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Those Pesky Garden Gnomes
Players: 3-5
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+
Game overview: This is a trick-taking card game with a twist - or two! In every hand, each player has her own secret goal - and these changes randomly with each hand. The closer you come to your goal,…
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+
Game overview: This is a trick-taking card game with a twist - or two! In every hand, each player has her own secret goal - and these changes randomly with each hand. The closer you come to your goal,…
Tags: 13+, 3-5 players, 45 mins, Board game, Cards, Games, Gnomes, small
Forever...
This book explores the complexities of relationships and teenage sexuality through Katherine's and Michael's relationship. The two high school students grow in their relationship with one another, then, after having sex together for the first time…
Quilt Show
Players: 2-4
Playing time: 30-75 minutes
Age: 13 to adult
Game overview: In this game, you are a quilter. You will collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. As you amass block tiles, you will combine them into one or more…
Playing time: 30-75 minutes
Age: 13 to adult
Game overview: In this game, you are a quilter. You will collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. As you amass block tiles, you will combine them into one or more…
Tags: 13+, 2-4 players, 30-75 mins, Awards, fabric, Games, Quilt making
And Tango Makes Three
This story is based on the two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo, Roy and Silo, who made a nest together but discovered neither of them could lay an egg. They watched the other penguins and tried to hatch a rock that looked like an egg.…
Pemmican Wars: A Girl Called Echo, Vol. 1
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same.…
Tags: Canada, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Indigenous, Metis, Sasksatchewan, Young Adult
The Break
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.
In a series of…
In a series of…
Bridge to Terabithia
This book follows the friendship of Jess and Leslie, eleven year-old boy and girl living in the rural south. To escape the hardships of family and school life and the realities of poverty, Jess and Leslie develop a fantasy world in the woods near…
The Snowy Day
"The author brought bold, bright color and collage to the forefront of children's literature, winning the Caldecott Medal and introducing children to a young African American protagonist named Peter who romps in the snow in this first book and who…
Tags: Children's Books
Congratulations Letter from Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi
A congratulations letter for the 25th SLIS anniversary from Abu Dhabi
Catan
5th edition
Players: 3-4 players
Playing Time: 60 minutes+
Age: 10+
Description: "The island of Catan lies before you. The isle consists of 19 terrain tiles surrounded by ocean. Your goal is to settle on Catan, and expand your territory…
Players: 3-4 players
Playing Time: 60 minutes+
Age: 10+
Description: "The island of Catan lies before you. The isle consists of 19 terrain tiles surrounded by ocean. Your goal is to settle on Catan, and expand your territory…
Tags: 10+, 3-4 players, 60 minutes+, Board game, Games, Strategy
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.