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Hiding Edith: a true story (A Holocaust remembrance book for young readers #7)
Par Kathy Kacer. 2006
The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi…
invasion of France. Edith's courage was remarkable, as was the bravery of those who helped her: an entire village, including its mayor, that heroically conspired to conceal the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in the safe house. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Award. 2006.Chapel of extreme experience: a short history of flicker
Par John Geiger. 2002
The true story of how the discovery of flicker potentials, and scientific observations about strange patterns, organized hallucinations, and even…
the displacement of time derived from stroboscopic light, nearly resulted in a Dream Machine in every home. 2002.Finding home: a war child's journey to peace
Par Frank Oberle. 2004
The author survived amid the disillusioned populace of Germany and, with his sweetheart at his side, also dreamed of a…
new life in a new land. With her blessing, he set off alone for Canada, promising to send for his beloved when he was able to provide for her. Their life together has encompassed tragedy and pure joy. An inspirational saga. 2004.Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his scandalous duchess
Par Alison Weir. 2007
Recounts one of the love stories of medieval England. This is a tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who…
became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. 2007.John Jay: founding father
Par Walter Stahr. 2017
J.B. McLachlan: a biography
Par David Frank. 1999
Agitator, organizer, and educator, J. B. McLachlan fought for union recognition and defended the miners all his life. This book…
is the product of over 20 years of deeply committed research into the life of one of the most influential people in Cape Breton's story, James Bryson McLachlan, the voice that still rings down to us from Labour's Wars of the 1920s. 1999.Jennie Churchill: Winston Churchill's mother
Par Anne Sebba. 2008
Sebba reveals it took an American beauty just three days to land Lord Randolph Churchill. Eight months after the marriage,…
Lady Jennie bore their son Winston. Using her charms to advance her husband and son, Jennie discreetly seduces 200 or more paramours - including the Prince of Wales. 2008.Ishbel and the empire: a biography of Lady Aberdeen
Par Doris French. 1988
In 1893, Lady Ishbel arrived in Ottawa as the wife of Lord Aberdeen, Canada's newly appointed Governor General. Her initial…
resentment to this posting changed as she became involved in political and social causes. She is remembered as the founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses and the National Council of Women. 1988.I've got a home in glory land: a lost tale of the underground railroad (Griot audio)
Par Karolyn Smardz Frost. 2007
In 1985, archeologists in downtown Toronto discovered the remains of a house belonging to former slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn,…
who were key figures in the Underground Railroad. Fleeing Louisville, Ky., in 1831, shortly before Lucie was to be sold, the Blackburns settled in Detroit until they were recognized and arrested. Before they could be convicted and returned to slavery, the first racial uprising in Detroit - a crowd of friends and abolitionists who marched on the jail - gave them the opportunity to escape. Fleeing to Toronto, they founded the city's first taxi business while working with prominent abolitionists. Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2007.Ja, no, man: growing up white in apartheid-era South Africa
Par Richard Poplak. 2007
Like most 70's era children, Richard Poplak was obsessed with pop culture, like The Cosby Show, Guns N'Roses, and Mad…
Max movies. But in his country of South Africa, censorship in the newspapers, military training at school, and different rules for different races were also a part of everyday life. Poplak describes living through Apartheid as a white, Jewish boy in suburban Johannesburg, and his gradual understanding of the differences between his country and the rest of the world. 2007.The right to remain silent is one of the most easily recognized and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American culture, yet…
there is widespread misunderstanding about the right and the protections promised under the Fifth Amendment. Dershowitz reveals precisely why our Fifth Amendment rights matter and how they are being reshaped, limited, and in some cases revoked in the wake of 9/11. 2008.Invisible shadows: a Black woman's life in Nova Scotia
Par Verna Thomas. 2001
When Verna Thomas moved from the mostly white community of Mount Denson to the mostly black community of East Preston,…
she discovered that to be black in Nova Scotia could mean being disadvantaged and scorned, not just different. She describes her growing consciousness of her history, of the limits placed on the Black community, and of race, in the wake of the changes that swept across North America in the second half of he twentieth century. Thomas' writings of her early experiences trying to find work and raise a family in the late 1950s and early 1960s is a journey into racially segregated Nova Scotia. 2001.Invisible: the dangerous allure of the unseen
Par Philip Ball. 2014
If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it…
a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. The story of invisibility is not so much a matter of how it might be achieved but of why we want it and what we would do with it. 2015, c2014.Incorrigible
Par Velma Demerson. 2004
In 1939, young Velma Demerson was taken away by the police; her "crime", loving a Chinese man, was compounded by…
her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. She was sent to Toronto's Reformatory for Females where she was locked in a cell for 12 hours a day and subjected to abusive medical treatments. It is the story of survival. 2004.In the eye of the typhoon
Par Ruth Earnshaw Lo, Katharine S Kinderman. 1980
In search of Schrödinger's cat: quantum physics and reality
Par John R Gribbin. 1984
I am Rosa Parks
Par Rosa Parks, James Haskins. 2001
Famous activist describes her role in the civil rights movement. In 1955, fed up with unequal treatment, Parks refused to…
give up her bus seat to a white man. Her arrest led to a yearlong boycott by blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, buses. Grades 2-4. 2001.Call the midwife: shadows of the workhouse (Call the Midwife. #2.)
Par Jennifer Worth. 2013
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of…
postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighbourhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humour of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. Sequel to "Call the Midwife", followed by "Farewell to the East End". 2013.Buffalo Bill Cody (Legends of the Wild West)
Par Ronald A Reis. 2010
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a bullwhacker, cattle driver, and American Indian fighter on the Great Plains of the 1850's,…
all before becoming a teenager. He claimed to have killed 5,000 buffalo and to have ridden with the Pony Express. Later, he started his Wild West Show - part circus, part rodeo, part history - that played across the United Stares and Europe for three decades. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. 2010. (Legends of the Wild West)Her story III: women from Canada's past (Her Story Ser. #No. Iii)
Par Susan E Merritt. 1999
The third instalment of biographies of 14 notable Canadian women. Mostly born before the 1900s, they helped change society's attitudes…
about women. Included are athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld, ambulance driver Grace Livingston and investigative reporter Faith Fenton. Sequel to "Her story II : women from Canada's past". For junior and senior high readers. 1999.