british columbia

Environmental activist Caitlyn Vernon guides young readers through a forest of information, sharing her personal stories, her knowledge and her concern for this beautiful place. Full of breathtaking photographs and suggestions for ways to preserve this unique ecosystem, Nowhere Else on Earth is a timely and inspiring reminder that we need to stand up for our wild places before they are gone.

Her idyllic teen years on a British Colombia dairy farm with her mother and brother irrevocably changed by the arrival of a draft dodger, Natalie Ward remembers years later the impact he had on the morals and beliefs of their community.

An old man tells the legend of the lost island and the story of a great Indian medicine man who had many dreams of the white man coming to their lands.

A young man proves himself to be resourceful and brave, despite the mockery of his nagging mother-in-law, when he wears the skin of the ferocious sea monster he has slain.

A rancher, his family, and two companions journey through 300 miles of rough, unsettled country to the land the family will homestead in Canada only to realize they have been trekking in the wrong direction.

Presents ten Native American stories which represent authentic retellings of traditional myths and folktales of the Haida tribe of the Northwest coast of Canada.

Shy fifteen-year-old Simon Jackson is rescued in the British Columbia wilderness by a white Kermode bear, or spirit bear, and begins a campaign to save the extremely endangered species from extinction.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Haida people.

Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries drinking alcohol and eating meat, and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant.