Discusses the festivals and holidays of Canada and how the songs, foods, and traditions associated with these celebrations reflect the culture of the people.
Young Owen Skye learns about death, life, and love through a series of misadventures with his older brother, Andy, his little brother, Leonard, and the beautiful, piano-playing Sylvia.
Part wolf, part dog, White Fang is an orphan cub in the frozen frontier of the Yukon. Men exploit and abuse him until one man teaches the noble animal to recognize his own attribute--his loyalty.
Shi-shi-etko and her brother Shin-chi are sent to an Indian residential school. Draws on interviews with survivors of Indian residential schools to describe daily life at the school where they were forced to use English names, study, work, and never speak to each other.
Provides statistics and political and physiographic maps for the world, each continent, and the United States, with political maps, flags, and statistics for each country, Canadian province, and state of the United States.
Describes the early life of sixteenth-century French navigator Jacques Cartier, discussing his explorations of the St. Lawrence River and surrounding lands in Canada, and providing information about life at sea on a galleon, and the St. Lawrence Iroquois.
