BC Books for BC Schools 2007/08

INTRODUCTION

Dear teacher-librarians,

Once again, the Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) is pleased to offer BC schools a selection of the best of books published in the province suitable for school libraries. This year we are very excited to also offer you FREE books if you take just a short amount of time to give us some feedback on the catalogue. This essential information will help us obtain funding to continue the catalogue into the future.

Over the years we have listened to your suggestions and incorporated them where possible into the format of the catalogue. Titles are organized alphabetically by title according to the appropriate grade level: Elementary or Secondary, with a Cross Grades section accommodating books that will be useful at both levels. An index will help you locate books. A checklist of all the books in the catalogue is available on our website at http://books.bc.ca/images/pdfs/BcBooksCheck07.pdf. We understand from teacher-librarians that this helps to organize your order to your supplier of choice. Unfortunately the ABPBC cannot process orders.

The ABPBC is indebted to the team of teacher-librarian evaluators who selected the books in this catalogue from submissions, wrote the annotations and applied the curriculum areas and grade levels for us. Their professionalism ensures the integrity and usefulness of the catalogue.

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Teacher-librarians are crucial to student achievement and student literacy, which is why the ABPBC supports the BC Coalition for School Libraries, an important group that aims to raise awareness of the role of school libraries and teacher-librarians in our society. Our members also hope that this catalogue helps to ensure that appropriate Canadian materials serve these same objectives and that our books will ﬁnd a place in our school libraries.

Yours truly,

Margaret Reynolds Executive Director, Association of Book Publishers of BC

October 2007

BC BOOKS FOR BC SCHOOLS 2007 – 2008 CATALOGUE EVALUATION FORM

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BC BOOKS FOR BC SCHOOLS 2007 – 2008 CATALOGUE EVALUATION FORM BC Books for BC Schools 2007/08

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Abby’s Birds The Airplane Ride Alphabetter The Aunts Ellen Schwartz Howard White Dan Bar-el Come Marching Sima Elizabeth Shefrin Greta Guzek Graham Ross Tradewind Books Nightwood Editions Orca Book Publishers Bill Richardson Cynthia Nugent This award-winning book uses A young boy’s first airplane trip The dust jacket reads: “Dan Bar- Raincoast Books patterned Japanese origami across North America with his el believes that the highest paper, textured cut-paper and parents is described in this compliment a preschool child On a quiet, relaxing day, solitude rice paper in collage style to cre- lively, easy-to-read picture book. can pay is to call one silly… is broken with the arrival of a ate intriguing artwork. Abby This is a great story to prepare Nothing gets a giggle like the number of musical relatives. learns valuable life lessons from children for their first absurd.” This is a silly book that Numerous aunts, with musical Mrs. Naka, her elderly Japanese experience with flying from will make young students giggle. accompaniment, march in to neighbour. Through their shared boarding to disembarkation. It works this way: the page for take over the peaceful love of the backyard robin fam- The singing rhyme, appropriate the letter E features Edward who household to the delight of the ily, Abby experiences the joys for younger audiences, unfolds has an egg. However, the children. As the succession of and sorrows of the life cycle. the descriptions of the changing illustration shows poor Edward musical aunts arrive with their When Mrs. Naka is hospitalized, views below: “shrinking cities, playing football and the egg just big bass drums, piccolos, sousa- Abby is able to express empathy flat oceans, dense forests, flat doesn’t fit the bill. What he really phones, cymbals, trumpets, and love for her in a poignant farmlands, huge lakes, and twin- needs is a…football. Get it? The bagpipes, bassoons, harps, way with the origami paper kling lights.” The colourful students will! Alphabetter will kazoos, trombones and cranes her neighbour had taught full-page illustrations bring the actively engage students. With- saxophones, Dad sends them her to fold. Instructions for cre- story to life. out knowing it, they will learn upstairs to the great room. After ating paper cranes are printed the alphabet. The illustrations the last group led by Auntie inside the book jacket cover. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-1 are colourful and humorous. For Gwen arrives and ascends the Ellen Schwartz is a Burnaby, SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH good measure, and more fun, stairs, Dad makes his exit to seek BC author who has written LANGUAGE ARTS Ross hides a letter on each page solace once again. The Aunts twelve children’s books. Sima for children to find. Come Marching is illustrated Index/Bibliography: No/No Elizabeth Shefrin lives in Dan Bar-el is the author of with large full-page illustrations 2006 32 pp. 9.25”x9.25” Vancouver and on Gabriola Things are Looking Up, Jack and of imaginatively attired aunts. colour illustrations Island, BC. Things are Looking Grimm, Jill. Children will love counting the ISBN: 9780889712249 $16.95 HC Graham Ross is the illustrator of aunts, singing the lyrics (music SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-3 By a Thread by Ned Dickens. provided) to the story and mov- SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH ing to the rhythm. LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS: SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-1 VISUAL ARTS SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-3 LANGUAGE ARTS SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS 2006 32 pp. 10”x19” Index/Bibliography: No/No coloured cut-paper collage 2007 32 pp. 9”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 1896580866 $19.95 HC colour illustrations 2007 32 pp. 8.5”x11” ISBN: 9781551434391 $19.95 colour illustrations HC/9781551438610 $9.95 PA ISBN: 9781551929903 $19.95 HC

BC BOOKS FOR BC SCHOOLS 2007 – 2008 CATALOGUE 1 ELEMENTARY

Baad Animals Behind the Big Snapper Canadian Boys Who Tiffany Stone Sorcerer’s Cloak Katherine Holubitsky Rocked the World Christina Leist Orca Book Publishers Tradewind Books Andrea Spalding Tanya Lloyd Kyi Orca Book Publishers In Haida Gwaii, ten-year old Walrus Books The poems in this book are Eddie spends summer days fish- quirky and comical and encour- The fourth installment in The ing with his granddad, who This book for boys has thirty age active listening. Young Summer of Magic Quartet is a entertains Eddie with tall tales biographies of historical and children love to move to the well-told fantasy and mystery about a giant snapper. Eddie contemporary Canadian male rhythm of poetry and to chime involving four children in past believes that by catching the heroes from the world of sports, in with that final rhyming word. and present events on the Isle of giant snapper, his family’s wars, performing arts, business, Especially if the poem is very Man. The previous volume ends fortunes will change. His family exploration and sciences. The silly. “If you Knew What the Gnu with Adam lost in a magic portal is poor. His father left for the city chapters of the book contain Knew” invites children to play in the Dark Being’s domain, and has not called home for high-interest sidebars: a “Fast with homonyms. How about unable to return. The other chil- months. When his granddad Fact” sidebar about the person emulating this poem with dren and their adult falls ill and must be hospitalized whose life story is being written; Hare/Heir/Hair or Bear/Bare or companions go to the Isle of in the city, Eddie feels twice a “Boys Around the World” side- Horse/Hoarse? Is your class Man, where Holly had, in a abandoned. To make ends meet, bar about another famous male studying magnets? Use “Don’t dream, seen the Lady being Eddie’s family opens a B & B. hero; and a “How Will You Rock Give a Magnet to an Elephant” buried. Holly is the only one Children from the city complain the World?” sidebar written by a to create a poem about all the who can order the beads to that there is “nothing to do” on contemporary Canadian boy things that might get stuck to a waken the sleeping Lady. There the island. True, there are no about his dream for the future. magnet. How about adding is much action between the shopping malls, movie theatres, This book can encourage boys to members to “Our Club” of ani- forces of Dark and Light, and a McDonald’s or computers. But aspire, do compatible research mals with weird-sounding long-awaited confrontation Eddie begins to realize the riches and write about family members names as part of a science or does not have a clear winner. he has in community, family, and themselves. geography unit? This book of Adam is saved and there is rec- fishing and nature. Eddie’s Tanya Lloyd Kyi is the author of poems invites children of all onciliation between the two father comes to the same eight children’s books, including ages to play with words and forces. The children return to realization and returns home. Canadian Girls Who Rocked the images. It shows them that their home where Chantel and Together they catch the big World. She has won the Christie poetry can be fun. Adam’s parents do not resolve snapper, only to release it. Harris Illustrated Children’s Lit- Tiffany Stone also wrote Floyd their differences, but both will Katherine Holubitsky also erature Prize. the Flamingo and His Flock of listen to their children’s wishes. wrote The Mountain That Friends. The author has been Walked, Alone at Ninety Foot and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 nominated for the Silver Birch, The Hippie House. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-6 Hackmatack and Manitoba LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Reader’s Choice Awards. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 SUBJECT AREA:, ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCE, SOCIAL 2007 128 pp. 6”x9” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 b/w photographs, line drawings SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781552857991 $12.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS 2006 61 pp. 8.5”x6” 2006 144 pp. 5”x7.5” b/w line drawings Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w line drawings ISBN: 9781896580364 $9.95 PA 2006 192 pp. 5”x7.5” ISBN: 9781551435633 $7.95 PA ISBN: 9781551436272 $9.95 PA

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Dogabet The Eco-Diary of A Field Guide to The Gathering Tree Dianna Bonder Kiran Singer the Identification Larry Loyie with Walrus Books Constance Brissenden Sue Ann Alderson of Pebbles Heather D. Holmlund This title is the third alphabet- Millie Ballance Theytus Books themed book by the popular Tradewind Books Eileen Van der Flier-Keller Harbour Publishing Dianna Bonder. Twenty-six dif- Two Aboriginal children get a ferent common to obscure Written in spirited verse in diary better understanding of the risks breeds of dogs are represented format, spanning a one-week This laminated leaflet provides associated with HIV infection by one letter and zany allitera- period, the subject of Eco-Diary photographs and basic when their older cousin comes tions on each page, beginning is the ecological environment of information to identify to visit. A tribal gathering offers with “A - Aristocratic Afghan the Camosun Bog in Vancouver, common rocks and pebbles prayers and ceremonies for Hounds attend abstract art auc- which has existed for over two found in BC. It gives healing and presents a forum for tions.” The challenging thousand years. A young girl information on the three major accurate information on the dis- vocabulary can enrich the read- joins her mother in a group types of rocks and explains how ease. Questions are posed and aloud quality. The illustrations called the Crazy Boggers in their pebbles are formed from them. answered at the back of the book fill each canine’s page and fea- attempt to restore the bog and Useful as a first step, it will prob- along with contact information ture several smaller pictures save it from the encroaching ably send young rock hounds for further clarification. starting with the same letter, urban landscape. Rich looking for more in-depth Supported by the BC Centre for plus a hidden letter, cat and watercolour illustrations accom- material. Disease Control. bone to find near each dog. The pany each selection dealing with Laminated foldout format will Larry Loyie and Heather D. hidden letters can be compiled various aspects of the bog. be difficult to process and shelve Holmlund won the Norma Fleck to reveal a secret message. The Numerous topics include in a library. Award for Canadian Children’s back cover reinforces the alpha- descriptions of vegetation, such Non-Fiction for their book As bet theme with a gallery of the as moss, sedges and lilies; the SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 Long as the Rivers Flow. twenty-six breeds starting with sounds of inhabitants, including SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCE Afghan Hounds, British insects, birds and animals; and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-6 Bulldogs, Chihuahuas and Index/Bibliography: No/No several unique species of 2007 8-Fold 4.5”x9” SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Dachshunds. flowers. colour photographs LANGUAGE ARTS, PERSONAL Dianna Bonder lives on Gabri- ISBN: 9781550173956 $7.95 PLANNING, SOCIAL STUDIES ola Island, BC and has illustrated SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-7 Pamphlet several children’s books includ- SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No ing A Pacific Alphabet, LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES 2005 48 pp. 10”x10” Accidental Alphabet and Eleven colour illustrations Lazy Llamas. Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781894778282 $19.95 2007 64 pp. 8.5”x6” HC/9781894778428 $15.95 PA colour illustrations SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-4 ISBN: 9781896580470 $18.95 HC SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 32 pp. 11”x9.25” colour illustrations ISBN: 9781552857972 $19.95 HC/9781552859223 $8.95 PA

BC BOOKS FOR BC SCHOOLS 2007 – 2008 CATALOGUE 3 ELEMENTARY

The Golden Boy A Hero Named Howe Honey Cake Jeffrey and Sloth Beverley Wood Mike Leonetti Joan Betty Stuchner Kari-Lynn Winters & Chris Wood Greg Banning Cynthia Nugent Ben Hodson Raincoast Books Raincoast Books Tradewind Books Orca Book Publishers

Still grieving for his mother, In this newest addition to the Honey cake is a treat baked once A recently created doodle takes killed in a car accident, Tomi is Hockey Heroes series, a Detroit a year by nine-year-old David’s on a life of its own in this easy- mad at his father for remarrying Red Wings fan, young Charlie, mama, even though his papa is a to-read, large print picture book. and he doesn’t want to go on a has an exciting opportunity to respected baker in Copenhagen. Faced with the task of writing, “family honeymoon” so he runs attend the team’s hockey school. For their Jewish family, the cake young Jeffrey finds himself star- away. Chasing after a mysterious One of Charlie’s instructors is his helps to welcome a “sweet New ing at a blank page. The longer bull terrier, Tomi finds himself hero, Gordie Howe, a great Year” at Rosh Hashanah. In this he mulls over his task, the more back in time in 1939 Juneau, hockey icon whose career short, historical-fiction, novel he doodles… until he hears a Alaska, where his mechanical spanned fifty years. During that based on the Nazi occupation of voice. The Sloth, which he has abilities make him useful but his career Howe lead the league in Denmark from 1940-1943, the just created, speaks to him. The Japanese heritage makes him an points, had a powerful snap shot honey cake also comes to sym- more the Sloth talks to and object of suspicion. With the and broke the NHL all-time bolize “the sweet taste of bosses around Jeffrey, the more help of the terrier, Patsy Ann, scoring record. Charlie listens freedom” for the many Jews who inspiration and empowerment and some new friends, Tomi is well and practises everything escaped to Sweden in fishing Jeffrey acquires for his writing able to repair the broken taught to him for the duration of boats thanks to the non-Jewish and his artistic expression. mechanical Golden Boy doll and the hockey school. During a Danish people. One day, David solve the riddle of a missing gold Detroit versus Montreal hockey must unexpectedly assist his SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-3 mine. Along the way he learns game, Charlie meets another older sister’s courageous Resist- SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH some interesting stories about hockey great, Foster Hewitt. ance work. This book is LANGUAGE ARTS his own family background and Hewitt was renowned for his enhanced by an afterword Index/Bibliography: No/No comes to terms with the changes unique style of play-by-play explaining the Danish 2007 32 pp. 10.5”x10.5” in his life. descriptions and his famous Resistance movement, a honey colour illustrations This is the third book in the goal call. cake recipe and letters between ISBN: 9781551433233 $19.95 HC Sirius Mystery series following The bold print of various David and his best friend. Dogstar and Jack’s Knife. A words throughout the book dis- The author and illustrator both teacher guide is available free tracts rather than offers any live in Vancouver. Cynthia online from Raincoast Books at enhancement. Nugent is the award-winning www.raincoast.com. illustrator of Mr. Got To Go by SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-5 Lois Simmie. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 LANGUAGE ARTS, PERSONAL SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No PLANNING LANGUAGE ARTS 2006 32 pp. 10.25”x 9.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations Index/Bibliography: No/No 2006 392 pp. 5”x7.75” ISBN: 9781551929316 $21.95 HC 2007 96 pp. 8.5”x5.75” ISBN: 9781551929538 $12.95 PA b/w line drawings ISBN: 9781896580371 $16.95 HC

