british columbia

British Columbia is Canada's western-most province. It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west and is home to mountains, grasslands, and ancient rainforests.

When their local hockey league decides to merge the town's two rival teams, the Helmets and the Gloves, for a major tournament in Vancouver, the players fight more with their new teammates than with their opponents until a new boy joins.

"Fourteen-year-old Eva Brown is coping with difficulties at home and at school, most significantly her mother's alcoholism. When Eva's nohkum (grandmother) is hospitalized, her mother struggles to care for Eva and her younger brother. After Eva's brother wanders away, he is sent to live with a foster family and Eva finds herself in a group home. Furious at her mother's weakness, Eva struggles to adjust to the group home--and reuniting with her family seems less and less likely. During a visit to the hospital, Nohkum gives Eva Shirley's diary. Can Eva find forgiveness for her mother in its pages?"--Provided by publisher.

"One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home ... Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls--and boy--accused of a savage murder"--Back cover.

The McCready sisters have just settled into their new home on Pine Island when they get word that an unwelcome houseguest is coming to visit for months.

An introduction to the geography, economy, history, culture, and activities of British Columbia.

"Travelling to Canada to work as a tour guide was supposed to help Lewis figure out what to do with his life. But hitting British Columbia's Cariboo gold rush trail with a group of seniors goes from a chore to plain dangerous when a girl without a past joins in and brings a stream of trouble in her wake. Soon, grouchy clients are the least of Lewis's worries, as he's confronted with a tangled mess of lies, accusations, and feelings he was totally unprepared for..."--Back cover.

"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.

Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.

With playoffs ahead and a chance to play a few games in the National Hockey League, Josh hesitates to get involved when he finds more than a dozen dead cattle on his dad's ranch.