Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the IODE National Chapter Award. Drawing on the real background of the Chinese role in the gold rush, the building of the railway and the...
Canada
- Author:Yee, Paul, Ng, SimonSummary:
- Author:Episkenew, Jo-AnnSummary:
From the earliest settler policies to deal with the “Indian problem,” to contemporary government-run programs ostensibly designed to help Indigenous people, public policy has played a major role in creating the historical trauma that so...
- Author:Razzell, MarySummary:
Falling in love creates an enchanted time, and when it’s on the magical Sunshine Coast of British Columbia during WWII, it is never to be forgotten. The increased emotions of a country at war are always present, as well as the heartache...
- Author:Doulis, AlexSummary:
Tired of the government taxing all of your hard-earned money? Looking for legal methods that allow you to keep your money in your hands at all times? Then Alex Doulis's newest edition of Take Your Money And Run! is the book for...
- Author:Harris, ColinSummary:
One educator's story detailing a cross-Canada run to inspire students and teachers to get outside and experience the benefits and beauty of nature. You'd think starting a non-profit organization aimed at getting young people to spend...
- Author:Harris, ColinSummary:
- Author:MacKinnon, Neil, Church, RhondaSummary:
Take As Directed gives Canadians a much-needed guidebook to safely navigate our encounters with health-care providers and optimize the management of our own health. In recent years, evidence indicating that our health-care...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
Three Feathers bilingual edition includes Chipewyan and English. Three young men-Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert-have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing...
- Author:Doulis, AlexSummary:
Many questions swirl around the heads of worried Canadians at tax time every year. As they snap their pencils, slam down their calculators, and let out an anguished sigh, they wonder, “How on earth did this convoluted system of taxation...
- Author:Truelove, GraemeSummary:
Few politicians have enraged opponents, frustrated colleagues, and polarized Canadians like Svend Robinson - but few embraced the causes he did. Over his twenty-five years as a New Democrat MP, Robinson was imprisoned for blocking...
- Author:Hallström, Lars K., Beckie, Mary A., Hvenegaard, Glen T., Mündel, Karsten, Alexander, Donald, Baccar, Kirstine, Barr, Michael, Calder, Moira, Carter, Meredith, Chan, Yolande, Connelly, Sean, Corbett, Jonathan, Davis, Anthony, Dixon, Jeffrey, Douglas, David, Epp, Roger, Green, Kelly, Halseth, Greg, Hamilton, Casey, Houle, Karen, Irvine, Melanie, Jones, Bernie, Keenan, Robert, Koster, Rhonda, Lane, Ryan, Markey, Sean, McMann, Shelly, McMillan, Leslie, Moffitt, Morgan, Morrison, Karen, Mündel, Karsten, Pollett, Craig, Prosper, Kerry, Roseland, Mark, Ryser, Laura, Sanders, Claire, Sumner, Jennifer, Vodden, Kelly, von der Gonna, Marc, Wright, ShayneSummary:
Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to...
- Author:Sermer, ZuzanaSummary:
An only child, fifteen-year-old Zuzana Sermer did what she could to protect her father and ailing mother when the Nazis set up a fascist regime in her native Slovakia in 1939. Four years later, after fleeing to the supposed safety of...
- Author:Paul, SunflowerSummary:
A personal account of a young Indigenous girl who experiences intolerance, a sense of not belonging and family struggles. She learns from her grandfather the traditional ways of ceremony and fasting to go beyond the needs of the body to...
- Author:Vigneault, Gilles, Jorisch, StéphaneSummary:
Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and 2 recorded songs performed by Coral Egan, Thomas Hellman, Paul Campagne, Ndidi O and Jessica Vigneault. The tale of an improbable group of musicians who come together to play their...
- Author:Taylor, CoraSummary:
In 1932, Pip Tyler and his family suffer the ravages of dust storms in southern Alberta, Canada.
- Author:Baker, BarbaraSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Jillian has no idea who her dad is but uses her banishment from summer parties in Toronto to isolation in Banff National Park to track him down. But it’s not easy. A reclusive log cabin, a grumpy aunt, few trips to...
- Author:O'Neill, Sheila, Joe, Mi'selSummary:
In My Indian, Sylvester was hired by William Cormack in 1822 to guide him across Newfoundland in search of Beothuk encampments. In fact, he followed the advice of his Elders and guided Cormack away from the Beothuk. In this sequel,...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later,...
- Author:Meisels, LeslieSummary:
When 17-year-old Leslie Meisels insisted that his mother and two brothers join a transport leaving Debrecen, Hungary, to go who knows where, that decision luckily put them among the roughly 20,000 “exchange Jews” whose lives had been...
- Author:Firth, MatthewSummary:
Fiction Pick, Broken Pencil Magazine.
Suburban Pornography is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped--minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories...