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Welcome to the 2008/09 BC Books for BC Schools catalogue

Every year the Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) gears up for the onslaught of submissions to this catalogue from our publishers. Every year we look forward to checking out what’s new and appropriate for school libraries in the province and to working with a team of excellent teacher-librarians who select and anno- tate the titles from these submissions. This year, BC’s sesquicentennial year, we are pleased to take a leap into the 21st century where, thanks to modern technology, colour printing is now affordable. We hope you like the new look.

For those of you who are new to BC Books for BC Schools the catalogue is organized first by appropriate level: Elementary (K–7), Secondary (8–12) and Cross-Grades for those books that are appropriate at both levels. Entries are organized alphabetically by title within each section. Subject areas follow the BC Ministry of Educa- tion’s curriculum; we also highlight specific courses where it is felt that information should be included.

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Happy hunting through the BC published books you find in this catalogue.

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September 2008

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Addison Addley and Boy in Motion Change the World Elf the Eagle the Things That Rick Hansen’s Story for Ten Bucks Ron Smith Ainslie Manson 50 Ways to Make a Difference Ruth Campbell Aren’t There Renné Benoit Oolichan Books Melody DeFields McMillan Greystone Books We Are What We Do Orca Book Publishers New Society Publishers The story begins with a big eye showing through a crack in an egg. Ainslie Manson’s chatty picture Elf finally breaks his shell, feeling In this title in the Orca Young book tells the story of an active lit- This highly inspirational and attractive book is designed to the worse for wear from all the Readers series, Addison Addley is tle boy obsessed with fishing who work of the past two days. Eventu- a grade five procrastinator. He becomes the paraplegic young assist everyone make a difference. Fifty simple everyday ally he opens his eyes to find he is puts off everything except his man who taught the world about at the top of a tree. “Why had they weekly fishing trip with his friend people with disabilities. With his actions are suggested to help change the world into a better built so high?” he asks himself, Sam. He particularly puts off any- father’s admonition, “There’s no feeling faint. His big sister, Edwina thing to do with math. When his such word as can’t.” as his mantra, place and make us feel better in the process. All the actions taunts him and his parents tease teacher announces a speech con- Rick Hansen sets out to meet the him with food to encourage him to test to be followed by a celebration challenges he faces after his acci- provided are geared toward improving our environment, our take his first flight. Leaning to party, Addison is determined to dent. Becoming a wheelchair pro reach the fish his mother is hold- win. Three days before the contest he returns to the sports he loves health and our communities. For example, Action 1 provides infor- ing, he falls out of the nest and he has only written two lines of his and becomes the first person with after a fearful first few moments, speech, however his punch, made a disability to graduate from UBC mation on learning mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. manages to flap his wings and from his mother’s eccentric in Physical Education. Inspired by begins to fly. Although fiction, recipe, is sure to be a winner. Terry Fox he sets out around the Action 26 is about donating blood. Every page has an “action strip” readers learn a number of eagle Addison has to triple the recipe world on the Man in Motion facts from the story. Campbell’s World Tour. for easy identification. References and his attempt at multiplying wonderful illustrations show Elf’s fractions along with his substitu- Biographical data are included to organizations and website addresses are provided for addi- feelings through his expression- tion for soymilk lead to a hilarious at the end of the book. Manson filled eyes as his white down conclusion. Much to everyone’s has written ten books for children, tional information for each solution. changes to brown. surprise, Addison is a winner after Benoit won the Christie Harris Elf the Eagle was shortlisted for all and even learns something in Illustrated Children’s Literature the Christie Harris Illustrated Goodbye to Grif- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 the process. Prize in 2005 for Children’s Literature Prize in fith Street. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HEALTH & 2008. A study guide is available at CAREER EDUCATIONS, SCIENCES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 Oolichan.com. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-7 Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & 2006 108 pp. 7.75”x8.25” SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-3 LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION colour photographs & illustrations OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH CAREER EDUCATION ISBN: 9781550923001 $10.00 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 144 pp. 5”x7.5” newsociety.com Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 48 pp. 8.25”x11.25” ISBN: 9781551439495 $7.95 PA 2007 40 pp. 9”x12” colour illustrations colour illustrations orcabook.com ISBN: 9781553652526 $19.95 HC ISBN: 9780889822412 $19.95 HC greystonebooks.com oolichan.com

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Feather Brain Forestry A-Z A Frog in My Throat The Graveyard Maureen Bush Kathleen Cook Waldron Frieda Wishinsky Hounds Orca Book Publishers & Ann Walsh Louise-André Laliberté Bob Warick Orca Book Publishers Vi Hughes Part of the Orca Young Readers Orca Book Publishers Christina Leist series, Feather Brain is a story In this novel in the Orca Echoes Tradewind Books about dinosaurs, loneliness, This lavishly illustrated alphabet series, Kate’s best friend is Jake, friendship and some of the book looks at the modern forest but when his cousin comes to In this story set in the hectic and reasons for bullying, told in the industry. From insects to nursery town and will be attending the somewhat unusual days leading authentic voice of ten-year-old trees, log booms to woodlots, mill- same school, Jake shuns Kate, to up to Halloween, friends Mike and Lucas Clarke. Luke is obsessed by wrights to tree planters, the spend time with Lionel. Kate dis- Annie encounter some out of the dinosaurs and spends his time at authors give an overview of the covers that it is possible to have ordinary people and happenings home alone making models. He is industry that shapes so many of more than one friend and she at their school. The principal is having trouble making friends at our communities. One or two shows maturity in dealing with acting strangely and the custodian his new school thanks to a bully paragraphs per page elaborate on Jake’s rejection, especially when even more bizarrely. Furthermore, named Kyle who sneers at his the alphabetical heading and Jake himself is spurned by cousin why have all the dogs in town sud- dinosaur obsession. When the illustration. Inset photographs Lionel, when Lionel wants to denly lost their barks? There is an models come to life, Luke is in big enhance the primary one. Fast spend time with the older kids. A awfully scary looking reporter trouble. He schemes to pass the Forestry Facts at the end give visit to a chocolate factory is a around town as well that Mike and liveliest model on to Kyle in additional information. highlight for the children. This Annie wonder about. Is he really revenge but this doesn’t have the early chapter book deals with a just researching the case of the result he expected. Both boys grow SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 real problem young children will missing dog barks, or is he part of in empathy and understanding OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, have and shows options for deal- all the difficulty? Mike and Annie and resolve the problem together. SOCIAL STUDIES ing with the problem. The investigate and they discover the Bush is also the author of The cartoon-like black and white illus- problem has its roots in an ancient Nexus Ring. Index/Bibliography: No/No trations are well-suited to the Irish legend. Can they help stop 2008 32 pp. 11”x9” book’s atmosphere. the deadly Curse of the Graveyard SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 b/w & colour photographs Wishinsky has authored many Dogs before it’s too late? OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH ISBN: 9781551435046 $19.95 HC books including two other Kate This is Hughes’ first novel for LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & orcabook.com books in the Orca Echoes series. young readers. Before becoming a CAREER EDUCATION, SCIENCES She was shortlisted for a Governor writer she was a teacher and an Index/Bibliography: No/No General’s Literary Award. elementary school Principal. 2008 144 pp. 5”x7.5” ISBN: 9781551438771 $7.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-2 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-4 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH orcabook.com LANGUAGE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS

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I, Bruno Jake the Baker Jeremy and the The King Has Caroline Adderson Makes a Cake Fantastic Flying Goat Ears Helen Flook Orca Book Publishers P. K. Page Machine Katarina Jovanovic Ruth L. Campbell Philippe Béha Becky Citra In this easy chapter book from the Oolichan Books Tradewind Books Orca Echoes series, Bruno is an Jessica Milne imaginative youngster of about six In this illustrated picture book, Orca Book Publishers This simple retelling of an old Ser- years old. He is an only child with Jake the baker is always happy and bian folktale expresses the very understanding parents. I, his boss, Mr. Jeremiah, is always This is the third book in the universal desire for self- Bruno provides a series of angry. When Mr. Jeremiah decides Enchanted Theatre series acceptance. King Boyan is vignettes about events in Bruno’s he wants to change, he tries to buy introduces classical mythology to miserable and hides himself from life. He refuses to eat green foods, Jake’s happiness. Jake agrees so primary students. In order to solve his people because of his silly goat so his parents accommodate his that he will have enough money to the third riddle, Jeremy and his ears. All the barbers of the kingdom request for an orange, brown or marry Rose, Mr. Jeremiah’s talking cat Aristotle must go back are kept prisoners in the palace yellow meal. Eventually they retry daughter. He then becomes cross, in time to the island of Crete. The after they have cut his hair so that green and Bruno decides to eat loses his ability to bake and action begins as they find his embarrassing ears will remain a black by putting his napkin over decides to leave town, to the dis- themselves watching Daedalus secret. Finally, a brave young his head and closing his eyes while may of Rose. Instead of leaving, the inventor try his flying apprentice barber, Igor, agrees to he eats. In other chapters Bruno and inspired by his assistant, Jake machine. Jeremy knows he must cut the King’s hair and reassures decides to be the “Queen”, slay returns the money and regains his talk to him in order to solve the him that his ears “look just fine”! dragons (fire hydrants) and sell ability to bake. He creates a most riddle, but Daedalus believes Igor’s honesty and gentle affirma- chats to the firemen across the amazing cake to win a big contest Jeremy is trying to steal his idea. tions help restore the King’s street (similar to a lemonade so he and Rose can marry after all. The king’s guards lock Jeremy and self-esteem. The colour reproduc- stand) to save money for a model, This delightful fable is told partly Aristotle into the maze. As they try tions feature bold, bright artwork but then donates the money to a in verse and is designed to be eas- to find their way out, they meet and zany collage, which animate food drive the firemen are hosting. ily presented as a play. Daedalus and his son Icarus in the the story in folktale manner. He is creative and generous. P. K. Page has won many awards tower, and Jeremy helps them Beha has won the Governor Young children will enjoy Bruno’s including the Governor General’s build the fantastic flying machine. General’s Literary Award and Mr. antics and giggle at the absurdity Literary Award for Poetry. Citra has written over a dozen Christie’s Book Award. Jovanovic of his behaviours. The black and books for children. She is also an is an award-winning poet who white cartoon illustrations are an SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-4 elementary school teacher. Her worked in Serbian children’s excellent accompaniment. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH website includes ideas for using broadcasting. LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & the series in the classroom. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-3 CAREER EDUCATION SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-3 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-5 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 2008 40 pp. 9.25”x12.25” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 64 pp. 5.25”x7.5” ISBN: 9780889822450 $19.95 HC Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 32 pp. 9.75”x11.75” b/w illustrations 2008 64 pp. 5.25”x7.5” colour illustrations oolichan.com ISBN: 9781551435015 $6.95 PA b/w illustrations ISBN: 9781896580227 $16.95 HC ISBN: 9781551439501 $6.95 PA orcabook.com tradewindbooks.com orcabook.com

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The Legend of the Maybe Later Miga, Quatchi The Moccasins Caribou Boy Ingrid Lee and/et Sumi Earl Einarson Gabrielle Grimand The Story of the Vancouver Julie Flett John Blondin Orca Book Publishers Theytus Books (as told by George 2010 Mascots/L’histoire des Blondin) When Johnny discovers an old mascottes de Vancouver 2010 This short and uplifting story tells Ray McSwain green bottle in his grandfather’s of an Aboriginal boy whose foster Mary Rose Sundberg, closet, he notices there is Michael Murphy family raises him to be proud of trans. something inside. He can’t wait to & Vicki Wong his heritage. They give him a pair Theytus Books find out what it is, but every time Whitecap Books of moccasins that smell of camp- he asks his grandpa if they can fire and make the boy feel “warm break it, his grandpa tells him a and loved”. Eventually he grows This is one of a series based on story and says “maybe later”. Each This is a very colourful and heart- out of the moccasins and his foster generations of stories told in the story ignites Johnny’s warming story profiling the three family puts them in a box. When oral tradition of the Dene people. imagination, and the suspense chosen mascots and their sidekick the boy has a child of his own, the A Dene couple awake to find their builds as Johnny envisions ship- for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics box is returned to him and the son has disappeared. They search wrecked captives, strange and Paralympics. The mascots smell reminds him of the love he for him and find his discarded creatures, and lost treasures. were inspired by the legends of the received and how proud he is to be clothing and footprints alongside Finally, when a big storm blows Pacific Northwest First Nations. Aboriginal. This is a powerful story the hoof prints of caribou. They the bottle off the windowsill into a Miga, a sea bear, Quatchi, a with a positive message. follow the prints and find their son tree, Johnny is not so sure he sasquatch, Sumi, a guardian spirit, This title was shortlist for the who is changing into a caribou. wants the bottle to break after all. and Mukmuk, a marmot are all Christie Harris Illustrated The son tells his family he was Lee teaches art and English in described in terms of habitat, diet, Children’s Literature Prize, BC once a caribou leader and prom- Toronto, Ontario. She has written activities and how they were cho- Book Prizes in 2005. It is also a ises them that he will provide for three other books for children sen for the 2010 Olympics and Canadian Children’s Book Centre them by sending them caribou. Paralympics. The entire story is Choice. Einarson is a member of The text is written in both English SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-5 written in both English and the Ktunaza First Nations, BC. and Dene’s Dogrib language. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH French with full-page Julie Flett is Cree/Métis from A CD-ROM, on which the story is LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES illustrations. Additional informa- Manitoba. She also illustrated Zoe told in both the Weledeh dialect of tion regarding the Olympics and and the Fawn. the Dogrib language and English, Index/Bibliography: No/No Paralympics is provided with pic- 2008 64 pp. 5.25”x7.5” and an orthography and pronun- tures of all events. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-2 ciation chart of the Dogrib b/w illustrations This book is co-published with ISBN: 9781551437644 $6.95 PA OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH language, is included. VANOC. LANGUAGE ARTS orcabook.com SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2008 16 pp. 8”x6” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS colour illustrations ISBN: 9781894778145 $10.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 40 pp. 8”x10” 2007 32 pp. 10”x10” theytusbooks.ca colour illustrations colour illustrations ISBN: 9781894778480 $24.95 HC ISBN: 9781552859582 $14.95 PA theytusbooks.ca whitecap.ca

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Mwâkwa Talks Ned The Old Man with A Puppy is for to the Loon The Story of Bear the Otter Medicine Loving Six Nine Three A Cree Story for Children John Blondin (as told by Mary Labatt Dale Auger Joe Pavelka George Blondin) Renata Liwska Heritage House Lynne Huras Archie Beaverho Orca Book Publishers Rocky Mountain Books Mary Rose Sundberg, trans. A Cree tale about pride and grati- Theytus Books In this easy chapter book in the Orca Echoes tude. Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon This book relates the timely topic series, Elizabeth visits tells the story of a young man who of human encroachment on bear This legend is based on stories told her grandmother on the farm and loses his talent for hunting when territories with a tragic story about in the oral tradition of the Dene happily assists in the delivery of six he takes it for granted. When his Ned, the grizzly cub, and his people. The people living on the pups to Elsie, the collie. people are hungry and Mwâkwa mother. They live and roam in shores of a small lake realize they Grandmother won’t let the pups can no longer provide for them, he their Canadian mountainous are not catching enough fish to go to just anyone. They must be goes to the Elders for help. The habitat, inevitably coming into sustain them through the winter, needed by the new owners. “What send him to Loon where an old contact with towns and tourists so they ask a man who has medi- can puppies do for people?” asks debt is paid and a new one under- where food becomes more easily cine power to help. He transforms Elizabeth. The response comes, “A taken. Cree words are available to them than in the wild. into an otter, visits the depths of puppy is for loving”. There are interspersed in the story without Ned becomes a “garbage bear” the lake, and kills the jackfish that detailed descriptions of the prepa- detracting form the content. A and must be shot with a tranquil- are keeping the fish captive. The rations and birth and the glossary at the end of the book izer gun, collared and relocated. people soon find their nets are full. behaviour of the mother dog. The provides definitions. Colour illus- When he boldly returns to the This legend teaches children grandmother is being encouraged trations support and expand the town he faces his strongest foe: about the lifestyle, culture and to move into town. Elizabeth text. “‘I’m sorry, but there’s nothing hardships faced by Dene living in seems to know just what kind of This book won the The Aborigi- else I can do,’ said the man with remote regions. The text is written new owner each puppy needs and nal Children’s Book of the Year. the gun as his eyes grew teary red.” in both English and the Dene’s knows what her grandmother Auger is a Sakaw Cree. The message is to keep the wilder- Dogrib language. needs, too. The last puppy will ness wild so animals don’t end up A CD-ROM of the story told in keep grandmother company and give her someone to love. The SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-5 like Bear Six-Nine-Three. both the Weledeh dialect of the black and white illustrations add OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Although the tale is written in Dogrib language and English, and to the cozy tone of the story. LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES awkward, rhyming prose, students an orthography and will learn bear lore and ideas for pronunciation chart of the Dogrib Index/Bibliography: No/No bear awareness and safety. language are included. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-3 2006 32 pp. 10”x9” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH colour illustrations SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-4 LANGUAGE ARTS ISBN: 9781894974325 $12.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No heritagehouse.ca LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2007 64 pp. 5.25”x7.5” SOCIAL STUDIES b/w illustrations Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781551434773 $6.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 40 pp. 8”x10” 2007 32 pp. 10.25”x9.5” colour illustrations orcabook.com colour illustrations ISBN: 9781894778497 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9781894765954 $24.95 HC theytusbooks.ca rmbooks.com

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Rhyme Stones Rocky Mountain Shu-Li and Tamara Stone Horse Pat Skene Kids Paul Yee Sharon Siamon Graham Ross ShaoLi Wang Whitecap Books Orca Book Publishers Linda Goyette Tradewind Books Brindle & Glass Publishing This book is number 10 in the Mus- This is an entertaining collection Set on Commercial Drive in Van- tang Mountain Series. Here, Meg is of topics, combining fiction and This entertaining book provides couver, this beginning chapter excited that she will be helping her non-fiction in a unique way. Each adventure stories about kids who book is the story of Shu-Li, whose cousins run the ranch’s first sum- chapter begins with a poem, then have lived in the Rocky family came from China two years mer camp program, but worried the character is interviewed about Mountains. Some are historical ago, and how she overcomes her because the success or failure of the subject of the poem. In the fiction accounts of kids whose shyness to make friends. When this program will determine the first, we read about a boy who identities were discovered while Tamara, another newcomer, is future of the ranch. Things are not must overcome his fear of caves in the author researched history accused of stealing, Shu-Li stands going well. The weather has been order to rescue his puppy. During books, and diaries in libraries, up for her. Together the girls plan awful, counselors were sick and the interview, we learn all about archives and museums. The to earn money selling goodies for the leader for the out-trips has not bats, the differences between sta- author explains to kids the the Kids Helping Kids program shown up. Meg and her cousin lactites and stalagmites, and cave difficulties of writing about people but no one comes to their stall make the risky decision to take a formations. The next poem and who are no longer alive to tell their until Joey agrees to do his break group of inexperienced riders out interview gives useful advice story. At the end of each chapter dancing routine to get people’s for an overnight trip up Mustang about bullying and the final poem there is a section titled “What do attention. When more money Mountain, knowing the out-trip entitled Big Blue Funk touches on we Know for Sure?” where she seems to be missing, Tamara is was what the campers had come depression and gives tips for help- gives the factual details about the accused again. In the end, Tamara for. After an exciting two nights in ing oneself overcome the blues. characters and their adventures. is vindicated and the story the wilderness, having survived Skene is a widely published Also included are stories about concludes with recipes for the wolf hunts, mud slides, and author of articles and stories for kids who live in the Rocky Moun- treats the girls made. The book is injuries, the weary yet triumphant children and adults. tains now, and older people who liberally illustrated with black and group returns to camp having lived there as they were growing white sketches. been brought closer together by SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-5 up, including Olympic skier Sara Paul Yee has won many awards their struggles. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Renner. A glossary of unique including the Governor General’s Siamon is the author of the pop- LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, Rocky Mountain words is Award for Children’s Literature. ular Saddle Island and The Blue SOCIAL STUDIES included. Kite series. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-4 Index/Bibliography: No/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-7 2007 64 pp. 5.25”x7.75” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH b/w illustrations LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, CAREER EDUCATION LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & ISBN: 9781551436364 $6.95 PA SOCIAL STUDIES CAREER, SCIENCES Index/Bibliography: No/No orcabook.com Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 72 pp. 6”x8.75” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 207 pp. 5.5”x7.5” b/w line drawings 2006 208 pp. 5.25”x7.5” b/w photographs, map, line drawings ISBN: 9781896580937 $7.95 PA ISBN: 9781552857984 $8.95 PA ISBN: 9781897142325 $12.95 PA tradewindbooks.com whitecap.ca brindleandglass.com

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Submarine Outlaw Ten Thumbs Sam There’s a Barnyard Timberwolf Trap Philip Roy Rachel Dunstan Muller in My Bedroom Sigmund Brouwer Ronsdale Press Orca Book Publishers Dean Griffiths David Suzuki Orca Book Publishers In this novel, Alfred, who has In this Orca Young Reader, Sam is Eugenie Fernandes grown up in a small an eleven-year-old boy who feels Greystone Books Timberwolf Trap is the fourth Newfoundland fishing village, like he really doesn’t fit in with his book in the Timberwolves series, wants to be an ocean explorer, not family. This is because his relatives In this book, Megan and Jamie’s Orca Echoes. As in the other books the fisherman he is expected to be. are the famous and talented exploration of the world of nature of the series there is an exciting Wandering through the local junk- Stringbini Family, who are stars of is presented in an easy-to-under- hockey event and an ethical prob- yard he spots what he thinks is an the Triple Top Circus. Sam is stand format. Divided into three lem or two. In this episode Johnny old submarine. He seeks out known as ‘Ten Thumb Sam’ sections, “Seeing the Air” explores Maverick and Tom Morgan are in Ziegfried, the owner of the junk- because he does not have an how air feels and sounds; “Rainy a race for the league’s goal-scoring yard, and learns that it was just an amazing talent to perform in the Day Hike” shows that nature is trophy, Dale’s “smelly socks of old oil tank. His disappointment shows like the rest of his family. present around and in the death” cause problems and inspires eccentric Ziegfried to This is not for lack of effort as he house, for example, window glass Johnny’s dad plays a trick on the make the tank into a submarine. has tried learning many circus is made from sand ; “Time Travel- coach. Young male readers will Alfred begins his journey explor- acts, most with disastrous results. ers” delves into the past hundreds enjoy the low humour of Dale’s ing the waters along Sam has decided that he just of years and into the future in the smelly socks and Stinky, the dog. Newfoundland’s and Nova wants to leave the circus and live a backyard garden. Related activi- But Johnny and his friend, Stu, Scotia’s coastline. However, his ‘normal’ life. Disaster seems ties are incorporated into each also spend time in the school unregistered sub is soon detected determined to follow Sam and his section. A glossary and answer library because they love reading by the coastguard and knowing he extended family one summer pages are also included. Full-page, and it is one of their favourite will have to surrender it and his though, and because of this Sam colour illustrations enhance the places. The illustrations suitably dreams if they catch him, Alfred eventually discovers that maybe adventures. break up the text, which is needed becomes an outlaw. After three his talent lies not in performing a Suzuki has authored over forty for the intended audience. adventure-filled months at sea, daring circus act, but in solving a books including, for children, Besides the Timberwolves series, Alfred sneaks back to his village, mystery and saving his family’s Salmon Forest and You Are the Brouwer has written a number of having successfully evaded his way of life. Earth. Fernandes has illustrated books for the Orca Sports series pursuers. Muller also wrote When the Cur- more than ninety books and was a and a number of hi-lo titles. This is Roy’s first published tain Rises. finalist for the 2006 Governor novel. It received first prize in the General’s Literary Award and the SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-4 Atlantic Writers Competition. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-6 2007 Amelia Frances Howard- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Gibbon Illustrator’s Award. LANGUAGE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-4 Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 64 pp. 5.25”x7.5” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2007 144 pp. 5”x7.5” b/w illustrations LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781551436999 $7.95 PA ISBN: 9781551437224 $6.95 PA 2008 254 pp. 5.25”x7.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No orcabook.com orcabook.com ISBN: 9781553800583 $10.95 PA 2008 64 pp. 9.25”x9.25” ronsdalepress.com colour illustrations ISBN: 9781553653295 $22.95 HC

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TJ and the Quiz Kids Yamozha and Hazel Hutchins His Beaver Wife Orca Book Publishers Vital Thomas This humorous, easy-to-read Archie Beaulieu chapter book with a simple story Mary Siemens, trans. line and encouraging message fur- Theytus Books thers the adventures of TJ and the gang. TJ’s school is entered in the This illustrated picture book tells yearly Quiz Kids competition and the story of Yamozha who, aban- the team is almost complete. The doned by his brother and living need for one more member pits alone in the bush along the shy TJ against his best friend, Mackenzie River, finds an hyper-active Seymour. A listing of orphaned girl who agrees to be his the books where Seymour finds wife as long he promises that she his “amazing facts” is included. will never get her feet wet. TJ Other books in the series Yamozha fails to uphold his prom- TJ and the Cats TJ and include and ise and she turns into a beaver. As the Haunted House . Hutchins is a distraught Yamozha follows his the author of forty books and the beaver wife and tries to capture winner of numerous awards. A her, his actions result in the teacher’s guide may be found at formation of the distinct features . orcabook.com of the area’s landscape. This leg- end, one of a series, teaches about SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 the unique landscape of the OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH southwestern corner of the North- LANGUAGE ARTS west Territories, an area inhabited Index/Bibliography: No/Yes by Dene people. The text is written 2007 144 pp. 5”x7.5” in both English and Dogrib. ISBN: 9781551437316 $7.95 PA A CD, on which the story is told in both Dogrib and English, and orcabook.com an orthography and pronunciation chart of the Dogrib language are included.

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Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 48 pp. 12”x9.75” colour illustrations ISBN: 9781894778572 $25.95 HC

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121 Express All-Season Edie British Columbia Buffalo Sunrise Monique Polak Annabel Lyon Spirit of the People The Story of a Orca Book Publishers Orca Book Publishers Jean Barman North American Giant Harbour Publishing In this novel in the Orca Currents In this coming-of-age book, Diane Swanson series for reluctant readers, Lucas eleven-year-old Edie has to face Whitecap Books Samson’s family’s move means up to new family dynamics and British Columbia’s 150th year is that Lucas must change schools the fact that not everything is celebrated in this beautiful book. Replete with pictures from all over First published in 1997, this edition and ride the 121 express bus home going to be perfect in a person’s covers the history of the buffalo in each day. Tired of being a nerd, life no matter how much you wish BC, the reader is reminded what diversity the province contains, North America. Chapter one gives Lucas sees this as a new it to be so. By watching how her a visual description and includes beginning, a chance to get in with sister, mother, father and grand- not only of land forms but also cul- tures. The book starts with a how it walks, swims and its general the cool guys. The Lorne Crest stu- mother each deal with a family behaviour. The Plains Indians dents who ride the 121 express tragedy and loss differently, Edie pictorial outline of the nine differ- ent areas in BC. It then gives a very relied on the buffalo and chapter have a reputation for bad behav- realizes that her life is pretty good two gives information on their iour and Lucas, after teasing a the way it is, and that she is general outline of Northwest Abo- riginal culture, the coming of the many uses of the animal. A variety student, soon finds himself in the becoming mature enough to han- of hunting methods including centre of the pandemonium on dle whatever comes her way. She Europeans, the foundation of the colony of BC and finally current herding them into snow drifts and the bus and in serious trouble at learns that while her family may circling them with horses are men- school. But when the trouble- be rather eccentric in some ways, history. This book covers everything from the cultural adap- tioned in chapter three. “What makers ridicule Sandeep Singh in many others they are Buffaloes meant to the settler in and devise a plot to cut his hair, completely ordinary and that’s tations in the province to industry to well-known British 1890” is the theme of the last chap- Lucas is faced with making a deci- okay with them and with Edie. ter. Buffalo were on the brink of sion. Does Lucas have the courage This is Lyon’s first children’s Columbians. Paintings from artists around BC are included. extinction but by the use of reloca- to stand up for what he truly book. She has written two other tion and protected areas, the herds believes in or is his newfound works of fiction for adults. Jean Barman is also the author of The West beyond the West have made a comeback. Anecdotal popularity more important to Caution: Deals with death of a and Stanley Park’s Secret. sidebars add interest. him? grandparent and also contains a Swanson has authored seventy fairly detailed description of books and won the 1995 Orbis Pic- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-9 underage drinking and the conse- tus Award for outstanding OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH quences. children’s fiction. STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-8 Index/Bibliography: Yes/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2008 180 pp. 10.25”x11.25” Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & b/w & colour photographs, 2008 112 pp. 4.25”x7” SOCIAL STUDIES CAREER EDUCATION reproductions, maps ISBN: 9781551439785 $16.95 HC / ISBN: 9781550174465 $49.95 HC Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 9781551439761 $9.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 1996 58 pp. 10”x9” 2008 176 pp. 5”x7.5” harbourpublishing.com orcabook.com b/w & colour photographs, ISBN: 9781551437132 $8.95 PA illustrations, reproductions ISBN: 9781552858585 $14.95 PA orcabook.com whitecap.ca