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Lucky’s Mountain Never to be Told Race to the Rescue Secret of the Dance Dianne Maycock Becky Citra Sharon Siamon Andrea Spalding Orca Book Publishers Orca Book Publishers Walrus Books & Alfred Scow Darlene Gait In this Orca Young Reader, Twelve-year-old Asia lives with In this third and final book of the Orca Book Publishers Sadie’s life is turned upside Maddy and Ira who have looked Saddle Island series, thirteen- down when her pa dies in a after her since her young mother year-old Kelsie, Nova Scotia’s Although fictional, this story is British Columbia coalmine dis- abandoned her at a young age. young horse rescuer, suspiciously based on events in the aster during the Great After Ira suffers a heart attack, acquires a skittish young childhood of Kwick’wa’sut’eneuk Depression. The family must Maddy and Ira’s son Harry thoroughbred mare named Dia- elder Alfred Scow, whose child- now move to a boarding house comes to look after things. He mond. After finding out Diamond hood name was Watl’kina. In in Vancouver. Sadie can cope wants his parents to live with may be pregnant, Kelsie and her 1935 Watl’kina’s family took part with leaving behind the class him in California but Asia isn’t friend Jen arrange to transport in a forbidden Potlatch. They bully behind and even the included in the plans. He is able the mare to Saddle Island where pretend to be going out fishing, majestic mountains that she has to track down Asia’s Kelsie’s other four horses are but secretly prepare for the cere- called home, but she just doesn’t grandmother in Vancouver. Beth being kept for the summer. While mony. At a small village the want to leave Lucky—her three- Cumfrey is a widow who is will- taking Diamond across the cove, children are told to go to bed legged dog that Pa had given to ing to look after her new-found the waves pick up, and Diamond while the elders meet. Not con- her. After asking her classmates granddaughter. A parallel story is is tossed overboard. A strange tent to wait, Watl’kina sneaks up to look after her dog, she told in chapters interspersed man appears in a kayak, saves to the Gookji (Big House) where approaches the mine owner, throughout Asia’s story. Miranda Diamond, then disappears. He he sees the characters from the whose solution is for her to leave Williams is a ghost who has later reappears at the barn where old stories come to life. The Lucky in the hands of Crazy appeared to Asia. She lived in Jen is settling the horses. Jen. She illustrations are a combination Louie, a tramp living on the edge Cold Creek in the early 1900s and accompanies him to his camp to of traditional and modern of the mine that some say com- looked after a little girl whose get warm where she discovers the artwork, with traditional west mitted murder. Crazy Louie will drifter father had left her behind horrifying truth of his mission— coast Aboriginal designs. have to earn Sadie’s trust so she when he went out looking for to kidnap the mare and her Includes a glossary of can leave Lucky behind and work. A satisfactory resolution unborn foal. Kwa’kwa’la words and an histor- move on with her life. and a solving of Miranda’s mys- Sharon Siamon ical note. tery end the novel. (sharonsiamon.com) has writ- Spalding’s other works include SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 The author is a primary school ten many other books for 8-12 Solomon’s Tree and the Summer SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH teacher as well as a writer. year olds, including the Mustang of Magic Quartet. Solomon’s Tree LANGUAGE ARTS Mountain and the Fishing For was the First Nation Communi- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-7 Trouble series. Index/Bibliography: No/No ties Read 2004 Book of the Year. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH 2007 114 pp. 5”x7.5” Scow is a retired judge. LANGUAGE ARTS ISBN: 9781551436821 $7.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-7 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-7 LANGUAGE ARTS 2006 224 pp. 5”x7.5” SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH ISBN: 9781551435671 $8.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2007 176 pp. 5.25”x7.25” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781552858554 $8.95 PA 2006 32 pp. 11”x11” colour illustrations ISBN: 9781551433967 $19.95 HC

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Shadows on The Summer of Timberwolf Chase The Truth About the Train the Marco Polo Sigmund Brouwer Rats (and Dogs) Orca Book Publishers Melanie Jackson Lynn Manuel Jacqueline Pearce Orca Book Publishers Orca Book Publishers In this Orca Echoes series title, Orca Book Publishers the howling Timberwolves In this fifth book in the Dinah Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Hockey Team acquires a new Connor wants a pet and he Galloway series, Dinah travels to child in 1883 when a famous player, Tom Morgan. Veteran doesn’t want to play the piano. Toronto to perform in a talent clipper ship, the Marco Polo, ran team members Johnny Maverick When the Animal Club show. She is pursued on the aground near her home in and his best friend, Stu Duncan, volunteers at the SPCA shelter, train by two mysterious charac- Cavendish, PEI. The captain and soon discover Tom’s ability to Connor finds himself fostering a ters, the Whisperer and Bowl crew were rescued by the local play but his inability to be a pet rat without his parents’ per- Cut. They seem to be after a islanders and spent the summer team player. Tom bullies Stu and mission. Keeping the secret is treasure that she doesn’t have. among them. The captain lived is determined to get him off the even harder than trying to keep References to Dinah’s father add with young Maud and her team. Johnny devises a plan and up with his musical genius sister some drama and seriousness to grandparents. Shy Maud suggests a race between Stu and and, predictably, Connor gets the novel. A series of farfetched befriended the captain and crew Tom, with winner take all. If Tom found out. Although trouble and hilarious events follow the and recorded her memories wins, Stu quits the team and if ensues, Connor’s parents do spunky amateur detective. about this very special summer Stu wins, Tom must wear a dress start to see him as he is rather Between nurses getting poison in her journal. The meticulous, to the next hockey game. Having than how they would like him to ivy and her sister believing her realistic images show us life on familiarity on his side, Stu wins be. The ending is both satisfac- fiancé is two-timing her, people the island in the late nineteenth the race. However, to prove to tory and believable. disappearing off trains, and century. PEI’s red soil, rolling Tom how a team pulls together, characters who aren’t what they farmland, beaches and details of the team surprises Tom and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 appear, Dinah and her friends the famous clipper ship are everyone! The high interest level SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH have adventure after slapstick clearly depicted. A short will delight young readers along LANGUAGE ARTS, PERSONAL adventure. glossary is included. with the black and white PLANNING, The author is a creative writing Other titles by Lynn Manuel illustrations by Dean Griffiths. Index/Bibliography: No/No mentor for the Vancouver include Lucy Maud and the 2006 176 pp. 5”x7.5” School Board. She has won the Cavendish Cat and Camels SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-5 ISBN: 9781551434735 $8.95 PA Ontario Silver Birch Award and Always Do. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH been nominated for the Rocky LANGUAGE ARTS Mountain Book Award and the SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-5 Index/Bibliography: No/No BC Chocolate Lily Award. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH 2006 64 pp. 5”x7.5” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES b/w line drawings SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781551435480 $6.95 PA SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH 2007 32 pp. 10.75”x9.5” LANGUAGE ARTS colour illustrations Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781551433301 $19.95 HC 2007 192 pp. 4.25”x7” ISBN: 9781551436609 $8.95 PA

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Welcome to Welcome to the What a When the the World of World of Wolverines Hippopota-Mess! Curtain Rises Spirit Bears Diane Swanson Pat Skene Rachel Dunstan Muller Walrus Books Graham Ross Orca Book Publishers Diane Swanson Orca Book Publishers Walrus Books Putting down dung and ooze When Chloe receives an invita- from scent glands to leave This is an intriguing book filled tion to spend a summer with her The spirit bear is a black bear signals is one of the many facts with humorous rhymes about twin great aunts, initially she that is white. They are not albino about the wolverine presented in various aspects of nature. Two decides not to go. But when she and not polar bears. Another this volume. The wolverine is the hippopotami joke with a little hears her father’s stories of name is Kermode. They live only strongest mammal for its size. It boy and save him from secret passageways and myster- in northwestern British Colum- is sometimes mistaken for a bear crocodiles and creepy critters, ies surrounding the aunts’ old bia, especially on Princess Royal cub with its little eyes, rounded such as wiggling worms, spindly Victorian mansion, she changes Island. The spirit bear became an ears and boxy snouts. It is a fierce spiders, slithering snakes and her mind. She is also curious emblem of British Columbia in animal that commonly eats kill clinging centipedes. A smiling about the tiny gold key that had 2006. This volume in the from other animals, but is capa- lizard and his two friends, otter arrived with the invitation. Welcome to the World series ble of providing its own food. It and frog, are amazed to see Chloe is a gifted pianist suffering includes chapters relating facts snacks on berries, roots, eggs three characters staring back at from a bout of embarrassing about appearance, habitat, food and hunts small animals. In win- them from the pond. A sleeping performance anxiety. Once at and young. “Fun World” tells of ter it hunts larger animals that tree, a moose called Blue Muck- her great aunts’, Chloe is the importance of play in the become stuck in the snow. The les Brown and notorious consumed by the mysteries of young bear’s life. There are chapters provide a description of dandelions all round out the the house and the unexplained colour illustrations on each dou- the animal and information on playful characters. An additional disappearance of her magician ble-page spread and each habitat, communication and feature is the informative facts great-grandfather. Chloe discov- chapter has a sidebar on interest- newborns. Unique to this book is on all the subjects of the poems ers a rosewood box, mentioned ing facts. The spirit bear legend “World of the Scavenger” chap- in a question and answer in her great grandfathers’ mem- tells of a time when snow buried ter. Each double-page layout has format. The black and white line oirs as a wish-giving box. After the earth. The raven wanted peo- at least one large colour photo- drawings by Graham Ross making a few frivolous wishes, ple to remember this time, so graph. There is an informative enhance the entertaining each with dire consequences, flew among the black bears and sidebar with related facts in each stories. Chloe realizes the danger of the turned every tenth one white. chapter. box, and does to it what should The author has been The author has been SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-5 have been done long ago. recognized with many awards, recognized with many awards, SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Muller is the author of Ten including the Orbis Pictus including the Orbis Pictus LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES Thumb Sam, an Orca Young Award for Outstanding Nonfic- Award for Outstanding Nonfic- Reader. tion for Children. tion for Children. Index/Bibliography: No/No 2006 64 pp. 5”x7.5” SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-7 b/w line drawings SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH ISBN: 9781551434025 $6.95 PA SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS

Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 32 pp. 8”x8” 2007 32 pp. 8”x8” 2007 144 pp. 5”x7.5” colour photographs colour photographs ISBN: 9781551436159 $8.95 PA ISBN: 9781552858479 $6.95 PA ISBN: 9781552858400 $6.95 PA

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When the Yossi’s Goal Zoe and the Fawn Spirits Dance Ellen Schwartz Catherine Jameson Orca Book Publisher Julie Flett Larry Loyie with Theytus Books Constance Brissenden In this Orca Young Reader, Theytus Books Yossi’s family immigrated to Zoe and her father come upon a Montreal from their small village fawn in the forest. Zoe wonders This is the second book in the in Russia in the spring of 1891, where the fawn’s mother is. “Lawrence” series, based on the after Russian soldiers had Together, Zoe and her father author’s life. It is set in Northern started attacking Jewish settle- search for the mother deer, first Alberta in the early 1940s when ments. The family lives in a asking about each animal “Is his father is conscripted to fight run-down tenement, and they that ______the fawn’s in World War II. The book tells are poorer than they were mother?” and then revisiting how Lawrence and his extended before. It seems that no matter each animal on the return trip family obtain most of their food how hard they work, they never stating, “That ______is not from their surroundings. have enough money. There is the fawn’s mother.” When they Lawrence is allowed to camp talk of a union forming and the arrive back at the meadow, the alone when they are out tapping possibility of a strike to improve mother deer is with her fawn. birch for syrup. Aboriginal peo- working conditions. Yossi works The repetitive pattern and ples honour the birch for its gift. when he can by selling newspa- rhythm of this book will encour- The epilogue gives details of life pers and delivering garments age beginning readers to read in Rabbit Lake, near Slave Lake. from the sweatshop his father independently. The illustrations The book also references the 6 works at. When his father are delicate, simple and 300 Canadian army deserters, suddenly becomes extremely ill, uniquely textured with fine American soldiers who passed it is up to Yossi to decide if he details. Their earth tones though on their way to build the should use his hard-earned capture the colours of the forest. Alaska Highway and that money to help his family, or buy The Native Okanagan (Syilx) Aboriginal veterans were denied the ice skates he desperately names for each animal are writ- rights and benefits until needs so that he can play hockey ten in parentheses throughout recently. with the French boys. the story. First Nations author Larry The author and illustrator are Loyie won the Norma Fleck SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-6 both of native heritage. This title Award for Non-fiction for As SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH was a BC Book Prize Honour Long as the Rivers Flow, for LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Book. which When the Spirits Dance is Index/Bibliography: No the prequel. 2006 144 pp. 5”x7.5” SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-2 b/w line drawings SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 ISBN: 9781551434926 $7.95 PA LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 4 2006 32 pp. 8”x8” Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations 2007 44 pp. 7.5”x10.25” ISBN: 9781894778435 $12.95 PA colour and b/w photographs ISBN: 9781894778404 $19.95 HC

