Season of Rage

By (author) John Cooper
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past

The last place in North America where black people and white people could not sit down together to share a cup of coffee in a restaurant was not in the Deep South. It was in the small, sleepy Ontario ...

The Underground Reporters

By (author) Kathy Kacer
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Series: The Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers

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 ...

Champlain

By (author) Christopher Moore
Illustrated by Francis Back
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Discovery and exploration

“One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure. ” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, ...

I Came As a Stranger

By (author) Bryan Prince
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12

Winner of 2005 Children’s Nautilus Book Awards (Non-fiction)
Prior to abolition in 1865, ...

Too Young to Fight

Compiled by Priscilla Galloway
Contributions by Roch Carrier, Christopher Chapman, Brian Doyle, Priscilla Galloway, Dorothy Joan Harris, Monica Hughes, Joy Kogawa, Timothy Nakayama & Jean Little
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces

2000 Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction for Young Adults Award

Shortlisted, 2000 British Columbia Round Table Information Book Award

1999 Teacher Liberian Magazine, Best of the Best issue

Shortlisted, 2001 Rocky ...

Quennu and the Cave Bear

By (author) Marie Day
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past

Quennu is afraid of only one thing in her prehistoric world -- cave bears. When she is separated from her family and clan on a journey to the magical caverns where art is made, she must find her way alone. ...