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Newfoundland is on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, on the edge of our country, Canada, and the North American continent. Its position on the edge has affected all aspects of development. Developed for the elementary student. ... Read more

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Newfoundland is on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, on the edge of our country, Canada, and the North American continent. Its position on the edge has affected all aspects of development. Developed for the elementary student. ... Read more

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Exquisite sketches and sharp narratives bring to life stories of the transformation of the Canadian West. ... Read more

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Where in the world is Punkeydoodles? How about Burpee? Or Tom Longboat Corners?

Canada is home to many places with wild, wacky and witty names -- come explore them in Let's Call It Canada. Journey from coast to coast to coast with award-winning author Susan Hughes as she discovers the best stories behind Canadian place names, and illuminates Canada's incredible diversity.

Young readers will meet some of Canada's earliest settlers, its bravest heroes, its most cherished leaders, and its most dangerous renegades. They'll learn about place names that come from Native myths, local legends, Black history, and spooky ghost stories.

Let's Call It Canada is a delightful look at the places, people and events that have made Canada what it is.

Themes include:
- Kanata: Names from the First Peoples
- Not from Around Here: Named After Famous Non-Canadians
- Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh My: Birds and Animals That Lend Their Names
- A Little Bit of Home: Names from the Early Settlers
- It Happened Here: Places Named for Significant Events
- Boo!: Ghostly Names with Spooky Beginnings
- It's Called What?: Misnamings and Just Plain Wacky Names

Delightfully different yet intrinsically connected, each unique book in the Wow Canada! series celebrates a part of Canada's story in its own way. Together they weave a rich tale, as diverse and exciting as the country itself. ... Read more

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Like thousands of children of England's Industrial Revolution, Emma has had to grow up quickly. In 1862, because of the American Civil War, little cotton was being shipped to the mills of England and times were tougher than usual. When Emma's mother dies, there are few options left open for the girl. Women and children worked more than a sixty hour week but were not paid enough to live on.

Emma promised her mother to stay away from the workhouse, where young girls often turned to prostitution to stay alive, so she runs away when the bailiff comes to fetch her. Taking her mother's ring and personal letters (which Emma is unable to read), she sets off for the countryside, a place her mother has always described as beautiful and clean. On the way, she overhears two men talk of British Columbia and imagines it as a land glittering with gold.

After several days on the road, cold, wet and hungry, she finally is taken in by Mrs. Barnes, wife of a village parson. Eventually the parson hears of a plan to send destitute orphan girls to the colony of Vancouver Island and Emma finds herself on the first "brideship" to arrive in Victoria.

After losing her mother, being abandoned by Mrs. Barnes, and seeing her only friend die during the voyage, Emma is wary of getting close to anyone. In Victoria she finds work helping Mrs. James Douglas, the governor's wife. Although Mrs. Douglas is good to her and Emma also meets a potential friend in Edward who works at a nearby farm, Emma keeps them both at a distance.

Emma decides to sell her mother's ring to go to British Columbia and make her fortune in gold. When she attempts to sell it, she meets a man who claims the ring is rightfully his, a gift to his betrothed back in England. They finally realize he is Emma's father, a father she always believed to be dead. In fact, he had left England not knowing about Emma, hoping to make his fortune in California and come back to marry her mother. Emma wants nothing to do with him.

Eventually, with a little help from Amelia Douglas, Edward, and her mother's final words in the papers Edward reads to her, Emma finds she is able to give the father-daughter relationship a chance. ... Read more

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This is a book with a surprise!
Living Freight is a very good book. I liked reading about Emma and how she faced her hardships. I found it interesting that Emma went from living on the streets of Manchester to a good home overseas, where she found quite a surprise! ... Read more

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Unlock the mysteries beneath Mexico's ancient pyramids! Take a trip back in time to the first Canadian hockey game or the first Cuban baseball game! Kids will learn about the impact that Canada, Cuba and Mexico have had on the United States and vice-versa. This book helps demonstrate the importance of good international relations while dealing with trade, tourism, history, sports and other cultural aspects of Canada, Cuba and Mexico. This book is crammed full of reproducible activities that make learning fun. The activities help kids learn by using creative writing, reading comprehension, math, puzzles and more. ... Read more

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Laura Secord never thought of herself as brave. She was gentle, shy, and soft spoken. But Laura was brave, and Janet Lunn tells her compelling story. A war between Great Britain and the United States was raging. The American political leaders were sure they would win the war. “It will be a mere matter of marching,” they said. For two years, from the summer of 1812 to the winter of 1814, fierce and bloody battles were fought.

One day in the spring of 1813, American officers took over the Secord home, demanding food. Laura heard them boasting about a plan that would give them an easy victory over the British Lieutenant FitzGibbon. It fell to the gentle Laura to make the grueling trip that would alert FitzGibbon of the impending danger.

Laura Secord’s dreadful journey has been long celebrated in story. Janet Lunn, one of the country’s finest writers of historical fiction, recounts the tale with fresh detail and masterly prose. Her writing is perfectly complemented by Maxwell Newhouse’s delightful naive paintings. ... Read more