1791-1841

"Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old M?tis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place-a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie-and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a M?tis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars"--Back cover frame.

"Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old M?tis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a M?tis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars"--Back cover.

Chronicles the history, battles, and characters of the War of 1812 including the capture of Detroit, the attack on Montreal, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, and numerous other accounts of heroism and loyalty.

In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cree Indian neighbors and, especially, White Loon, their father's new wife.

Arabella Stevenson's father is arrested and sent to prison for rebelling against the British government in Toronto, leaving Arabella's mother destitute and forcing Arabella to work as a scullery maid in the home of one of her former classmates.

Twelve-year-old twins Alex and Ryan, longing for more adventure than their life in rural Canada provides, get their wish when Alex has a run-in with pirates, and father brings home a new wife who is a "fine lady.".

Chronicles the history of the Canadians who volunteered to defend their towns from the Americans during the War of 1812.

Recounts the tale of Laura Secord's journey to tell the British about an American plot to conquer them during the war between Great Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century.

Tells the story of Laura Secord, the Canadian heroine who warned the British of an American attack during the War of 1812.

In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.