Women Explorers (Jr) (Junior Amazing Stories) (Amazing Stories)
by Helen Rolfe
Bonanza Gold (Book 5) (Great Klondike Gold Rush)
by Pierre Berton
The Dreadful Truth: Confederation (Dreadful Truth, #2)
by Ted Staunton
Hello Canada is a broad introduction for young readers to the geography, history, economy, and people of Canada's 13 provinces and territories. With beautiful color photography and easy-to-read texts, these volumes place special emphasis on Canada's sustainable development practices and the mosaic of cultures that populate this unique nation. Each title has been written by a Canadian author and includes appendices of the province or territory's famous people, fast facts, and a pronunciation guid...
Learn all about where wolverines live, what they eat, and how they hunt. This non-fiction book gives information about the wolverine, along with beautiful photographs.
Learn all about where orcas live, what they eat, and how they hunt. This non-fiction book gives information about the orca, along with beautiful photographs.
Sea gardens have been created by First Peoples on the Northwest Coast for more than three thousand years. These gardens consist of stone reefs that are constructed at the lowest tide line, encouraging the growth of clams and other marine life on the gently sloped beach. This lyrical story follows a young child and an older family member who set out to visit a sea garden early one morning, as the lowest tides often occur at dawn. After anchoring their boat, they explore the beach, discover the ma...
An extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is really an embodiment of Iranian life in constant oscillation, struggle, and play...
Canada (Enchantment of the World) (Enchantment of the World)
by Wil Mara
Jacques Cartier (Library of Explorers and Exploration (Hardcover))
by Meg Greene
Delve into a centuries-old mystery about a lost Arctic civilization!Tuniit lived in Nunavut for a thousand years, even before Inuit arrived. This book introduces children to Inuit oral history and scientific theories to learn all about Tuniit.
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12 Winner of 2005 Children’s Nautilus Book Awards (Non-fiction) Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north to freedom in Canada with the help of the Underground Railroad. It was neither underground nor was it a railroad, and was most remarkable for its lack of formal organization, so cloaked in secrecy that few facts were recorded...
M is for Maple (Discover Canada Province by Province ) (Sleeping Bear Press alphabet books)
by Mike Ulmer
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a name or word derived from some aspect of the country of Canada, and each term is presented in a rhyme and then further explained in a note.
1 Brilliant Blue Viola grows down by the stream . . . 2 Eager Brown Beavers work great as a team . . . 3 Black Canadian Geese fly high in a V . . . 4 White Polar Bears play by the sea . . . Numbers and colors are more fun in Canada! In this dynamic, colorful primer, young readers count from 1 to 10—learning about colors along the way—as they discover the places, animals, and other wonderful things that make Canada so unique.
When Nellie Winters was 11 years old, she was sent to attend the Nain Boarding School, a residential school 400 kilometres from her home. In this memoir, she recalls life before residential school, her experiences at the school, and what it was like to come home. Accompanied by the author’s original illustrations, this moving, often funny memoir sheds light on the experiences of Inuit residential school survivors in Labrador.
This is the true story of Phyllis and her orange shirt. It is also the true story of Orange Shirt Day (an important day of remembrance for First Nations and non-First Nations peoples). When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was taken away from her and never returned. Medicine Wheel Publishing is committed...