High school hockey star Pete Gordon finds himself on the worst team in the league when school districts change, and Pete must contend with his waning interest in the sport after a string of team losses threatens his hopes for the playoffs.
Fourteen-year-old Rosetta faces unimagined hardships when she and her small sister Flora arrive in Canada after surviving a perilous journey across the sea, only to have their dreams of a family crushed.
In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share.
a young man's personal crusade against child labor
Kielburger, Craig
1998
Chronicles the efforts of twelve-year-old Craig Kielburger and his human rights organization Free the Children to stop child labor in foreign countries.