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Nokum Is My Teacher

Will you walk with me, Grandmother?

Will you talk with me a while?

I’m finding life confusing

And I’m looking for some answers

To questions all around me

At that school and on the street.

You have always ...

Good Intentions Gone Awry

By (author) Jan Hare & Jean Barman
Categories: Ethnic studies

Emma Crosby’s letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well ...

101 Ways to Dance

A quirky collection of stories about teens in lust and in love. From the first stirrings of same-sex desire to paternity questions around a teen pregnancy, 101 Ways to Dance reflects the spectrum of ...

Genocide

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have ...

Hiding Edith

Hiding Edith is the remarkable story of a young girl and the village that helped her. Its mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in a safe house.

On Thin Ice

In spite of its name, no one in the tiny troubled hamlet of Nanurtalik “the place with polar bears” can remember seeing a polar bear in decades. But when a teenager’s dismembered body is discovered ...

Crush

Because of a moment of indiscretion, Hope’s parents send her to New York to spend the summer with her hipster sister while they travel to Thailand. Miserable, Hope ends up meeting Nat, and developing ...

Sights Before Christmas, The

As Barnaby drifts into sleep, he has dreams filled with madcap Mummers: the Turkish Knight, the bold-but-not-so-bright Sir George, his faithful wood horse Fred and, of course, the wild traveling medicine ...

The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab

Edited by Hartmut Lutz
Categories: Biography: general

In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador to accompany him to Europe to be "exhibited" in zoos and Völkerschauen (ethnographic ...