BC BOOKS FOR BC SCHOOLS 2008 – 2009 CATALOGUE 9 CROSS-GRADES

The Canadian Central Beauty Coastal Beauty Crossbow Hiker’s & Wildflowers and Flowering Wildflowers and Flowering Dayle Campbell Gaetz Backpacker’s Shrubs of the Southern Interior Shrubs of Coastal British Orca Book Publishers of British Columbia Columbia and Vancouver Island In this Orca Currents novel, the Handbook Neil L. Jennings Neil L. Jennings only place where Matt can escape Rocky Mountain Books Rocky Mountain Books the social and academic pressures Ben Gadd of high school, and push away the Lonnie Springer memory of the accident that took Whitecap Books Central Beauty is a handy pocket Coastal Beauty is a handy pocket the life of his grandmother and guide for hikers and amateur nat- guide for hikers and amateur nat- sent his dad to prison, was deep in This book provides a comprehen- uralists to the flora of the southern uralists to the flora along the coast the woods. He spent precious sive guide to backpacking and interior of BC. The plants included and islands of BC. The plants hours building a cabin, his solitary hiking in the Canadian are also found in parts of Washing- included are also found in parts of refuge, out of fallen logs left by the wilderness. All aspects of prepara- ton State, Idaho and Montana. The Washington State and Oregon. clear-cutting company that had tion, participation and survival are wildflowers and flowering shrubs Two pages of botanical informa- gouged a hole in the face of the included as well as basic instruc- depicted are arranged first by tion describing leaf and stem mountain that towered above the tions of planning, organizing and colour and then by family. The arrangements, leaf shapes, leaf small town where he lived. One training. From there it expands to page edges are colour coded for margins and venation assist in evening, in one of his frequent trip necessities, including cloth- ease of use. Each entry includes a identification. The wildflowers attempts to escape reality, Matt ing, boots, gear and food. general description, where the and flowering shrubs depicted are hiked into the woods, intending to Included are detailed instructions plant can be found, the meaning arranged first by colour and then spend the night alone in his cabin, for first aid, safety and emergen- of the genus name, and other by family. The page edges are and found that a rough, burly, cies a hiker may encounter. The highlights such as Aboriginal uses, colour coded for ease of use. Each homeless woodsman had made what animals favour the fruits and entry includes a general descrip- text and numerous sidebars the cabin his home. Their initial include personal anecdotes. A poisonous effects if any. tion, where the plant can be confrontational encounter unique midsection fictional Jennings is an avid outdoorsman found, the meaning of the genus evolved into a friendship that both adventure reinforces his message. whose work has appeared in a name, and other highlights such of them needed, and gave Matt the Gadd is the author of Handbook number of outdoor magazines. He as Aboriginal uses, what animals courage to let go of his anger and of the Canadian Rockies. has previously written four books favour the fruits and poisonous move beyond the past. on western wildflowers including- effects. Gaetz has written many other Coastal Beauty (also included in Jennings has written four books SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 novels for young people, including this catalogue) and Prairie Beauty. on western wildflowers, including OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: GEOGRA- Spoiled Rotten and Sea Dog. Central Beauty (listed in this cata- PHY 12, OUTDOOR EDUCATION, SCI- ENCES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 logue). SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-9 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HEALTH & Index/Bibliography: Yes/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 CAREER, SCIENCES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2008 372 pp. 6”x9” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES colour photographs, cartoons, line 2008 320 pp. 5”x8” Index/Bibliography: No/No drawings, maps, sidebars colour photographs, map Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 112 pp. 4.25”x7” ISBN: 9781552859179 $29.95 PA ISBN: 9781897522035 $26.95 PA 2008 320 pp. 5”x8” ISBN: 9781551438436 $16.95 HC / colour photographs, map 9781551438412 $9.95 PA rmbooks.com whitecap.ca ISBN: 9781897522028 $26.95 PA orcabook.com rmbooks.com

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Dot to Dot Enchanted Isles Free Spirit The Heretic’s Tomb in the Sky The Southern Gulf Islands Stories of You, Me and BC Simon Rose Stories of the Zodiac David A. E. Spalding Gerald Truscott Tradewind Books Kevin Oke Royal BC Museum Joan Marie Galat Harbour Publishing This novel is a mixture of historical fiction and time-travel fantasy. In Lorna Bennett Free Spirit is a lavishly illustrated Whitecap Books the first half of the book, set in With more text than many coffee history of BC to celebrate our 150- 1349, we meet Lady Isabella Dev- table books, this overview of the year anniversary. Colour prints, ereaux, an English noblewoman This book introduces the night sky southern Gulf Islands from Gabri- archival photographs and repro- whose family has died of the Black with a luminescent star map and ola to James, aligned to the coast ductions of original paintings are Plague. Since their deaths, she has descriptions of the signs of the of Vancouver Island from used throughout the book. been working as a healer. Unfortu- zodiac. The author makes it clear Nanaimo to Victoria, is a wealth of Sections are clearly titled and have nately for her, she has been using that astronomy is not astrology, historical, geographical and social a short overview supported by a book of magic in her work. An however. Scientists use the information. The digital colour sidebars of further information. enemy finds out and has her con- constellations of the zodiac in photography shows stunning land Each illustration is clearly demned for heresy, after which mapping the skies. The author and sea scapes and local people captioned to add to the content. she is walled up in a room to die. provides the reader with a simple both eccentric and ordinary. Also This book would be very useful in Next, we meet Annie, a girl from way to get started using the con- included are archival black and elementary Social Studies from modern London, who is visiting an stellation chart by using the Big white photographs of early island First Nations to modern day. The archaeological dig at the site of the Dipper. Also, she gives a simple life. Useful to give ESL or elemen- Museum has also created a paral- abbey where Lady Isabella died. People’s History trick to find latitude and thus the tary students a picture of this lel venture, the She is magically transported back Project handle of the Little Dipper and renowned part of the province, the website, that may be of in time to meet Lady Isabella. from there, Virgo, the first of the book is probably most useful to interest for reading and posting Together, they escape the walled- signs of the zodiac that comprise high school students as an family stories. up room they are trapped in and the body of the book. Each sign is overview of the history and geog- The included DVD may have lim- exonerate Lady Isabella. This book given a colourful illustration, a star raphy of this area or to Fine Arts ited application. The 1940s style of is particularly interesting for its map and directions to finding the photography students. narration and often-fuzzy video depiction of London at the time of constellation, a side bar with Photographer Kevin Oke offers dating from 1940 to 1969 will prob- the Black Plague. space notes and a myth associated technical details for each shot on ably not engage today’s students. Rose’s previous book, The Sor- with the zodiac’s sign. his website. An author in his own Individual chapters, easily cerer’s Letterbox, was shortlisted This is the fourth book in the Dot right, David Spalding is the selected from the main menu, may for both the Silver Birch and Dia- . to Dot series. husband of well-known children’s be useful to reflect local history mond Willow awards. author Andrea Spalding. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-9 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 180 pp. 10.75”x11.5” 2007 64 pp. 8”x9” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 168 pp. 5”x7.5” b/w, colour & archival photographs, colour illustrations, star map 2007 144 pp. 8.75”x11.25” ISBN: 9781896580920 $9.95 PA ISBN: 9781552858059 $16.95 PA colour & archival photographs, map colour reproductions ISBN: 9781550174229 $34.95 HC ISBN: 9780772658708 $39.95 PA tradewindbooks.com whitecap.ca harbourpublishing.com royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

BC BOOKS FOR BC SCHOOLS 2008 – 2009 CATALOGUE 11 CROSS-GRADES

House Calls by How to Build John M. Horton Manga Touch Dogsled with Grid Beam Mariner Artist Jacqueline Pearce Six Years in an A Fast, Easy, and Affordable Peter Vassilopoulos Orca Book Publishers Heritage House Arctic Medical Outpost System for Constructing In this novel from the Orca Currents series, a class trip to Keith Billington Almost Anything John M. Horton is a leading Japan, and a home stay with Japan- marine artist. His work has been Harbour Publishing Phil Jergenson, Richard ese hosts help Dana to see beyond described as “properly painted & some of the petty problems that Jergenson & Wilma Keppel technically accurate”. His subjects A dynamic story of life in northern have been plaguing her since her New Society Publishers always relate to the sea and ships. best friend Melissa decided to Canada, this heart-warming tale The atmosphere and history of chronicles the adventures of two dump her in favour of the popular This book advocates a modular, Canada’s West Coast offers the crowd. Dana’s interest and talent nurses in the Northwest Territo- perfect ground for his skills. Tugs ries. This is the true story of Keith reusable building system that is in drawing manga bridge some of fast, easy, affordable and environ- and the fishing fleet are the cultural gaps. When Melissa and Muriel Billington who moved represented. While at ease paint- from England to Fort McPherson mentally friendly. Hundreds of and Melissa’s boyfriend, Zach, photographs, a colour section, ing the modern scene, Horton is become lost, Dana sees another in the 1960s. The book recalls the equally capable of losing himself history of the Fort McPherson drawings and tables illustrate the side to Melissa. As Melissa lets modular pieces and bolt-together in West Coast history. He creates down her guard, the girls are better area, including information about canvases that depict the exploits of the Gwich’in peoples, European construction that make the system able to understand one another. fast and straightforward to work the early explorers and record The story will appeal to reluctant contact and the Hudson’s Bay day-to-day life in our ports as they Company outpost. Uplifting and with. Using simple geometry and a readers as the plot moves quickly, repeating hole pattern tri-lapping knew it. The images of the characters are appealing and humorous stories are related Vancouver’s century-past water- about the first time using joints are created. Projects disas- the problems are relevant to teens semble for easy transportation. front are outstanding. Horton and pre-teens. snowshoes, a dog sled team and handles the changing moods of Versatile for beginners, and flexi- Pearce has written several books getting to know the families who light and the times of day, of a ble for innovators developing their for children and young adults. She live in the community. There are corvette in an Atlantic gale and a own designs, this book will be traveled to Japan to research also stories of medical emergen- liner in peace. Peter Vassilopou- valuable in craft collections and Manga Touch where she cies and death, which los’s text and Horton’s own notes Science Fair collections. interviewed Japanese students, demonstrate the hardships that provide an informative glimpse of studied the history, beliefs and the peoples who live up in north- his life and professional develop- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12 folklore, and read lots of manga. ern NWT are faced with on a daily ment. basis. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: APPLIED SKILLS: TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 SCIENCES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: COMPARA- LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST Index/Bibliography: No/Yes TIVE CIVILIZATIONS 12, FINE ARTS, NATIONS STUDIES 12, ENGLISH 2008 288 pp. 8”x10” SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES b/w & colour photographs, line 2007 112 pp. 4.25”x7” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No drawings ISBN: 9781551437484 $16.95 HC / ISBN: 9780865716131 $29.95 PA 2007 192 pp. 11.75”x11.25” 9781551437460 $9.95 PA 2008 352 pp. 6”x9” colour paintings b/w photographs, map newsociety.com ISBN: 9781894974349 $59.95 HC orcabook.com ISBN: 9781550174236 $19.95 PA heritagehouse.ca harbourpublishing.com

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Mountainboard The Old Brown Pacific Northwest Simply the Best Maniacs Suitcase Coast Aboriginal Art Insights and Strategies from Great Hockey Coaches Pam Withers A Teenager’s Story What Am I Seeing? Whitecap Books of War and Peace Karin Clark Mike Johnston Raven Publishing & Ryan Walter This novel, the tenth book in the Lillian Boraks-Nemetz Heritage House Publishing Take It to the Xtreme series, will Ronsdale Press appeal to reluctant readers Karin Clark’s book gives a concise overview of the major elements in This book interviews twelve great through an interesting plot that This semi-autobiographical book Canadian coaches: Pat Quinn, respects the reader’s intelligence Pacific Northwest Coast Aborigi- was first published in 1994. Slava nal art. First, she maps the area Ken Hitchcock, Marc Crawford, and holds the reader’s attention. It and her family are imprisoned in Brian Sutter, Clare Drake, Jacques appeals to its audience through under consideration and the the Warsaw Ghetto. She escapes to groups who live there. Then she Demers, George Kingston, Mike fast-paced action in scenic hide in a small Polish town under Keenan, Andy Murray, Dave King, settings that involve outlines the intentions and proce- a hidden identity. Eventually she dures of a potlatch and the Scotty Bowman and Roger Neilson mountainboarding, friendship, immigrates to a new country. In about their hockey experiences. It the outdoors and danger. Centred materials that would be used to Canada, fourteen-year-old Slava produce the potlatch goods. Fol- explores such questions as why around Mountainboard tour must try to fit into a culture that they became coaches, the leader- guide training on Mount St lowing on, two-page spreads she doesn’t understand. In the consider the places where Pacific ship qualities they look for in a Helens, Jake and Peter the foreword Robert Krell, writes, “The captain, their personal shortcom- competitive main characters in Northwest Coast art is found from author succeeds admirably in long houses to button blankets, to ings and how they overcame the series, an Australian, and conveying the weight of the past them, the people that have influ- attractive twins go for a free-ride jewelry. Clark then introduces the while struggling towards a more creatures and mythical beings enced their lives, the trip around the three Mountains. hopeful future, all the while requirements for a championship Of course, Mount St Helens is a depicted in the artwork. The final demonstrating clearly the section breaks apart the compo- team, the importance of working sleeping volcano. Well written, the complexities of transition.” as team, and their most action sequences are very nents of various design units This book, also available in looking at formline and relieving memorable coaching experiences. convincing, leading up to the Slava French under the title (Les shapes. Colour and black and The authors have also written inevitable explosive climax. editions Heritages, 1996), has won Simply the Best: Players On Mountainboard Maniacs presents white illustrations have been cre- many awards. Boraks-Nemetz ated with the assistance of three Performance, also included in this interesting, believable characters The Sunflower Diary also wrote other artists. catalogue. with inner turmoil and conflicts. and The Lenski File, sequels to this The intriguing plot-line incorpo- book. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-10 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 rates extreme sports and natural Caution: Includes some sugges- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HEALTH & disasters. tive sexual content. SOCIAL STUDIES CAREER EDUCATION, PHYSICAL EDUCATION SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-10 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-9 Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2007 64 pp. 6.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES colour photographs, b/w illustrations 2007 288 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9780973676945 $14.95 PA b/w photographs Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/Yes ISBN: 9781894974370 $24.95 PA 2008 232 pp. 4.25”x7” 2008 170 pp. 5.25”x7.5” ravenpublishing.com ISBN: 9781552859155 $8.95 PA ISBN: 9781553800576 $10.95 PA heritagehouse.ca whitecap.ca ronsdalepress.com

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Simply the Best Skywatcher’s Slumach’s Gold Tales from Players on Performance Companion In Search of a Legend the Galley Mike Johnstone Constellations and Rick Antonson, Mary Stories of the & Ryan Walter Their Mythology Trainer & Brian Antonson Working Waterfront Heritage House Publishing Heritage House Stan Shadick Doreen Armitage This book interviews Sidney Heritage House Publishing Slumach’s Gold examines, with Harbour Publishing Crosby, Hayley Wickenheiser, excellent documentation and Shane Doan, Jarome Iginla, Ed This book discusses the constella- illustrations, the tale of Slumach This is a collection of stories that Jovanovski, Cassie Campbell, tions visible from 37° to 60° and his Lost Creek gold mine show the more practical side of Scott Niedermayer, Trevor Linden latitude North. The introduction where gold nuggets “the size of living on the high seas. By and Joe Sakic about their hockey includes a table of the Greek and walnuts” are supposed to lie on interviewing commercial fisher- experiences. It explores where Roman gods and heroes and their the ground. This unsolved BC men, Coast Guard skippers, they received their passion for the domains, and a map of the view- mystery has endured for over a deep-sea drillers and others, the game, the leadership qualities ing area featured in the book. It century. Thirty people have died author provides a look at the they possess and what they have explains that many ancient seeking the treasure. The moun- oceanic working class. Humorous learned from others. It also docu- cultures observed groups of stars, tainous territory around Pitt Lake, tales of unpredictable marine life ments their shortcomings, the imagined lines connecting them where the mine is supposedly are interspersed with thrilling people that have influenced their and created myths based on these located, is rugged and dangerous. accounts of harsh weather, costly lives, and the mental toughness constellations. Each chapter fea- In this expanded 35th-anniversary accidents and the ever-present that is required to be a tures a nighttime photograph of edition, all the constituent danger represented by the deep professional athlete. Starting with an actual skyline, with the elements of the legend are sea. The resulting anecdotal pic- a picture and a brief description of darkened sky visible above. Stars critically analyzed. We know that ture of life along BC’s working the player’s accomplishments, a Slumach was hanged for murder are named and lines show the waterfront is complemented by series of questions are posed and constellations, which are also in 1891. Did Slumach really toss black and white photographs that are directly followed by the identified. Each photograph indi- gold nuggets around in the bars of help to bring each tale to life. player’s answers. cates the month, time of night and New Westminster? Did the other Armitage’s books include Simply The authors also wrote the direction of viewing. characters in the story actually Around the Sound: A History of the Best: Insights and Strategies Suggested reading list and exist? Why has no one located the Howe Sound-Whistler; Burrard from Great Hockey Coaches , glossary are included. Lost Creek mine? The legend is Inlet: A History, shortlisted for the . included in this catalogue woven into the fabric of pioneer 2002 City of Vancouver Book life in southern BC. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 Award; and From the Wheelhouse: SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Tugboaters Tell their own Stories. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HEALTH & LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 CAREER EDUCATION, PHYSICAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 EDUCATION LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HEALTH & Index/Bibliography: No/No CAREER EDUCATION Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 48 pp. 8”x8” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 192 pp. 6”x9” 2008 144 pp. 5.5”x8.5” glossary, sky maps, tables, colour Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w photographs b/w photographs, line drawings photographs & illustrations 2007 250 pp. 8.75”x11.25” ISBN: 9781894974240 $21.95 PA ISBN: 9781894974356 $14.95 PA ISBN: 9781894974363 $14.95 PA b/w photographs ISBN: 9781550174380 $39.95 HC heritagehouse.ca heritagehouse.ca heritagehouse.ca harbourpublishing.com

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Totem Poles The Way Lies North Wild Ride Will’s Garden Pat Kramer Jean Rae Baxter A Graphic Guide Adventure Lee Maracle Heritage House Publishing Ronsdale Press Liam O’Donnell Theytus Books Mike Deas Totem Poles is a tribute to the cul- This book is part survival guide Orca Book Publishers This is a revised edition of the tures of the Aboriginal peoples of and part love story. It tells the tale book first published in 2002. As the Northwest Coast. The first of Charlotte and her Loyalist fam- Will prepares for his Becoming chapter explains the origins and ily who must leave their home and In this graphic novel, set in BC’s Man Ceremony, relatives fill the history of the poles. Kramer then run for their lives when they are wilderness, three teens are being house, bringing with them memo- describes the different types of forced off their land during the flown into Big Horn Valley where ries, tradition and customs. As poles, carving techniques, the American Revolution. Charlotte their parents are undertaking an they work together beading, carv- symbols and figures, and the also leaves behind her beloved environmental study that will ing and cooking, Will reflects on often-confusing relationships Nick who unfortunately decide if the area should be their stories of working on railroad between kinship groups. A map sympathizes with the Revolution- logged. Also on the plane is Gerald construction or surviving Residen- pinpoints all major locations aries. The people of the Mohawk Wiley, supposedly representing tial Schools. The Ceremony takes where totem poles can be found Nation are friends of the fleeing the government, but really on the on new importance for Will. After and brief descriptions of the poles Loyalists and help them travel payroll of the logging company. the Ceremony Will is inspired to are provided. This beautifully north to Canada to get to safety. The plane crashes. The four are left take action to make changes in his illustrated book uses photographs, Nick, on his own journey of in the wilderness with just a sim- own life. An outcast at his high paintings and sketches to give discovery, becomes a courier for ple pocket survival kit. When the school, where racism is common- readers a greater appreciation and the Loyalists and he and Charlotte teens discover Wiley’s secret he place, he befriends the “nerds”, understanding of the complexity are reunited. The time Charlotte tries to kill them by setting a fire. comes to terms with his new of totem poles. Kramer explains spends with the Aboriginal guides Ultimately the three escape, but friend’s homosexuality and com- that they are “more than stories, on this dangerous trip and during not before using a collection of mits himself to a future of change. hidden among figures are layers of additional ones she must take, survival skills. He is transformed into the man intertwined meaning”. gives her much insight into the This book is the first in a new that he promised to become in his Kramer is a writer, ways of the Mohawk people. She series called Graphic Guide Becoming Man Ceremony. photographer, naturalist and becomes well versed in their tradi- Adventures. Ramp Rats, which fea- Maracle, of Salish and Cree speaker, and acknowledged expert tions and customs and eventually tures the same characters and is ancestry, is an award-winning on the Aboriginal cultures of the lives up to her new Aboriginal about skateboarding, will be author. Northwest Coast. name, ‘Woman of Two Worlds’. released in Fall 2008. Wild Ride Baxter has written several short was nominated for the 2009 Hack- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-10 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 stories. The Way Lies North is her matack Children’s Choice Book OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST first novel. Award. LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & NATIONS STUDIES 12, FINE ARTS, CAREER, SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-9 Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2008 224 pp. 5”x7.5” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS 2008 112 pp. 5.75”x8.75” ISBN: 9781894778596 $16.95 PA colour & archival photographs, line Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No theytusbooks.ca drawings, maps 2007 342 pp. 5.25”x7.5” 2007 64 pp. 5.75”x8” ISBN: 9781894974448 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781553800484 $10.95 PA colour illustrations ISBN: 9781551437569 $9.95 PA heritagehouse.ca ronsdalepress.com orcabook.com

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A World of Faith Introducing Spiritual Traditions to Teens Carolyn Pogue Wood Lake Publishing

Pogue believes that interfaith dia- logue will help us find a way to achieve peace. She invites young people to investigate various reli- gions and to recognize their common values: respect, respon- sibility, compassion and selflessness. Eight religions are introduced: Goddess Tradition, Aboriginal Spirituality, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and the Bahá’í Faith. The book is filled with illus- trations, personal interviews and information boxes. Each chapter includes a thumbnail sketch of the religion—its history, place of wor- ship, texts, leaders and holy days. Rituals, ceremonies, rites of pas- sage and important teachings are discussed. There are interviews with teens and peacemakers from each faith. Websites and additional resources are included. Pogue is also the author of Sea- sons of Peace and After the Beginning.

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Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 192 pp. 7.25”x9” colour photographs & illustrations ISBN: 9781551455549 $29.95 PA woodlakebooks.com

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Adventurous Alone The Anachronicles Asper Nation Dreams, Against the Arctic George McWhirter Canada’s Most Dangerous Anthony Dalton Ronsdale Press Media Company Adventurous Lives Heritage House Publishing George McWhirter has invented a Marc Edge Jason Schoonover, ed. new verse form called an New Star Books Rocky Mountain Books Hoping to traverse the Northwest “anachronicle”. Instead of viewing Passage to Baffin Island, the past from the present, his Asper Nation adventurer Anthony Dalton critiques the Asper This book shows how childhood poetry explores events in one family’s political agenda, their dreams of adventure and discov- describes his harrowing journey place from two points in time. In Audacity media empire’s rise and the power ery will often come true in one’s on the , a four metre open “Hops” McWhirter writes of a boat. From Nome, Alaska, Dalton it wields in Canada. Edge argues adult years through perseverance trans-Atlantic argument between media conglomerates are and resolve. Schoonover traveled through the Bering Strait the goddess Liadan and the poet and across the Arctic Circle, cover- “dangerous” to Canada’s democ- illustrates this by collecting Cuirithir. Using Shakespearean racy by setting the agenda: “While personal stories from 120 interna- ing hundreds of nautical miles blank verse and striking imagery, along the Alaskan coast, to north the media can not tell us what to tional adventure-explorers. The McWhirter takes us on a comical think, they are very influential in contributors give their definition of Port Hope, where his boat cap- journey through history. sized. Like many of those before telling us what to think about. The of “exploration” or “discovery,” McWhirter, the first poet laure- ways these stories are covered not they relate how their dreams ger- him, including James Cook and Sir ate of Vancouver, was nominated John Franklin, Dalton was unable only tell us what to think about, minated, and they provide for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry but how we think about it”. Edge first-person accounts of what their to complete his journey because of Prize 2008 for The Incorrection, the ferocious Arctic weather. Dal- advocates regional media diver- exploration was and the obstacles and has won many other awards sity, Journalism schools refusing that had to be overcome. Contrib- ton also relates the story of the including the Ethel Wilson Prize Overland Relief Expedition, funding from big media corpora- utors such as Warren MacDonald for his short stories, and the Com- tions, and government action lost two legs, but still climbed Mt. headed by Lieutenant Jarvis, who monwealth Poetry Prize (shared in 1897–98 traveled overland with against media mergers and cross Kilimanjaro in 2003. Jean-Michel with Chinua Achebe, 1972). ownership. Cousteau, explorer and environ- herds of reindeer, to rescue starv- Caution: Contains some sexual ing whalers trapped in the ice at Edge is an associate professor of mentalist, eventually participated references. journalism at Sam Houston Uni- in the Olympics. The book Point Barrow. Dalton’s other nautical books versity in Huntvsille, Texas. His includes brief biographies and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Pacific Press: The are Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship, first book was colour photographs of each of the OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Wayward Sailor: In Search of the Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s contributors. LANGUAGE ARTS Real Tristan Jones J/Boats: Newspaper Monopoly. Schoonover also wrote Thai , and Sailing to Success. Index/Bibliography: No/No Gold and Opium Dream. 2008 120 pp. 6”x9” SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BUSINESS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 ISBN: 9781553800545 $15.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 EDUCATION 11-12, ECONOMICS 12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH ronsdalepress.com ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 344 pp. 6”x9” 2007 192 pp. 5.5”x8.5” 2007 240 pp. 6.5”x9.5” ISBN: 9781554200320 $21.00 PA b/w photographs, map b/w & colour photographs ISBN: 9781894974332 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781894765916 $19.95 PA newstarbooks.com heritagehouse.ca rmbooks.com

