Supporting communities, empowering students through local literature.
We’ve partnered with local authors to feature and sell their books in branches across our footprint.
75%
of proceeds from all book sales are donated to local area high schools.
25%
of proceeds from all book sales are used to purchase books from future featured authors.
Current featured author.
Nevin and Hannah Buconjic
Nevin is an entrepreneur, an author, and Hannah’s dad. He has started eight businesses and published three books to help anyone start their own business. Nevin is the Founder of StartUP Sault Ste. Marie, a non-profit connecting entrepreneurs with the community and support they need to succeed. Hannah is ten years old and started her first business at age five – Hannah’s Summer Treats. Hannah also has her own YouTube channel, @HannahBuconjic, where she shares news stories and advice for kid entrepreneurs. Together, this father-daughter duo from Sault Ste. Marie wrote 25 Money Making Business Ideas for Kids & Teens to share their experiences and knowledge of entrepreneurship with other children, because of the powerful opportunities it can create. Both Nevin and Hannah have been featured on CityTV’s Breakfast Television, the Toronto Star, and Shopify Blog.
Current featured book.
25 Money Making Business Ideas for Kids & Teens
In this practical guide for young entrepreneurs looking to start a profitable business, readers will discover 25 business ideas that are age-appropriate, require minimal investment, and can be started quickly. Each idea includes a list of what you'll need to get started and other helpful tips.
From selling hand-made crafts and baked goods to offering web design and lawn care services, this book covers a range of business ideas that are fun, engaging, and profitable.
Whether you are a kid or teen looking to make extra money or parent looking to encourage your child's entrepreneurial spirit, 25 Money-Making Business Ideas for Kids & Teens is the perfect guide to get you started.
Also Available In-Branch
Tumblehome: One Woman’s Canoeing Adventures in the Divine Near Wilderness
In the wake of a broken engagement to her One True Paddling Partner, Ontario writer Brenda Missen ventures into Algonquin Provincial Park on a series of solo canoe trips that blow all her perceptions of romance, relationships, and her own self (gently) out of the water. Each encounter with weather, wildlife, and other trippers brings her to a place of growing acceptance, forgiveness, and compassion, for herself and others. And each venture into the park interior surprises her with an ever-deepening experience of the divine nature of the Earth and all of creation (even bears). Part travel adventure, part spiritual memoir, and great part ode to the Earth, Tumblehome is a timely and important exploration of our intrinsic connection with the natural world.
Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
Listen! Lake Superior sings a winter song…
Two children wake up when they hear the lake singing, then the wind wailing… or is it a wolf? They bundle up and venture out into the cold, spotting tracks of fox, deer, hare, mink, otter and the wolf! In the bay, the ice is thick and smooth. They lace up their skates, then step onto the surface of the lake.
In her lyrical style, Jean E. Pendziwol describes the exhilarating experience of skating on the wild ice of Lake Superior, including the haunting singing that occurs as the ice expands and contracts. Accompanied by Todd Stewart’s breathtaking illustrations, incorporating screen-printed elements, this book will make us all long to skate wild!
Jurzy’s Town Tour
By Kerr Smith & Michelle Christmann
Young readers learn about the power of co-operation, sharing, and community building through the adventures of the Co-oppaws - the cutest little creatures who inhabit the wonderful world of Co-operNation. This essential first installment of the book series is a perfect introduction to the hidden city of Co-operNation. Led by our wise & wonderful guide - Jurzy - we meet the rest of the Co-oppaws, and learn all about how things work in this fantastic land founded on equality, kindness, sustainability and co-operation!
Meesh’s Marvelous Market
By Kerr Smith & Michelle Christmann
With its positive, character-building storyline, Dr. Seuss-like rhyming, and colorful illustrations, we warmly recommend this fun read to parents, teachers, and anyone working with children to encourage empathy, teamwork, and problem-solving. Tiny Meesh is growing tired of eating the same food every day and sees that her Co-oppaw friends are feeling the same. She realizes if they all work as a team, they’ll be able to find a solution to their problem…and maybe even create something fantastic for the entire town of Co-operNation!
Visit one of these branches to support an author and high school near you:
Thunder Bay (Arthur Street)
Thunder Bay (Red River Road)
Wawa (Mission Road)
Sault Ste. Marie (McNabb Street)
Pembroke (Boundary Road)
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