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Alpine Beauty Clam Gardens The Comox Valley The Darwin Alpine and Subalpine Aboriginal Mariculture on Courtenay, Comox, Expedition Wildflowers of the Canadian Canada’s West Coast Cumberland, and Area Diane Tullson Rockies and the Columbia Judith Williams Paula Wild with Rick James Orca Book Publishers Mountains New Star Books Boomer Jerritt, photographer This novel in the Orca Sounding Neil L. Jennings The author’s struggle to have the Harbour Publishing series appeals to reluctant read- Rocky Mountain Books Northwest Coast Aboriginals ers through an interesting plot recognized as farmers, although and fast-paced action in scenic This stunningly illustrated book settings that involve snowboard- This pocket guide is for hikers marine farmers, is documented presents the past and present of and amateur naturalists. The in this book. She describes the ing, friendship, the outdoors the Comox Valley on Vancouver and danger. The protagonists wildflowers and flowering clam gardens in Waiatt Bay and Island in all its natural and man- shrubs depicted are arranged her archaeological explorations roll their truck on an old logging made glory. Natural history, road, and realize they must hike first by colour and then by fam- into the making and use of these Aboriginal peoples, early settlers ily. Due to varying weather areas. Excellent descriptions of out of the backcountry in order and development are presented to save themselves. They endure conditions plants that exist at the clam terraces and how they in an accessible narrative. Place higher elevations differ from are maintained are enhanced cold weather, scarce food and names are connected to people, fighting amongst themselves. those found at lower elevations, with photographs. Included are events and activities with enter- where more low shrubs and Aboriginal oral stories of how Thier lives are threatened when taining anecdotes. Chapters are they cross paths with a grizzly herbs are found. Each entry clamming came to be, as well as devoted to the major towns, includes a general description reports left by European explor- bear and her cub. The two main working the land, and contem- characters must learn to trust and where the plant can be ers. This is not only a history of porary attractions and issues. found. Also included are the sci- Aboriginal mariculture but of and rely on each other in order This book introduces the history to survive. The resolution of the entific name, historical clamming on Vancouver Island and features of this region with story demonstrates that friends information and highlights, and the surrounding areas. its wide range of environments: such as poisonous effects, Abo- Williams ‘ published works can disagree and even hurt each marine, lakes, rivers, alpine other, but they can remain riginal uses, and what animals include High Slack, Two Wolves areas, rainforest. favour the fruits. at the Dawn of Time: Kingcome friends nonetheless. Wild is also the author of One Diane Tullson has published Jennings photographs and Inlet Pictographs, 1893-1998 and River, Two Cultures: A History of writings have appeared in a Dynamite Stories. six novels for young adults. A the Bella Coola Valley. James is free Orca Soundings teachers’ number of outdoor magazines. the author of Ghost Ships of SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 guide is available at Royston. www.orcabook.com. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12 SUBJECT AREA:, BC FIRST NATIONS STUDIES 12, SCIENCE: BIOLOGY Caution: Some inappropriate SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-12 11AND 12, SOCIAL STUDIES sexual and sexist references. Index/Bibliography: Yes/No SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2007 224 pp. 5”x8” SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 2006 128 pp. 6.75”x9.75” colour photographs Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH b/w photographs, maps, drawings, ISBN: 9781894765831 $22.95 PA 2006 144 pp. 8.5”x11” LANGUAGE ARTS diagrams colour photographs, map ISBN: 9781554200238 $19.00 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781550174083 $34.95 HC 2007 112 pp. 4.25”x7” ISBN: 9781551436760 $9.95 PA

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Dirtbike Daredevils Far West First and Ten Hockey Night Pam Withers The Story of British Columbia Jeff Rud in Dixie Walrus Books Daniel Francis Orca Book Publishers Minor Pro Hockey Harbour Publishing In this seventh title of the Take it This is Jeff Rud’s third book in in the American South to the Xtreme outdoor sports the South Side Sports series. adventure series, fifteen-year- This chronological high-interest Football is the focal action to Jon C. Stott old best friends, Jake and Peter, book provides an overview of this high-interest book for boys. Heritage House Publishing find themselves as junior guides the events and people of BC However, the theme is more from the first peoples to modern for a 150-acre motocross ranch complex. Matt faces This text deals exclusively with just outside of Spokane, Wash- times. Included is information complicated adolescent moral on the Aboriginal people, fur minor pro hockey in the Ameri- ington. Jake loves the decisions both on and off the can south. It is an in-depth mechanical aspect of traders, the gold rushes, build- field. His father has ing the railway, the examination of the hockey orga- motorbikes. However, he must unexpectedly returned after a nization’s inner dealings and the find it within himself to gain the Confederation union, use of the ten-year absence, and now Matt natural resources, economic growth/demise of hockey teams confidence needed to ride the wrestles with forgiving his father in various states. It begins with bike not only with his body, but and demographic growth in the and building a new relationship province and the boom time an examination of the Roanoke also with his soul. Peter enjoys with him. In addition, Matt finds Valley Vipers of the United the thrill of the tricks associated after World War II. The nine himself involuntarily involved chapters are divided by Hockey League, the Odessa Jack- with this challenging sport and with a teammate’s problem of alopes of the Central Hockey couldn’t be bothered with the subheadings making it possible parental verbal and physical to read it in portions for League, the South Carolina mechanical aspects of the bike. abuse. He has some tough deci- Stringrays of the East Coast The boys must work together pertinent information, research sions to make. Will his actions be or interest. It is filled with Hockey League, and the Fayet- when a freak storm hits the the correct ones? teville FireAntz of the Southern ranch putting the owner, his fif- colourful graphics and numer- Jeff Rud was a sports writer ous sidebars. The book could Professional Hockey League. It teen-year-old female ranch and columnist at various news- concludes with a look at minor- hand and a pair of llamas at risk also be used as a classroom text- papers in Western Canada. He is book. league hockey in the southern of dying. now a reporter for the Victoria states from 1988-2005. With President of Children’s Writers Francis, a Canadian historian, Times Colonist and an author of is the editor of the Encyclopedia extensive statistics, interviews & Illustrators of British Colum- eight sports-related books. andcaptioned photographs, the bia, Pam Withers has also been of British Columbia, contribut- Caution: includes some mild ing editor for the Junior text reveals the passion, disap- nominated for numerous profanity pointment and excitement of awards for both her journalistic Encyclopedia of Canada, as well as the author of many textbooks hockey fans, owners, coaches, and fiction writing. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-8 and numerous books. officials and players. SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 LANGUAGE ARTS, PERSONAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-10 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH PLANNING SUBJECT AREA: APPLIED SKILLS: LANGUAGE ARTS SUBJECT AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No BUSINESS EDUCATION 8-10, PHYSICAL EDUCATION Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2007 176 pp. 4.25”x7” 2006 176 pp. 8.5”x11” 2006 200 pp. 4.5”x7” ISBN: 9781551436906 $8.95 PA Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w and sepia photographs, colour ISBN: 9781552858042 $8.95 PA 2006 224 pp. 5.5”x8.5” reproductions, coloured drawings, b/w photographs maps, charts, graphs ISBN: 9781894974219 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781550174106 $36.95 HC

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Hockey the NHL Way The Mouse Woman The Mysterious Panther The Basics Trilogy Adventures of Roderick Haig-Brown Harbour Publishing Sean Rossiter Christie Harris Greystone Books Pauline Bovary Douglas Tait In Panther, a reprint of the 1946 Raincoast Books Edeet Ravel classic, the reader is taken into In this revised and update edi- Raincoast Books the world of Vancouver Island tion, Hockey the NHL Way cougars around the Wapiti Val- simply and succinctly lays out This volume brings together three books of short stories: In this second of three books in ley. The author captivatingly the fundamentals of playing the Pauline, btw series, Pauline immerses readers in a world hockey for the beginner. Mouse Woman and the Mischief Makers, Mouse Woman and the Catrelli-Bloom, self-proclaimed strange, cruel and compelling. Through clear descriptions, teen author, decides the events The main story is of Ki-yu the colour photographs and Vanished Princess and Mouse Woman and the Muddleheads and annoyances of her life con- cougar and one is able to see sidebars, the new player is tinue to be worthy of recording. and sense how the creature shown conditioning drills, indi- for a 30th anniversary edition. Altogether there are twenty leg- Pauline’s life takes a turn for the thinks and what is involved in vidual skill drills, how to play as worst: her recently separated the pursuit of survival. The story part of a team (either on defence ends set in Haida Gwaii featuring Mouse Woman, a nar- mother turns to the internet to of the inevitable confrontation or offence), and is given strate- find a mate; her best friend and conflict of this creature in gies on how to apply these skills nauk or supernatural being who gets involved in a number of moves to Toronto; a wealthy the wild with humans—in the as a team player. Both beginners “old” woman buys all of her person of David Milton, a cougar and experienced hockey players adventures. She intervenes in people’s lives to ensure they “do Dad’s artwork and, to Pauline’s hunter—is crafted and told with can benefit from this book. It is disgust, aggressively woos him; great care, skill and thought. an effective review, building the right thing”. She continues to inspire one towards traditional and Pauline’s imprudent fling Caution: Many references to upon individual skills the player with a new student costs her the killing of animals are may have already developed. values and to take care of the Earth. In the third book she has more than she had expected. included, but not gratuitously. The book is an accessible read, Pauline uses her self-deprecat- avoiding technical jargon. Both little patience with the Muddle- ing humour to tell of her efforts SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 ice and roller hockey players can heads of the world. Tait’s to put her life back together. The SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH improve their game by using this detailed line drawings illustrate the text. reward is a more mature, toler- LANGUAGE ARTS material. In addition, it will also ant and introspective Pauline. Christie Harris died in 2002. Index/Bibliography: No/No be helpful to new coaches and This is the second of three She was a member of the Order 2007 256 pp. 5.5”x8.5” coaches of young children just books in the Pauline, btw series. beginning the game. of Canada and had won numer- ISBN: 9781550173413 $14.95 PA ous awards. The first is reviewed in this cata- Sean Rossiter is the author of logue. Ravel has won awards for nine Hockey the NHL Way titles. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 her adult novels. This is her first SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS series for teens. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-8, STUDIES 12, ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER RESOURCE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-10 SUBJECT AREA: PHYSICAL SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH EDUCATION Index/Bibliography: No/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH AND 2007 464 pp. 5.25”x8” Index/Bibliography: No/No CAREER EDUCATION b/w line drawings 2006 96 pp. 8”x10” ISBN: 9781551928807 $21.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No colour photographs 2006 224 pp. 5.5”x7.75” ISBN: 9781553652120 $16.95 PA ISBN: 9781551929866 $11.95 PA

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Runnerland Safe House Steve Nash The Thrilling Life John Burns James Heneghan Paul Arseneault & of Pauline de Raincoast Books Orca Book Publishers Peter Assaff Heritage House Publishing Lammermoor In this first novel, Peter’s father Set in Belfast, this novel explores dies unexpectedly. Up until the problems between Catholics Edeet Ravel The authors call this very read- Raincoast Books then, nothing out of the and Protestants in this violence- able and informative book a ordinary has happened in ridden city. Twelve-year-old Liam biographical tribute to Steve Peter’s nearly fifteen years. As he Fogarty wakes to the brutal shoot- Nash’s many outstanding contri- Pauline Carelli-Bloom’s life is far is looking for a hiding place for ing of his Catholic parents. One of butions both in the sport of from perfect. She is a year behind money his father left him, he the killers, having removed his basketball and outside the court in school due to a kindergarten discovers a document that balaclava, realizes Liam will be in his humanitarian and charity mix-up. Her Jewish, extraverted, shocks him into further confu- able to identify him, and aims to causes. Nash has a deep concern social worker mother, who helps sion. He reacts by running as far shoot Liam, who narrowly and love for children and, women recently released from from home as the Greyhound escapes. The killer tracks him though his accomplishments in prison, is separated from her Ital- bus will take him and arrives on down and again attempts to get basketball are many, (including ian, self-absorbed, introverted the West Coast. After being rid of him, so the police send Liam winning the MVP award twice), father, who spends his time robbed and beaten, he begins to to live in a “safe house.” Unfortu- he believes that his greatest painting pictures of old shoes experience an imaginary world nately everyone seems to be achievement is The Steve Nash when not teaching high school that he learns to manipulate and connected to the crime, and when Foundation. Success on the bas- art classes. After receiving the control. He survives by panhan- the killer shows up at the house, ketball court did not come easily school’s prize for writing, Pauline dling, and is befriended by other Liam is forced again to run. An and the book divulges some of decides to write a novel about homeless teens. Their leader exciting chase takes place through the setbacks and difficulties what she perceives to be her Dekman, who brings Peter downtown Belfast. The tragic end- Nash had to overcome before his bizarre and miserable existence. under his protection, controls ing comes as a blessing for Liam. work ethic, “inner calm” and Relying on Roget’s Thesaurus and them. When the real and imagi- Heneghan is the author of sev- “huge basketball IQ” propelled the book You Too Can Write a nary worlds threaten to collide, eral other award-winning books him to the top of the game. Great Novel!, she uses humour will Peter make the choice that for teens including Flood, Torn Informative sidebars enhance and her gift for making the banal will keep his life from spiraling Away and Waiting For Sarah. the text. entertaining, to recount the completely out of control? This book was nominated for Peter Arseneault is a teacher, events of her life so far. John lives in Vancouver and the Sheila A. Egoff BC Book Prize athlete and referee. Peter Assaff This is the first of three books works for the Georgia Straight as for Children's Literature and the is a sports editor, host and in the Pauline, btw series which the managing editor and books Chocolate Lily Book Award. announcer. is supported by a hilarious web- columnist. He co-authored Caution: Some vividly site (augustaplemarre.com/). Urban Picnic, a book of recipes. described violence SUGGESTED AUDIENCE 5-10 Ravel has won awards for her Caution: Some references to SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, ENGLISH adult novels. drugs. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-9 LANGUAGE ARTS, PHYSICAL SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH EDUCATION SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-9 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH AND SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: No/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH AND LANGUAGE ARTS STUDIES 2006 80 pp. 8.5”x9.5” CAREER EDUCATION colour photographs Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781894974257 $16.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 256 pp. 5.5”x7.75” 2006 176 pp. 5.25”x7.75” 2007 224 pp. 5.5”x7.75” ISBN: 9781551929576 $11.95 PA ISBN: 9781551436401 $8.95 PA ISBN: 9781551929880 $11.95 PA

