No Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people. These unforgettable children
Mooncakes is the lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. As they eat mooncakes, drink tea and watch the night sky together, Mama and Baba tell ancient tales of a magical tree that can never be cut down, the Jade Rabbit who came to live on the moon and one brave woman's journey to eternal life. With a gentle focus on the importance of family, Mooncakes is both a perfect book for parent and child to read together and an ideal choice for schools and libraries. This is a paperback edition of a beloved and bestselling Orca title.
Three young men—Flinch, Bryce and Rupert—have vandalized their community. They are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men lea
Rubin Carter was in and out of prison from the age of twelve. At twenty-four, he became a professional boxer and was turning his life around. But Carter was very vocal about racism in the local police
Riding the wrong way up a one-way street, Kenzie takes his eyes off the road and hits a pedestrian. And not just any pedestrian. It's his ex-girlfriend, Stassi. Was this a freak accident? Or something
At fifteen, Ethan is on the fast track to nowhere. In and out of group homes and constantly in trouble, Ethan is fighting to find a sense of who he is. After breaking into an amusement park and being
When the grade four teacher at Trillium Elementary in Toronto assigns a new project, Jude Bhandari is sure that he'll be paired up with his best friend Sanjay. Everyone knows they both love everything
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A true story about one girl's life in a Saigon orphanage, her dramatic rescue flight from war-torn Vietnam and—to her surprise—her adoption into a loving family.
Seventeen-year-old Jemma's older brother took her in when she needed to get away from her abusive boyfriend, Razor. All Jemma wants now is to be a good mom to her baby daughter, Violet. But one night
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In this timeless classic set on the West Coast, an old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea, tends his garden and waits. Only when the whales return each year to the bay in front of his cott
