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By Basil Johnston. 1981
These legends, which include "Why birds go south in winter" and "The first butterflies", are an integral part of the…
spiritual and cultural heritage of the Ojibway people. For all ages.By Peter Mansbridge. 2010
Mansbridge collects his favourite interviews from the past ten years, book-ending each with his behind-the-scenes recollections and anecdotes. Mansbridge provides…
the inside story of prominent figures from all walks of life, including world leaders, music legends and sports heroes. 2010.By Molly Phillips. 1990
Born in Hong Kong in 1909, the author has witnessed the three modern eras of Chinese history: the final days…
of the Imperial Ching dynasty; the republican rule of Chiang Kai-Shek; and Communist rule since 1949. She describes the people, culture, and history of China as she experienced them. 1990.By John Ralston Saul. 2008
In this vision of Canada, Saul unveils 3 founding myths: he argues that the famous "peace, order, and good government"…
that supposedly defines Canada is a distortion of the country's true nature. He describes Canada as a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by aboriginal ideas. Lastly, he believes that Canada has a colonial non-intellectual business elite that doesn't believe in Canada. c2008.By Hamida Ghafour. 2007
In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.By Tomson Highway. 1988
Seven women attempt to beat the odds by winning the biggest bingo in the world and escaping their tortured lives.…
Winner of the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for the Governor General's Award. 1988.By Edward Benton-Banai. 1988
The Ojibway is one of the largest groups of Native Americans, belonging to the Anishinabe people of what is today…
the northern United States and Canada. Documents the history, traditions, and culture of the Ojibway people through stories and myths. Draws from the traditional teachings of tribal elders to instruct young readers about Ojibway creation stories and legends, the origin and importance of the Ojibway family structure and clan system, the Midewiwin religion, the construction and use of the water drum and sweat lodge, and modern Ojibway history. For Junior and Senior High readers. 2010, c1988.By Ange Zhang. 2004
In 1966, Zhang was a teen in Beijing when Mao Zedong began the Cultural Revolution. Though he was the son…
of a "bad guy" (a famous writer), he became swept up in the revolution, until the violence and his father's arrest made him question its goals. In 1968 was sent to a small village to learn how to farm, where he discovered his true calling - art. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2004.By Anita Diamant. 2014
Diná, la única hija de Lía y Jacob en el libro de Génesis, emerge de la saga bíblica para contar…
su historia y la de las mujeres a su alrededor. Publicado originalmente en 1997. Algunas descripciones de violencia y de índole sexualBy Amanda Flower, Zondervan Staff. 2013
After the death of her parents, twelve-year-old Andora "Andi" Boggs discovers evidence of her forgotten namesake, a missing relative, which…
leads her into a family mystery rooted in the Great Depression. For grades 4-7. 2013By Philippe Lapointe. 2021
Figure connue et respectée du monde des médias, Philippe Lapointe est le seul à avoir dirigé les salles de nouvelles…
des deux principales chaînes de télévision québécoises, TVA et Radio-Canada.Aventures au pays des nouvelles téléviséesnous permet de revivre de l'intérieur des rencontres et des collaborations avec des journalistes plus grands que nature, de même que des événements qui se sont déroulés dans des circonstances hors du commun : la crise d'Oka, le référendum de 1995, le déluge du Saguenay, la création deJ.E., les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, la naissance de RDI, l'arrivée d'une première femme présentatrice d'un bulletin d'information national en Amérique du Nord, etcBy Madeleine L'Engle. 1998
Selections from forty years of the award-winning author's reflections on Christmas themes conveyed in stories, poems, essays, letters, and journal…
entries. Topics follow the Christmas season: Advent, Incarnation, Epiphany, Glorious Mystery, Redemption, and Celebration. The title piece recalls a past Christmas when L'Engle feared her daughter had leukemia. 1998By Robin Jones Gunn. 1996
Sierra is volunteering at a homeless shelter when Paul, a college guy she met when she was a missionary in…
Europe, comes to coach the kids. Meanwhile her school friend Randy may also be romantically interested in her. For junior and senior high readers. 1996By Robin Jones Gunn. 1997
Sierra visits southern California to attend Doug and Tracy's wedding. Amid the celebrations, Sierra thinks about love and the vow…
she made to save herself for her future mate. She also worries that her friend Amy may be flirting too much. For junior and senior high readers. 1997By Robin Jones Gunn. 1996
While adjusting to a new high school, Sierra helps to take care of her ailing grandmother. The girl struggles to…
find a job and some new friends but puts her faith in God to make everything work out. For junior and senior high readers. 1996By Charles Dickens. 1999
Victorian novelist retells the life of Jesus Christ, adapted from the Gospel of St. Luke, for his children to enjoy…
every Christmas. 1999 introduction by his great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. For grades 3-6 and older readers. 1846By Taylor Caldwell. 1970
A novel of the life of Saul, later to be St. Paul, who, as the pious and intellectual son of…
a wealthy Roman Jewish family, was both a scholar and a poet with a sense of sin and desire for forgiveness that overshadowed his entire life. 1970By David Rosenberg. 1993
Rosenberg, a poet and biblical translator who was coauthor of The Book of J (DB 32195), recreates a lost Hebrew…
epic about Adam and Eve's life together in the Garden of Eden. He imagines the narrative being compiled by Devorah Bat-David, a stepdaughter of King Solomon, who comments on the poetic textBy Gabrielle Charron, Darianne Charron. 2021
By Holling Clancy Holling. 1980
A First Nations boy sets a foot-long canoe afloat on Ontario's Lake Nipigon. As the little dugout drifts through the…
Great Lakes to the ocean, strangers honor the message carved in the wood: "Please put me back in water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea." For grades 3-6. Caldecott Honor Book. 1941