canada

After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.

Descriptive text and eyewitness accounts describe how Jews from around the world fled persecution in their homelands and came to North America.

Traces the hockey career of the Pittsburgh Penguins star, Mario Lemieux, and discusses the challenge he faced in his battle against Hodgkin's disease.

Describes places where early American history was made, from Indian and Viking settlements through the Revolution.

Covers the personal life and hockey career of the goalie for the New Jersey Devils.

Describes the personal life and hockey career of one of the greatest players in the NHL, Wayne Gretzky.

Examines the history, traditions, and contributions of the French settlers who came to the New World.

Chronicles the efforts of twelve-year-old Craig Kielburger and his human rights organization Free the Children to stop child labor in foreign countries.

Teenagers from Somalia describe the conditions in their war-torn and famine-stricken country and their experiences since coming to live in the United States and Canada.

Teenagers from Rwanda, both Hutu and Tutsi, describe the conditions in their war-torn country that led them to seek safety and new lives in the United States and Canada.