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Messier

2003

Scrubs on skates

1985
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.

Promise song

1997
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.

Mercy's birds

1998
Mercy tries to cope with a family in which everyone has a major psychological problem.

Wintering

2000
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.

Shooting hoops and skating loops

great inventions in sports
1999
Profiles ten inventions that have had a large influence on the history of sports.

Free the children

a young man's personal crusade against child labor
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.

Wayne Gretzky

the authorized pictorial biography
1994
A pictorial biography of the famed hockey player from Ontario, Canada.

Dead man's gold and other stories

2003
A collection of ten short stories by Paul Yee about Chinese immigrants struggling to make new lives for themselves in North America.

A circle of silver

2000
In 1760, thirteen-year-old John MacNeil leaves England and becomes a cartographer of the Canadian wilderness.

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