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Dino-- why?: the dinosaur question and answer book
Par Sylvia Funston. 2008
Think you already know everything about dinosaurs? With cutting-edge discoveries and brand new ways of looking at ancient evidence, what…
we know about dinosaurs is always changing. This book is the result of over 11,000 real questions asked by curious kids all over North America, and lets you in on everything you always wanted to know - and lots of new things you'll hardly believe - about the amazing world of dinosaurs. Grades 3-6. 2008.Environmentalists from our First Nations (A First Nations book for young readers #5)
Par Vincent Schilling. 2011
Ten biographies of First Nations/Native activists who advocate not only for the environment but for Native rights. Their stories are…
full of highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. Environmental trailblazers, these men and women are role models for children everywhere. Grades 4-7. 2011. (First Nations Series for Young Readers)Kitchener's men: the King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front, 1915-1918
Par John Hutton. 2008
This text provides an account of the raising, training and fighting experiences of the Service and Territorial battalions of the…
King's Own Royal Lancasters in France during the Great War. It gives a graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare on the Western Front. 2008.Joseph Brant (The Canadians)
Par Auldham Roy Petrie. 1978
Joseph Brant followed his father as an Iroquois chief, and, like his father, swore loyalty to the British in North…
America and was received by British royalty in London. Petrie chronicles the life of Brant, from his childhood and youth, to his first battles as an Iroquois warrior and his crucial aid to the British during the American War of Independence. Grades 5-8. 1978.Into the blizzard: walking the fields of the Newfoundland dead
Par Michael Winter. 2014
Michael Winter’s narrative follows two parallel journeys: the first is that of the young men who came from Newfoundland’s outports,…
fields, villages and narrow city streets to join the storied regiment that led many of them to their deaths at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The second is the author’s, taken a century later as he walks in the footsteps of the dead men to discover what remains of their passage across land and through memory. Part unconventional history, part memoir-travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, the author uniquely captures the extraordinary lives and landscapes, both in Europe and at home, scarred by a war that is just now disappearing from living memory. 2014.Inside out: the autobiography of a Native Canadian
Par James Tyman. 1989
James Tyman is a young Native man who grew up with racism, turned to crime and drugs, and repeatedly ended…
up in jail. At age 24, while serving a 2 year prison sentence, James wrote this record of his own journey to self-discovery. Strong language. 1989.I'll sing 'til the day I die: conversations with Tyendinaga elders
Par Beth Brant. 1995
A hundred years of Native North American history emerges from the lives of fifteen Elders of Tyendinaga, in conversation with…
Mohawk writer Beth Brant. School teachers, domestic workers, miners, civil servants and factory workers people these accounts with the grist and joy of everyday lives spanning the 20th century. c1995.Fatty legs: a true story
Par Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. 2010
Taunted and humiliated by Raven, the unkind nun in charge of the young Inuit girls at her residential school, Margaret…
is willing to endure almost anything as long as she can learn to read. The unpleasant chores don’t daunt her, but the teasing of other students and the unfair punishments do. When she is the only girl forced to wear ugly red stockings, however, Margaret has enough, and fights back. Followed by “A stranger at home” (DC41414). Grades 3-6. 2010.Come walk with me: a memoir
Par 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.Hell's corner: an illustrated history of Canada's Great War, 1914-1918
Par J. L Granatstein. 2004
In the triumphs of their victories and the horrors of their losses, Canadian combatants first tested their military skills on…
the battlefields of Europe. Granatstein, one of Canada's master historians, tells the story of how Canada became involved in World War I, how it fought the war, and how it emerged from that conflict a stronger and more unified nation. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. 2004.Honour song: Distinctive Aborginal Voices Of Canada
Par Barbara Hager. 1996
Metis author Hagar focusses on 16 aboriginal people from across Canada. Coming from many different walks of life, those profiled…
