghosts. Robertson's debut young adult series expertly tackles many relatable issues faced by youth today, such as bullying, trauma, and clinical anxiety, and will resonate with and enthrall readers, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

Recommended for grades 7 to 12.

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This bundle includes all seven of the Seven Teachings stories by Saulteaux author Sandra Samatte:

• Bobbie Bison and The Seven Teachings
• Bucky Beaver and The Seven Teachings
• Catcha Bear and The Seven Teachings
• Folf The Wolf and The Seven Teachings
• Johnny Eagle and The Seven Teachings
• Sally Sabe and The Seven Teachings
• Tani Turtle and The Seven Teachings 

The Seven Teachings series includes stories for early learners that teach about the seven teachings.  The publisher recommends them for kindergarten to grade 4.

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This bundle includes all seven of the Seven Teachings Stories by Katherena Vermette.

• Amik Loves School
• Kode's Quest(ion)
• Misaabe's Stories
• Singing Sisters
• The First Day
• The Just Right Gift
• What is Truth, Betsy? 

The Seven Teachings Stories are inspired by the Seven Sacred Teachings of the Anishinaabe—love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth. These stories are set in urban landscapes, where Indigenous children tell familiar stories about home, school, and community.

Recommended for preschool to grade 3.

Find a teacher's guide for the series here: The Seven Teachings Stories Teacher's Guide

Find the student books and teacher's guide together in a bundle here: Teacher Resource Bundle: The Seven Teachings Stories

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This bundle includes all three books in the Treaty Tales trilogy by Betty Lynxleg.

• Treaty Tales: The Handshake and the Pipe
• Treaty Tales: The Friendship
• Treaty Tales: We Are All Treaty People

Treaty Tales is an original trilogy that makes learning about the treaties and their history fun and engaging.

Books in the trilogy introduce primary students to the concept of treaties in Canada and the importance of honouring them.

Recommended for grades 1 to 5.

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This bundle includes all the titles in the Trickster Trilogy:

• Son of a Trickster
• Trickster Drift
• Return of the Trickster

Books in the Trickster Trilogy by Eden Robinson revolve around a teenage boy wandering through the complications of a broken family, social pressure, drugs, alcohol and poverty as he discovers a Haisla trickster in his life.

Recommended for older teens / young adults.  Books include mature subject matter.

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This bundle includes six copies of each of the 16 titles in the Strong Science - Animals series (96 books total).

Series Information
Strong Science - Animals is a language-based science series for primary students featuring animals that all Canadian students will recognize. Photographs and Indigenous artwork illustrate the series. Common learning objectives in science curricula across Canada are addressed, and suggestions for extending the learning to other curriculum areas, including Indigenous cultural awareness, language arts, math, and art, are included in the teacher’s guide. The sixteen books in this series are grouped into four levels that increase in complexity, designed to accommodate students with various reading abilities within a classroom. This feature facilitates the use of this series in literacy programs along with the Strong Readers series.

This series works best as a unit with the teacher's guide: Strong Science - Animals Teacher's Guide.  The series is recommended for use in a grade 1 classroom, but may also be useful for kindergarten students.

Books in this series are divided into four levels: Early Primary 1 (EP1); Early Primary 2 (EP2); Early Primary 3 (EP3); Early Primary 4 (EP4). Font size decreases as language complexity and word count increase across levels: EP1 books have approximately 40 words, EP2 books have approximately 60 words, EP3 books have approximately 80 words, and EP4 books have approximately 100 words.

Authenticity Note: In the series, titles by author Kim Soo Goodtrack have received the Indigenous Text label because she is Indigenous (Lakota) and the featured animal in each story holds cultural significance in many Indigenous cultures. The engaging stories provide factual information in an easy-to-read format for children to learn science concepts and build literacy skills. They promote respect for animals and Mother Earth, and their illustrations communicate additional cultural information through Lakota symbolism and designs. Further cultural connections are identified in the teacher's guide. Refer to the guide to explore the books' Indigenous connections fully.

Series Authors: Brenda Boreham and Kim Soo Goodtrack
Series Illustrator: Kim Soo Goodtrack

Additional Information
Each book is 16 Pages | Each book is 6.5" x 5.5" | Paperback | ISBN: 9781771746267

This bundle includes one copy of each of the 16 titles in the Strong Science - Animals series (16 books total).

Series Information
Strong Science - Animals is a language-based science series for primary students featuring animals that all Canadian students will recognize. Photographs and Indigenous artwork illustrate the series. Common learning objectives in science curricula across Canada are addressed, and suggestions for extending the learning to other curriculum areas, including Indigenous cultural awareness, language arts, math, and art, are included in the teacher’s guide. The sixteen books in this series are grouped into four levels that increase in complexity, designed to accommodate students with various reading abilities within a classroom. This feature facilitates the use of this series in literacy programs along with the Strong Readers series.

This series works best as a unit with the teacher's guide: Strong Science - Animals Teacher's Guide.  The series is recommended for use in a grade 1 classroom, but may also be useful for kindergarten students.

