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For the first time, the Felix Taylor Adventures are available as together in this two-book bundle. Short-listed for the Snow Willow Young Reader’s Choice Award and the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award . «An entertaining and thoughtful read that will please fans of sci-fi and historical fiction alike.» – Caitlin Campbell, CM magazine Fortuna – Felix Taylor Adventure #2 (NEW!) Just when Felix thought the 23rd century was returning to normal, Felix and Caroline must follow a stranger...
| Автор | Nicholas Maes |
This two-book bundle is an essential handbook for any student or parent considering university. Learn why a degree is no longer a passport to success in today's job market. Includes: Dream Factories The “good jobs” of the past are almost gone. Today, many university graduates face unemployment while others face underemployment. Professors Ken Coates and Bill Morrison explore the death of the “good job,” and the role that universities have played in the disconnect between career...
| Автор | Ken S. Coates |
This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the acclaimed Tara Trilogy, winner of the Silver Birch Award. Based in Indian mythology and culture, these novels follow Tara and her brother Suraj as she encounters such figures as the gods Ganesh and Yama, as well as a host of dangers. Mahtab Narshimhan expertly weaves mythology together with real life into a thrilling, lyrical odyssey. Includes: The Third Eye The Silver Anklet The Deadly Conch
| Автор | Mahtab Narsimhan |
Read three teen novels from award-winning author Deborah Kerbel, as the characters face new experiences and new friendships. This special collection includes three books: <br/> <br/> <b><i>Mackenzie, Lost and Found</i></b> <br/> When 15-year-old Mackenzie Hill and her dad move to Jerusalem, the adjustment from life in Canada to life in Israel is dramatic. The biggest shock of all comes when Mackenzie faces the wrath of her new friends, new community,...
| Автор | Deborah Kerbel |
This special bundle contains both of Jennifer Maruno’s Cherry Blossom novels about the internment of Japanese-Canadians, viewed through the eyes of nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa. Michiko bids her father goodbye before her birthday celebration. She doesn’t know the government has ordered all Japanese-born men out of the province. Ten days later, her family joins hundreds of Japanese-Canadians on a train to the interior of British Columbia. There are no paved roads, no streetlights and not...
| Автор | Jennifer Maruno |
Mackenzie – just “Mac,” thanks – is a regular fourteen-year-old girl, until a school trip to Paris leaves her tangled up with a cast of shadowy characters, crazy cabbies, and … are those real-life <i>gargoyles?</i> <br/> <br/> That’s just the beginning for Mac and her zany friends, whose adventures whisk them all around France. From a dizzying encounter on top of Notre Dame Cathedral to a cutthroat race to Marseille (try to steer around the sheep), Mac’s adventures have...
| Автор | Christopher Ward |
Presenting the three titles in the Ballet School Confidential series, which follows a group of friends (and sometimes adversaries) during their time attending the Vancouver International Ballet Academy. Kaitlyn was the star at her old school, but the competition at VIBA is fierce and her reputation as a prodigy is threatened. About to turn 15 years old, Taylor is a bit of a scatterbrain. She’s got a lot of potential, but the teachers are frustrated with her lack of confidence, and her troubles...
| Автор | Charis Marsh |
Presenting the three titles in the Unwritten fantasy series. This series sends friends Rosemary and Peter on magical and time-travelling adventures. In The Unwritten Girl , they find themselves on a life-or-death quest to rescue Rosemary’s brother, who has lost himself in a book. With the help of Peter and her guide, faerie shape-shifter Puck, Rosemary must face the storybook perils of the Land of Fiction and learn to open her heart, before it is too late. In Fathom Five , a mysterious woman...
| Автор | James Bow |
Presenting the three titles in the acclaimed Barkerville mystery series. This series based in 1860s British Columbia focuses on strange events in the life of teenager Ted MacIntosh. In Moses, Me, and Murder , Ted gets caught up in the mystery of a disappearance and murder in the gold fields. In The Doctor’s Apprentice , Ted is apprenticed to an eccentric doctor who has dark secrets. In the concluding By the Skin of His Teeth , Ted befriends a young Chinese boy despite the intense prejudice...
| Автор | Ann Walsh |
This two-book bundle is an essential handbook for any student or parent considering college. Learn why a degree is no longer a passport to success in today's job market. Includes: Dream Factories The “good jobs” of the past are almost gone. Today, many college graduates face unemployment while others face underemployment. Professors Ken Coates and Bill Morrison explore the death of the “good job,” and the role that colleges have played in the disconnect between career fantasies and...
| Автор | Ken S. Coates |
Painting a vivid picture of the original peoples of North America, long before European colonization changed the face of the continent, the Algonquin Quest novels show the traditions, the legends and the intrigue that shaped the First Nations. For Mahingan and his family, caught in the middle of a defining conflict with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), warfare is a part of life, but so are the natural world and the rich web of culture he shares with allies like the Omàmiwinini (Algonquin), the...
| Автор | Rick Revelle |
OMG! Hannah Smart is here with two full books in one bundle: Operation Josh Taylor and On a Slippery Slope . With ingenious schemes, slight exaggerations, a sprinkling of star power, and a dash of horrible surprises , Hannah is ready to take on the world – or die trying. Includes: Operation Josh Taylor: Hannah Smart #1 To see teen idol Josh Taylor in concert, Hannah Smart is prepared to face bullies, learn terrible secrets, and discover hidden talents. On a Slippery Slope: Hannah...