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Wake’s Edge Where People Feast The Whirlwind The Wild Side Guide Pam Withers An Indigenous People’s Carol Matas to Vancouver Walrus Books Cookbook Orca Book Publishers Island’s Pacific Rim In this eighth title of the Take it Dolly & Annie Watts For fourteen-year-old Ben and to the Xtreme outdoor sports Arsenal Pulp Press his family, life in Nazi Germany Jacqueline Windh adventure series, fifteen-year- in the time of Kristalnacht was a Harbour Publishing old best friends, Jake and Peter, Where People Feast is a legacy of nightmare. When the family are having a great time perfect- the highly successful Liliget moves to Seattle to escape per- This is a handy travel guide to ing their wakeboarding skills as Feast House, the award-winning secution, Ben is confident that many aspects related to the they take summer jobs at a pri- restaurant, which ran for twelve life will improve. However, after tourist attractions of the Pacific vately owned lake, just outside years near Vancouver’s English Pearl Harbour is attacked by the Rim region with a focus on Long of Bellingham. Their boss, Bay and Stanley Park. Chefs and Japanese, Ben is sure that his Beach, Tofino, Ucluelet, Port Rocky, known as “Party Animal”, authors, Dolly and Annie Watts previous experiences are Alberni, Nitinat and Bamfield. shows the boys the finer points have compiled their favourite happening again. In his Brief accounts of a general of wakeboarding as they have recipes from the restaurant fea- struggles to make sense of nature about the region’s geog- the lake to themselves, except turing wild game, fish and local wartime and how God could let raphy, ecosystems, flora and for a hippie community on the produce. Combining traditional these awful things happen, Ben fauna and history are provided other side of the lake run by methods and contemporary learns there aren’t any simple as well as more detailed descrip- Rocky’s sister and her boyfriend. recipes, the mother and daugh- answers and Ben comes to some tions of the features and When Rocky’s dog turns up poi- ter team introduce many surprising conclusions. The attractions of each area. soned and baby eagles are not delicious treats from Alder treatment and internment of Detailed maps are included as hatching, the Wakeboarding Grilled Marinated Elk to Butter- American and Canadian citizens well as information on services School becomes the obvious nut Squash Soup to Sopalili of Japanese, German and Italian provided, how to get there, culprit. The boys, with the help Mousse and Just Like Grandma’s descent is revealed. An historical things to do, where to stay and of Rocky’s niece, try to Bannock, all with a First Nations note is included to help explain eat and main attractions to see. determine if it is because of all twist. Canadian and American policies The book is profusely illustrated the toxins the jet skis are at home during the war. with an initial thirty-two pages emitting into the lake, or if it SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 Matas has written thirty-five of colour photographs then could have something to do with SUBJECT AREA: APPLIED SKILLS: novels for children and young many black and white the abandoned sawmill near the HOME ECONOMICS 11 AND 12, adults. She has won the Geoffrey photographs. hippie camp. HOME ECONOMICS 8 TO 10, SOCIAL Bilson, Silver Birch and Jewish Jacqueline Windh lives in Besides the Take It to the STUDIES Book Awards, and was Tofino and has also written The Xtreme series, Pam Withers is nominated for the Governor Wild Edge: Clayoquot, Long the author of Breathless, Camp Index/Bibliography: Yes/No General’s Award. Beach and Barkley Sound. Wild and The Daredevil Club. 2007 192 pp. 7.5”x10” Caution: Some violent scenes colour photographs, b/w line are described. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12 drawings, map SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, PHYSICAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 ISBN: 9781551522210 $24.95 PA SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12 EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No 2006 192 pp. 6”x9” 2007 200 pp. 4.5”x7” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes colour and b/w photographs, maps ISBN: 9781552858561 $8.95 PA 2007 144 pp. 4.25”x7” ISBN: 9781550173987 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9781551437033 $9.95 PA

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Winds of L’Acadie Lois Donovan Ronsdale Press

In this time-slip novel, sixteen- year-old Torontonian Sarah is sent by her work-obsessed mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandparents in small-town Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Sarah expects to have a dull summer but encounters just the opposite. After an awk- ward first meeting and together surviving a sea-faring disaster, Sarah and Luke, a family friend, form a reluctant friendship. Luke takes her to see the area’s Acadian historical sites, spawn- ing Sarah’s interest in the 1755 Acadian deportation. Lured by an apparition of a young Acadian girl, Sarah finds herself living with an Acadian family in the year 1755. Returning to the present, Sarah’s interest in the Acadians becomes an obsession. She returns to the past, taking skeptical Luke with her, and together they try to save her new Acadian friends from their horrible fate. Lois Donovan was raised in Eastern Canada and currently resides in Calgary. This is her first novel.

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Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 216 pp. 5.25”x7.7” ISBN: 9781553800477 $9.95 PA

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The 25 Pains of Above the Falls All Things Said The Ambitious City Kennedy Baines John Harris & Done A History of the City of TouchWood Editions North Vancouver Dede Crane Marita Dachsel Raincoast Books This engaging and suspenseful Caitlin Press Warren Sommer novel is based on historical facts, Harbour Publishing Kennedy, having recently moved RCMP reports and local In her first poetry collection, from Fredericton to Victoria trappers’ testimony. The main Marita Dachsel explores and cel- This text traces the history of the with her ultra-conservative story surrounds the mystery of ebrates various aspects of life. development of North Vancou- father, embarrassingly open what might have occurred and The book is divided into three ver from its origins as the site of mother, computer game-addict what in reality did occur in the sections: small town breeding, Moodyville Sawmill to the city of brother and annoying four-year- deaths, in May 1936, of trappers all things said and done and approximately 49,000 residents. old sister, is a teen who dwells Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland uncharted territory. Dachsel It reveals how a diverse on her miserable life. She seeks around the Nahanni River. The probes and investigates the multicultural community refuge in Jane Austen’s Pride and story centres on the pivotal problems and implications of emerged from its British begin- Prejudice. Kennedy describes 25 characters of George Dalziel, life’s ups and downs, through nings and what effects early “pains” she feels she has to put “The Flying Trapper,” and Fran- glimpses of first crushes, first developers’ dreams had on the up with, including babysitting cis John Wade, a mysterious war times, weddings and marriages layout of the city. The author her sister, her Mom’s “little talks” veteran suffering from post- of women to men like their also explores the shipbuilding, and having fat ankles. When her traumatic shock syndrome and fathers. New horizons, such as shipping and sawmill industries. mother’s friend arrives with her nightmarish hallucinations. The trips and travel, are also scruti- He covers the building of the son Colin, Kennedy’s story culminates in the winter nized along with growing up and Second Narrows Crossing and perspective changes. hunt for the killer and the mis- growing old. Daschel’s poems recounts the hardships faced by Relinquishing to his sexual taken blame for the deaths. are bitingly explicit and thought the Aboriginal peoples. This text advances, Kennedy comes to the An afterword includes mini- provoking. celebrates those who painful realization that relation- biographies of many of the contributed to the development ships must be built on more characters in the story. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 of the city. than just physical attraction. John Harris has written travel SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Sommer is the author of From Crane is the author of many literature, fiction and literary LANGUAGE ARTS Prairie to City: A History of the short stories and the adult novel criticism, among them Diary of City of Langley and From Far Caution: Some coarse lan- Sympathy. She was shortlisted a Lake and Other Art. and Wide: Cultural Diversity in for the CBC Literary Award. Caution: Some language may guage. Index/Bibliography: No/No North Vancouver. Caution: includes some coarse be offensive. 2007 80 pp. 5.5”x8” language, sexual content and ISBN: 9781894759229 $15.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 experimentation with drinking SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS and drugs. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH STUDIES 12, SOCIAL STUDIES: LANGUAGE ARTS HISTORY 12, CIVIC STUDIES 11 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Index/Bibliography: No/No SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2007 240 pp. 5.5”x7.5” LANGUAGE ARTS 2007 346 pp. 8.5”x11” ISBN: 9781894898553 $18.95 PA b/w photographs and reproductions, Index/Bibliography: No/No line drawings, maps, diagrams 2006 248 pp. 5”x7” ISBN: 9781550174113 $44.95 HC ISBN: 9781551929798 $9.95 PA

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Around One At Home Basking Sharks Baychimo More Point With History The Slaughter of BC’s Arctic Ghost Ship A Journal of Paddling The Untold Secrets of Greater Gentle Giants Anthony Dalton Adventures Vancouver’s Heritage Homes Scott Wallace & Brian Heritage House Publishing Gisborne Mary Gazetas Eve Lazarus New Star Books If a ship could have a biography, TouchWood Editions Anvil Press that’s what this would be. Bay- chimo was a small, 1300-ton, The basking shark was once steam-powered freighter that This book is a visual account of At Home With History is a social plentiful in BC’s waters. The last was born in Sweden and worked artist Mary Gazetas’ twenty-five history of the heritage homes of sighting of one was in 2005 off in the Baltic Sea during WWI. years of summer canoe and the Lower Mainland. The history the coast of the Queen Charlotte She became a Hudson’s Bay kayaking trips along the BC of the area comes alive with Islands. This book begins by Company (HBC) freighter that coast. Her paddling journals, full descriptions of the homes and describing the life cycle and traded for furs in Siberia during of photographs, drawings, dia- people who built and lived in habitat of the basking shark. It the Russian Revolution, grams and maps, have been them. Included in the book are then goes on to discuss the rea- supplied trading posts in the collaged into this appealing discussions of noted historical sons why basking sharks were Arctic and traveled all the “journal sketchbook”. Written as figures such as Alvo von hunted so extensively in BC’s world’s oceans. Dalton uses HBC a personal account, this collec- Alvensleben, B.T. Rogers and waters between the 1940s and archives to reconstruct the life of tion will inspire others to create Ethel Wilson, as well as heritage 1960s. The book concludes with this remarkable ship and her artistic memories of trips. Gaze- areas such as Strathcona, New an overview of the state of the crew, as well he documents the tas creates “Beachscapes” with Westminster, Shaughnessy sharks in BC today. Included are incredibly difficult life aboard materials beachcombed on each Heights and Mount Pleasant. excerpts from newspapers from ship and the workings of HBC in adventure. The book is arranged Eve Lazarus is a freelance jour- the day. Extensive endnotes are the 1920s and 30s. A glossary of geographically beginning on the nalist and writer. Her articles on included. ice navigation terms is included. West Coast of Vancouver Island historical homes have been Wallace is a marine conserva- Anthony Dalton also wrote with Barkley, Clayoquot, published in Style at Home, tionist working for the David Wayward Sailor: In Search of Nootka, Kyuquot and Quatsino REM, The Global and Mail, and Suzuki Foundation. Gisborne Tristan Jones. A glossary of ice Sounds, then to the Inside Coast Nuvo. She is also the author of has worked as an historian and navigation terms is included. with Desolation Sound and Frommer’s with Kids Vancouver as a researcher for the Background knowledge of map- Broughton Archipelago and and co-authored Vancouver: the Department of Fisheries. ping coordinates and maps of finally to Hakai and Haida Art of Living Well. areas in the narrative would be Gwaii. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11 helpful before reading. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES: SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUBJECT AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES BIOLOGY 11, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, PHYSICAL Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2007 192 pp. 7.5”x9.5” LANGUAGE ARTS. SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUDIES, FINE 2006 96 pp. 6.75”x9.75” b/w photographs ARTS, VISUAL ARTS b/w photographs, maps and Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes ISBN: 9781895636802 $20.00 PA reproductions 2006 240 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781554200221 $19.00 PA b/w maps and photographs 2006 96 pp. 9”x8” ISBN: 19781894974141 $19.95 PA colour photographs, line drawings, maps, diagrams ISBN: 9781894898461 $24.95 PA

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Bear Child Between Forest Chainsaws The Cold Panes The Life and Times of and Sky A History of Surfaces Jerry Potts A Fire-Tower Journal David Lee Chris Banks Harbour Publishing Rodger D. Touchie Sharon Stratton Nightwood Editions Heritage House Publishing Heritage House Publishing This book traces the In this poetry collection, Banks development and evolution of yearns for a world long gone Although Bear Child is a biogra- Life as a fire-tower observer in the chainsaw. From its humble phy, it is equally a history of the and, through effective use of Alberta offers the opportunity to beginnings when it required metaphor, reminisces about his 19th century development of interact with an environment four operators and used steam, Western Canada, particularly the childhood years against the that few have experienced. With the chainsaw’s technological backdrop of rural Ontario. Banks southwest prairie region. The black and white photographs of advancement is chronicled to author weaves the narrative of says, “to think of your youth as a breathtaking scenery, Beaufort the single-operator machine of lost country is to forget the same Jerry Potts’s life as a trader, Wind Scale charts and detailed today. The book goes behind the hunter, scout and interpreter. The path led you from there to here.” lists of the flora found through- scenes to look at the inventors of He examines his relationships book includes the developmental out her placements, Sutton the chainsaw, their struggles to history of the trading empires, with his family and his friends explains the picturesque obtain acceptance from the log- and expresses his distaste for the the negotiations between the moments she experiences over gers and eventually to their Aboriginal people and their Euro- vulgarities of modern life. Bank’s the three summers she worked success as multinational com- meditative and occasionally pean contacts, the Aboriginal for the Jordan Forestry Office. panies. It also includes devastation by European humorous poetry expresses one With her trusted dogs Dreena hundreds of black and white and important message: we must be diseases, the establishment of the and Ted by her side, she colour photographs, complete North West Mounted Police, the quiet and listen to “a new sound recounts her adventures and with descriptors, hand of glass shattering” and to the effects of American policies on misadventures, drawings, a detailed timeline Western Canada, the coming of land “breathe.” accomplishments and foibles, and interesting factoids Banks is the author of Bonfires, the railway, and the Northwest and the trouble she had search- throughout. Rebellion. Sidebars provide addi- which won the 2004 Jack ing for solitude in order to enjoy Lee also wrote Four-Wheeling Chalmers Award for Poetry and tional biographical information, a sense of intimacy with nature. on Southern Vancouver Island timelines and events. was shortlisted for the 2004 Ger- While attending to the task of and The Battle of the Five Spot. ald Lampert Award. Touchie has also written Van- monitoring the station, Sutton couver Island: Portrait of a Past. Caution: occasional coarse meticulously describes how she SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 Caution: The word “Indian” is language was still able to maintain her SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES, APPLIED used in its historical context, but garden, take long walks and SKILLS, TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 not in a derogative or degrading enjoy the serenity the forest Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH sense. offers. 2006 210 pp. 10”x11” LANGUAGE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 colour and b/w photographs and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 Index/Bibliography: No/No SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS reproductions SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH 2006 96 pp. 5.5”x8” STUDIES 12, SOCIAL STUDIES ISBN: 9781550173802 $49.95 HC LANGUAGE ARTS ISBN: 978088971225 $16.95 PA Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No 2005 336 pp. 5.5”x8.5” 2006 224 pp. 5.5”x8.5” maps, schematics, b/w photographs b/w photographs and reproductions ISBN: 9781894974165 $18.95 PA ISBN: 1894384636 $19.95 PA

