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Can you spot a trickster? What if it is a friend? Our friends are important people in our lives. We laugh with them and we help each other when things are not so good. Some people who mean us harm start by pretending to be friends and then lead us into danger. Is Foley Crow a friend or foe? Safeguarding young people is on everybody's mind in school as we remain vigilant regarding KCSE (Keeping Children Safe in Education). This engaging and c...

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Harry Jerome is one of Canada's forgotten heroes. From a skinny little kid growing up in Manitoba, he rose to become "the fastest man in the world, " a title he held for an incredible eight years. He achieved this, despite having to battle the prejudices he and his family had to overcome, on account of their African-Canadian heritage"--Back cover.

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In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his father yells at him, Run Marco, run! Marco manages to escape, and seeing no possibility of help in Colombia, he stows away on a freighter headed to Vancouver where a good friend of his father is living and who may ...

Ages 9 years & over. When Sophie LaGrange hears that her idol, Olympic gold medal winner Barbara Ann Scott, is coming to town to star in the Hollywood Ice Review in the autumn of 1951, she can't wait to meet the famous figure skater. But when Sophie's mother says they can't afford the tickets for the show, Sophie plots to meet Barbara Ann some other way. Sophie's older brother Joseph has seen Barbara Ann practising at the hockey arena, so Soph...

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Ages 10 years & over. In this fast-paced, on-the-road Young Adult novel, Norma Charles once again manages to include provocative social issues in an adventure story that will appeal to children from age twelve and up. Charles takes on the issue of young girls being forced to marry older men in Bountiful-style communities where polygamy abounds. She also explores the issues involved in mixed-race families where colour is a factor. The novel ope...

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It's summer 1950, and for 11-year-old Sophie, Camp Latona promises bliss -- until she has to buddy up with a strange, unfriendly Jewish refugee girl named Ginette.

Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French-Canadian girl about to move to British Columbia with her family in 1949.