have made contributions to the Canadian cultural, artistic, social, athletic or political fabric of the country. Among those portrayed are Elijah Harper, Shania Twain, and Ted Nolan. 1996.I am a Metis: the story of Gerry St. Germain
Par Peter Michael O'Neil. 2016
Gerry St. Germain was an air force pilot, undercover policeman and West Coast chicken farmer. Business gave way to politics,…
and in 1988 he became one of a tiny number of Aboriginal Canadians named to a federal cabinet. From the Brian Mulroney era to that of Stephen Harper, St. Germain remained a trusted confidant of prime ministers and a crucial and often daring behind-the-scenes broker in bringing warring factions together. But he is most proud of his later efforts, when he spearheaded major Senate reports on key issues like land claims and on-reserve education. That role reflected St. Germain’s profound determination to help people who are still dealing today with the brutal legacy of residential schools and the paternalistic Indian Act. 2016.Black Elk: the life of an American visionary
Par Joe Jackson. 2016
Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial,…
"Black Elk Speaks". Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed--while the historical Black Elk has faded from view. Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West. Born in an era of rising violence, Black Elk killed his first man at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the massacre at Wounded Knee. But Black Elk was not a warrior and instead chose the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that haunted and inspired him, even after he converted to Catholicism in his later years. Winner of the Spur 2017 best western biography award. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. 2016.Tells the story of the WWI soldiers and chemists who worked on measures that America planned to use on Germans.…
The massive science and engineering effort attracted top scientists to usher in a new world in which fearsome weapons could kill or terrorize armies and civilians. 2017.From Vimy to victory: Canada's fight to the finish in World War I
Par Hugh Brewster. 2014
All was not quiet on the Western Front during the last years of WWI. Soldiers faced mud, trench foot, bombardments,…
barbed wire, snipers, and poison gas. Despite dreadful odds, the Canadian Corps moved forward, reaching deep inside enemy-occupied Belgium. The war cost Canada 60,661 of its finest citizens and thousands more who were wounded in body and mind. After their hard-won victory at Vimy Ridge, Canadians earned the admiration of the world — and a reputation as soldiers who could get the job done. From that moment in 1917, Canadian soldiers proved themselves again and again on the bloody battlefields of Europe. Grades 3-6. 2014.Honor the grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota women tell their stories
Par Sarah Penman. 2000
These four oral histories pay homage to elder women who quietly serve as community and political activists within the Lakota-Dakota…
Nation. It tells their stories of service in the grandmother's traditional role of cultural carrier, imbuing children with respect for the language, medicinal lore, history, and spiritual beliefs of the people. 2000.Grandmother's grandchild: my Crow Indian life (American Indian lives)
Par Alma Hogan Snell, Becky Matthews. 2000
The story of Alma Hogan Snell, a Crow woman brought up by her grandmother, the famous medicine woman Pretty Shield.…
Snell grew up during the 1920s and 1930s, part of the second generation of Crows to be born into reservation life, experiencing poverty, personal hardships, prejudice, and leaving home to attend federal Indian schools. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2000.Graveyards of the dinosaurs: what it's like to discover prehistoric creatures (I Was There Ser.)
Par Shelley Tanaka, Philip J Currie, Mark Norell, Paul C Sereno. 1998
Describes paleontologists' discovery of dinosaur fossils at major sites in Mongolia, Canada, and Argentina. Presents information on the Oviraptor, Centrosaurus,…
and Herrerasaurus, among others. Discusses scientific evidence linking birds and carnivorous dinosaurs. Grades 4-7. 1998.Heart berries: a memoir
Par Sherman Alexie, Terese Marie Mailhot, Joan Naviyuk Kane. 2018
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in…
the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist--who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts us to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. Bestseller. 2018.Feathered dinosaurs
Par Christopher Sloan. 2000
Discusses the theory that birds are modern evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs, comparing their skeletons and bone structure. Describes the 1996…
discovery in China of theropod fossils showing feathers. Explains the functions of various feathers and possible evolution of arms to wings. For grades 4-7. 2000.