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Come walk with me: a memoir
By Beatrice Mosionier. 2009
Mosionier's memoir in part answers the question: how much of her novel, "April Raintree" (DC37700), is based on her own…
life? She recounts a life of great loss: of family, innocence and dignity. She also shares how she has found fulfilment - artistically, politically, and personally - and describes the recovery of her bond with her mother, one nearly destroyed by the family's separation in 1952. Explicit descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and some strong language. c2009.Her story III: women from Canada's past (Her Story Ser. #No. Iii)
By Susan E Merritt. 1999
The third instalment of biographies of 14 notable Canadian women. Mostly born before the 1900s, they helped change society's attitudes…
about women. Included are athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld, ambulance driver Grace Livingston and investigative reporter Faith Fenton. Sequel to "Her story II : women from Canada's past". For junior and senior high readers. 1999.Her story: women from Canada's past (Her Story Ser.)
By Susan E Merritt. 1993
This collection of brief biographies celebrates the courage, strength and determination of the women of Canada's past. Included are biographies…
of Laura Secord, Emily Carr, Lucy Maud Montgomery and others. For Junior and Senior High readers. c1993.Thousands of women served as codebreakers in World War II, but a vow of secrecy nearly erased them from history.…
Through interviews with the surviving Code Girls, Liza Mundy brings their courageous stories to life. For senior high readers. 2018.Honor girl: [a graphic memoir]
By Maggie Thrash. 2017
Maggie has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in…
the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing--until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and, most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle--let alone understand. For senior high readers. 2017.Fierce: how competing for myself changed everything
By Aly Raisman, Blythe Lawrence. 2017
Aly Raisman first stepped onto a gymnastics mat as a toddler in a "mommy & me" gymnastics class. No one…
could have predicted then that sixteen years later, she'd be standing on an Olympic podium, having achieved her dreams. But it wasn't an easy road to success. In her own words, Aly shows what it takes to be a champion on and off the floor, and takes listeners on a behind-the-scenes journey before, during, and after her remarkable achievements in two Olympic Games--through her highest highs, lowest lows, and all the moments in between. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Grace in the wilderness: after the liberation 1945-1948
By Aranka Siegal. 1998
True story of a Hungarian-Jewish teenager’s emergence from the horrors of Bergen-Belsen. Liberated from the concentration camp with her sister…
after World War II but orphaned and haunted by the memory of her ordeal, Piri Davidowitz starts a strange new phase of her life with a loving foster family in Sweden. Sequel to "Upon the Head of the Goat." Junior and Senior High. 1998.Hannah Szenes: a song of light
By Maxine Schur. 1986
In 1939, Hannah Szenes left anti-semitic Hungary for a new life in Palestine. In 1943, she parachuted back into Nazi-occupied…
Yugoslavia to save the lives of other Jews. Grades 5-8. 1986.After being diagnosed with lupus at twenty-five, O'Connor spent her adult years on her mother's southern dairy farm, writing and…
raising peacocks. Many of her short stories deal with racial or religious issues. Senior High. 1994.Helen Keller: humanitarian (Great achievers)
By Lois Nicholson. 1996
Biography of Helen Keller, who became blind and deaf at nineteen months as a result of illness. Covers her birth…
in 1880 through her death in 1968. Describes her education under her private teacher Anne Sullivan, her formal schooling, and her career. Includes an introduction by Jerry Lewis. Junior and Senior High. c1996.Gold rush! (Focus on Canadian history series)
By Barry M Gough. 1983
Focuses on the gold rushes of northwest Canada -- the Great Cariboo Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush -- as…
well as the discoveries and heartbreaks of the people involved. For junior and senior high and adult readers. 1983. (Focus on Canadian history series)Fur trade in Canada (Focus on Canadian history series)
By Keith Wilson. 1980
Great girls: Canadian profiles of awesome athletes
By Laura Robinson, Maija Robinson. 2004
Features profiles of 17 great Canadian female athletes. Includes superstars such as hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser, speed skater/cyclist Clara Hughes,…
and up-and-coming 11-year-old athlete Sekwan Trottier, who canoes, cross-country skis, and races sled dogs. Grades 4-7. 2004.Cleopatra rules!: the amazing life of the original teen queen
By Vicky Shecter. 2012
First dive to shark dive
By Peter Lourie. 2011
Eleanor Roosevelt: a life of discovery
By Russell Freedman. 1997
Emily Carr (The Canadians)
By Rosemary Neering. 1975
Changing the pattern: the story of Emily Stowe (Stories Of Canada Ser. #1)
By Sydell Waxman. 1996
The life of Emily Stowe, who became the first woman school principal in Canada, the first woman doctor in Canada,…
and was prominent in the struggle to obtain the vote for women in the 19th century. Grades 4-7. 1996.Beginnings: stories of Canada's past
By Ann Walsh. 2001
Fourteen stories about Canadian history, each focussing on a "first" - the first meeting between natives and Europeans; the first…
elections in which women were allowed to vote; an account of the first "Home Children" sent to Canada during the nineteenth century, supposedly for a better life, but often to work in slave-labour conditions. Includes additional accounts to provide historical context for each story, which cover the period from the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of some of its youngest participants. Grades 4-7. 2001.Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, disturbingly, Canadian politics - the politics of ethnocide - played…
in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." He examines the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. c2013.