Flight
$9.99A true story of a Loyalist family’s harrowing escape from enemy forces to a new life in Canada.
- 289 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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A true story of a Loyalist family’s harrowing escape from enemy forces to a new life in Canada.
It’s been months since brothers Jack and George’s adventure in Camp 30, where they’d been sent to spy on the high-ranking German prisoners of war. Now they’re hoping that life will return to normal. But they’re proved terribly wrong when their mother is kidnapped by three thugs who seem to know all about the boys’ pasts.
Before they know it, they’re on a terrifying new adventure back to Camp X to unearth a buried stash of gold, without which they’ll never see their mother again.
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.
When 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)”
The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts.
Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812.
Things look very dark for the Bains, and their only chance for freedom is if John can recover the stolen loot from its hiding place on Toronto Island.
Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and a hatchet.
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Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present—and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parents’ divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self-pity, or despair—it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive.
The histories of Canada and the United States are inextricable woven. From the moment that the rebellious Thirteen Colonies removed themselves from the British Empire, both countries have developed in an interdependent way. This resource offers primary documents that will help the reader gain a deeper understanding about the long and storied relationship between these two proud, sovereign nations.
This book explores 20th century Canada through the words and actions of the Canadian men and women who have made their mark on the nation. The primary source documents offer insights into how these personalities helped shape Canadian History, from immigration to conservation, from finance to medical research.
This book presents a unique overview of Canadian reform history from its roots in the nineteenth century through each decade of the twentieth century.
It has been over 100 years since Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier predicted that the 20th century would belong to Canada. Canadian economy was influenced by the dramatic changes brought about by periodic clusters of innovations, and has evolved from agriculture-based society to a knowledge-based society, hi-tech economy.