Since their mother’s death, three years before, eleven year-old Corrie and her five brothers and sisters have had only one another to hold onto. Lost in his classes and his research and his book, their professor father seems largely oblivious to them, the sad state of the house and garden, and the terrible meals [...]
Ten year-old Lucas Clarke loves dinosaurs, so when he comes across a website advertising a dinosaur-making kit for $19.95, he digs out the last of his birthday money and sends away for it. Lucas is disappointed what arrives in the mail. The small test tube filled with a clear liquid seems to prove his [...]
When Kataujaq was small, she loved her mother. She loved sniffing her, because that is the way that the Inuit kiss, and hugging her. In the spring, she loved holding onto her mother while they travelled across the melting sea ice in a canoe tied to the dogsled, slipping precariously from ice to [...]
Every winter, the people of Ungava Bay collect mussels by walking on the bottom of the sea. This is the story of a young girl’s very first time climbing down onto the sea bed alone.
After cutting a hole through the sea ice with her chisel, Eva lowers herself down into the hole with her [...]
Children in the Primary grades have listened to the story of Tiktala, the young Inuit girl who dreams of being a soapstone carver so that she can become famous and admired and wealthy, but who, after months spent living in the body of a harp seal, discovers a new and vital artistic and spiritual purpose [...]
“They are here,” states Tuk’s grandfather, as he pauses in his work. The Inuit elder has dreamed of the arrival of a great umiak, a boat so large that it could hold many families, one that is made entirely of wood. Out in the bay, now becoming navigable with the arrival of spring, [...]
Set in 1857 near Chatham, in Canada West, Elijah of Buxton is the story of Elijah who, at almost twelve years old, is the first freeborn resident of a settlement of former slaves. Though he is diligent in his school work, reliable about finishing his chores around the farm, and always ready to help [...]
