Canada

In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure he knew. Aboriginal elder Alfred Scow and award-winning a... More

Magnifico is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside. Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Shortlist 2008 Chocolate Lily nominee 2007-2008 Rocky Mountain Book Award finalist, 2008 "Could life get more embarrassing?" Mariangela longs to play the piano; but when her Italian immigrant family arranges for ... More

Quebec, 1703. In this rough town, Indian slaves are routinely mistreated. As Cecile Chesne watches the branding iron burn into young Lesharo's flesh, she knows she must act. Defying convention, the headstrong girl buys the slave's freedom and treats him as an equal. Lesharo is Pawnee -- the People o... More

This first book for young readers about Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope, written by one of Canada's best-known writers for young adults, is a blending of fact and fiction, fully endorsed by The Terry Fox Foundation.This first book for young readers about Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope, writte... More

Thirteen-year-old Nathalie Vaughan struggles to save friends and neighbours on the night of Canada's Frank Slide disaster. At 4: 00 am, April 29, 1903, Nathalie lies awake in the booming coal town of Frank, at the base of Turtle Mountain, listening for the whistle of a train--the Spokane Flyer, brin... More