A Terrible Tide
When an earthquake and tidal wave batters Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula and destroys her family’s home, thirteen-year-old Celia must dig deep for courage she didn’t know she had.
When an earthquake and tidal wave batters Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula and destroys her family’s home, thirteen-year-old Celia must dig deep for courage she didn’t know she had.
In 1970 seventeen women travelled five thousand kilometres from Vancouver to Ottawa to raise awareness for women's rights, leading a rally of 500 women demanding access to abortion that shut down parliament.
A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
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.
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.
Self-made women of distinction take their place on the world stage.
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.