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Crow Medicine Daredevil Club Desolation Sound Disaster on Jane Ray’s Wildlife Rescue Pam Withers A History Mount Slesse Series Orca Book Publishers Heather Harbord The Story of Western Canada’s Harbour Publishing Diane Haynes In this Orca Currents novel for Worst Air Crash Walrus Books reluctant readers, Kip is the leader of the Daredevil Club that This is a comprehensive and Betty O’Keefe & lively history of Desolation Jane Ray is battling against ani- has seven amazing stunts they Ian Macdonald wish to complete. However, he Sound, a remote wilderness and Caitlin Press mal cruelty and corrupt recreational area 150 kilometres politicians again in this second was seriously hurt on the fourth stunt and does not know if he north of Vancouver. Harbord installment of the Jane Ray’s describes the flora and fauna On December 9, 1956, Western Wildlife Rescue Series. The story can physically keep up with the Canada’s worst aviation disaster club anymore. The daredevils and the Sound’s original inhabi- begin with a long description of tants—the Sliammon First occurred. This book investigates West Nile Virus but this and are also competing with another the causes of this tragic event group, the Wildmen, who are Nation. We meet Chief Joe details of the impact it has had Mitchell, who passes on the oral and the search for the downed on animals, as well as people’s determined to come up with the plane. Trans-Canada Airlines ultimate death-defying stunt. history of his people, and then reactions to it, are well written. the first explorers such as Cap- Flight 810, carrying sixty-two Readers who enjoy suspense Kip must come to grips with the persons, collided with the 2500 reality that perhaps his daredevil tain George Vancouver, who based on real-life situations will gave the Sound its ominous metre mountain peak of Mt. be hooked. Jane tries to help the days are over and that he needs Sleese. The mountain is known to find a new interest. name. Harbord describes the crows, the first victims of the influx of European settlers from in the area around Chilliwack as virus, and learns about crow Other titles by Pam Withers the Fang. The five-month include Raging River, which was the late 19th century, who medicine from the Crone, an sought out a life of solitude as search, long before the times of Aboriginal woman who keeps a nominated for the 2004 emergency locators and black Manitoba Young Readers’ well as those who later came to crow as a pet. Touching on Abo- fish and log. Characters boxes, and the causes of the riginal learning, the book is Choice Award and the 2004 Wil- accident are described, culmi- low Award; Adrenalin Ride, described include the Cougar primarily concerned with envi- Queen of Okeover Arm and Mike nating in the discovery of the ronmental action, teenage issues which was a 2005 “Our Choice” wreck on May 12, 1957. In 1995, book of the Canadian Children’s Shutter, a Homer-quoting her- and attempts to stop the coming mit. A combination of legend the BC government placed a virus. Endnotes include facts on Book Centre; and Peak Survival, protective zone around the area which was second place in the and fact, Desolation Sound is a how to identify the virus. valuable addition to BC’s history. of debris and pronounced it a Haynes won a medal from the 2006 Chocolate Lily Awards and Heritage Wreck site. This book was shortlisted for the 2006 Harbord has also written Council for the Advancement of kayaking guides including Sea marks the 50th anniversary of Secondary Education. Manitoba Young Readers’ the horrific events. Choice Award. Kayak: Desolation Sound and Sunshine Coast. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS Index/Bibliography: No/No STUDIES 12, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2006 352 pp. 4.5”x7” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2006 250 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781552858066 $8.95 PA 2006 112 pp. 4.25”x7” b/w photographs, map ISBN: 9781551436142 $9.95 PA 2007 260 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs and maps ISBN: 9781894759212 $21.95 PA ISBN: 9781550174076 $24.95 PA

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Earth’s Crude The End of Food The Entrepreneurial The First Nations of Gravities How the Food Industry is Itch British Columbia Destroying Our Food Supply – Patrick Friesen Don’t Scratch Until An Anthropological Survey, Harbour Publishing And What You Can Do About It You Read This Book! 2nd Edition Thomas F. Pawlick David Trahair Robert J. Muckle This most recent collection of Douglas & McIntyre poems from Patrick Friesen fur- Self-Counsel Press UBC Press ther asserts his position as one of Canada’s finest poets. Some of This volume is full of The Entrepreneurial Itch is a First published in 1998, this fully the pieces are set on the Prairies, informative anecdotes and straightforward, anecdote- revised edition is an excellent while others take place in the clearly explained scientific packed guide to self-employment introduction to BC`s First urban setting of Vancouver, research. It is concerned with and running one’s own business. Nations. It presents a concise where he now lives. Despite the the serious shortcomings in our Chapters address specific issues and accessible overview of First apparent simplicity of the words food production methods and such as how to effectively choose Nations people, cultures and he uses, the poems contain reso- the readily available solutions. one’s clients, bookkeeping for issues. In addition, information nance and depth. Writing for an With personal stories and hard sole proprietors, the pros and on populations, reserves, bands adult audience, he explores uni- science, the problems with cons of hourly billing versus set and language groups are versal themes such as death and decreasing nutrients, increasing fee and warnings against included. It identifies the terri- love. His Mennonite background toxins, environmental damage, franchise scams. It teaches what tories of major groups; discusses is reflected in some of the and loss of farming land and makes a successful business plan, the fur trade, gold rushes, settle- pieces, especially those which expertise are detailed. The solu- how to get clients and how to “do ment, missionaries and see him wrestling with what tions such as planting our own it right” in order to work less and residential schools; explains the might be deemed his religious gardens, buying local and earn more as an entrepreneur. treaty negotiation process; and organic foods and grassroots beliefs. For the novice starting a small summarizes archaeological, Friesen has also published support of best practices are business this book explains about ethnographic, historical, legal plays, translations and CDs. He presented. The author encour- operations, selling and market- and political issues. has been shortlisted for the ages an appreciation of the ing, finances and administration. growing, harvesting and prepar- Dorothy Livesay Award for Drawing on the long experience SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 ing of our own foods. An eclectic Poetry (BC Book Prizes) and for of a self-employed accountant SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS list of practical resources is the Governor-General’s Award. with small business owners as STUDIES 12, SOCIAL STUDIES Caution: Some communities included. clients, this succinct, to-the- Index/Bibliography: Yes/yes may take offense from the fact Pawlick is an award-winning point, and well-written book 2007 154 pp. 8.5”x5.5” that Friesen does not use capital science journalist and offers invaluable guidance on b/w photographs letters when referring to Jesus or experienced organic farmer. starting and running small busi- ISBN: 9780774813495 $19.95 PA God. nesses. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12, TEACHER RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUBJECT AREA: APPLIED SKILLS: SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: APPLIED SKILLS: HOME ECONOMICS, SCIENCES, LANGUAGE ARTS, ENGLISH BUSINESS EDUCATION, CAPP LITERATURE 12 SOCIAL STUDIES: CIVIC STUDIES 11 Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2007 153 pp. 6”x9” 2006 224 pp. 6”x9” 2007 108 pp. 5.5”x8.5” ISBN: 9781551807355 $17.95 PA ISBN: 9781550173994 $16.95 PA ISBN: 9781553651697 $24.95 PA

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Following the Going Top Shelf Good Intentions Half in the Sun Boulder Train An Anthology of Gone Awry An Anthology of Travels with Prospectors Canadian Hockey Poetry Emma Crosby and the Mennonite Writing and Rock Doctors Michael P. J. Kennedy, ed. Methodist Mission on the Elsie K. Neufeld, ed. Heritage House Ronsdale Press Tom Henry Northwest Coast Harbour Publishing This diverse collection Jane Hare & Jean Barman This is a collection of short sto- celebrates hockey in Canada UBC Press ries, poetry and non-fiction This book relates the adventures with poems and song lyrics by written by Mennonites living in and misadventures of prospec- more than thirty writers, includ- BC. Many selections have Bibli- tors and rock enthusiasts ing poets Michael Ondaatje, This is a collection of letters cal references, but express involved in BC’s third-largest Lorna Crozier and Al Purdy and written by the wife of missionary different views on the Mennon- industry: mining. The story of songwriters Stompin’ Tom Con- Thomas Crosby who worked ite experience. Some reflect on contemporary geologists and nors, the Tragically Hip and among the Tsimshian people in traditional Mennonite beliefs miners is told in a behind-the- Kathleen Edwards. Some of the 1874. While Thomas was away, such as communal living, paci- scenes narrative. Many selections reflect the passage of Emma looked after the children, fism, living one’s religion and the intriguing aspects, such as using time, others capture the excite- the school and the Crosby Girls’ importance of family. Others trace elements of mineral ment of the fans. Some focus on Home, which became one of the focus on dissent. In “Katja,” dur- deposits in flowers and dogs to the athleticism of the players, first residential schools. ing World War II, a family is sent “sniff” out minerals in the earth, while others recount the joys of Commentary from the authors from their Mennonite village in are included. Henry traveled victory and the provides a background to the the Ukraine to a Siberian slave throughout BC learning from disappointments of loss. From letters. The book includes exten- camp. In “Renovating Heaven” a modern miners in prospecting young boys playing hockey in sive endnotes. family is forced to move from Hare is an assistant professor camps and attended BCIT’s backyard rinks to Olympic ath- their farm in Agassiz to Vancou- prospecting school to prepare letes, this collection of poems at UBC. She is a member of the ver. Included in the book are for this book. illustrates how engrained M’Chigeeng First Nation. short biographies of the contrib- Henry won the Bill Duthie hockey is in Canadian culture. Barman wrote Stanley Park’s utors. Booksellers’ Choice Award for Included is a brief biography on Secret, which won the 2006 City Neufeld is the author of Danc- Westcoasters: Boats that Built each of the contributors. of Vancouver Book Prize. ing in the Dark: a Sister Grieves BC, and the Lieutenant Gover- Kennedy also edited Words on Caution: The letters of Emma and The Past Inside the Present. nor’s Award for The Good Ice: A Collection of Hockey Prose. Crosby reflect the public opinion Her work has appeared in many Company: An Affectionate His- Caution: Occasional coarse of the time that First Nations Mennonite publications. tory of the Union Steamships. language people were not to be treated as Caution: includes some coarse Caution: Some language may equals to the white settlers. language be offensive. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 LANGUAGE ARTS SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH STUDIES 12, SOCIAL STUDIES SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES: LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/Yes GEOLOGY 12, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2005 112 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2006 344 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w photographs 2006 354 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs 2006 250 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 1894384997 $15.95 PA ISBN: 9781553800385 $21.95 PA ISBN: 9780774812719 $29.95 PA map ISBN: 9781550173772 $34.95 HC

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High Speed Through Home and Away The Human Shore King of the Lost Shoaling Water More Tales of a Heritage Farm Russell Thornton and Found Harbour Publishing Tom Wayman Anny Scoones John Lekich TouchWood Editions Harbour Publishing This book of poetry from North Raincoast Books Vancouver’s Russell Thornton In his latest collection of lyric Here is another collection of covers a variety of topics. Many In this novel, Raymond Dunne is poems, Wayman shares his Anny Scoones’ essays about her poems are identifiable about probably the biggest geek in his views on issues such as clear- life, revolving around historic places and events in BC, such as entire high school. He sneezes a cutting, abuse in the workplace, Glamorgan Farm in North a response to the fatal mudslide lot, he has numerous global warming and free enter- Saanich near Victoria. Whether of 2005 in North Vancouver; oth- nosebleeds and he is known to prise, but he says that we can rescuing abandoned dogs and ers take place around the world. faint without notice. He also collectively learn from our set- cats, raising rare species of farm Various poetic forms are used, enjoys doing favours for the backs. Nature to Wayman is his animals, representing her com- from clear narrative poems to Vice-Principal, including comfort zone. Here he can fly munity at the United Nations in more abstract poems that running the lost and found through the air weaving New York or reflecting on her express an emotional response booth. Business is slow, so Ray- “through the valley between personal relationships, Anny to the world. mond must resort to alternate stands and hillsides of larch and writes with insight and humour. Caution: some sexual and methods to procure items for his pine and fir” and where he can Her vivid descriptions present a drug-use references as well as booth. That is until he enters savour the “scent of sugary clear sense of place wherever poems about human sacrifice in into an arrangement with Jack chlorophyll on the tongue.” she travels. In this sequel to her ancient South America Alexander, a popular grade Wayman even envies nature earlier book Home, she details twelve student. Raymond sud- especially her feelings on leav- because when he is gone and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 denly becomes very ing her farm to visit faraway forgotten, “the wind, for as long SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH popular—but this popularity places and the joy and relief of as the trees abide, will live LANGUAGE ARTS comes at a tremendous personal forever.” Yet, Wayman is not dis- coming home. price. Index/Bibliography: No/No connected from a world that is Lekich is the author of five 2006 96 pp. 5.5”x8.5” beset by social, political and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 books including Reel ISBN: 978550173857 $16.95 PA global concerns. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Adventures: the Savvy Teen’s Wayman was nominated for LANGUAGE ARTS Guide to Great Movies. The Los- the Governor General’s Award Index/Bibliography: No/No ers’ Club, was a finalist for many for Poetry in 2003. 2006 192 pp. 5.5”x7.5” book prizes, including the Gov- Caution: includes some coarse b/w line drawings, colour ernor General’s Award and the language reproductions BC Book Prize’s Sheila A. Egoff ISBN: 9781894898492 $19.95 PA Award. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 LANGUAGE ARTS SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 144 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 781550174014 $17.95 PA 2007 312 pp. 5.5”x7.5” ISBN: 9781551928029 $11.95 PA

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Light at the Edge A Long Labour The Love Song of Mirror Image of the World A Dutch Mother’s Laura Ingalls Wilder K.L. Denman Holocaust Memoir Orca Book Publishers A Journey Through the Sharon McCartney Realm of Vanishing Cultures Rhodea Shandler Nightwood Editions This short novel in the Orca Cur- Ronsdale Press rent series speaks to girls in their Wade Davis As McCartney points out in the own language about issues that Douglas & McIntyre A Long Labour tells the story of book’s foreword, these poems concern them. It a highly read- the author’s struggle to survive are not an attempt to analyze able story with laugh-out-loud Wade Davis, one of the world’s during World War II. The story the works of Laura Ingalls as well as gut-wrenching leading anthropologists, makes begins with her early life in Hol- Wilder. Yet she admits that she episodes. Two grade nine girls an impassioned plea in words land before the war and her still reads the Little House books are thrown together to work on a and photographs to preserve the training as a nurse. As the war and that the poems are a kind of school project. Lacey is blonde, “ethnosphere”—the diversity of progresses, Rhodea, her response to the series. She says, beautiful and bubbly; Sable is cultures inhabiting our planet. husband Ernst, and their “…the poems use the voices of morose, wears black and walks He writes about his experiences children are forced into hiding the characters (human and non- under a dark cloud. The two girls living in Tibet, the Amazonian because they were Jewish. Most human, animate and inanimate) with nothing in common even- rainforest, the Arctic and Haiti. of the Dutch Jews did not go into from the books.” Thus, there are tually share their secret fears. He accompanies the text with hiding, and were sent to their poems from the point of view of Lacey sheds her dark cloud breathtaking photographs that deaths at extermination camps. the dog, the cat, Pa’s riﬂe, even when she has an “ah-ha!” portray unique peoples and The strength of Rhodea’s charac- the wind. Consider this excerpt moment and realizes that their equally stunning environ- ter permeates the pages. She from “Churn”: buckets of fresh beauty is powerful. Focusing on ment. His rich and detailed describes being separated from cream dumped down / my neck, scary stuff makes you feel hope- accounts are fascinating as he her husband and children for set by the stove to keep warm. / less and weak. “Thinking about takes the reader along on this long periods of time and how Then the bump, bump, bump of creating beauty—that makes me intimate journey into the hearts she endures a pregnancy while the dash / agitating my feel stronger,” she says. Topics of some of the world’s vanishing in hiding. The memoir ends with thoughts.” These plain-spoken such as mothers, boyfriends, cultures. the reunited family’s decision to poems would serve as excellent clothes, makeup, hair, school This is the newly released emigrate to Canada. exemplars for writings based on and friendship are covered paper edition. other texts, or for examining along with deeper issues such as Caution: This book documents SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 point of view. They will also personal fears and the meaning the use of native plants, which SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH appeal to those who are familiar of life. act as drugs, to produce altered LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES with the series. states by various cultures. Caution: there are a few refer- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-10 Index/Bibliography: Yes/No ences to bodily functions. SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, ENGLISH 2007 176 pp. 6”x9” LANGUAGE ARTS, PERSONAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 b/w photographs SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 PLANNING SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES: ISBN: 9781553800453 $21.95 PA SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH BIOLOGY 11 AND 12, SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS STUDIES: COMPARATIVE 2007 112 pp. 4.25”x7” CIVILIZATIONS 12, GEOGRAPHY 12 Index/Bibliography: No/Yes ISBN: 9781551436654 $9.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 96 pp. 5.25”x7.5” 2007 224 pp. 5”x7.75” ISBN: 9780889712331 $16.95 PA colour photographs ISBN: 9781553652670 $16.95 PA

