Finalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction "On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scotians for the racial discrimination she was subjected to by the justice system … We recognize today that the act for which Viola Desmond was arrested, was an act of courage, not an offence." -- Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova Scotia, April 15, 2010 In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theatre...
The Stanley Cup Finals (The Big Game (Lerner Sports)) (The Big Game (Lerner (Tm) Sports))
by Matt Scheff
Biographie En Images: Voici Viola Desmond (Biographies En Images)
by Elizabeth MacLeod
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...
Biographie En Images: Voici Elsie Macgill (Biographies En Images)
by Elizabeth MacLeod
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...
Biographie En Images: Voici Chris Hadfield (Biographies En Images)
by Elizabeth MacLeod
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...
When I Was Eight
by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers. Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not know how to read. Ignoring her father's warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders' school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair and force her to do menial chores, but she remains undaunted. Her tenacity draws the attention of a black-cloaked nun who tries to break her spirit at every turn. But the young girl is more deter...
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by Yayi Roo
Stampede for Gold (Sterling Point Books (Paperback))
by Pierre Berton
Seldom has there been a political leader so complex, so impossible to predict, so difficult to understand, so private and yet so public, as Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979, and again from 1980 to 1984. "Canadians came to embrace him as they had no other leader since Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister from 1896 until 1911," writes Richard Gwyn, one of this country's most widely read and respected journalists. By the time of his death (September 28, 2000) the achievem...
Pierre Elliot Trudeau (Jr) (Junior Amazing Stories)
by Stan Sauerwein