Books in this series are divided into four levels: Early Primary 1 (EP1); Early Primary 2 (EP2); Early Primary 3 (EP3); Early Primary 4 (EP4). Font size decreases as language complexity and word count increase across levels: EP1 books have approximately 40 words, EP2 books have approximately 60 words, EP3 books have approximately 80 words, and EP4 books have approximately 100 words.

Authenticity Note: In the series, titles by author Kim Soo Goodtrack have received the Indigenous Text label because she is Indigenous (Lakota) and the featured animal in each story holds cultural significance in many Indigenous cultures. The engaging stories provide factual information in an easy-to-read format for children to learn science concepts and build literacy skills. They promote respect for animals and Mother Earth, and their illustrations communicate additional cultural information through Lakota symbolism and designs. Further cultural connections are identified in the teacher's guide. Refer to the guide to explore the books' Indigenous connections fully.

Series Authors: Brenda Boreham and Kim Soo Goodtrack
Series Illustrator: Kim Soo Goodtrack

Additional Information
Each book is 16 Pages | Each book is 6.5" x 5.5" | Paperback | ISBN 9781771746250

This bundle includes all 16 titles in the Strong Science - Animals series, the Strong Science - Animals Teacher's Guide, and additional resources for learning, such as connecting books for read-alouds or shared readings and puppets.  

About the Student Books & Strong Science - Animals Series
Strong Science - Animals is a language-based science series for primary students featuring animals that all Canadian students will recognize. Photographs and Indigenous artwork illustrate the series. Common learning objectives in science curricula across Canada are addressed, and suggestions for extending the learning to other curriculum areas, including Indigenous cultural awareness, language arts, math, and art, are included in the teacher’s guide. The sixteen books in this series are grouped into four levels that increase in complexity, designed to accommodate students with various reading abilities within a classroom. This feature facilitates the use of this series in literacy programs along with the Strong Readers series.

About the Teacher's Guide
The teacher’s guide supports a language-based Science unit for early primary classrooms, using the sixteen titles in Strong Nations Publishing’s Strong Science - Animals series. The unit introduces early primary students to four easily recognizable animals that live in or near many communities in Canada: beaver, black-tailed deer, mallard duck, and raccoon. While learning about the animals, students will gain knowledge and skills mandated by Ministry of Education Science curricula in Canadian provinces and territories. In addition, this teacher’s guide addresses other curriculum areas— Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Art—and provides information to help develop an appreciation for and understanding of Indigenous cultures.

This teacher-friendly, comprehensive teacher’s guide provides:

• lesson plans to introduce the books in the Strong Science - Animals series;

• lesson plans to address knowledge and skills common to Canadian Science curricula;

• activities to integrate the unit across the curriculum;

• activities to wrap up the unit;

• reproducible activity pages.

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This bundle includes the student resource Every Child Matters and the educator resource Every Child Matters Teacher Lesson Plan.

About the Student Resource
Learn the meaning behind the phrase, ‘Every Child Matters.'Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt movement.Every Child Matters honours the history and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island and moves us all forward on a path toward Truth and Reconciliation.If you're a Residential School Survivor or an Intergenerational Survivor - you matter. For the children who didn't make it home - you matter. The child inside every one of us matters. Every Child Matters.

44 pages | 8.50" x 11.00" | Hardcover 

About the Educator Resource
A teacher lesson plan that accompanies the book, Every Child Matters. Includes conversation questions, group activites, colouring pages and more. Learn the meaning behind the phrase, ‘Every Child Matters.' Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt movement. Every Child Matters honours the history and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island and moves us all forward on a path toward Truth and Reconciliation. If you're a Residential School Survivor or an Intergenerational Survivor - you matter. For the children who didn't make it home - you matter. The child inside every one of us matters. Every Child Matters.

12 Pages | 11.82" x 5.44" | paper packet

This bundle includes the student resource Minnow: The Girl Who Became Part Fish and the educator resource Minnow: The Girl Who Became Part Fish Teacher Lesson Plan.

About the Student Resource
A young Indigenous water protector named Minnow goes on an underwater journey; learning from our ocean-living relatives. When she returns to the surface, she gathers her community to help make a change. This story is told in lyrical rhyme and helps children gain a better respect for Indigenous water and land protectors, the environment, and world around them, and helps show children activism at an early age.

This bundle includes the student resource Storyteller Skye: Teachings from My Ojibway Grandfather and the educator resource Storyteller Skye: Teachings from My Ojibway Grandfather Teacher Lesson Plan.

About the Student Resource
Have you ever wondered why Rabbit has such long ears? Or why Raccoon is wearing a mask? In this collection of funny and unique short stories, young Skye enlightens us in a number of Indigenous teachings, passed down to her from her Ojibway Grandfather. Through her natural gift of storytelling, Skye encourages other children to embrace the art and become storytellers, too!

48 pages | 10.95" x 7.02" | Paperback 

About the Educator Resource
Teacher lesson plan that accompanies the book, Storyteller Skye. Includes comprehension questions, group activities, colouring pages, and more. Have you ever wondered why Rabbit has such long ears? Or why Raccoon is wearing a mask? In this collection of funny and unique short stories, young Skye enlightens us in a number of Indigenous teachings, passed down to her from her Ojibway Grandfather. Through her natural gift of storytelling, Skye encourages other children to embrace the art and become storytellers, too!