| Автор | Melody Fitzpatrick |
This special four-book collection features stories of bravery and courage about early settlers and their relationships with the indigenous peoples of Canada. B.J. Bayle's young adult fiction brings Canada's past alive on the page. <br/> <br/> Includes: <br/> <br/> <i><b>Red River Rising</b></i> <br/> In 1813, Angus, a young Scot, and his family endure hardships as they attempt to start a new life in Canada. As they struggle...
| Автор | B.J. Bayle |
Presenting both of Little Jane Silver's piratical adventures in one special bundle! Little Jane Silver is the granddaughter of the notorious pirate Long John Silver. Growing up on her parents' ship, she vows to become a real pirate. As her ship is pursued by a mysterious pirate hunter, and on her own for the first time, Little Jane must grow up fast and find the courage to undergo the most important test of her young life: a quest to save her family. In Little Jane Silver and the...
| Автор | Adira Rotstein |
Prolific young adult author David A. Poulsen «handles heavy material with sophistication» (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>). The teens in these three novels confront a teacher who denies the Holocaust, the devastation of atomic bombs, and emotional fallout from the Vietnam War. <br/> <br/> <b>Includes:</b> <br/> <br/> <b><i>And Then the Sky Exploded</i></b> <br/> Ninth-grader Christian Deaver learns his...
| Автор | David A. Poulsen |
OMG! Hannah Smart is here with three full books in one bundle: Operation Josh Taylor , On a Slippery Slope , and In Over Her Head . With ingenious schemes, slight exaggerations, a sprinkling of star power, and a dash of horrible surprises , Hannah is ready to take on the world – or die trying. Includes: Operation Josh Taylor: Hannah Smart #1 To see teen idol Josh Taylor in concert, Hannah Smart is prepared to face bullies, learn terrible secrets, and discover hidden talents. On a...
| Автор | Melody Fitzpatrick |
The Night Flyers glide effortlessly over the rooftops of their small town in a strange, magical escape from the pressures of high school. Meet Gwendolyn and Everton in this two-book collection of The Night Flyer's Handbook series. <br/> <br/> <b><i>The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden</i></b> <br/> Gwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until … one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with...
| Автор | Philippa Dowding |
Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook or «bureaucratese,» and inflated language—showing how each is used in business, advertising, medicine, government, and the military. In this seminal book, Lutz articulates that...
| Автор | William Lutz |
Dracula ist in die Jahre gekommen. Er lebt nun als Rentner in seinem Schloss und erzählt seinen Enkeln, den Vampirkindern Pizzi und Morbi, jeden Abend von einem Vorfahren, der zur Zeit einer berühmten historischen Persönlichkeit lebte. Anstatt einzuschlafen, tricksen die beiden Kinder ihren Opa aus und machen sich auf zu einer Reise in die Vergangenheit. Dracu Khan ist ein echter mongolischer Vampir und hat zwei fliegende Pferde. Was ist für Pizzi und Morbi da näher liegend als ein...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Dracula ist in die Jahre gekommen. Er lebt nun als Rentner in seinem Schloss und erzählt seinen Enkeln, den Vampirkindern Pizzi und Morbi, jeden Abend von einem Vorfahren, der zur Zeit einer berühmten historischen Persönlichkeit lebte. Anstatt einzuschlafen, tricksen die beiden Kinder ihren Opa aus und machen sich auf zu einer Reise in die Vergangenheit. Weil Henri de Draculart mit den Händen leuchten konnte, war er Beleuchtungsvampir des Sonnenkönigs. Als die Kinder ihn besuchen wollen, ist er...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
It’s their last summer before college, and Jaret and Peggy have fallen deeply in love. They exchange love letters, have pet names, and spend hours alone in their special clearing in the woods. For once, life is perfect. But Jaret and Peggy live in Gardener’s Point, a small town a hundred miles from New York City, and a place where girls only date boys. In Gardener’s Point, being different isn’t easy—but nothing could prepare them for the danger...
| Автор | Sandra Scoppettone |
Dracula ist in die Jahre gekommen. Er lebt nun als Rentner in seinem Schloss und erzählt seinen Enkeln, den Vampirkindern Pizzi und Morbi, jeden Abend von einem Vorfahren, der zur Zeit einer berühmten historischen Persönlichkeit lebte. Anstatt einzuschlafen, tricksen die beiden Kinder ihren Opa aus und machen sich auf zu einer Reise in die Vergangenheit. Spooky Dracula war zu seiner Zeit in England ein berühmter Geistermacher. Als Pizzi und Morbi ihn besuchen, brauchen sie seine Dienste...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
“What makes ‘Written in the Stars’ striking and quite wonderful is the ease and sagacity with which Ms. Duncan writes about adolescence (at an astonishingly young authorial age) and the emotional resonance she creates with characters we will know only briefly—for such is the nature of short stories.”—Wall Street JournalAn extraordinary look at the genesis of a great writer’s career, Written in the Stars is a collection of Lois...
| Автор | Lois Duncan |
A sequel to Secret Lives, this is a brand new work from Berthe Amoss. Wonderful portrait of a historical New Orleans that has long been gone. Tie into the revived interest in literary mysteries in the YA world. This touching and thrilling mystery about family is a natural for mother-daughter book clubs, as well as school reading lists. Berthe Amoss is the author and illustrator of over 28 books. Her work as appeared at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A life-long...
| Автор | Berthe Amoss |