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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.
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 and witnessing the feuds of the clan chiefs living there.
A Team Like No Other is a story of love and friendship set in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. The knowledge that Stephen and Skoki can always count on each other brings depth to this simple story of a boy and his dog.
“Even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. It’s got to keep going.” ―Terry Fox
Created in co-operation with the Terry Fox Foundation and Terry Fox’s family, this is the first authorized biography ever written specifically for young readers. Dozens of colour photographs — many from the family’s own collection — and simple text by Maxine Trottier combine to tell the story of Terry’s life and legacy.
Another great Amazing Story.
In this book L.D. Cross recounts the harrowing experiences of many including Harriet Tubman, a slave who escaped and later helped many others to do so and Alexander Ross a white doctor and ornithologist from London, Ontario who travelled many times to southern plantations to ‘study birds’ and to surreptitiously hand out information regarding the secret routes leading to freedom in the north.
Think History is a resource written for the grade 10 Academic Canadian History course. It is designed to engage students through a focus on big ideas, along with a variety of visuals, relevant stories, and features that will encourage critical thinking and inquiry skills development. Click here for a sample.
It also comes in an inexpensive etext (online only).
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.
Set against the grim background of Canada’s 19th century industrial cities, Trouble at Lachine Mill is the story of two young people’s perseverance in the face of incredible squalour and adversity. The book is illustrated with a section of photographs chronicling the industrial city of Montreal in the late-19th century.
George and his family have been relocated to Bermuda in the hope that the Nazi agents who’ve been trying to kill them lose the scent and think them dead. But trouble is never far behind George and Jack, and they soon find themselves in the face of danger yet again.
This story is set on the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the early decades of the 1600s.
Scrupulously researched, this beautifully told story will inspire extremely topical discussion about communication between two groups of people with entirely different world views.
Readers will learn how to use critical thinking in their own examinations of evidence regarding Canadian immigration.
