Danny wants to be a farmer. He only wishes that the town bully, Zach, would leave him alone. Is there any way Danny can protect himself?
Saskatchewan
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Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary: -
Author:Coupal, ChelseaSummary:While much of small-town living remains the same: farming is always reliant on the weather regardless of new technology, after all, there is a sense of urgency and a need to escape in Chelsea’s poetry; her stories of growing up on the...
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Author:Simmie, LoisSummary:John Wilson came to Canada from Scotland in 1912, leaving his wife and family with the promise to return in a year. In 1914 he joined the Mounties, and while stationed in Saskatchewan village, he caught TB and fell hopelessly in love...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
Scattered Bones is a story of the complicated, fragile and sometimes fatal relations between Indigenous people and settlers in Northern Saskatchewan in the 1920s. Aboriginal spiritual traditions are beginning to cross paths with the...
- Author:Armstrong, NickySummary:
Saving Jesse is based on a diary Nicky started when she was asked by physicians to record the frequency and duration of Jesse's seizures. It became much more than a simple log. Told at the pace of a well plotted novel, Saving Jesse is a...
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Author:Summary:A collection of biographical essays on the twelve premiers who led the province of Saskatchewan during the twentieth century.
- Author:Millar, RuthSummary:
Twelve amazing Saskatchewan men and women: Kathleen Rice, Ernest Dufalt (alias Will James), Charlie Parmer, Big Tom Hourie, Norman Falkner, Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen, Jean Ewen, Gladys Arnold, Father John Claffey, Joan Bamford Fletcher,...
- Author:Smith, Alan, Fisher, Chris, Bezener, Andy, Pulos, EloiseSummary:
A bird specialist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, Alan Smith has used his experience to good effect in this colourful and beautifully illustrated book. Features 145 birds common to Saskatchewan with a description of each bird's key...
- Author:Hartson, Tamara, Sheldon, IanSummary:
This handy book will help you find out what's making those tracks in the snow or mud in your backyard, or out in the woods. Using the detective key, you will be able to identify 61 different mammals found in Saskatchewan by their tracks...
- Author:Waiser, W. A.Summary:
Written in commemoration of the centennial celebrations in 2005, Saskatchewan: A New History tells, above all, the engaging stories of the people of Saskatchewan. Their wisdom, foresight, bravery, toil, and eternal optimism gave birth...
- Author:Kagume, KristaSummary:
The Saskatchewan and Manitoba Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Whether you live in the city or the country, hundreds of species of plants and animals share your...
- Author:Poirier, ThelmaSummary:
Thelma Poirier writes of the land and its inhabitants – plant, animal, and human – in vivid and loving detail, with deep feeling and authenticity. In poetry that is spare, strong, and unsentimental, she describes the rancher’s life, a...
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Author:Slade, ArthurSummary:Daphne sees her teacher plummet from the belfry at the top of her school and is plunged into a spine-tingling mystery in which she and her friends are all that stand in the way of a truly horrible crime.
- Author:Noël-Maw, MartineSummary:
La paisible ville de Moose Jaw est le théâtre de violentes attaques de la part d'un clown sinistre. En tentant de découvrir qui est le « zozo » qui rôde dans le parc Wakamow Valley, Luc et Chloé, amis inséparables, apprennent le...
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Author:Henderson, NormanSummary:In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the...
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Author:Dueck, AdeleSummary:It's 1908, and twelve-year-old Erik faces the challenges of adapting to pioneer life on the Canadian prairie and understanding what's really going on in his family.
Erik never wanted to leave his grandfather's farm, and the...
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Author:Hart, MixSummary:Lydia Buckingham is fifteen years old when her parents uproot the family and drag Lydia and her younger sister Victoria across the country to live on the abandoned family homestead in rural Saskatchewan. At first the girls see this as...
- Author:Olsen, KarenSummary:
Promesse à un jaguar est le récit initiatique de Jacob, un enfant bègue, constamment menacé par la brute de l'école jusqu'au jour où il apprend à se défendre, et de Balam un jeune jaguar constamment menacé par les chasseurs et...
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Author:Dhillon, JaskiranSummary:In 2016, Canada's newly elected federal government publically committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of Indigenous communities across the country. Does this outward shift in the Canadian state's approach to...
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Author:Soggie, JoanSummary:Gabby Mackenzie knows little and cares less about prairie people or their history. She sees her assignment to interview a hundred-year-old settler as nothing more than a bump in her hazy career path. But as she gets to know old Mr....
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