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Mother Time Muybridge’s Horse My Name is Bosnia Notes from Poems New & Selected A Poem in Three Phases Madeleine Gagnon Canada’s Young Joanne Arnott Rob Winger Phyllis Aronoff & Ronsdale Press Nightwood Editions Howard Scott, trans. Activists Talonbooks A Generation Stands Up Arnott is the mother of six chil- This is a fascinating biographi- for Change dren spanning two decades in cal poem about Eadweard This novel recounts the journey age. The acts of giving birth and Muybridge, a pioneering British- of a young Muslim woman who Severn Cullis-Suzuki, mothering have played a huge born photographer. The poem leaves war-torn Sarajevo for a new life. After witnessing her Kris Frederickson, et al. part in her life, and these poems begins with a stagecoach Greystone Books reflect that experience. This col- accident that, though it nearly father’s murder, she renames her- lection of old and new work killed Muybridge, fueled his pas- self “Bosnia” and joins other consists of poems that explore sion for photography. In stark young people who are struggling This is a collection of short Arnott’s identity, both as a and elegant language, Winger to survive the war. When two of pieces written by major youth mother and as a Métis woman. constructs the interior these companions die in an activists like Simon Jackson, Song is an important element in landscape of a mad genius who attack, Bosnia resolves to leave who petitioned for the Kermode her work – not meaning poems murdered his wife’s lover. After her country. She and her husband Bear, and Craig Kielburger, that rhyme, but song as a way of being acquitted for justifiable eventually move to Québec. known for his anti-child labour oral telling and of sharing. The homicide, he went to Central Gagnon relates the horrors of work. Twenty-five Canadians are work will be of special appeal in America to do his greatest war: rapes, beheadings and tor- featured in this collection. The schools that meet the needs of works. His most famous feat was ture. While the story is unsettling notes by each author discuss young mothers, as the poems to strategically set up fifty cam- for some, its message is one of how they became involved in focus on pregnancy, birthing eras during a horse race, which peace and freedom for all. activism and what their major and children. successfully captured the split Caution: Both priests and goals were. Ilona Dougherty’s Arnott’s Wiles of Girlhood won second where all four legs of the imams are viewed as “hypocriti- shirt with “Question Authority” the Gerald Lampert Award from horse are off the ground. This cal” and restrictions placed on written on it best states the the League of Canadian Poets sequence of photographs led to Muslim women are criticized. A theme. This book asks youth to for best first book of poetry. the development of the motion detailed description of a rape is question the world around them Caution: Since the book is con- picture. included. Domestic abuse, and urges them to act on issues cerned with mothering and In 2003 Winger won first prize homosexuality and abortion are they feel strongly about. birthing, language describing for the CBC Literary Awards discussed. female genitals is explicit. (Poetry) for selections from the SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 still incomplete manuscript of SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Muybridge’s Horse. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH STUDIES 12, CAPP, ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH AND CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUDIES 12, ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Index/Bibliography: No/No STUDIES ARTS SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH 2006 256 pp. 5.5”x8.5” LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS: Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9780889225428 $19.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No VISUAL ARTS 2007 138 pp. 6”x9” 2007 240 pp. 5.5”x8.5” b/w photographs ISBN: 9781553800460 $14.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/Yes ISBN: 9781553652373 $21.95 PA 2007 96 pp. 5.25”x7.5” b/w photographs ISBN: 9780889712317 $16.95 PA

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Off the Bench and Old Bones One Muddy Hand Paddling Into the Game Ron Chudley Selected Poems Through History Eight Business Success TouchWood Editions Earle Birney Sea Kayak Vancouver Sam Solecki, ed. Strategies from This murder mystery with a cold and Victoria Harbour Publishing case file contains a plot with a Professional Sport chain of events each with their Aileen Stalker & own dilemmas and This is a selection of the best Andrew Nolan Ryan Walter work of acclaimed Canadian Heritage House Publishing consequences. Roy was caught Rocky Mountain Books in the act cheating on Trevor, his poet Earle Birney. The poems lover, a prominent government span Birney’s writing career Walter played for fifteen seasons from 1926 to 1987, drawing from Paddling Through History is employee. In a fit of rage and both a recreational guide and an and in over 100 games in the jealousy, Trevor violently more than twenty published col- National Hockey League. With lections of poems, two of which historical guide to the Lower attacked the two, brutally beat- Mainland and Victoria. Twelve the Montreal Canadiens, he won ing them. Reacting in won Governor General’s Awards. the Stanley Cup in 1986 and Using Birney’s Ghost in the sea kayaking trips are outlined. self-defense, Roy kills Trevor and They all begin with such details ended his hockey career with buries him with the unusual Wheels: Selected Poems as a the Vancouver Canucks. He has guide, the editor chose the as length of trip, difficulty, weapon in the back yard. He launch sites, parking, washroom taken the skills he learned as a flees and tries to build a new life, remainder of the poems, includ- hockey player and created a ing some of Birney’s most facilities and paddling consider- but the past continues to haunt ations. After these initial details, strategy for success for individu- him and his new relationship. At popular poems, such as “David,” als wanting to attain their goals “Bushed” and “A Walk in Kyoto.” the trip is described. Each the same time a body is discov- description includes the histori- and increase their leadership ered hundreds of miles away, an One Muddy Hand reflects the effectiveness. Walters stresses wide range of Birney's poems cal background of the areas accidental victim of a crime being paddled through and the importance of how we think, committed fifty years previously. from scholarly to simple, to seri- points of interest. It is these talk, focus and perform. He A bizarre connection is made ous. It showcases the emphasizes the benefits of outstanding characteristics of details that make this book between the two events. Will cross-curricular. Paddling teamwork and perseverance. He Roy’s secret be revealed? Birney's style: word play, word provides interesting and colour- crafting, word invention, and Through History concludes with Previously, Ron Chudley was a a template for a float plan, as ful anecdotes and examples scriptwriter for film, television, alliteration. Many playful poems from his life. are woven through the well as a gear checklist. radio, and live drama. This is his Aileen Stalker and Andrew Walter is the author of Simply second mystery novel. collection. One Muddy Hand is the Best: Insights and Strategies the only book of Birney’s poems Nolan are both avid kayakers. Caution: Frequent use of vul- This is their first book. of Great Hockey Coaches. gar language and several vivid currently available. descriptions of both cross- and Sam Solecki is the former edi- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 same-gender sexual encounters. tor of The Canadian Forum. SUBJECT AREA: PHYSICAL SUBJECT AREA: APPLIED SKILLS: EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUDIES BUSINESS EDUCATION, PHYSICAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 EDUCATION SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS 2005 192 pp. 5”x7” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS b/w photographs, b/w maps 2006 192 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781894765572$19.95 PA b/w photographs 2005 240 pp. 5.25”x8” 2006 208 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781894974233 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781894898331 $12.95 PA ISBN: 9781550173703 $18.95 PA

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A Passion for People, Fish The Quirky Girls’ Rain Before Morning Mountains and Whales Guide to Rest Stops Michael Poole The Lives of Don and The Vancouver Aquarium Story and Road Trips Harbour Publishing Phyllis Munday This novel combines historical Dr. Murray A. Newman Karen Rivers Harbour Publishing fiction with a coming-of-age Kathryn Bridge Raincoast Books love story to carry the reader Rocky Mountain Books back in time and space to This book traces the In this final book of the Haley remote coastal communities in development of the Vancouver Don and Phyllis Munday Harmony trilogy, Haley finds BC and to France during WWI. Aquarium from its humble herself being left behind as In the search for a meaningful climbed the mountains and beginnings to its current status explored the wilderness of BC everyone moves on after place in the world two young as the largest aquarium in completing high school. One of lovers experience soaring joy over a period of forty years from Canada. It has colour and black 1910 to 1950, often with their her best friends is off to New together and brutal times apart. and white photography York to pursue a modeling The heroine Leah ends up as a infant daughter. It includes 150+ throughout, with sidebars that mountains climbed and at least career; the other to Harvard. nurse close to the front lines in round out the text and provide Haley feels like a failure. She France and her lover, Nathan, forty first ascents. Don’s WWI readers with additional informa- experiences and its impact on decides the best cure for her ends up finding his way in the tion. The first section describes misery is to leave town on her coarse world of coastal logging his later life are described. They how the aquarium developed climbed north of Vancouver, the own adventure. After a short when they are forced apart by from a grassroots movement of stint as the world’s worst the strict moral code of their coast, the Rockies of BC and amateur biologists with little Alberta, the Selkirks and the waitress, she finally has enough community. Events bring them government funding. The next money to hit the road in her into the adult world with a Columbia ranges. Their legacy sections deals with the fish and includes photographs, survey- dilapidated VW van. She and her vengeance that tests their beliefs their peculiar habits inside the newly acquired friend Izzy set and devotion to each other. In ing and journal articles. The tanks. It then goes on to discuss book includes an alpha list, with out from Victoria to make their the process the cruel and the history of the whales and way to California. After many charming details of life in that details of all the ascents. their training in the aquarium. It Bridge was a manager with BC hilarious disasters, she finally time and place are revealed. ends with a look at what goes on makes her way back home with Poole won the Edna Staebler Archives and author of several behind the scenes at what is now books including By Snowshoe, a new appreciation for her life. Award for Creative Non-fiction considered one of the top five Rivers also wrote Surviving for Romancing Mary Jane and Buckboard and Steamer - winner aquariums in the world. of the 1998 Lieutenant- Sam. Other titles in the series are was shortlisted for the Hubert Dr. Murray Newman also The Healing Time of Hickeys and Evans Prize for Ragged Islands. Governor’s Medal for Historical wrote Life in a Fishbowl. He was Writing. The Cure for Crushes. Caution: explicit descriptions the first curator of the Vancouver of sex, war and rape and some Aquarium and remained there SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 very coarse language. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 for thirty-seven years. SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH AND SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 CAREER EDUCATION SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/No SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES LANGUAGE ARTS 2006 240 pp. 6.25”x9.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs, map, chart 2006 304 pp. 5”x7” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2006 120 pp. 8”x9” ISBN: 9781894765695 $26.95 PA ISBN: 9781551929071 $10.95 PA 2006 320 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781550173826 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781550174120 $24.95 PA

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The Rap River Queen Robert Service The Rush to Here Canterbury Tales The Amazing Story of Tugboat Under the Spell of the Yukon George Murray Titan Lucille Johnstone Nightwood Editions Baba Brinkman Enid Mallory Heritage House Talonbooks Paul E. Levy This is a collection of fifty-seven Harbour Publishing sonnets. Murray follows the tra- A kind of “Coles Notes” for This thorough account of ditional sonnet format to a Service’s life emphasizes the sig- Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The story of Lucille Johnstone’s degree, but substitutes tonal this version offers the classic text nificance of the time he spent rhymes with word associations, meteoric rise from secretary to living in the Yukon for his writ- on left-hand pages, with President and CEO of River Tow- something he calls “thought- footnotes that explain vocabu- ing, growth as a person and rhymes,” using synonyms, ing is told through narrative fame. The book documents his lary. Accompanying “rap mixed with transcripts of taped antonyms and homonyms in the translations” appear on pages to early life in Scotland; travels place of formal rhyme. For conversations with Lucille and across the Atlantic, Canada and the right. The author has taken her colleagues. River Queen example, in a stanza in “Lullaby” some liberties in adapting the through California; his work in he uses the associations details the circumstances that the Yukon as a banker; his years various tales. Illustrations fill out led to Lucille taking a job with “signal”-“pulse” and “light”- the pages beneath the adapta- of service in both World Wars; “dawn”. Not only is he inventive River Towing and how she his fame as a published author tions. The author believes that helped build it into one of the in his use of form, but he also Chaucer’s work is oral poetry so and poet; and his final days chooses contemporary themes, largest and most diversified pri- spent at his house in France. he has created a more contem- vate enterprises in British ones that are atypical of porary rendering of each Excerpts from several of traditional sonnets. Murray Columbia. Besides her work Service’s narrative poems are tale—one meant to be read with River Towing, Lucille also focuses on the imperfections of aloud. Each section is prefaced included. Anecdotes about the our daily lives, the uncomfort- served on the board of directors characters he encountered, by an overview, which offers fur- for Expo ‘86, the Vancouver Air- able passing of time, and the ther insights into specifics of the often the inspiration for his dark moments of memory that port Authority, BC Ferries, the poems, bring this text to life. text. He includes introductory Fraser River Discovery Centre occupy our daydreams. remarks on the history of hip- Mallory’s other historical Murray’s “edgy” poems succeed Society and St. John Ambulance. accounts include The Remark- hop. Drama classes might Lucille’s story is an inspiration to in capturing the complexities of explore interpreting these tales able Years: Canadians Remember life. business people everywhere, the 20th Century and as modern spoken-word poetry. both men and women. Murray is the author of The Includes notes on the text and a Coppermine: The Far North of Hunter and The Cottage Builder’s Levy worked with Lucille John- George M. Douglas. discography of rap. stone on the board of the Fraser Letter. He was nominated for the Caution: explicit rap lyrics and River Discovery Centre Society. Pushcart Prize (2003). SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 instances of street language. Caution: Infrequent use of pro- Caution: Some coarse lan- SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH fanity. guage. LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES: SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 HISTORY 12 SUBJECT AREA: FINE ARTS: DRAMA, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SUBJECT AREA: APPLIED SKILLS: Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH ENGLISH LITERATURE 12 BUSINESS EDUCATION, SOCIAL 2006 256 pp. 6”x9” LANGUAGE ARTS STUDIES b/w photographs and reproductions; Index/Bibliography:: No/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No maps 2006 352 pp. 6”x9” 2007 96 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No ISBN: 9781894384957 $32.95 HC b/w line drawings 2006 272 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9780889712294 $16.95 PA ISBN: 9780889225480 $24.95 PA b/w photographs ISBN: 9781550173697 $34.95 HC