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At the Far Reaches Awful Splendour Building an Ark Can I Have a of Empire A Fire History of Canada 101 Solutions to Animal Word With You? Suffering The Life of Juan Francisco Stephen J. Pyne Howard Richler de la Bodega y Quadra UBC Press Ethan Smith & Guy Ronsdale Press Dauncey Freeman M. Tovell This book begins with a discussion New Society Publishers Howard Richler’s fifth book on the UBC Press about the first fires in Canada dur- English language illustrates how ing the Ice Age. It then discusses words are always changing. In an the impact fire has had on the This well-illustrated and compre- This book presents the biography hensive guide offers 101 practical A-Z format, Richler has selected ecology of various regions in words that represent every letter of of Bodega y Quadra, an important Canada beginning with the Abo- solutions to eradicate unnecessary eighteenth century naval officer animal suffering around the the alphabet. He not only gives us riginal people’s need to start the history of each word, but also and explorer. His beginnings as a wildfires for pathways, hunting world. Part One introduces the Peruvian Creole as well as his topics and the critical issues facing explores their hidden meanings. and the cultivation of berries, to He shows us how words can be ascendancy to be the most influen- the destruction of Canada’s forests animals, such as, puppy mills and tial Spanish explorer of the Pacific climate changes. Part Two offers used in different contexts, how we for timber, warmth, farming, and often use words selectively, and coast of North America are engag- sheer carelessness. It concludes solutions, which we can ingly described. From the search implement each day to save our how some words have completely with an historical description of changed their meanings or have for the fabled Northwest Passage conservation efforts by each planet. These actions apply to all to encounters with the Nuu-chah- organizations, institutions, secondary meanings. How has province to prevent and contain “Orwellian” become a political nulth and Chief Maquinna and forest fires in the future. Includes government, businesses and indi- with Captain Vancouver in the viduals. Encouraging messages euphemism, for example? Which endnotes, graphs and a came first, the word “orange” attempt to find a resolution to the bibliographic essay. are found throughout the Nootka Crisis, Bodega’s pivotal book. Photographs, sidebars and meaning the fruit or the colour? Pyne is recognized as the fore- How have we become “cyber- role is highlighted. Bodega was a most expert on the environmental numerous websites for each solu- stellar leader, maritime explorer, tion are provided, and resources inundated” since the 1990s? Why history of fires and is the author of are some words considered to be diplomat, and go-between for the Cycle of Fire. and extensive endnotes are the politically incorrect? Richler’s Spanish, Europeans and Aborigi- Caution: included. Includes many refer- treatise on words is both insightful nal peoples of the area. ences to Aboriginal peoples as Smith is a writer, animal welfare Caution: and entertaining. References to “Indians”. advocate and author/editor of Aboriginal peoples reflect the his- Softly On This Earth. Dauncey Richler’s other books on Global Mother torical period. founded The Solutions Project and language include SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 Tongue and Take My Words. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FORESTRY, is the author of The Great Climate SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCES Challenge. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH NATIONS STUDIES 12, SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: Yes/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 LANGUAGE ARTS STUDIES 2007 584 pp. 6”x9” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES archival photographs, maps Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes ISBN: 9780774813914 $85.00 HC / Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2007 200 pp. 6”x9” 2008 496 pp. 6”x9” 9780774813921 $34.95 PA 2007 288 pp. 7.25”x9” ISBN: 9781553800491 $21.95 PA b/w & colour photographs, maps b/w photographs ISBN: 9780774813662 $85.00 HC / ubcpress.ca ISBN: 9780865715660 $24.95 PA ronsdalepress.com 9789780774813679 $39.95 PA newsociety.com ubcpress.ca

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Contradictory Country Roads of Damp The Darien Gap Impulses British Columbia Contemporary Vancouver Travels in the Canada and Japan in the Exploring the Interior Media Art Rainforest of Panama Twentieth Century Liz Bryan Oliver Hockenhull Martin Mitchinson Heritage House & Alex MacKenzie, eds. Harbour Publishing Greg Donaghy & Anvil Press Patricia E. Roy, eds. The Darien Gap is the sixty miles UBC Press Geologically, BC is several differ- ent lands that were created over This singular art book captures the of rainforest in Panama that inter- many hundreds of thousands of variegated and elusive nature of rupts the road between Alaska and This book comprises fourteen years. BC’s geography presents film from the margins of Vancou- Tierra del Fuego. It is a dangerous papers delivered to honour the transportation challenges, but ver specifically and from popular place full of human and animal 75th anniversary of Canadian- early gold miners were the initial media in general. It provides an predators. Martin Mitchinson Japanese diplomatic relations. The impetuous for many routes entrance to an elaborate world sailed to this desolate place to see volume presents the position that described in this book. The book that most have little or no access the area for himself and stayed for while Canada has long had a covers the interior area of the to. The particular confluence of eighteen months. He lived with worldview that includes Asia, the province roughly from Osoyoos in Vancouver’s immigrant popula- native families and traveled the Pacific and Japan, this has had the south to Prince George in the tions, West Coast affluence, and area by foot and canoe. Along the both positive and negative mani- north and the East Kootenays to artistic critical mass of visible way he learned about the history, festations. Racist restrictions and the Fraser River in the west. The institutions and underground culture and mythology of the area, relocation of Japanese-Canadian author gives a detailed description media has served to create fertile as well as more about himself. citizens during WWII to close eco- of eighteen different travel routes, ground for the filmmakers in this Mitchinson has worked as a nomic ties post-WWII and a a map, historic information, collection. Using a collage of travel writer and photographer for burgeoning trade investment and meticulous driving instructions visual images and offering the the past ten years. His articles diplomatic relationship through and highlights about special items filmmakers the chance to write have appeared in such The Globe & Mail the 1990s, the papers chart the of interest. Bryan’s numerous about the origins and personal publications as . Darien Gap . vicissitudes of Canadian-Japanese colour photographs add to her text experience of making their films, The is his first book Caution: relations. The book also and demonstrate the beauty of BC. the reader is given an introductory Contains profanity. documents Japanese immigration Bryan is a co-founder of Western glimpse into their world. and the Suian Maru affair, and Living magazine. She is also the Caution: Includes some coarse SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9, 11-12 perceptions of Japan’s military author of The Buffalo Peopleand language and frank discussions of OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: COMPARA- threat to Canada. Stone by Stone. sexuality. TIVE CIVILIZATIONS 12, SOCIAL STUDIES

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 Index/Bibliography: No/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: GEOGRA- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2008 240 pp. 6”x9” STUDIES PHY 12, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS b/w photographs ISBN: 9781550174212 $26.95 PA Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 288 pp. 6”x9” 2008 192 pp. 9”x10” 2008 144 pp. 11.25”x7.25” harbourpublishing.com b/w photographs, marps, charts, colour photographs, maps b/w &colour photographs, tables ISBN: 9781894974431 $24.95 PA reproductions, line drawings, film ISBN: 9780774814430 $85.00 HC / captures 9780774814447 $35.00 PA heritagehouse.ca ISBN: 9781895636895 $40.00 HC ubcpress.ca anvilpress.com

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Deadly Loyalties Echoes of the Finding Ft. George Flight of the Jennifer Storm Holocaust Rob Budde Hummingbird Theytus Books Caitlin Press Carole Ann Reed A Parable for the Environment A remarkable achievement for its & Harold Lass The lyric poems in Finding Ft. Michael Nicoll fourteen-year-old author, Deadly Pacific Educational Press George reflect Rob Budde’s discov- Yahgulanaas Loyalties tells the story of ery of Prince George and the Greystone Books fourteen-year-old Blaise, who Echoes of the Holocaust is a collec- north-central region of BC. sees her childhood friend tion of articles, short stories, Although one senses that Budde Sheldon murdered by gang mem- personal remembrances and gov- loves his new home, many of his The hummingbird parable, with bers. Scared they know she is a ernment documents that explore poems express melancholy of what origins in the Quechuan people of witness, she joins Sheldon’s gang human rights issues. The book the “resource town” Prince George South America and the Haida of for protection. Blaise has a uses the Holocaust as a link to has become. Budde speaks of the the North Pacific, has become a desperate need to belong, so such issues as racism, sexism, dis- beauty of nature where “over the mascot for environmentalists and fighting, having sex, getting high, crimination against people with hill” the lakes are “not waiting for ecologists. The determined hum- shoplifting and “jacking” (steal- disabilities and homophobia. tailings to swallow, but sensing a mingbird does everything she can ing money from other kids) gives Each chapter includes a focus, change in the air” and where the to put out a raging fire that threat- her a “confused sense of guilt and objectives, the readings, “toad licks her lips slouches in the ens her forest home. The pride”. When she unknowingly comments and discussion ques- mooseprint hoping the earth holds hummingbird—a symbol of wis- dates a rival gang member, and tions. Authors in this collection on”. Yet in Prince George, he dom and courage—demonstrates her gang seeks revenge, Blaise include Alice Munro, Pierre describes the “boarded-up that doing something, no matter finds herself living with Sheldon’s Berton, Leonard Cohen, Joy windows of downtown” and “the how small, is better than doing murderer. This book will appeal Kogawa, Irving Abella and Harold new big boxes on the outskirts nothing at all. Wangari Maathai, to reluctant readers. Troper. scooping up what fiscal agility the the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Kenya who launched the Green Storm, an Ojibway from the Reed is the former director of the town has left”. Although Budde’s Couchiching First Nation in Holocaust Centre of Toronto. She focus is clearly on the environment, Belt Movement, and His Holiness Northwestern Ontario, is currently co-authored Issues in Holocaust he also voices social and political the Dalai Lama embrace the para- enrolled in the First Nations Stud- Education with Geoffrey Short. concerns. ble. ies Program at the University of Lass is past chair of the Holocaust Budde is the author of two col- Yahgulanaas developed a new Manitoba in Winnipeg. She won Education Committee in Ontario. lections of poetry and three works art genre, Haida Manga. He is an the Manitoba Aboriginal Youth He has written numerous articles of fiction. activist for social justice issues on . Achievement Award. on Holocaust education. Caution: Contains some coarse his home islands of Haida Gwaii Caution: Includes violence, language. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 swearing, and references to drugs, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST alcohol and sex. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 NATIONS STUDIES 12, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, HISTORY 12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, GEOGRAPHY 12, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SOCIAL JUSTICE 12, SOCIAL STUD- LANGUAGE ARTS SCIENCES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH IES Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2007 112 pp. 5.5”x8” 2008 64 pp. 5.25”x8.25” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 208 pp. 6.5”x9.75” ISBN: 9781894759274 $15.95 PA colour illustrations 2007 160 pp. 5”x8” ISBN: 9781895766783 $18.95 PA caitlin-press.com ISBN: 9781894778398 $16.95 PA ISBN: 9781553653721 $16.00 HC pep.educ.ubc.ca theytusbooks.ca greystonebooks.com

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Food, Sex, and forage Fortune’s A River The Girl in Salmonella rita wong The Collision of Empires in the Backseat Nightwood Editions Northwest America Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick Norma Charles Dr. David Waltner-Toews These poems constitute a Barry Gough Ronsdale Press Greystone Books multimedia, multicultural collage Harbour Publishing on the current state of the planet. This family’s summer road trip The poet questions aspects of the becomes suspenseful when a thir- In this animated look at foodborne This book centres on the struggle corporate world, raising for the Pacific Northwest between teen-year-old stowaway is diseases, the author describes the important issues about the prac- discovered by the teenage sister bacteria, viruses and parasites in Britain, Spain and the United tices of Monsanto, Pepsi, Canwest States, and describes how BC and brother of a blended family, our food supply. The changes in and others. She uses language in who are driving in one of the two eating habits, climate, agriculture became British while Washington, bold and playful ways: “unable to Oregon and Alaska became Amer- family cars on their holiday from and trade have led to the appear- bear the wart on error, / war-torn Vancouver to Winnipeg. The run- ance of new diseases and ican. Major events, people and era, warped shorn blare on…” places from the 18th century away is a beaten, terrified girl from epidemics. The author offers prac- integrating quotes from a breadth a strict religious sect in the BC tical responses, ranging from through the first quarter of the of sources—Laurie Anderson, 19th are described in this struggle Kootenays who realizes she is to be changing personal habits to man- Rachel Carson, Northrup Frye. shipped to the US branch of the aging international trade and for control of the region. Most of Some passages are handwritten this struggle revolved around the group to be wedded to “The agricultural practices. Learning to around the edges of the poem, as if Prophet,” their elderly polygamous eat wisely is the key. Using the control of the watershed of the encasing the work. These often Columbia River. Among the per- leader. As they cross the prairies, metaphor of sex, treating our rela- experimental poems, present a the two siblings not only have to tionship with food is like having sons whose exploits are thoroughly modern view of our chronicled are Lewis and Clarke, deal with some racism being random sex: it may be fun, but it is times. Wong’s work reflects her directed at them, but are faced with also full of nasty surprises. Alexander Mackenzie, David Asian background and acknowl- Thompson, Bodega, Simon Fraser a moral dilemma. Their stowaway Although witty, there is no apoca- edges the culture of several begs them not to inform their par- lyptic ranting—just straight and Captains Cook and Vancou- Aboriginal groups. Students of ver. Also described are the ents and the police. Resolution storytelling. Chinese heritage may find deeper occurs in dramatic fashion. Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian Hudson’s Bay Company and the meanings in those pieces. Charles’ Sophie Sea to Sea won and an epidemiologist. He is a Nootka Controversy. Aspects of This book was the 2008 recipient the BC Book Award in 2000 and professor at the University of the history of the area in terms of of the BC Book Prizes, Dorothy All the Way to Mexico won the Guelph and has written numerous economic influence, business Livesay Poetry Prize. Chocolate Lily Award in 2005. books. activity, scientific investigation, Caution: Includes occasional statecraft and border-making are Caution: Includes violence and coarse language. presented. racism. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, TEACHER RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HOME SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH ECONOMICS OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: No/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 256 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 128 pp. 5.5”x8” 2008 184 pp. 5.25”x7.5” ISBN: 9781553652717 $22.95 PA 2007 400 pp. 6.25”x9.25” b/w photographs b/w line drawings, maps ISBN: 9781553800569 $10.95 PA greystonebooks.com ISBN: 9780889712133 $16.95 PA ISBN: 9781550174281 $36.95 HC ronsdalepress.com nightwoodeditions.com harbourpublishing.com

