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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.
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.
Edward turned to follow the others as a cannon exploded. The powder charge was too great. Men fell to the deck screaming, but Edward could not hear them, for the blast had been deafening?
Book 3 of the Circle of Silver Chronicles is an exciting adventure on the lakes during the War of 1812.
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Ontario — a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit, Michigan. He’s bright, spirited, and curious about the world around him…and the world his parents and his friend Mr. Leroy left behind in America.
Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom.
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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 do not disappoint!
Omakayas, a young Ojibway girl, lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior around 1847.
Omakayas, 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.
Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have done everything together since the day they were born—until the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated.
Her 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.
Here 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.
When Akilak must travel a great distance to another camp to gather food, she thinks she will never be able to make it. With a little help from her grandmother’s spirit, and her own imagination to keep her entertained, Akilak manages to turn a long journey into an adventure.
Even though she at first feels that she will never be able to reach her destination, she keeps her grandmother’s assurance that her “destination is not running away; it will be reached eventually” in mind and ends up enjoying the journey that at first seemed so daunting.
In this lyrical coming-of-age story, Governor General’s Award-winner Rudy Wiebe captures the anxiety of a boy who feels powerless to help his people, but who must speak his dreams if they are to survive. Steeped in aboriginal myth and lore, Hidden Buffalo is also the tale of how a whole tribe can turn its gaze from the horizon to see to the wisdom of a child.
