Underground to Canada
$10.99Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom.
- ISBN: 9780143187899
- Author: Barbara Smucker
- 160 pages
- Ages 8-12
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Birchbark Bundle
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This First Nations perspective of the time of Little House on the Prairie, gives a sweet alternate view to the pioneering stories. These books are a joy!
Omakayas, a young Ojibway girl, lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior around 1847.
- ISBN: 9780123453563
- Author: Louise Erdich
- Ages: 8-12
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Birchbark House (Birchbark House #1)
$12.50Omakayas, a young Ojibway girl, lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior around 1847. Erdrich, drawing on her family’s history, tells us the story from the First Nations perspective.
A fresh new look for this National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Louise Erdrich! This is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling one hundred years in the life of one Ojibwe family and includes charming interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. (5 books in series with more to come)
- 244 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Chickadee (Birchbark House #4)
$12.50Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have done everything together since the day they were born—until the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated.
- ISBN: 9780060577926
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- 224 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Game of Silence (Birchbark House #2)
$12.50Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas′s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.
That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
- ISBN: 9780064410298
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- 288 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Porcupine Year (Birchbark House #3)
$12.50Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl named “Omakayas,” or Little Frog, who lived a year of flight and adventure, pain and joy, in 1852.
- ISBN: 9780064410304
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- 193 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Polar Bear Son
$10.99In this traditional Inuit folktale, an old woman solves her loneliness when she raises a polar bear as her own son. Since the bear is a good hunter, the jealous villagers threaten its life and force him to leave his ‘mother’ and return to the wilderness.
This inspiring tale with great illustrations offers a look into the Inuit culture from days gone by.
- 37 pages
- Ages: 5-7, 8-12
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Sign of the Beaver
$12.50When Matt’s father leaves him on his own to guard their new cabin in the wilderness, Matt is scared but determined to be brave and prove that he can take care of himself. And things are going fine until a white stranger steals his gun, leaving Matt defenseless and unable to hunt for his food.
Thankfully, Attean, a First Nations teen and his father, rescue him in the nick of time.
Perfect reader for Grades 3+
- 144 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Sky Sisters
$12.99Two Ojibway sisters set off across the frozen north country to see the SkySpirits’ midnight dance. This powerful story, with its stunning illustrations, captures the chill of a northern night, the warmth of the family circle and the radiance of a child’s wonder.
- 32 pages
- Ages: 5-7
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I Am Canada: Sniper Fire
$14.99A young Canadian soldier’s account of life in the infantry in Italy, and the Battle of Ortona.
Seventeen-year-old Paul Baldassara lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Army. He joins the Loyal Edmonton regiment, which is tasked with taking Italy’s port town of Ortona. Little does he know the horrors of the battle that lie ahead.
- 240 pages
- Ages: 8-12, 12+
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Chair for My Mother
$12.50After a fire destroys their home and possessions, Rosa, her mother, and her grandmother save and save until they can afford to buy one big, comfortable chair that all three of them can enjoy.
A Chair for My Mother has sold more than a million copies and is an ideal choice for reading and sharing at home and in the classroom. “A superbly conceived picture book expressing the joyful spirit of a loving family.”—The Horn Book
- ISBN: 9780688040741
- Author: Vera B. Williams
- Pages: 32
- Ages: 5-7
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Grandpa’s Corner Store
$21.99When a giant new supermarket moves into the neighborhood, Lucy’s grandpa plans to sell his store. But with the help of friends and neighbors, Lucy is determined to keep this from happening. In another of her loving and lively portraits of community caring, DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan tells the timely story of what can happen when the whole neighborhood gets involved.
“2001 Notable Children’s Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)”
- ISBN: 9780688167165
- Author: Anne DiSalvo