Cast out by mainstream society, a gang of teenage girls known as the "Black Roses" rob ATMs, cook crack on stoves, and savagely beat down anyone who dares to harm them. Brutal and broken, they claw at the knot of darkness and violence that tightens around their lives.
Texts in English, French, Chinese, and Japanese are accompanied by the author's paintings depicting the plants, the animals, the legends--the many enjoyments of Stanley Park in Vancouver.
Texts in English, French, Chinese, and Japanese are accompanied by the author's paintings depicting the plants, the animals, the legends--the many enjoyments of Stanley Park in Vancouver.
Fifteen-year-old Raven, using only a diary for clues, teams up with a streetwise boy and an elderly homeless woman in an effort to find her missing sister, Marcie, who has apparently been captured by a ring smuggling teens from Vancouver into Asia.
A true story of the author's family--of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and children who would be left behind, and of the author's own discovery of those children six decades later.
An autobiography of a Canadian ballet student who, while still in her early teens, was offered the chance to study and tour with the Moscow City Ballet.
