Better Together
Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle readers, illustrated with many color photographs. Explore the different types of communities people create to meet their need for companionship.
Going Wild
Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle readers, illustrated with many color photographs. Readers will find out what urban rewilding is and how it can make our lives (and our planet) safer and healthier.
Fault Lines
This fully illustrated, nonfiction book for middle readers focuses on earthquakes, how they happen and what you need to know.
Speaking Our Truth
This nonfiction book examines how we can foster reconciliation with Indigenous people at individual, family, community and national levels.
Birthdays
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Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series for middle readers. Illustrated with color photographs, this book covers the history of modern celebrations and discusses the many birthday traditions around the world.
Let's Eat
Part of the nonfiction Footprints series for middle readers. Illustrated with many color photographs, this book explores where the food we eat comes from and what the future of farming looks like.
Pocket Change
Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle readers, with color photographs throughout. Readers will learn how purchases affect the environment and what the world would look like if we bought less stuff.
Deep Roots
In this work of nonfiction, the role of trees in maintaining a vibrant ecosystem, as well as providing food, fuel and shelter, is depicted through photographs, personal stories and facts.
What's the Buzz?
This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-grades describes how people are becoming more aware of bees and our dependence on them, and are working to save bees in all kinds of different ways.
The Choice
Jakob and his family hide their Jewish identity in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Discovered, he is sent as a prisoner to Auschwitz where he keeps himself alive out of a desire for revenge on the friend he believes turned on him, only to discover when he is free that things are not as he thought.
Take Shelter
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This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-graders welcomes readers into homes around the world that reflect the diversity and ingenuity of their residents.
Brilliant!
This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-grades sheds light on innovative and sustainable energy sources.
Pedal It!
This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-grades describes how bicycles can be used for many things apart from transportation.
Down To Earth
This illustrated book of nonfiction for middle-grades shows the many ways that kids contribute to food production.
Nowhere Else on Earth
A hands-on guide to the magic and majesty of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, with suggestions for activism in any community.
One Peace
World peace is attainable through positive action. Examples are taken from the lives of child crusaders for peace.
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.
Hiding Edith
Intensively researched and sensitively written, this book, illustrated with photographs and maps, both comforts and challenges a young reader's spirit, skillfully addressing both the horrors and hope that children experienced during the Holocaust.
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.
Great Women Leaders
Self-made women of distinction take their place on the world stage.