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Goin’ Deep Heart of the Hiroshima Hope In Shadows The Life and Times of a CFL Cariboo-Chilcotin Immigrants in Stories and Photographs of Quarterback Three Canada 1891–1941 Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Matt Dunigan & Jim Taylor Brad Cran and Gillian Karla Decker, ed. Michiko Midge Ayukawa Harbour Publishing Heritage House Jerome UBC Press Arsenal Pulp Press Dunigan’s swaggering style as a This anthology is the third install- Few books have been written about distinguished CFL quarterbackex- ment of stories about the The diverse stories in Hope in cited enthusiasts in six CFL cities the history of the Japanese in Shadows offer readers an intimate Cariboo-Chilcotin region of BC. Canada. Michiko Midge Ayakawa, throughout his fourteen-year Diana French, an area resident look at what it means to live in career, but it left him with some whose father came to Canada from Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. who wrote the Foreword, calls this Hiroshima in 1912, hoped to disturbing, perhaps lifelong bag- area “the heart of the province”. It We learn that residents of Down- gage. His multiple head injuries discover her family history, and town Eastside are driven by a sense is an area of harsh weather and that of others through this study. threatened not only to rob him of great wilderness beauty. The area’s of community, kinship and hope. his career but also of himself. The She draws on interviews, diaries, This book, which includes black history includes the fur trade, gold community histories, biographies story illustrates the glory of profes- rush and ranching. The book con- and white photographs from a resi- sional sports heroes and the of three generations and her own dent photography contest, was tains an eclectic mix including family history, producing a fasci- hidden side of that world—temp- stories of Chinese participation in initiated by Pivot Legal Society, a tations, injuries, depressions, nating investigation of Japanese non-profit legal advocacy organi- Barkerville, domesticated migration to Canada prior to bitterness and struggles. The book marmots, missionary work, Abo- zation located in Vancouver’s takes you behind the scenes WWII. She examines the reasons Eastside. Told in the voices of the riginal/white relations, cattle why they immigrated, their social demonstrating what is required to drives and trapping. The thirty-one residents themselves, we learn of be a professional player. It backgrounds, their region of origin their life histories—the addiction, stories are by such varied authors in Japan and their lives in Canada. provides useful insights for both as Ann Walsh, Jean E. Speare, Alan mental illness, family violence, sex- male and female young people The author also provides a history ual abuse—that led these men and Fry, Eldon Lee, Bruce Ramsey, of the political, economic and who have aspirations of becoming Barry Broadfoot, F.W. Lindsay and women here. This book puts a a famous athlete. social circumstances that precipi- human face on the community and Paul St. Pierre. Most of the inclu- tated the emigration between 1891 Dunigan is a member of the sions have been published illustrates how, with the support Canadian Football Hall of Fame. and 1941. Readers will gain an and compassion of fortunate per- previously, but there are two new understanding of past and contem- He is now a CFL analyst and stories to conclude the volume. sons, marginalized members of broadcaster for TSN. porary Japanese-Canadian Caution: Minor coarse lan- society can be empowered. Caution: Some mild profanity relations. guage. and vulgarity. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: PHYSICAL LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES CAREER EDUCATION, LAW 12, EDUCATION Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 2008 208 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 256pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 300 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs, maps, tables 2008 268 pp. 8”x10” b/w photographs ISBN: 9780774814317 $85.00 HC / colour and b/w photographs ISBN: 9781894974424 $19.95 PA b/w photographs ISBN: 9781550174489 $32.95 HC 9780774814324 $32.95 PA ISBN: 9781551522388 $19.95 PA heritagehouse.ca harbourpublishing.com ubcpress.ca arsenalpulp.com

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The Hot Topic How to Re-Imagine Initiations Jack Whyte What We Can Do About the World A Selection of Forty Years in Canada Global Warming a pocket guide for Young Native Writings Jack Whyte Gabrielle Walker & practical visionaries Marilyn Dumont, ed. Heritage House Publishing Sir David King Theytus Books Douglas & McIntyre Anthony Weston Best known for his historical New Society Publishers fiction on Arthurian England, Jack In many Aboriginal cultures, the Whyte has written a heartfelt and Using scientific research and elders teach the young the ancient often humorous memoir of his life How to Re-Imagine the World advanced technology, this book traditions and skills. An initiation in Canada after moving here from traces climate change through the describes creative ways to make ceremony formalized the new Scotland in 1967. His stories are years. With charts, graphs, maps the world a better place. The positions gained or earned, so that communicated in both prose and and tables, the book examines author uses examples that have the youth may take their place narrative verse. Whyte shares his what to expect with rising global helped change the way people within the circle of wisdom and experiences as a new immigrant to temperatures. It then looks at new think including using blogs by tradition. Honouring this spirit, Canada and talks about the possi- Initiations technologies that are available soldiers in Iraq and promoting is a collection of bilities the country had to offer. and those that are being telecommuting to reduce traffic twenty-one stories by young Abo- Starting off as an English teacher researched, which could help on the roads. The book riginal writers who have earned a in Athabasca, Alberta, Whyte later reduce climate change. It challenges readers to take this place in the circle. These are moved on to work as a concludes by looking at the eco- new information and create new, young voices telling their own sto- professional singer and musician, nomic, political and social will imaginative ways of bettering this ries as well as the stories of their an actor and entertainer, a that is needed by countries to planet. Includes notes and grandparents. The book offers a scriptwriter for the CBC, and an adopt climate treaties, such as the further reading. model for all students of any cul- author and poet. Whyte’s love for Kyoto Protocol, to help reduce Weston is a Professor of Philoso- tural background to write their Canada shines through in his sto- greenhouse gas emissions. With phy at Elon University in North own stories. ries and poems, yet he expresses an appendix clarifying climate Carolina. He is the author of ten Award-winning Dumont is a strong opinions on many subjects, Creative myths, half-truths, and other books including Canadian poet of Cree/Métis including multiculturalism and Problem-Solving in Ethics Jobs for . misconceptions about global , descent Canada’s education system. Philosophers Back to Earth. Caution: warming, the authors offer practi- and Several stories contain Whyte wrote the popular The cal advice on what you can do to references to physical abuse, rape Dream of Eagle series based on reduce your own carbon footprint. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 and fighting. Includes mild Arthurian legends and the Knights Walker is the author of An Ocean OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL swearing. Templar Trilogy. of Air and Snowball Earth, and JUSTICE 12, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 King is a professor of chemistry at Index/Bibliography: No/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST Cambridge University. 2007 152 pp. 4.5”x7” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH NATIONS STUDIES 12, ENGLISH 12, b/w illustrations LANGUAGE ARTS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 ISBN: 9780865715943 $13.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES Index/Bibliography: No/No newsociety.com 2007 192 pp. 6.25”x8.25” 2007 120 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w photographs ISBN: 9781894778473 $16.95 PA 2008 256 pp. 5.25”x8” ISBN: 9781894974226 $32.95 HC charts, maps theytusbooks.ca ISBN: 9781553653714 $15.95 PA heritagehouse.ca douglas-mcintyre.com

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KRAZY! Last Water Song The Last Like A Rock The Delirious World of Anime + Patrick Lane Wild Wolves The Chuck Cadman Story Comics + Video Games + Art Harbour Publishing Ghosts of the Tom Zytaruk Harbour Publishing Bruce Grenville This book of poems consists of six- Great Bear Rainforest Douglas & McIntyre teen heartfelt elegies written for close writer friends and acquain- Ian McAllister This book traces the trials and tri- umphs experienced by Chuck A sumptuous art book or expert tances including Irving Layton, Al Greystone Books Purdy and Earle Birney. Lane Cadman MP (Surrey North). It introduction to modern visual art begins by recounting Cadman’s forms? This book is both. With the speaks to them as if they were This book chronicles a year in the alive, and he shares with us special childhood years, performances in explosion in popularity and life of two packs of wolves, one on a band, his marriage, and the birth impact of anime, manga, graphic moments spent with them. the outer coastal islands, and Through the elegies we learn of his two children. When his six- novels, video games and comics, another in the heart of the Great teen-year-old son, Jesse, was this companion to the exhibition, much about Lane as well—reflec- Bear Rainforest. Seventeen years tions on his own mortality, the senselessly murdered he began which is replete with essays setting in the making, and with the help of his campaign to “toughen” the the context, is a must for every difficulties of crafting poetry, and indigenous knowledge, the author the pain in making sense out of Young Offenders Act that eventu- high school library. It includes details the routines and hunting ally led him to run as a Member of interviews with Sims creator Will life. To poet Milton Acorn, Lane patterns of the gray wolf in the says, “Today I’m trying to find a Parliament. Serving two terms as a Wright and comic artist Seth, temperate old growth forest. This member of the Reform/Alliance among others, and essays on piece of myself I lost. Instead, I ecosystem is dependent upon the find you.” Part Two contains parties, and one as an Independ- manga and anime by Kiyoshi wolf to keep it functioning and ent, he was the deciding vote to Kusumi. twenty-three lyric and narrative intact. With intimate photographs poems. In quiet moments, often save Prime Minister Paul Martin’s of the wolves in their natural habi- minority government in 1995. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12, immersed in nature, he contem- tat, and a twenty-two minute plates the fragility of life. Even Zytaruk is a staff reporter at the TEACHER RESOURCE video CD, the book also warns of Now regional newspaper serving OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS though Lane is preoccupied with the impending industrial develop- death, in “The Sooke Potholes” he Surrey, White Rock and North ment in the area and the Millen- Index/Bibliography: No/No celebrates that “we are a living Delta and is the author of destructive force that logging and nium Milestones: A History of 2008 272 pp. 7.25”x10” place, the whisper of these waters hunting have had on the wolf pop- Surrey, White Rock and North colour reproductions ours to hold however brief our ulation. Delta. ISBN: 9781553653547 $34.95 PA stay”. McAllister is a founding director Caution: Includes some course douglas-mcintyre.com Patrick Lane has received most of the Rainforest Conservation language. major literary awards in Canada. Society and is co-author of The Caution: Contains some coarse Great Bear Rainforest. language. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HISTORY SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 12, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH NATIONS STUDIES 12, SCIENCES Index/Bibliography: Yes/No LANGUAGE ARTS 2008 304 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w photographs Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 192 pp. 10.75”x11.25” ISBN: 9781550174274 $26.95 PA 2007 128 pp. 6”x9” colour photographs, map ISBN: 9781550174502 $16.95 PA ISBN: 9781553652427 $45.00 HC harbourpublishing.com

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Living Things The Lost Coast Madness, Betrayal Making a Living Matt Rader Salmon, Memory and and the Lash While Making a Nightwood Editions the Death of Wild Culture The Epic Voyage of Difference Born in 1978, Matt Rader is already Tim Bowling Captain George Vancouver Conscious Careers for an on the way to becoming an impor- Nightwood Editions tant poet of and for the Stephen R. Bown Era of Interdependence twenty-first century. His thought- This poetic memoir and elegy is a Douglas & McIntyre ful (and thought-provoking) reflection on family, personal his- Melissa Everett poems cover a broad range of con- tory and the gradual, almost This biography begins with Cap- New Society Publishers cerns. Interspersed throughout unnoticed losses that progress tain Cook’s return to England and the book is a multi-aspected hom- consents to. Recalling his Vancouver’s joining, at age four- This revised edition of Making a age to various species of trees; he childhood in Ladner on the south teen, the Royal Navy and Cook’s Living is an optimistic guide to the also honours such recognizable arm of the Fraser River, and the second voyage of circumnavigat- developing ‘green-workforce’. It is touchstones as dishes in soapy way his family was bound to the ing the world. Vancouver’s directed to persons seeking career water, the blinking red 12:00 on an returning salmon and lowlands of interest in cultures, scientific opportunities within socially unset digital display, and even the the delta, Bowling paints both a explorations, geography, ethnog- responsible and green businesses, long-revered National Research lament for what is gone and a cele- raphy, languages and his industry, commerce and non- Council Time Signal. Yet Rader bration of what he experienced. navigational prowess contributed profit organizations. Part One also honours poetic tradition with His recollections of events and to his being one of the greatest identifies occupations and busi- poems acknowledging Louis Mac- descriptions of characters will stay naval explorers during the greatest nesses that are “catalysts for a Neice, Philip Larkin, and even with the reader as long as they marine survey of all time from positive future.” Part Two, A Ten John Keats and Arthur Rimbaud. have stayed with the writer. This 1791–1795. His journeys during Step Program for Principled Without compromising metaphor gentle but fierce glimpse at BC’s these five years meant navigating Career Development, is the heart or other poetic art, and even idiosyncratic history, geography, 65,000 miles of ocean, visiting of the book. Personal, social and employing metre, rhyme and tra- politics and economy exposes every continent and mapping environmental values are defined. ditional form in some of his what the contemporary world has multiple-thousands of uncharted Exercises and worksheets for the poems, his work provides a fresh taken away. coastlines. His abilities as scien- ten steps aid the reader to identify look at all that poetry can be. Bowling was nominated for the tific observer, explorer and enthusiasms and to formulate Caution: Some words may be Governor General’s Literary diplomat are emphasized, as are goals and action plans. Two offensive to some. There are also Award for Poetry for both The Wit- his negotiations with Maquinna appendices of tools and resources references to sexual behaviours ness Ghost and The Memory and Bodega in the Nootka contro- complete the book. and to using alcohol or marijuana. Orchard. versy. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BUSINESS OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST EDUCATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP LANGUAGE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES NATIONS STUDIES 12, SOCIAL 12, HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION, STUDIES MARKETING 11-12 Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 88 pp. 5.25”x7.5” 2007 288 pp. 6.25”x9.25” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes colour illustrations ISBN: 9780889712119 $29.95 HC 2008 272 pp. 6.25”x9.25” 2007 240 pp. 7.25”x9” ISBN: 9780889712232 $16.95 PA b/w line drawings, maps charts nightwoodeditions.com ISBN: 9781553653394 $34.95 HC ISBN: 9780865715912 $24.95 PA nightwoodeditions.com douglas-mcintyre.com newsociety.com

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Mount Assiniboine Nikkei Fishermen on Not Just a Operation Orca Images in Art the BC Coast Pretty Face Springer, Luna and the Jane Lytton Gooch Their Biographies and The Ugly Side Struggle to Save West Coast Rocky Mountain Books Photographs of the Beauty Industry Killer Whales Mount Assiniboine examines a Masako Fukawa, ed. Stacy Malkan Daniel Francis & Gil century of images of this area in Harbour Publishing New Society Publishers Hewlett the Canadian Rocky Mountains. A Harbour Publishing wide variety of artists are Not Just a Pretty Face represented including A.P Cole- The first Japanese immigrant, describes the Nikkei Operation Orca examines two man, Carl Rungius, James , came to BC in 1877. At one work of breast cancer activists and time there were 4,000 Japanese- environmentalists to have recent attempts to save two young Simpson, A.Y. Jackson and Joseph killer whales in distress: Springer Plaskett. A brief biography relating Canadians who made their living cosmetic companies eliminate fishing on the coast of BC. By the toxic chemicals in everyday items in Puget Sound, who was to their time spent in the Mount ultimately reunited with her fam- Assiniboine region is included. year 2000 the number had such as shampoo, deodorants, dwindled to forty. This book was soap and cosmetics. These chemi- ily, and Luna in Nootka Sound, Each colour image includes a who ultimately perished after get- thorough description of the piece, produced to recognize the contri- cals can be linked to birth defects, butions made by the Nikkei to the cancer and infertility. The author ting too close to a boat engine. including media, size and present Throughout the fast-paced discus- location. Only five of these images BC fishing industry, and to pay trib- examines the reluctance of big ute to the older fishermen who cosmetic companies to change sion of the rescues, the authors have been previously published. also describe the research into Includes endnotes and a list of endured many hardships. This book their formulations and makes sug- is a compilation of 767 individual gestions as to how consumers can killer whale family life that artists. allowed scientists to even attempt Gooch is an English professor at biographies and photographs that avoid the toxic chemicals. were submitted by the fishermen Includes extensive notes at the these rescues. Historical interac- the University of British Columbia. tions with orcas are also Artists themselves or their families. The end of the book. Her previous book is titled discussed. of the Rockies: Inspiration of Lake brief biographical sketches provide Malkan is the co-founder of the Francis is the author of numer- O’Hara. personal information, including Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. She where they lived during the war is a former journalist and newspa- ous books including Far West: the years. It also includes the names of per publisher. This book won the Story of British Columbia. He was SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 3680 known Nikkei fishermen, Silver Medal in the category of editor of the Encyclopedia of OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS information on Japanese customs, Health/Medicine from the 2008 British Columbia. Hewlett worked Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes food and language, and salmon Independent Publisher Book at the Vancouver Aquarium for 42 2007 152 pp. 8”x8” fishing in BC. Awards. years and worked with many of b/w photographs, colour their orcas. reproductions, map SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 ISBN: 9781894765978 $29.95 PA OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HEALTH & SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES rmbooks.com STUDIES CAREER EDUCATION, SCIENCES Index/Bibliography: No/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 274 pp.9.75”x12.25” 2007 192 pp. 6”x9” 2007 272 pp. 6.25”x9.25” b/w photographs & illustrations, b/w photographs, reproductions b/w & colour photographs maps ISBN: 9780865715745 $15.95 PA ISBN: 9781550174267 $34.95 HC ISBN: 9781550174366 $39.95 HC newsociety.com harbourpublishing.com harbourpublishing.com