12 pages | 8.50" x 11.00" | Paper packet 

This bundle includes one copy of each of the 16 Strong Science - Animals titles and the accompanying Strong Science: Animals - Teacher's Guide.

About the Strong Science - Animals Series
Strong Science - Animals is a language-based science series for primary students featuring animals that all Canadian students will recognize. Photographs and Indigenous artwork illustrate the series. Common learning objectives in science curricula across Canada are addressed, and suggestions for extending the learning to other curriculum areas, including Indigenous cultural awareness, language arts, math, and art, are included in the teacher’s guide. The sixteen books in this series are grouped into four levels that increase in complexity, designed to accommodate students with various reading abilities within a classroom. This feature facilitates the use of this series in literacy programs along with the Strong Readers series.

Books in this series are divided into four levels: Early Primary 1 (EP1); Early Primary 2 (EP2); Early Primary 3 (EP3); Early Primary 4 (EP4). Font size decreases as language complexity and word count increase across levels: EP1 books have approximately 40 words, EP2 books have approximately 60 words, EP3 books have approximately 80 words, and EP4 books have approximately 100 words.

Each book is 16 pages, 6.5" x 5.5", and paperback 

About the Strong Science - Animals: Teacher's Guide
This teacher’s guide supports a language-based Science unit for early primary classrooms, using the sixteen titles in Strong Nations Publishing’s Strong Science - Animals series.

The unit introduces early primary students to four easily recognizable animals that live in or near many communities in Canada: beaver, black-tailed deer, mallard duck, and raccoon. While learning about the animals, students will gain knowledge and skills mandated by Ministry of Education Science curricula in Canadian provinces and territories.

In addition, this teacher’s guide addresses other curriculum areas— Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Art—and provides information to help develop an appreciation for and understanding of Indigenous cultures.

This teacher-friendly, comprehensive teacher’s guide provides:

• lesson plans to introduce the books in the Strong Science - Animals series;

• lesson plans to address knowledge and skills common to Canadian Science curricula;

• activities to integrate the unit across the curriculum;

• activities to wrap up the unit

The teacher's guide is 170 Pages, 8.5" x 11", and coil bound 

Additional Information
Teacher Resource Bundle ISBN: 9781771746663

This bundle includes one copy of each of the 16 Strong Science - Animals titles, the accompanying Strong Science: Animals - Teacher's Guide, and four finger puppets (fawn, duckling, beaver, and raccoon).

About the Strong Science - Animals Series
Strong Science - Animals is a language-based science series for primary students featuring animals that all Canadian students will recognize. Photographs and Indigenous artwork illustrate the series. Common learning objectives in science curricula across Canada are addressed, and suggestions for extending the learning to other curriculum areas, including Indigenous cultural awareness, language arts, math, and art, are included in the teacher’s guide. The sixteen books in this series are grouped into four levels that increase in complexity, designed to accommodate students with various reading abilities within a classroom. This feature facilitates the use of this series in literacy programs along with the Strong Readers series.

Books in this series are divided into four levels: Early Primary 1 (EP1); Early Primary 2 (EP2); Early Primary 3 (EP3); Early Primary 4 (EP4). Font size decreases as language complexity and word count increase across levels: EP1 books have approximately 40 words, EP2 books have approximately 60 words, EP3 books have approximately 80 words, and EP4 books have approximately 100 words.

Each book is 16 pages, 6.5" x 5.5", and paperback 

About the Strong Science - Animals: Teacher's Guide
This teacher’s guide supports a language-based Science unit for early primary classrooms, using the sixteen titles in Strong Nations Publishing’s Strong Science - Animals series.

The unit introduces early primary students to four easily recognizable animals that live in or near many communities in Canada: beaver, black-tailed deer, mallard duck, and raccoon. While learning about the animals, students will gain knowledge and skills mandated by Ministry of Education Science curricula in Canadian provinces and territories.

In addition, this teacher’s guide addresses other curriculum areas— Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Art—and provides information to help develop an appreciation for and understanding of Indigenous cultures.

This teacher-friendly, comprehensive teacher’s guide provides:

• lesson plans to introduce the books in the Strong Science - Animals series;

• lesson plans to address knowledge and skills common to Canadian Science curricula;

• activities to integrate the unit across the curriculum;

• activities to wrap up the uni

The teacher's guide is 170 Pages, 8.5" x 11", and coil bound 

About the Finger Puppets
The four finger puppets included are duckling, fawn, beaver, and raccoon.

This bundle includes resources for learning about food and cooking.  Learn how food is grown, gathered, prepared, cooked, baked, and more!  Some of the topics/themes explored include gardening and growing food; healthy eating; sustainable harvesting; traditional Indigenous dishes; food as medicine; and connection with the land. Some stories share stories about making food and how food connects to culture, family, and more! 

Indigenous and non-Indigenous resources are included.  Many of the stories contain a recipe, and cookbooks and educator/classroom resources contain further information about food and/or recipes.

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