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"The year is 1910. This summer in the Pacific Norhtwest has been the driest anyone has seen in a long time. The weather is extremely hot and windy. Crops are drying up everywhere. Then, in August, one of the biggest forest fires in United States history is sparked. Will you join the fight to battle the fires and save your town? Do you help lead others to safety or try to escape before the town is consumed by flames? With dozens of possible choices, you have to decide how to survive one of the biggest forest fires in history"--Back cover.

The true story of how Indigenous girls at a Canadian residential school sewed secret pockets into their dresses to hide food and survive. Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the other girls had a genius idea: drawing on the knowledge from their mothers, aunts and grandmothers who were all master sewers, the girls would sew hidden pockets in their clothes to hide food. They secretly gathered materials and sewed at nighttime, then used their pockets to hide apples, carrots, and pieces of bread to share with the younger girls. Based on the author's mother's experience at residential school, "The Secret Pocket" is a story of survival and resilience in the face of genocide and cruelty. But it's also a celebration of quiet resistance to the injustice of residential schools and how the sewing skills passed down through generations of Indigenous women gave these girls a future, stitch by stitch.

"An . . . account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an . . . indictment of the society that failed them"--Amazon.

"To the Gitxsan of Northwestern British Columbia, Nox Ga'naaw is a storyteller, speaking truths of the universe. When Nox Ga'naaw, the frog mother, releases her eggs among the aquatic plants of a pond, the tiny tadpoles are left to fend for themselves. As they hatch, grow legs, and transform into their adult selves, they must avoid the mouths of hungry predators. Will the young frogs survive to lay their own eggs, continuing a cycle 200 million years in the making? In book four of the Mothers of Xsan series, young readers learn about the life cycle of the Columbia Spotted Frog, the special significance of this species to the Gitxsan, and how Nox Ga'naaw and her offspring are essential to the balance that is life."--Provided by publisher.

"Seventeen-year-old Lucien has a supportive family and community in Toronto but wants to make a new start somewhere nobody knows him. Going to stay with his aunt in Vernon, BC, presents challenges to fitting in-- he is not comfortable with his hockey-watching, hard-partying cousins or the other kids at school. Eventually, Lucien finds a community of creative teens and meets the mysterious Alder. As Lucien finds out who Alder really is, he is able to find what is worthy of love in himself"--Provided by publisher.

"Children go for a walk in the woods with their elders and discover the animals of British Columbia, their names in the Ntlakyapamuk or Halkomelem languages, and the teachings they have for us"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an account of the evensts leading up to the discovery of a murdered fourteen-year-old girl in a small town in Victoria, British Columbia.

"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar,an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for oneof her endless series of environmental protests: attempts atatonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violenttimber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the criesof an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades"--Provided by publisher.

"A . . . look at how the animals, people, and seasons within an ecosystem are intertwined. To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it. Follow mother bear as she teaches her cubs what they need to survive on their own . . ."--Provided by publisher.

"A heart-warming and true story about an orphaned orca named Springer who was found swimming alone in the Puget Sound in 2002. The book takes us on Springer's journey from being near starvation to rescued to the challenges of her release, eventual adoption, and the start of her own family"--Provided by the publisher.