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A Passion Pricing Strategies Repose return to for This Earth for Small Business Adam Getty open water Nightwood Editions Writers, Scientists, and Andrew Gregson Poems New & Selected Activists Explore Our Self-Counsel Press With a careful and conscious Harold Rhenisch attention to form, Getty explores Ronsdale Press Relationship with Nature This is a straightforward, in this poetry book the endurance and the Environment anecdote-packed guide to deter- required to live in and make a liv- mining prices and improving ing in modern times. Using the Despite his many honours and Michelle Benjamin, ed. one’s own business. Chapters contrasts between urban and nat- awards, Harold Rhenisch remains Greystone Books address specific issues showing in ural environments and their lesser known than he should be. detail how to choose the right incongruous meeting points, the This collection contains selections from some of his many poetry In this collection of essays some of prices for products and services, reader is pulled along in the and cover such topics as psycho- process of the poet’s hard-won books (ten poetry collections and the world’s most influential writ- five chapbooks, the translation of ers, scientists and activists logical pricing, price skimming, understandings and efforts to penetration pricing, cost plus make sense of his world. With sub- a play from German, a collection examine our relationship with of essays, a novel and three books nature and the environment. Top- mark-up and multiple unit pric- jects as diverse as a hog Pricing Strategies of non-fiction). These poems are ics include human ecology, the ings. teaches slaughterhouse, steel town, west how to individualize pricing coast rural sub-division, and an imbued with a sense of all that is environmental impact of technol- BC; even the geography is our ogy on our planet, global strategies to the current situation, encounter with a dying suicide, so business owners can consider the poems fulfill the promise of own—Skeena, Keremeos, Okana- warming, and environmental gan. Besides containing highlights activism and policies. Inspired by all the options. Filled with illustra- the opening quote from tive examples, many tactics are Kierkegaard that, “it isn’t through of Rhenisch’s poetic career, David Suzuki, these essays Return to Open Water offers a sec- provide students with an under- discussed in detail with graduated form one receives life but through options for different kinds of busi- life (one) receives form”. tion of new poems. standing of the significance of Reconcilia- Rhenisch has been honoured by Suzuki’s contributions to the field ness. Drawing on long experience Getty is the author of tion, the CBC Literary Awards, been a of biology, ecology and environ- of helping businesses improve and his work has been Breath- finalist for the BC Book Prizes, and mental science. Author cash flow, this succinct, to-the- included in the anthology ing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets. has won the George Ryga Award biographies, notes and acknowl- point, and well-written book offers He invaluable guidance on effective received the Gerald Lampert for Social Responsibility in Litera- edgements are included. . pricing. Memorial Award was shortlisted ture Caution: for the Trillium Poetry Award. There are some sexual SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 references, a few instances of lan- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH guage that some might find offen- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BUSINESS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 LANGUAGE ARTS, GEOGRAPHY 12, sive, and references to drinking. SCIENCES, SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 12, HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION, LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/No MARKETING 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 2008 204 pp. 5.25”x7.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH ISBN: 9781553653752 $21.00 PA Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 2008 88 pp. 5.5”x8” LANGUAGE ARTS 2008 198 pp. 8.25”x9.75” ISBN: 9780889712195 $16.95 PA greystonebooks.com charts Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781551807973 $18.95 PA nightwoodeditions.com 2007 150 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781553800507 $15.95 PA self-counsel.com ronsdalepress.com

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Simon Fraser Soucouyant Stardust Street Stories In Search of Modern David Chariandy Bruce Serafin 100 Years of Homelessness British Columbia Arsenal Pulp Press New Star Books in Vancouver

Stephen Hume Using the unique relationship Stardust is a topical collection of Michael Barnholden & Harbour Publishing between a Caribbean immigrant twenty personal essays that begin Nancy Newman mother and her Canadian-born with Serafin’s arrival in Vancouver Lindsay Mearns The author provides a chronologi- son, this novel explores the at the age of nineteen. We meet Anvil Press cal journey of Simon Fraser’s life, uselessness, destructiveness and with his early explorations of at times clarifying power of mem- downtown Vancouver, his formal especially his exploration and the Street Stories takes an historical establishment of trade relations ory. A son returns as a young adult studies of English literature, his to his childhood suburban years as an editor, and later, as a look at homelessness in Vancou- with the Aboriginals. Beginning in ver beginning with mudflats and the early 1800s, Hume takes read- Toronto home in a confused friend to many of the local writers. attempt to make amends for leav- Throughout the essays, Serafin squatters’ shacks, shantytowns ers through Simon Fraser’s and hobo jungles, to our present experiences as he opened up a ter- ing his mother, who is in the dissects his love and curiosity for advanced stages of dementia. The literature in order to make sense of situation. As well, it features pho- ritory that is now the province of tographs of the many faces of BC. His accounts of the early Abo- son resurrects pertinent family it all. In his unique style of history to make sense of current personal anecdote and interpreta- street people, dispelling the riginal nations and cultures notion that all are panhandlers comprise a high percentage of this situations. In the process, the dif- tion, Serafin reveals the strong fering reactions and adaptations connection between fiction and and are on drugs. There are run- book. He writes of how both Euro- aways, foster kids, musicians, pean and Aboriginal cultures to racist behaviors, shows how the real life. effects of racism can take many Serafin (1950-2007) was the street performers, binners, changed and assimilated as they panhandlers, dealers, addicts, learned from each other. The forms. Themes of racism in late founding editor of the original 20th century suburbia, workplace Vancouver Review. His first book, prostitutes, and many whose author includes a useful descrip- mental health issues have gone tion of methods for gathering abuses, the vagaries of aging and Colin’s Big Thing, was published in the confusions of nuclear family 2004. unaddressed or have been inade- evidence to maintain both histori- quately treated. cal reliability and credibility. obligations are presented. Caution: Frequent swearing and Soucouyant was nominated for graphic vulgarity, as well as refer- Barnholden is the managing edi- Hume is an award-winning West Coast Line the Governor General’s Literary ences to sexual liaisons. tor of and the author. Presently he is a senior author of several books including Van- Award and long-listed for the writer and columnist for the Reading the Riot Act. Newman couver Sun. Giller Prize. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 teaches at Douglas College and Caution: Some explicit descrip- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Mearns is a Vancouver artist. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, tions of sex, violence, abuse and LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER RESOURCE mental illness. Some coarse lan- Index/Bibliography: No/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST guage is included. 2007 240 pp. 5.5”x8.5” TEACHER RESOURCE NATIONS STUDIES 12, SOCIAL ISBN: 9781554200337 $19.00 PA OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH newstarbooks.com Index/Bibliography: Yes/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 400 pp. 7.25”x10.25” 2007 128 pp. 6”x8” b/w and colour reproductions, colour Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w & archival photographs photographs, line drawings, maps 2007 200 pp. 5.5”x8” ISBN: 9781895636857 $20.00 PA ISBN: 9781550174342 $36.95 HC ISBN: 9781551522265 $19.95 PA anvilpress.com harbourpublishing.com arsenalpulp.com

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Surveying Central Top of the Pass To Touch a Dream The Trail of 1858 British Columbia Whistler and the A Wilderness Adventure British Columbia’s A Photojournal of Sea-to-Sky Country Sunny Wright Gold Rush Past Frank Swannell, 1920–28 Stephen Vogler Ronsdale Press Mark Forsythe Toshi Kawano & Greg Dickson This memoir tells the story of the Jay Sherwood & Bonny Makarewicz Harbour Publishing Royal BC Museum yearning of many Canadians: to Harbour Publishing quit a dead-end job and move into the wilderness to live off the land. This book discusses how the gold Using Swannell’s detailed Vogler traces Whistler’s history Sunny Wright did exactly that rushes in BC, and most notably journals, the testimony of relatives from the time when the Lil’wat when she decided at age twenty- the Fraser River gold rush, trans- and archival materials for his nation lived in the area, to eight to quit working in a formed the small colony that research, Sherwood describes Whistler today. He focuses largely Vancouver sawmill. With her depended on the fur trade into a Frank Swannell’s work of survey- on the development of Whistler as friend and daughter, she leaves booming Canadian province. A ing and mapping the central parts a destination ski resort and her urban life outfitted for life in discussion of the roles of Sir James of BC for the BC government. The describes in detail the expansion northern BC. They find 160 acres of Douglas, Amor de Cosmos and book is a photojournal of the of the village and Whistler and bush land near Vanderhoof and Matthew Begbie are intertwined results of his work. In his surveys Blackcomb Mountains. He also begin constructing their own with personal stories, poems, of areas around Burn’s Lake, the writes about Whistler’s early years house and farm buildings. To songs, photographs and family Nechako, Houston, the Chilcotin, of logging and prospecting, and make extra money they bootleg remembrances. Aboriginal peo- Swannell provided detailed maps where outdoor enthusiasts home brew, raise rabbits, breed ples, Chinese, Hawaiians, Blacks and photographs of the region. traveled on the Pacific Great East- sled dogs and run a trap line. The and women all contributed to the Many of these have both ern steam train to Alta Lake to fly book follows Sunny, Betty and success of the gold rushes. topographical and historical sig- fish and explore. Top of the Pass Lisa’s adventures as they struggle Forsythe is the host of CBC nificance. Pictured are some of the contains information on the to survive alongside fiercely indi- Radio’s BC Almanac. Dickson was communities developing during neighboring communities of Mt. vidualistic neighbours, fighting a journalist and producer at the this time, the Grand Trunk Currie and the Lil’wat Nation, northern winters, but enjoying the CBC for over twenty years. In 2005, Railway, early roads and cars, and Pemberton and Squamish. independence of rural life. This the pair published The BC transportation possibilities and Included are archival photographs Thoreau-like quest will make an Almanac Book of Greatest British problems. and stunning photographs of the ideal comparison for the studies of Columbians. This is Sherwood’s second book sea-to-sky corridor. other utopian people and commu- on Frank Swannell. nities. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10, 12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 NATIONS STUDIES 12, SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST STUDIES, TOURISM 11 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES NATIONS STUDIES 12, FINE ARTS, LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES GEOGRAPHY 12, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 144 pp. 8.75”x11.25” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 250 pp. 8.5”x10” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes b/w & colour photographs 2006 190 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs, illustrations & 2007 192 pp. 10.5”x10.5” ISBN: 9781550174304 $34.95 HC b/w photographs maps b/w photographs, maps ISBN: 9781553800354 $21.95 PA ISBN: 9781550174243 $26.95 PA ISBN: 9780772657428 $39.95 PA harbourpublishing.com ronsdalepress.com harbourpublishing.com royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

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The Triumph of Understanding Voices Raised Watch Yourself Citizenship Bolivia in Protest Why Safer Isn’t Always Better The Japanese and Chinese A Traveller’s History Defending North American Matt Hern New Star Books in Canada, 1941–67 Vivien Lougheed Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, Patricia E. Roy Harbour Publishing 1942–49 In this book, Hern examines our UBC Press misguided and ineffective This book is intended as an histor- Stephanie Bangarth attempts to make modern life safe. ical guide to the country of Bolivia UBC Press With sections devoted to home In this book, Roy traces how Chi- for travelers and others interested life, children, neighbourhoods, nese and Japanese immigrants in a general history of the country This book offers a well- outdoors, school, legal and their descendants in BC even- and culture. Written in an engag- implications, technology, policing tually gained Canadian documented account of the ing, narrative style, the book enforced incarceration, relocation and surveillance, the author ques- citizenship despite racist govern- covers Bolivia’s history from pre- tions our acceptance of measures ment policy and public opinion. and deportation of persons of Columbian times to the present Japanese ancestry in both Canada that he feels have more to do with She discusses the declaration to day as well as information relevant control than with safety. He exam- evacuate Japanese immigrants and the US. Issues of racism and of to travelers such as customs, tradi- anti-internment advocacy are pre- ines how policy-makers allow from the west coast at the begin- tions and tourism, and the legal exposure to create an emo- ning of WWII. In addition, she sented. In a comparative environment. It relates historical approach, the policies of both tional response to risk that further details the effects of the war on the events to the places that tourists skews our thinking. By differenti- Chinese and the end of exclusive Canadian and US governments would be likely to visit. The author and the attitudes and actions of ating safety and security the Chinese immigration restrictions. also includes some information author reveals how current poli- The Triumph of Citizenship non-Japanese citizens are on her personal experiences while cies and strategies are more about reminds all Canadians of the val- assessed and critiqued. Legal bat- traveling in Bolivia. This is a good tles both during and after WWII reducing risk in order to meet eco- ues and limits of their citizenship. supplementary information book nomic criteria than about The book contains extensive chap- are discussed. Protests and the both for travelers and those look- developing human rights move- improving the quality of life. The ter notes. ing for information on the history results reduce our experiential Roy is Professor Emerita of His- ment are chronicled. The issues of Bolivia. also relate to current concerns learning and our self-reliance. tory at the University of Victoria Lougheed has written over ten Hern is the author of Field Day: and a member of the Royal Society about national security, civil liber- previous books. ties and human rights. Getting Society Out of School, and of Canada. the editor of Deschooling Our SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Lives. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HISTORY TEACHER RESOURCE STUDIES 12, LAW 12, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HISTORY OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: CIVICS 12, 12, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION, 2008 240 pp. 5.25”x8.25” 2008 296 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No LAW 11, SOCIAL STUDIES b/w & colour photographs, maps b/w photographs & reproductions 2007 400 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781550174441 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9780774814157 $85.00 HC / Index/Bibliography: No/Yes editorial cartoons, maps, tables 9780774814164 $32.95 PA 2007 192 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9780774813808 $85.00 HC / harbourpublishing.com b/w photographs, diagrams 9780774813815 $32.95 PA ubcpress.ca ISBN: 9781554200214 $22.00 PA ubcpress.ca newstarbooks.com

