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    Long Walk to Water Audio CD

    Original price was: $16.99.Current price is: $10.00.

    In 1985, southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels battle for control, with ordinary people—people like the boy, Salva Dut—caught in the middle. When Salva’s village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new life.

    • ISBN: 9781501237553
    • Author: Linda Sue Park
    • Readers: David Baker and Cynthia Bishop
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

    Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

    $12.00

    A gripping story of a child who journeyed through hell and back.

    In A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story: At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal.

    • Author: Ishmael Beah
    • Pages: 240
    • Ages: 12+, Adult
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  • One Hen

    One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

    $12.99

    Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many.

    • 32 pages
    • Ages 8-12
    • softcover
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  • Out of Africa Tray Puzzle

    Out of Africa Tray Puzzle

    $9.99

    Out of Africa habitat tray puzzle is a great learning activity that grows with the child. For ages 3 and up this is a fun 35 piece tray puzzle with interesting facts about animal life in Africa on the back of each puzzle.

    • ISBN: 625012588133
    • Author: Cobble Hill Puzzles
    • Ages: 3+
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  • Ryan and Jimmy and the Well That Brought Them Together

    Ryan and Jimmy and the Well That Brought Them Together

    $12.99

    It costs a lot of money to build a well in Africa — a lot more than Ryan Hreljac had thought. Still, the six year old kept doing chores around his parents’ house, even after he learned it could take him years to earn enough money. Then a friend of the family wrote an article in the local newspaper about Ryan’s wish to build a well to supply people with safe, clean water. Before long, ripples of goodwill began spreading. People started sending money to help pay for Ryan’s well. Ryan was interviewed on television. He appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, twice. His dream of a well became an international news story.

    • 55 pages
    • Ages: 8-14
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  • The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case

    The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case

    $7.99

    Have you ever said to yourself, Wouldn’t it be nice to be a detective?

    This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious.

    When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young boy is tagged as the culprit. Precious, however, is not convinced. She sets out to find the real thief. Along the way she learns that your first guess isn’t always right. She also learns how to be a detective.

    • ISBN: 9780449011409
    • Author: Alexander McCall Smith
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case Audio CD

    The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case Audio CD

    $18.00

    Have you ever said to yourself, Wouldn’t it be nice to be a detective?

    This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious.

    When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young boy is tagged as the culprit. Precious, however, is not convinced. She sets out to find the real thief. Along the way she learns that your first guess isn’t always right. She also learns how to be a detective.

    • ISBN: 9780449011409
    • Author: Alexander McCall Smith
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Canada At War Graphic HistoryCanada At War Graphic History Back

    Canada at War: A Graphic History of World War Two

    $28.99

    In graphic-novel format, fully illustrated and in full colour, Canada at War shows the growth of a nation’s army, navy and air force through movingly depicted triumphs and tragedies. From the disheartening losses at Dieppe and Hong Kong through the Battle of the Atlantic and the invasion of Sicily, it focuses on the human dimension of the key battles and decisions that ultimately swung the war in the Allies’ favour.

    • 176 pages
    • Ages: 12+, Adult
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  • Finding Winnie: the True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

    Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear

    $24.99

    The remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

    Harry Colebourn’s real-life great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick recounts their incredible journey, from a northern Canadian town to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England . . . and finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made a new friend: a boy named Christopher Robin.

    • ISBN: 9781443429184
    • Author: Lindsay Mattick
    • 56 pages
    • Ages: 5-7, 6-9, 8-12
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  • I Am Canada: Sniper FireI Am Canada: Sniper Fire

    I Am Canada: Sniper Fire

    $14.99

    A 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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  • Sale! A Man Called IntrepidMan Called Intrepid

    Man Called Intrepid

    Original price was: $29.95.Current price is: $19.95.

    The incredible WWII narrative of the hero whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history. A Man Called Intrepid is the true story of Sir William Stephenson, of Winnipeg, and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help win World War II.

    • 528 pages
    • Ages: 12+, Adult
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  • My Story: D-Day

    My Story: D-Day

    $6.99

    Lieutenant Andy Pope, Normandy, 1944

    Andy Pope is an eighteen-year-old Second Lieutenant in a British infantry battalion. He is younger than many of the men in his platoon – something that makes it particularly hard to be their officer. But through fairness and with the guidance of a seasoned sergeant, he earns his men’s respect by handling his troops well on exercise, and leading them into battle when the chips are down. He’s put to the test when he finds himself in charge of a unit that has to keep Germans from occupying a strategic French town.

    • ISBN: 9780545994262
    • Author: Bryan Perrett
    • 192 pages
    • Ages: 8-12, 12+
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