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Inspired by the true story of Margaret Ann Bulkley, a young woman born in nineteenth-century Ireland. Her heart broken by the constant threat of poverty but her spirit awakened by the challenge of two gentlemen. Margaret enrolls in medicine at Edinburgh University and, after years of dedicated study, becomes a surgeon. It is a story of struggle and triumph made all the more exceptional because Margaret Anne Bulkley does it disguised as a man.

When Willa's mother marries the Prime Minister of Canada, Willa suddenly acquires fame and five identical stepsisters. Thanks to Willa, things at the Prime Minister's house will never be the same again. Translated into Swedish as Den Sjatte Systern (Wahstroms Bokforlag, AB) Nominated for a Red Cedar Book Award 2000 CBC Books-For-Kids List

How can eighth-grader Sharon Frejer leave painful memories behind when panic confronts her every day? How will she adjust to a new school? All she wants is to disappear. But new friends have different plans for her. Now she's free to examine the "truth" behind the viscous names she's been called for as long as she can remember.

For nearly a century, writers have been inspired by the rich, ironic, insightful humour of the West. Ted Stone has lassoed an hilarious sampling of the best of these stories and poems in A Roundup of Cowboy Humour, a collection that reverberates with the comic spirit of old-time stories told beside a roundup campfire.

In this story, the young girl Ra-Eli watches as her family agonizes over the illness of her baby brother Samson When they approach a healer, the answer comes: "Hold a ceremony to honor your ancestors and ask them to help, a joyful ceremony filled with guests " "Joyful?" my mother said "How can we be joyful at a time like this?" "A joyful ceremony it must be, " replied the healer "Nothing less will bring the ancestors from their lands of the ni...

Meredith is determined to make her mark as she starts Grade 10-- and claiming the 'cool' seat in home room is her first step. But that decision brings her unwanted attention from the school's 'kingpin of the underworld, ' and her new enemy is smart, determined, and capable of holding a long-term grudge"--Page 4 of cove

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Summer is a bore for Marjorie and Craig until they encounter a mystery involving stolen pesticides.

Spider's state-of-the-art computer is the creation of her new step-father, who's gone with Spider's mother on a honeymoon. Now Spider has free reign, so she logs on to the Internet and invents a whole new online personality. But she's soon in over her head, and it takes computer whiz Jerry and his uncle to make her see that she needs real friends.

Canadian Jewish Studies is a young field, often lost in the shadow of its American older sister. In The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader, editors Richard Menkis and Norman Ravvin demonstrate that what's going on in Canada, critically and artistically, is every bit as interesting as the work being done in the United States. Taking a cultural studies approach, the editors view the way that Canadian Jewish identity is examined in literature, visual...

Draws on Canada's rich multicultural literature, including 17 translations of 16 writers in 7 languages

Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction nominee Like most women born before the turn of the century, Maime Elizabeth lived, by the standard of her day, an ordinary existence. She lived with her family near Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, and like many they were wiped out by the Great Depression. As Mamie often said, life was going to the dogs. Yet day by day this determined woman cobbled together a rich, full existence that was played o...

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