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Sea Kayak Strokes Searching for Billie Sharks of the Skids A Guide to Efficient Freda Jackson Pacific Northwest Cathleen With Paddling Skills TouchWood Editions Including Oregon, Washington, Arsenal Pulp Press Doug Alderson Set in the Canadian West in British Columbia & Alaska This poignant collection of tales Rocky Mountain Books 1897, this novel portrays the focuses on the street kids prima- harsh realities of living in Dr. Alessandro rily living in Vancouver’s This is a clearly written and well- untamed territory. Jane Priddle De Maddalena, Downtown Eastside. They are illustrated instructional manual, arrives in Edmonton from Lon- Antonella Preti, et al. the homeless and often addic- which would ideally be used to don, England. She has been sent Harbour Publishing tion-driven adolescents who are accompany a course led by a to find evidence that the British marginalized by society often qualified coach, about paddling Child Emigration Movement because of poverty, race or their was doing the right thing by This is a useful identification sexual orientation. The “skids” skills. The intent is to help kayak- guide to the eighteen species of ers of all skill levels by providing sending orphaned street try to look out for one another children to live with and work shark in Pacific Northwest waters. and often form life-long tips and suggestions for improv- Classification and species identi- ing and maintaining paddling for Canadian families. Instead relationships that transcend Jane finds “Home Children” liv- fication details are given, ordinary friendship. They search techniques. The focus is on the including clear and detailed illus- following strokes: forward, ing in abusive, undesirable for the meaning of life while situations. Her attempt to track trations and diagrams. The coping with HIV, sexual abuse, sweep, rudder, draw and biology, ethology and ecology of blended. Also presented are down one runaway child, leads drug addiction and torn her into the Canadian sharks are presented along with a families. They are the forgotten instructions on edge control, discussion of attacks on humans bracing, brace turns and rolling. wilderness, where she discovers in a world that tries to rehabili- her capacity for grief and com- and details of shark fisheries. Fas- tate them, but nobody can Each chapter follows a consistent cinating creatures such as the format that introduces the topic passion. After spending a winter possibly comprehend the hor- at a remote stopping post, Jane prickly shark, longnose catshark rors they have been through focus and then presents aspects and the Pacific sleeper shark as related to safety, application of returns with all the wisdom and trying to make it on the streets. experience of a true well as the small brown catshark Caution: contains explicit sex- and key points about the and the rare basking shark are technique(s). Several exercises to homesteader. ual content and coarse language Jackson is the author of several found in these waters. The sharks’ improve efficiency are included evolution, anatomy and physiol- short stories and articles. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 in each chapter. ogy are presented as well as Caution: Includes some graph- SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, ENGLISH Alderson is a senior details of each species’ morphol- instructor/trainer in kayaking. ic and heart-wrenching LANGUAGE ARTS accounts of tragic incidents ogy, size, teeth shape, gestation, He has also written Sea Kayak Index/Bibliography: No/No involving wild animals and two habitat and distribution. Around Vancouver Island and 2006 152 pp. 5”x8” scenes of attempted rape, which Sea Kayaker’s Savvy Paddler. ISBN: 9781551522159 $19.95 PA although not explicitly descrip- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 tive, are emotionally charged. SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES: SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 BIOLOGY 11AND 12, SCIENCE SUBJECT AREA: CAPP, PHYSICAL EDUCATION SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH 2007 160 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES colour photographs, line drawings, 2007 176 pp. 6”x9” maps, diagrams, charts Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs, line drawings, ISBN: 9781550174182 $21.95 PA diagrams 2007 288 pp. 5.5”x7.5” ISBN: 9781894765855 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781894898539 $18.95 PA

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Soft Geography Sternwheelers & The Story of Dunbar Thompson’s Gillian Wigmore Canyon Cats Voices of a Vancouver Highway Caitlin Press Whitewater Freighting Neighbourhood British Columbia’s Fur Trade, Rugged and rough images of on the Upper Fraser Peggy Schofield, ed. 1800 – 1850 nature, its harsh power and cold Ronsdale Press brutal charms, are what these Jack Boudreau Alan Twigg poems leaves in the reader’s Caitlin Press This is an informative historical Ronsdale Press mind. The images contain a life account of the development of of their own, where cars are This is a well-researched history the Dunbar neighbourhood in Twigg describes the lives of, caves and tents have bones. of the steamers that hauled peo- Vancouver. The authors, among others, the fur Everything is made into natural ple and freight to Fort George, to residents of the area, garnered traders/explorers Alexander beings and there is a haunting isolated railway construction most of the information from Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and allure to the ideas, cold but full camps and to remote personal recollections and inter- David Thompson. Their roles of vitality and thus comforting settlements on the Upper Fraser views. The twelve chapters, and importance in exploring in its way. Wigmore brings the River from 1909 to 1913. The which cover a 100-year period, and opening up the West Coast, past and present beauty of BC steamers traveled along the focuses on the establishment of as well as Thompson’s major into relief. Images of death, life, Fraser River from Tete Jaune dwellings, businesses, achievements as a mapmaker, love, sex and time contain the through to Soda Creek, a industries, schools, churches, are documented. A major focus same stark, wintry feeling of the distance of 765 kilometres. park, and the transportation sys- is on Thompson’s role in BC his- environment that she lives in. Boudreau chronicles the tem of the neighbourhood. Also tory and his route to the Pacific Gillian Wigmore is also the difficulties of moving freight included are accounts of the first Ocean. Thirty-tree fascinating author of home when it moves through canyons and rapids, inhabitants of the area, family people are documented includ- you. focusing on the Grand Canyon life, trends, customs and ing John Jewitt, Paul Kane, Peter area where more than 200 peo- concerns of the people. Numer- Skene Ogden, James Douglas SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 ple lost their lives. He details the ous historic black and white and George Simpson. Fifty forts SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH hazardous work of the canyon photographs, from family built along this ”highway” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES cats who guided boats. As well, albums, complement the text. between 1800 and 1850 are Index/Bibliography: No/No he describes how steamers such Short biographical sketches of described in an appendix. 2007 80 pp. 5.5”x8” as the BC Express and the BX the authors are incorporated. Twigg’s First Invaders was ISBN: 9781894759236 $15.95 PA “heralded the dawn of a new age The extensive bibliography cites nominated for the Hubert Evans in Central BC.” sources by chapter offering Non-Fiction Prize. Boudreau is the author of, information on references and Caution: References to among other titles, Crazy Man’s interviewees. Aboriginal peoples as “savages” Creek and Grizzly Bear and “Indians”. Mountains. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-11 SUBJECT AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUBJECT AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES STUDIES 12, SOCIAL STUDIES 2007 446 pp. 8.5”x11” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes ISBN: 9781553800408 $39.95 PA Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2006 256 pp. 6”x9” 2006 254 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs and maps b/w photographs, b/w ISBN: 9781894759205 $18.95 PA reproductions, line drawings, map ISBN: 9781553800392 $24.95 PA

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Three Against Transitions of Vancouver Art Vancouver the Wilderness a Still Life & Economies Remembered Eric Collier Ceramic Work by Tam Irving Melanie O’Brian, ed. Michael Kluckner TouchWood Editions Carol E. Mayer Arsenal Pulp Press Whitecap Books Anvil Press This well-written true story Ten academics, artists, curators Vancouver Remembered is a recounts how a young English- and writers discuss the art prac- social history of Vancouver, man came to BC, settled in the This book examines the work tices of Vancouver's which concentrates on the time Chilcotin and kept his promise and life of BC ceramic artist Tam contemporary artists in the con- period from 1950 to 1980. The to bring the beavers back to the Irving. It was developed to text of globalization. The book begins with a brief Meldrum Valley. In 1930, he, his accompany an exhibition of Irv- contributors consider Vancouver overview of Vancouver’s history wife Lillian, and their young son ing’s work at the Burnaby Art art and its institutions, comment- and then launches into a neigh- Veasy drove a horse-pulled Gallery. The book follows the ing on the economies at work and bourhood-by-neighbourhood wagon loaded with supplies to development of Irving’s work Vancouver's position within history. It does not just concen- the Meldrum Creek area where and style from his early clay local, national and international trate on the residential they lived in a tent until they fin- sculptures to his work as a pro- art economies. They analyze Van- neighbourhoods, but also looks ished building a one-room duction potter, through to his couver’s emergence as one of the at such areas as Chinatown, cabin. The family survived by current work of pottery still lifes. cultural centres of North Amer- Gastown and Yaletown. trapping furs, hunting, growing Along with specifically profiling ica. They also recognize the Included are reproductions of vegetables and preserving food. Irving, the book also discusses shared vision among the city’s photographs, postcards, Eric Collier was a conservation- some of the issues in and devel- artists, curators and gallery man- cartoons, maps and the author’s ist before his time. He trapped opment of modern ceramics agers. This anthology appraises own watercolours. These illus- humanely, rebuilt beaver dams and important figures in the the historical, critical and politi- trations help bring alive the and imported beavers that even- movement. Details of materials cal elements that have come history of Vancouver. tually reproduced enough to be and techniques are given. The together to shape Vancouver’s Michael Kluckner is the author trapped once again. book is well illustrated, with artistic identity. An appendix of Vanishing Vancouver, winner Collier won the Outdoor Life’s many close-up colour presents “A Vancouver Commer- of the City of Vancouver Book Conservation Award. This Clas- photographs of Tam Irving’s cial Gallery Chronology.” Prize and the Duthie Prize for BC sic West edition is a reprinting of work that complement the text. While segmented into Book Prizes, and Vanishing a book first published in 1959. chapters, this book is written at British Columbia. Caution: Use of the term SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 a demanding reading level. SUBJECT AREA: FINE ARTS: VISUAL “Indian” and other disparaging SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 ARTS remarks prevalent at the time. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, SUBJECT AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes TEACHER RESOURCE Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 2007 176 pp. 6.25”x7” SUBJECT AREA: APPLIED SKILLS: 2006 240 pp. 8.5”x11” SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH colour and b/w photographs BUSINESS EDUCATION, FINE ARTS: b/w and colour photographs, b/w LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES ISBN: 9781895636833 $45.00 VISUAL ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES: and colour reproductions, maps HC/9781895636826 $32.95 PA COMPARATIVE CIVILIZATIONS 12 Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781552858110 $50.00 HC 2007 316 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w photographs 2007 236 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781894898546 $19.95 PA colour and b/w photographs and reproductions ISBN: 9781551522142 $27.95 PA

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Whales & Dolphins What Belongs What Happened Whiskey Bullets of the North F.B. André This Summer Cowboy and Indian Heritage Ronsdale Press Poems American Pacific Paul Yee Including Seals and In this collection of short stories, Tradewind Books Garry Gottfriedson the characters are a mix of races Ronsdale Press Other Marine Mammals and ethnicities. Although many This novel is a collection of sto- of the stories in the collection ries of Chinese-Canadian Whiskey Bullets offers articulate, Graeme Cresswel, focus on people quite removed teenagers dealing with the con- moving and witty observations Dylan Walker, et al. from adolescent sensibilities flict arising from being a teen in of the duality of Aboriginal and Harbour Publishing (people buying a house, going modern Canada and trying to cowboy culture. The poems pro- through a divorce, etc.), there live within their families’ tradi- mote the notion that Indians This comprehensive guide are other pieces that could easily tional Chinese culture. The can be real cowboys. Sensitive, examines marine mammals engage students. The characters stories involve a group of teens often satirical, this collection is found on the West Coast from are adults in adult situations. loosely connected by being part an expression of adaptability, the Baja to southeast Alaska. It They face many emotional of Toronto’s Chinese-Canadian turning tragedy into humour begins with a brief explanation dilemmas—from untangling the community. Each chapter can and pain into passion. It of the geography, climate and mess left by an apparent double- be read as a stand-alone story. addresses the exceptional expe- oceanography of the North suicide to dealing with a man in Most of the teens in the stories rience of growing up on a American Pacific before moving a coma who has two lovers by are immigrants; some were born reserve with strong Aboriginal on to the definition of a marine his bedside. Thrown into the mix in Canada to immigrant parents. values and traditions, while at mammal. It then discusses are questions about arranged The stories deal realistically with the same time being absorbed in when, where and how to identify marriages, racial discrimination the issues these teens face, and the world of cowboys and ranch- marine mammals with colour and illegitimate births. One of do not flinch from dealing with ing. Balancing Aboriginal vision the pieces deals with the harsh problems. plates, descriptions and special and contemporary issues, an sidebars. A quick reference sec- “mixed” children of BC’s Gover- Paul Yee’s other books include invigorating blend of imagery is tion on the different types of nor James Douglas. All of the Ghost Train and The Bone created. Issues of gender, sexu- whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions stories are set in BC, many of Collector’s Son. He has won the ality, race and politics, infused and sea otters includes how to them in and around Victoria. Governor General’s Award, the with Aboriginal attitude, are laid identify the mammal, similar Trinidad-born André has lived City of Vancouver Book Award out and examined. species, behaviour, and their in Canada since 1971. and a BC. Book Prize. Gottfriedson began writing at status and distribution. It con- Caution: Some situations and Caution: Coarse language, the En'owkin Centre. He studied cludes with a glossary and useful language could be considered descriptions of drug use and sex- under Allen Ginsberg, Anne website links. offensive. ual content. Waldman and Marianne Faith- ful. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES: SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 LANGUAGE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES BIOLOGY SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No STUDIES 12, ENGLISH LANGUAGE Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2007 160 pp. 6”x9” 2006 178 pp. 5.5”x8” ARTS 2007 216 pp. 8.5”x5.75” ISBN: 9781553800446 $21.95 PA ISBN: 9781896580883 $12.95 PA colour photographs, maps Index/Bibliography: Yes/No ISBN: 9781550174090 $21.95 PA 2006 94 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781553800439 $14.95 PA

