Incredible Women Inventors
Written in an accessible, engaging, and informative style, Incredible Women Inventors examines both the challenges and successes in the lives of ten inspiring international women inventors.
What Happened this Summer
This collection of interconnected short stories follows the lives of Chinese-Canadian teenagers—some locally born, some from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China—over one Toronto summer, giving a rare glimpse into the conflicted world of Chinese youth.
My Life in a Kwagu'l Big House
In the 1960s, Western culture captured the fancy of Honey's community and family, and its spell inevitably changed a Kwagu'l family. This is Honey's story.
The Underground Reporters
In a quiet village in Czechoslovakia, laws restricted the freedom of Jewish people during WWII. A small plot of land by the river was allocated to the village’s Jewish youth, and it was here that some brave young people decided to create a newspaper.
The Write Genre
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Classroom activities and mini-lessons that promote writing with clarity, style, and flashes of brilliance.
Great Women Leaders
Self-made women of distinction take their place on the world stage.
Clara's War
Thirteen-year-old Clara and her family have just been imprisoned in Terezin, a ghetto built to show the world how “well” the Nazis were treating Jews during WWII. Clara faces hunger, disease and the possibility of death in a concentration camp.
