canada

Two young boys, who have been sent into the Canadian interior to set up a fur-collecting station, are befriended by a Naskapi Indian family.

A simple biography of the director whose silent films immortalized such slapstick clowns as the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin.

Profiles six significant people in the history of Canada including Sir John A. Macdonald, Jeanne Mance, Sir Sam Steele, Joseph Brant, and Pierre Trudeau.

The author's paintings of Canadian lumber camps accompany his first-hand observations of the life of a lumberjack.

A biography of a curious physician and the unusual patient who enabled him to carry out experiments concerning digestion.

Fourteen-year-old Maggie, orphaned and separated from her twin sister six years ago, struggles with the decision of whether to run away from the home in which she isn't much more than a farmhand.

A career profile of Canadian ice hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser, discussing her early interest in the sport, her amateur, professional, and Olympic experiences, her participation in other sports, and her plans for the future.