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Water, Weather and Where Hope Writing for Children Writing the the Mountain West Takes Root and Young Adults West Coast Robert William Sandford Democracy and Pluralism Dr. Marion Crook In Love with Place Rocky Mountain Books in an Interdependent World Self-Counsel Press Christine Lowther & Anita Sinner, eds. His Highness Writing for Children and Young This book examines the water cri- Ronsdale Press sis facing Alberta and The Aga Khan Adults is one in a series of how-to- Saskatchewan residents, warning Douglas & McIntyre write-in-a-genre books. It coaches about the impact of global climate the reader on everything from the This collection of essays written by well-known and emerging West change. Canadians need to stop His Highness The Aga Khan has ingredients of a story to promoting questioning the inevitability of cli- the book. Many of the tips and Coast writers explores the been the forty-ninth hereditary interconnectedness of man and mate change and consider how to Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims techniques presented will carry manage its effects. The author over to other styles of fiction writ- his environment and the sense of since assuming office in July 1957. what it means to be “at home” in appraises the auto industry’s self- In 1980, he established the Aga ing. Packed with descriptive interest, the petty mentality of examples, Writing for Children one’s surroundings. In these Khan Development Network to essays, people are dependent governments and the abrogation help improve living conditions shows how to select the age group of responsibility by people. Are to write for, build and motivate upon the environment and upon and opportunities in the develop- each other. Essay topics include there governmental plans to deal Where Hope Takes convincing characters, research ing world. the environmental impact of fish with water shortfalls due to chang- Roots is a collection of speeches settings, manage plots, submit ing weather circumstances? What manuscripts to publishers, deal farms in the Broughton Archipel- on democracy, pluralism and edu- ago on the wild salmon will we do when more people want cation given by His Highness The with criticism and promote the to come to water-plentiful published book. Ideas are organ- population, the protests against Aga Khan over the past six years. clearcutting the coastal mountain nations? Although some solutions Education is stressed, especially ized in a coherent manner that is are offered, the significance of this easy to read and understand. For forests, the “excluded” Haida the education of Western society Writ- Gwaii, and the deep rootedness of work is in posing the questions about Muslims. Many of the the beginner fiction writer, ing for Children and Young Adults First Nations West Coast commu- that Canadians should be asking. speeches discuss Canada’s role as Sandford is the author or editor offers valuable and helpful nities. This useful resource a global leader in the promotion of provides historical information of twenty books on the history and democracy and pluralism. Refer- content. heritage of the Canadian west. A companion CD-ROM is about BC as well as inspiration. ences are included at the end of Author biographies are included. each chapter. included which contains several SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 examples, ten worksheets, and a OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: RESOURCE recommended Reading List. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SCIENCES 11-12, SCIENCES, SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: CIVIC STUDIES NATIONS STUDIES 12, ENGLISH STUDIES 11, SOCIAL JUSTICE 12, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, TEACHER RESOURCE LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2007 208 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS ISBN: 9781894765930 $19.95 PA 2008 240 pp. 6”x9” 2008 144 pp. 5.5”x7.75” Index/Bibliography: No/No colour photographs rmbooks.com b/w photographs ISBN: 9781553800552 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9781553653660 $24.95 HC 2008 192 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs ronsdalepress.com douglas-mcintyre.com ISBN: 9781551808130 $19.95 PA

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Adderson, Caroline ...... 3 Gadd, Ben ...... 10 Pavelka, Joe ...... 5 Antonson, Rick, Mary Trainer & Gaetz, Dayle Campbell ...... 10 Pearce, Jacqueline ...... 12 Brian Antonson ...... 14 Galat, Joan Marie ...... 11 Pogue, Carolyn ...... 16 Armitage, Doreen ...... 14 Getty, Adam ...... 27 Polak, Monique ...... 9 Auger, Dale ...... 5 Gough, Barry ...... 21 Pyne, Stephen J...... 18 Bangarth, Stephanie ...... 30 Goyette, Linda ...... 6 Rader, Matt ...... 25 Barman, Jean ...... 9 Gregson, Andrew ...... 27 Reed, Carole Ann & Harold Lass ...... 20 Barnholden, Michael & Nancy Newman . . . .28 Grenville, Bruce ...... 24 Rhenisch, Harold ...... 27 Baxter, Jean Rae ...... 15 Griffiths, Dean (ill.) ...... 7 Richler, Howard ...... 18 Beaulieu, Archie, (ill.) ...... 8 Grimand, Gabrielle (ill.) ...... 4 Rose, Simon ...... 11 Beaverho, Archie, (ill.) ...... 5 Hern, Matt ...... 30 Ross, Graham (ill.) ...... 6 Béha, Philippe (ill.) ...... 3 Hockenhull, Oliver & Alex MacKenzie, eds. . .19 Roy, Patricia E...... 30 Benjamin, Michelle, ed...... 27 Hughes, Vi ...... 2 Roy, Philip ...... 7 Bennett, Lorna (ill.) ...... 11 Hume, Stephen ...... 28 Sandford, Robert William ...... 31 Benoit, Renné (ill.) ...... 1 Huras, Lynne (ill.) ...... 5 Schoonover, Jason ed...... 17 Billington, Keith ...... 12 Hutchins, Hazel ...... 8 Serafin, Bruce ...... 28 Blondin, George (as told by John Blondin) . .4, 5 Jennings, Neil L...... 10 Shadick, Stan ...... 14 Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian ...... 13 Jergenson, Phil Richard Jergenson & Sherwood, Jay ...... 29 Bowling, Tim ...... 25 Wilma Keppel ...... 12 Siamon, Sharon ...... 6 Bown, Stephen R...... 25 Johnston, Mike & Ryan Walter ...... 13, 14 Siemens, Mary trans...... 8 Brouwer, Sigmund ...... 7 Jovanovic, Katarina ...... 3 Skene, Pat ...... 6 Bryan, Liz ...... 19 Kawano, Toshi & Bonny Makarewicz (ill.) . . .29 Smith, Ron ...... 1 Budde, Rob ...... 20 Khan, His Highness The Aga ...... 31 Smith, Ethan & Guy Dauncey ...... 18 Bush, Maureen ...... 2 Kramer, Pat ...... 15 Spalding, David A. E...... 11 Campbell, Ruth (ill.) ...... 1, 3 Labatt, Mary ...... 5 Springer, Lonnie (ill.) ...... 10 Chariandy, David ...... 28 Laliberté, Louise-André (ill.) ...... 2 Storm, Jennifer ...... 20 Charles, Norma ...... 21 Lane, Patrick ...... 24 Sundberg, Mary Rose trans...... 4, 5 Citra, Becky ...... 3 Lee, Ingrid ...... 4 Suzuki, David ...... 7 Clark, Karin ...... 13 Leist, Christina (ill.) ...... 2 Swanson, Diane ...... 9 Cook Waldron, Kathleen & Ann Walsh ...... 2 Liwska, Renata (ill.) ...... 5 Thomas, Vital ...... 8 Cran, Brad and Gillian Jerome ...... 22 Lougheed, Vivien ...... 30 Toews, Dr. David Waltner ...... 21 Crook, Dr. Marion ...... 31 Lowther, Christine & Anita Sinner, eds...... 31 Tovell, Freeman M...... 18 Dalton, Anthony ...... 17 Lyon, Annabel ...... 9 Truscott, Gerald ...... 11 Deas, Mike (ill.) ...... 15 Lytton Gooch, Jane ...... 26 Vassilopoulos, Peter ...... 12 Decker, Karla, ed...... 22 Malkan, Stacy ...... 26 Vogler, Stephen ...... 29 DeFields McMillan, Melody ...... 1 Manson, Ainslie ...... 1 Walker, Gabrielle & Sir David King ...... 23 Donaghy, Greg & Patricia E. Roy, eds...... 19 Maracle, Lee ...... 15 Wang, ShaoLi (ill.) ...... 6 Dumont, Marilyn, ed...... 23 McAllister, Ian ...... 24 Warick, Bob (ill.) ...... 2 Dunigan, Matt & Jim Taylor ...... 22 McSwain, Ray (ill.) ...... 4 We Are What We Do ...... 1 Dunstan Muller, Rachel ...... 7 McWhirter, George ...... 17 Weston, Anthony ...... 23 Edge, Marc ...... 17 Mearns, Lindsay (ill.) ...... 28 Whyte, Jack ...... 23 Einarson, Earl ...... 4 Ayukawa, Michiko Midge ...... 22 Wishinsky, Frieda ...... 2 Everett, Melissa ...... 25 Milne, Jessica (ill.) ...... 3 Withers, Pam ...... 13 Fernandes, Eugenie (ill.) ...... 7 Mitchinson, Martin ...... 19 Wong, Rita ...... 21 Flett, Julie (ill.) ...... 4 Murphy, Michael & Vicki Wong ...... 4 Wright, Sunny ...... 29 Flook, Helen (ill.) ...... 3 Nicoll, Michael Yahgulanaas ...... 20 Yee, Paul ...... 6 Forsythe, Mark & Greg Dickson ...... 29 O’Donnell, Liam ...... 15 Zytaruk, Tom ...... 24 Francis, Daniel & Gil Hewlett ...... 26 Oke, Kevin (ill.) ...... 11 Fukawa, Masako ed...... 26 Page, P. K...... 3

32 ASSOCIATION OF BOOK PUBLISHERS OF BC INDEX BY TITLE

121 Express ...... 9 Goin’ Deep ...... 22 A Puppy is for Loving ...... 5 Addison Addley and the Things That Aren’t Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin ...... 22 Repose ...... 27 There ...... 1 The Heretic’s Tomb ...... 11 return to open water ...... 27 Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives . . .17 Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada 1891–1941 .22 Rhyme Stones ...... 6 All-Season Edie ...... 9 Hope In Shadows ...... 22 Rocky Mountain Kids ...... 6 Alone ...... 17 The Hot Topic ...... 23 Shu-Li and Tamara ...... 6 The Anachronicles ...... 17 House Calls by Dogsled ...... 12 Simon Fraser ...... 28 Asper Nation ...... 17 How to Build with Grid Beam ...... 12 Simply the Best ...... 14 At the Far Reaches of Empire ...... 18 How to Re-Imagine the World ...... 23 Simply the Best ...... 13 Awful Splendour ...... 18 I, Bruno ...... 3 Skywatcher’s Companion ...... 14 Boy in Motion ...... 1 Initiations ...... 23 Slumach’s Gold ...... 14 British Columbia ...... 9 Jack Whyte ...... 23 Soucouyant ...... 28 Buffalo Sunrise ...... 9 Jake the Baker Makes a Cake ...... 3 Stardust ...... 28 Building an Ark ...... 18 Jeremy and the Fantastic Flying Machine . . . . .3 Stone Horse ...... 6 Can I Have a Word With You? ...... 18 John M. Horton ...... 12 Street Stories ...... 28 The Canadian Hiker’s & Backpacker’s KRAZY! ...... 24 Submarine Outlaw ...... 7 Handbook ...... 10 The King Has Goat Ears ...... 3 Surveying Central British Columbia ...... 29 Central Beauty ...... 10 Last Water Song ...... 24 Tales from the Galley ...... 14 Change the World for Ten Bucks ...... 1 The Last Wild Wolves ...... 24 Ten Thumbs Sam ...... 7 Coastal Beauty ...... 10 The Legend of the Caribou Boy ...... 4 There’s a Barnyard in My Bedroom ...... 7 Contradictory Impulses ...... 19 Like A Rock ...... 24 Timberwolf Trap ...... 7 Country Roads of British Columbia ...... 19 Living Things ...... 25 TJ and the Quiz Kids ...... 8 Crossbow ...... 10 The Lost Coast ...... 25 To Touch a Dream ...... 29 Damp ...... 19 Madness, Betrayal and the Lash ...... 25 Top of the Pass ...... 29 The Darien Gap ...... 19 Making a Living While Making a Difference .25 Totem Poles ...... 15 Deadly Loyalties ...... 20 Manga Touch ...... 12 The Trail of 1858 ...... 29 Dot to Dot in the Sky ...... 11 Maybe Later ...... 4 The Triumph of Citizenship ...... 30 Echoes of the Holocaust ...... 20 Miga, Quatchi and/et Sumi ...... 4 Understanding Bolivia ...... 30 Elf the Eagle ...... 1 The Moccasins ...... 4 Voices Raised in Protest ...... 30 Enchanted Isles ...... 11 Mount Assiniboine ...... 26 Watch Yourself ...... 30 Feather Brain ...... 2 Mountainboard Maniacs ...... 13 Water, Weather and the Mountain West . . . . .31 Finding Ft. George ...... 20 Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon ...... 5 The Way Lies North ...... 15 Flight of the Hummingbird ...... 20 Ned ...... 5 Where Hope Takes Root ...... 31 Food, Sex, and Salmonella ...... 21 Nikkei Fishermen on the BC Coast ...... 26 Wild Ride ...... 15 forage ...... 21 Not Just a Pretty Face ...... 26 Will’s Garden ...... 15 Forestry A-Z ...... 2 The Old Brown Suitcase ...... 13 A World of Faith ...... 16 Fortune’s A River ...... 21 The Old Man with the Otter Medicine ...... 5 Writing for Children and Young Adults ...... 31 Free Spirit ...... 11 Operation Orca ...... 26 Writing the West Coast ...... 31 A Frog in My Throat ...... 2 Pacific Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art ...... 13 Yamozha and His Beaver Wife ...... 8 The Girl in the Backseat ...... 21 A Passion for This Earth ...... 27 The Graveyard Hounds ...... 2 Pricing Strategies for Small Business ...... 27

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