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  • Sale! Madeleine Takes Command

    Madeleine Takes Command Audio CD

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $16.95.

    Madeleine Verchere’s story is based on a true account of colonial French Canada of the 1690’s. Harassed by Iroquois, the Verchere family’s fort must keep a continual guard. Fourteen-year-old Madeleine is left alone with two younger brothers and a few others when the Natives attack. We follow the brave and determined stratagems of Madeleine and her small circle. Madeleine’s youthful leadership, especially of her brothers, will win the listener’s admiration.

    • ISBN: 9781883937942
    • Author: Ethel Brill
    • Running Time: 4 hrs, unabridged
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Sale! Showdown at Border Town

    Showdown at Border Town

    Original price was: $12.99.Current price is: $9.09.

    Bargain Bin products are non-refundable and non-returnable.

    It’s the summer of 1950 when secrets and danger collide for 12-year-old Paul Martin and his friends. When Tom Whitehawk arrives from the Walpole Indian Reserve, Paul and his friend, Abby, quickly welcome him. But soon after arriving, Tom vanishes without a trace. In their desperate search they trigger a series of events in the Colchester-Windsor area that will place all of their lives in danger.
    A police inspector from Toronto with a haunted past. A ruthless neighbour with money to burn. The Windsor police under investigation. Paul Martin must figure out how it all fits together– or risk his own life and his friends’ in a dramatic, deadly showdown.

    • ISBN: 9780981243382
    • Author: Caroline Woodward
    • Length: 152 Pages
    • Format: Softcover
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  • Sale! Sword Song

    Sword Song

    Original price was: $16.99.Current price is: $6.00.

    At sixteen, Bjarni is cast out of the Norse settlement in the Angles’ Land for an act of oath-breaking and spends five years sailing the west coast of Scotland.

    • 271 pages
    • Ages: 10-12, 12+
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  • Sale! Ticket to Curlew

    Ticket to Curlew

    Original price was: $9.99.Current price is: $7.99.

    Sam Ferrier and his father arrive in Curlew, Alberta to build a house for the family. When Sam’s little brother disappears, he discovers how terrifying the prairie can be.

    • 144 pages
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Sale! Fatty Legs

    Fatty Legs

    Original price was: $12.99.Current price is: $8.00.

    Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools.

    • 112 pages
    • Ages: 10-14
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  • Sale! Fatty Legs Bundle

    Fatty Legs Bundle

    Original price was: $26.00.Current price is: $16.00.

    Save $10.

    Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school.

    Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home tell the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton who chose to attend school to satisfy her great desire to learn to read. Residential school had its challenges and she returns to her people with new skills, determination, and desire to find her place again as part of her people and culture.

    • 10-14
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  • Sale! Stranger at HomeMargaret Pokiak-Fenton

    Stranger at Home

    Original price was: $12.99.Current price is: $8.00.

    This story is a powerful memoir of an Inuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school.

    Highlighted by archival photos and striking artwork, this first-person account of a young girl’s struggle to find her place will inspire young readers to ask what it means to belong.

    A True Story. Sequel to Fatty Legs

    Not My Girl is the same story in picture book form for younger children.

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  • Sale! Buffalo Jump

    Buffalo Jump

    Original price was: $11.95.Current price is: $5.95.

    Little Blaze wants to be the buffalo runner who leads the buffalo over the piskum, or buffalo jump cliff.

    • 32 pages
    • Ages: 5-7
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  • Sale! Native Americans ~ Make it Work

    Make it Work: Native Americans – Scratch & Dent

    Original price was: $11.99.Current price is: $7.50.

    **Non-refundable and non-returnable.

    Please Note: Slightly damaged spine and front cover. Used library copies.

    **Scratch & Dent products are items that were slightly damaged in shipping or on the shelf. We discount them as we find them, to pass the savings on to you.

    This book is a favorite and is now out-of-print. Extremely colorful, appealing, with real Native American handicrafts.

    • ISBN: 9781587283017
    • Author: Andrew Haslam
    • 64 pages
    • Ages: 5-7, 8-12
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  • Sale! Storm at Batoche

    Storm at Batoche

    Original price was: $9.99.Current price is: $6.99.

    During a fierce prairie storm, James falls out of his family’s wagon and his calls for help are lost in the howl of the wind. After his parents vanish into the blizzard, a man on horseback appears and takes James to the safety and warmth of his small cabin. The man will only say that his name is Louis. While he prepares an evening meal of gallette, Louis promises to teach James how to make it in the morning. When he does, James declares his mother makes the same type of bread but she calls it “bannock,” not “gallette,” underscoring the differences and similarities between their cultures.

    • 32 pages
    • Ages: 5-7
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  • Hatchet (Hatchet Adventures #1)Hatchet (Hatchet Adventure #1)

    Hatchet (Hatchet Adventure #1)

    $11.99

    Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and a hatchet.

    • 192 pages
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Sale! Black October DVD

    Black October DVD

    Original price was: $27.00.Current price is: $19.95.

    Limited quantities – also available in High School History Living Resources Bundle.

    Relive the important and dramatic events in Quebec, October 1970 with this docudrama DVD. What were the conditions for the War Measures Act to be enacted in peacetime?

    • Ages 12+, Adult
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