116.
Series:
Remote
Paperback
Colin Mackay
9781926942094
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 16 - 18
Oct 15, 2012
Something sinister is going on in the catacombs of Duram University. A student is about to find himself part of a new technological leap into a future in which morals are tested against humanity's growing desire for power -- to regenerate, to control the aging process, and to kill -- an all-out underground war with both sides willing to risk everything for dominance over the other. Both seeking the ultimate weapon, both seeking a man who doesn't know who or what he really is. . . . And for Brenner James, the unwitting participant, it will take ...
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117.
Series:
Paul Joins the Scouts
Paperback
Michel Rabagliati
9781894994699
$20.00
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
May 23, 2013
Following on the heels of the The Song of Roland, Montrealer Michel Rabagliati returns to the childhood story of his famous semi-autobiographical character. It's 1970 and Paul's family watches the news with anxiety as bombs are going off around Montreal. But Paul is more interested in flying his kite, comics, and his first kiss. Soon Paul joins the Scouts and heads off to camp. Away from his parents and extended family he discovers self worth in a troop of like-minded and enthusiastic boys. Things take a turn, however, when the troop gets mixed...
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122.
Series:
Charlie
A Home Child's Life in Canada
Hardcover
Beryl Young
9781553801382
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Jun 01, 2011
The story of the 100,000 British children who came to Canada as child immigrants between 1870 and 1938 is not well known. Yet the descendants of these "Home Children" number over four million people in Canada today. The author is one of them. Charlie was her father.
123.
Series:
Charlie
A Home Child's Life in Canada
Paperback
Beryl Young
9781553801405
$12.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Jun 01, 2011
The story of the 100,000 British children who came to Canada as child immigrants between 1870 and 1938 is not well known. Yet the descendants of these "Home Children" number over four million people in Canada today. The author is one of them. Charlie was her father.
125.
Series:
I Can Say Interpellation
Paperback
Stephen Cain
9781897388846
$16.00
POETRY
May 30, 2011
Weary of saccharine stories and tired themes when reading poetry for children? Angered at seeing your children indoctrinated into adhering to patriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and general compliance with authority each time they open a book of verse?I Can Say Interpellation remedies these problems by reconfiguring some of the best-known children's rhymes for political purpose. Taking French theorist Guy Debord's idea of detournement (a deflection or divergence of existing visual images and mass media), and applying it to children's poetry, exp...
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