by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. This is the dream that has sustained her through the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Clear Skies takes place during the very hot summer of 1961 when the Space Race was well underway but no one had yet stepped onto the Moon. Eleven-year-old Arno Creelman asks all kinds of big questions about the universe. He is sure that being an astronomer will be his...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Hélène is a young girl who lives in Montreal with her mother and twin brothers. When the book opens, Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies, and her loving mother is too tired to be any...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
In 1892, the education of Indigenous children was taken on by various Canadian churches in government-sponsored residential schools. Children were taken from their families in order to erase their traditional languages and cultures. Families faced the threat of jail...
