 | The Summer of the Marco Polo Release Date: March 1, 2007| Grade Level: P and up The wreck of a great sailing ship inspires a budding author. (20070413) ...
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 | Adventure in Acadia Publication Date: August 30, 2011A story of friendship between an Acadian girl and a First Nations girl. ...
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 | A Nation Is Born: World War I and Independence, 1910-1929 (How Canada Became Canada) ...
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 | Trouble at Lachine Mill (The Bains) Release Date: January 1, 1983| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Our Game: The History of Hockey in Canada (My Canada) (My Canada) Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Terror at Turtle Mountain (Disaster Strikes!) Release Date: April 30, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Only in Canada!: From the Colossal to the Kooky (Wow Canada!) Publication Date: September 7, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Tragic Links (Canadian Disaster) Publication Date: March 15, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Secret Signs (Orca Young Readers) Release Date: September 1, 2006| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Sophie's Friend in Need: A Sophie Alias Star Girl adventure Release Date: November 3, 2004It's summer 1950, and for 11-year-old French Canadian Sophie LaGrange, Camp Latona on British Columbia's Gambier Island promises to be pure bliss. But then Sophie has to buddy up with a strange, unfriendly Jewish refugee girl named Ginette and things go sour. Soon Sophie learns that Ginette has her own secrets and anxieties, worries that explain the girl's seemly bizarre behaviour. ...
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 | Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune (Stories of Canada) Release Date: November 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Skateway to Freedom Publication Date: April 4, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Eleven-year-old Josie Grun escapes from Communist East Germany with her mother and father one dark night in 1989 just months before the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down. Braving border guards, barbed wire, and rifle shots, Josie reluctantly turns her back on her best friend, Greta, and all that was once familiar. She crosses the ocean to join her uncle in Calgary, attempts to learn a foreign language, and overcomes the prejudices of her schoolmates in order to forge a new life. Clinging to the passion that has always...
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 | Messenger Release Date: October 20, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Born only a week after the tragic death of her father, Frances Chopp grows up believing that she was sent to earth as her father.s messenger to pull her mother out of her grief. And in the years that follow, Frances tries to make sense of the hard times that have struck her immigrant family, even as she struggles to understand the puzzle of her family.s past. Set in the mining and steel towns of Southern Ontario in the years between the wars, Messenger is a moving story of familial love and the determination to surv...
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 | Silver Rain Release Date: October 1, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up "Abandoned by her father during the Depression, eleven-year-old Elsie lives in the garage behind her old house with her mother, grandmother Nan and out-of-work uncle. Elsie's friend Scoop accompanies her as she searches for her father in the city, encountering unfriendly hobos, food lines and shantytowns. After both her uncle and her mother disappear on mysterious errands, Elsie and Scoop eventually discover them competing in a dance marathon. Persuading them to abandon the contest, Elsie and Scoop lead the exhausted dancers home, where Na...
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 | The Ojibway Dream Release Date: October 16, 1999| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up In a series of 21 paintings Shilling re-creates the faces of his Ojibway people – unforgettable for the suffering under the quietness, the courage, and dignity in the pain. He accompanies the art with a poetic text as compelling as the paintings – and writes of sleep and dreams and death, and of his use of color to fight off fear and darkness. ...
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 | Storm At Batoche Release Date: July 15, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Storm At Batoche is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside. ...
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 | Adam Beck (The Canadians) Release Date: December 12, 2003 ...
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 | Adieu, Ma Patrie: Angelique Richard, Fille Dacadie, Grand-Pre, Acadie, 1755 (Cher Journal) (French Edition) Publication Date: January 1, 2010 ...
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 | Olden Days Locket Release Date: January 1, 2002| Grade Level: 4 and up From the moment she first steps off the school bus, 12-year-old Jess is enthralled by Point Ellice House. Although the other students on the tour are just happy to have a day off from school, shy Jess feels she knows what is around every corner and behind every door of the beautifully preserved Victorian home. It's as if she has lived in those rooms before. Her repeated visits and her interest impress the guide in charge, who offers Jess a volunteer summer job. But although she loves sharing her growing knowledge of Point Ellice House, Jes...
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 | The Name of the Child Release Date: October 1, 2002| Grade Level: P and up When Lloyd is sent to the country to escape the flu epidemic, he faces fears far greater than any he has imagined. ...
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