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Wildfire in the Wisdom of Writing Romance Writing Science Wilderness the Elders Vanessa Grant Fiction and Fantasy Self-Counsel Press Chris Czajkowski Peter Knudtson & Crawford Kilian Harbour Publishing David Suzuki Writing Romance, 3rd edition, is Self-Counsel Press Greystone Books in the series of genre writing In this passionate account of how-to books. This book Many of the tips and techniques wilderness living, Czajkowski, First published in 1992, now coaches the reader on presented in this title in a series environmentalist and naturalist, released with a new everything from naming charac- of genre writing how-to books tells of the adventures and hard- introduction, this book ters to getting an editor to read will carry over to other styles of ships of living on Spinster Lake, examines the ecological themes the finished manuscripts. Ideas fiction writing. Beginning with located in the remote West that concern both scientists and about story development, an analysis of the sub-genres Chilcotin area of northern BC. indigenous peoples. These two setting and suspense are and formats of science fiction She describes a life of self-suffi- groups pursue their knowledge included. The text is peppered and fantasy, the reader is guided ciency and isolation, twenty of the natural world in different with helpful examples from the through the process of creating a kilometers from the nearest but complementary ways. Com- pages (and preparations) of the story with sections on Develop- road, relying on only the few paring a scientific viewpoint to author’s own books. In addition, ing Efficient Work Habits, supplies that the occasional an indigenous perspective, each Writing Romance provides Research and Soul Search, Ele- floatplane can carry in. She built chapter focuses on a particular aspiring writers with samples of ments of a Successful Story, three cabins without the help of ecological or biological topic. query letters, manuscript Developing Characters, Plotting, heavy machinery and set up and The book is a well-documented formats, synopsis, character Constructing a Scene, Narrative operated a tourist business for gathering of sacred stories and sketches, data sheets and inter- Voice, Exposition and Dialogue, like-minded environmentalists. traditions from over twenty-two net information for romance and Symbolism. A significant Her fond memories of summers different indigenous cultures, writers, publishers and agents. part of the book gives practical spent with her canine compan- seven of which are found in A companion CD-ROM is advice on producing and mar- ions and are starkly contrasted Canada. included which contains an keting a manuscript. Ideas are to her recollections of the devas- Suzuki and Knudtson co- Excel template for tracking char- organized in a coherent manner. tating effects of the forest fires of authored Genethics: The Ethics acter history and timelines, trial For the beginner fiction writer, 2004. of Engineering Life. version of MuseNames charac- this book offers valuable and Czajkowski has published sev- ter-naming software, bonus helpful content. eral bestsellers, including Diary SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 MP3s from Vanessa Grant’s sem- A companion CD contains of a Wilderness Dweller. SUBJECT AREA: BC FIRST NATIONS inars on writing great romance “Ten steps for pre-editing,” STUDIES 12, ENGLISH LANGUAGE novels and two e-books. Vanessa “Exercises on character and dia- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 ARTS, SCIENCES: RESOURCE Grant is the author of thirty logue,” essays, and links to SUBJECT AREA: SCIENCES: SCIENCES 11 AND 12, SOCIAL romance novels. relevant websites. Kilian has RESOURCES SCIENCES 11 AND 12, STUDIES: COMPARATIVE published twenty books. BIOLOGY 11 AND 12, SOCIAL CIVILIZATIONS 12, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, STUDIES TEACHER RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 Index/Bibliography: Yes/No SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH SUBJECT AREA: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No 2006 288 pp. 6”x9” LANGUAGE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS 2006 224 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781553651932 $24.95 PA line drawings and sketches, maps Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781550173758 $19.95 PA 2007 309 pp. 6”x9” 2007 208 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781551807393 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9781551807850 $21.95 PA

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Writing the Tides New and Selected Poems Kevin Roberts Ronsdale Press

Writing the Tides contains thirty-three new poems and selections from past publications spanning over thirty-five years. With Roberts, we travel to places he has lived or visited, such as British Columbia, Australia, Thailand and Tahiti. And as we accompany him, we learn something about the human condition. Roberts takes us on a journey through life where like the ocean tides our lives “flow and ebb, ebb and flow” and where we “[slip-slide] through the roar of lion waves to some imagined sandy shore.” A domi- nant theme in this collection of lyric poetry is death, particularly in the section Cobalt 3 where Roberts shares with us his three- year struggle with cancer. Yet, for all of his references to death, he says, “Every dawn [has] a new start” and he continues on his journey. Roberts has written eleven books of poetry, two books of short stories and two plays. Caution: some coarse language

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25 Pains of Kennedy Baines, The ...... 15 Good Intentions Gone Awry ...... 20 Searching for Billie ...... 27 Abby’s Birds ...... 1 Half in the Sun ...... 20 Secret of the Dance ...... 5 Above the Falls ...... 15 Hero Named Howe, A ...... 4 Shadows on the Train ...... 6 Airplane Ride, The ...... 1 High Speed Through Shoaling Water . . . . .21 Sharks of the Pacific Northwest ...... 27 All Things Said & Done ...... 15 Hockey Night in Dixie ...... 10 Skids ...... 27 Alphabetter ...... 1 Hockey the NHL Way ...... 11 Soft Geography ...... 28 Alpine Beauty ...... 9 Home and Away ...... 21 Sternwheelers & Canyon Cats ...... 28 Ambitious City, The ...... 15 Honey Cake ...... 4 Steve Nash ...... 12 Around One More Point ...... 16 Human Shore, The ...... 21 Story of Dunbar, The ...... 28 At Home With History ...... 16 Jeffrey and Sloth ...... 4 Summer of the Marco Polo, The ...... 6 Aunts Come Marching, The ...... 1 King of the Lost and Found ...... 21 Thompson’s Highway ...... 28 Baad Animals ...... 2 Light at the Edge of the World ...... 22 Three Against the Wilderness ...... 29 Basking Sharks ...... 16 Long Labour, A ...... 22 Thrilling Life of Baychimo ...... 16 Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder, The . . . .22 Pauline de Lammermoor, The ...... 12 Bear Child ...... 17 Lucky’s Mountain ...... 5 Timberwolf Chase ...... 6 Behind the Sorcerer’s Cloak ...... 2 Mirror Image ...... 22 Transitions of a Still Life ...... 29 Between Forest and Sky ...... 17 Mother Time ...... 23 Truth About Rats (and Dogs), The ...... 6 Big Snapper ...... 2 Mouse Woman Trilogy, The ...... 11 Vancouver Art & Economies ...... 29 Canadian Boys Who Rocked the World . . . . .2 Muybridge’s Horse ...... 23 Vancouver Remembered ...... 29 Chainsaws ...... 17 My Name is Bosnia ...... 23 Wake’s Edge ...... 13 Clam Gardens ...... 9 Mysterious Adventures of Welcome to the World of Spirit Bears ...... 7 Cold Panes of Surfaces, The ...... 17 Pauline Bovary, The ...... 11 Welcome to the World of Wolverines ...... 7 Comox Valley, The ...... 9 Never to be Told ...... 5 Whales & Dolphins of the Crow Medicine ...... 18 North American Pacific ...... 30 What a Hippopota-Mess! ...... 7 Daredevil Club ...... 18 Notes from Canada’s Young Activists . . . . .23 What Belongs ...... 30 Darwin Expedition, The ...... 9 Off the Bench and Into the Game ...... 24 What Happened This Summer ...... 30 Desolation Sound ...... 18 Old Bones ...... 24 When the Curtain Rises ...... 7 Dirtbike Daredevils ...... 10 One Muddy Hand ...... 24 When the Spirits Dance ...... 8 Disaster on Mount Slesse ...... 18 Paddling Through History ...... 24 Where People Feast ...... 13 Dogabet ...... 3 Panther ...... 11 Whirlwind, The ...... 13 Earth’s Crude Gravities ...... 19 Passion for Mountains, A ...... 25 Whiskey Bullets ...... 30 Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer, The ...... 3 People, Fish and Whales ...... 25 Wild Side Guide to Vancouver Island’s End of Food, The ...... 19 Quirky Girls’ Guide to Rest Stops Pacific Rim, The ...... 13 Entrepreneurial Itch, The ...... 19 and Road Trips, The ...... 25 Wildfire in the Wilderness ...... 31 Far West ...... 10 Race to the Rescue ...... 5 Winds of L’Acadie ...... 14 Field Guide to the Identification Rain Before Morning ...... 25 Wisdom of the Elders ...... 31 of Pebbles, A ...... 3 Rap Canterbury Tales, The ...... 26 Writing Romance ...... 31 First and Ten ...... 10 River Queen ...... 26 Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy ...... 31 First Nations of British Columbia, The . . . .19 Robert Service ...... 26 Writing the Tides ...... 32 Following the Boulder Train ...... 20 Runnerland ...... 12 Yossi’s Goal ...... 8 Gathering Tree, The ...... 3 Rush to Here, The ...... 26 Zoe and the Fawn ...... 8 Going Top Shelf ...... 20 Safe House ...... 12 Golden Boy, The ...... 4 Sea Kayak Strokes ...... 27

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BC BOOKS FOR BC SCHOOLS 2007 – 2008 CATALOGUE 33 INDEX BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR

Alderson, Doug ...... 27 Harbord, Heather ...... 18 Ravel, Edeet ...... 11, 12 Alderson, Sue Ann ...... 3 Hare, Jane & Barman, Jean ...... 20 Richardson, Bill ...... 1 André, F.B...... 30 Harris, Christie ...... 11 Rivers, Karen ...... 25 Arnott, Joanne ...... 23 Harris, John ...... 15 Roberts, Kevin ...... 32 Arseneault, Paul & Assaff, Peter ...... 12 Haynes, Diane ...... 18 Ross, Graham (illustrator) ...... 1, 7 Assaff, Peter & Arseneault, Paul ...... 12 Heneghan, James ...... 12 Rossiter, Sean ...... 11 Ballance, Millie (illustrator) ...... 3 Henry, Tom ...... 20 Rud, Jeff ...... 10 Banks, Chris ...... 17 Hodson, Ben (illustrator) ...... 4 Schoﬁeld, Peggy, ed...... 28 Banning, Greg (illustrator) ...... 4 Holmlund, Heather D. (illustrator) ...... 3 Schwartz. Ellen ...... 1, 8 Bar-el, Dan ...... 1 Holubitsky, Katherine ...... 2 Scoones, Anny ...... 21 Barman, Jean & Hare, Jane ...... 20 Jackson, Freda ...... 27 Scow, Alfred & Spalding, Andrea ...... 5 Birney, Earle ...... 24 Jackson, Melanie ...... 6 Shandler, Rhodea ...... 22 Bonder, Dianna ...... 3 James, Rick with Wild, Paula ...... 9 Shefrin, Sima Elizabeth (illustrator) ...... 1 Boudreau, Jack ...... 28 Jameson, Catherine ...... 8 Siamon, Sharon ...... 5 Bridge, Kathryn ...... 25 Jennings, Neil L...... 9 Skene, Pat ...... 7 Brinkman, Baba ...... 26 Kennedy, Michael P. J., ed...... 20 Sommer, Warren ...... 15 Brissenden, Constance & Loyie, Larry . . .3, 8 Kilian, Crawford ...... 31 Spalding, Andrea & Scow, Alfred ...... 5 Brouwer, Sigmund ...... 6 Kluckner, Michael ...... 29 Spalding, Andrea ...... 2 Burns, John ...... 12 Knudtson, Peter & Suzuki, David ...... 31 Stalker, Aileen & Nolan, Andrew ...... 24 Chudley, Ron ...... 24 Kyi, Tanya Lloyd ...... 2 Stone ,Tiffany ...... 2 Citra, Becky ...... 5 Lazarus, Eve ...... 16 Stott, Jon C...... 10 Collier, Eric ...... 29 Lee, David ...... 17 Stratton, Sharon ...... 17 Crane, Dede ...... 15 Leist, Christina (illustrator) ...... 2 Stuchner, Joan Betty ...... 4 Cresswel, Graeme, Walker, Dylan, et al. . . .30 Lekich, John ...... 21 Suzuki, David & Knudtson, Peter ...... 31 Cullis-Suzuki, Severn, Leonetti, Mike ...... 4 Swanson, Diane ...... 7 Frederickson, Kris, et al...... 23 Levy, Paul E...... 26 Thornton, Russell ...... 21 Czajkowski, Chris ...... 31 Loyie, Larry & Brissenden, Constance . . .3, 8 Touchie, Rodger D...... 17 Dachsel, Marita ...... 15 Mallory, Enid ...... 26 Trahair, David ...... 19 Dalton, Anthony ...... 16 Manuel, Lynn ...... 6 Tullson, Diane ...... 9 Davis, Wade ...... 22 Matas, Carol ...... 13 Twigg, Alan ...... 28 De Maddalena, Dr. Alessandro, Maycock, Dianne ...... 5 Van der Flier-Keller, Eileen ...... 3 Preti, Antonella, et al...... 27 Mayer, Carol E...... 29 Walker, Dylan, Cresswel, Graeme, et al. . . .30 Denman, K.L...... 22 McCartney, Sharon ...... 22 Wallace, Scott & Gisborne, Brian ...... 16 Donovan, Lois ...... 14 Macdonald, Ian & O’Keefe, Betty ...... 18 Walter, Ryan ...... 24 Flett, Julie (illustrator) ...... 8 Muckle, Robert J...... 19 Watts, Dolly & Annie ...... 13 Francis, Daniel ...... 10 Muller, Rachel Dunstan ...... 7 Wayman, Tom ...... 21 Frederickson, Kris, Murray, George ...... 26 White, Howard ...... 1 Cullis-Suzuki, Severn, et al...... 23 Neufeld, Elsie K., ed...... 20 Wigmore, Gillian ...... 28 Friesen, Patrick ...... 19 Newman, Dr. Murray A...... 25 Wild, Paula with James, Rick ...... 9 Gagnon, Madeleine ...... 23 Nolan, Andrew & Stalker, Aileen ...... 24 Williams, Judith ...... 9 Gait, Darlene (illustrator) ...... 5 Nugent, Cynthia (illustrator) ...... 1, 4 Windh, Jacqueline ...... 13 Gazetas, Mary ...... 16 O’Brian, Melanie, ed...... 29 Winger, Rob ...... 23 Gisborne, Brian & Wallace, Scott ...... 16 O’Keefe, Betty & Macdonald, Ian ...... 18 Winters, Kari-Lynn ...... 4 Gottfriedson, Garry ...... 30 Pam Withers ...... 10, 13, 18 With, Cathleen ...... 27 Grant, Vanessa ...... 31 Pawlick, Thomas F...... 19 Wood, Beverley & Wood, Chris ...... 4 Guzek, Greta (illustrator) ...... 1 Pearce, Jacqueline ...... 6 Yee, Paul ...... 30 Haig-Brown, Roderick ...... 11 Poole, Michael ...... 25

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