quebec (province)

At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.

In 1535, thirteen-year-old Samuel de la Loire, who comes from a wealthy and aristocratic family in St. Malo, France, yearns for adventure, so he stows away aboard one of Jacques Cartier's ships, which are returning to the New World in search of gold, and the mythical Kingdom of Saguenay--what he finds is a struggle for survival, especially after he is left behind when the ships sail back to France.

Picture book that introduces young readers to the history, culture, and natural wonder of the Canadian province of Quebec, where French is the official language.

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates the death of a man who appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual act and who was originally declared dead four decades earlier.

Fifteen-year-old Carmen decides to skip school in order to avoid the embarrassment of giving a presentation in front of the class and facing the popular boy she has a crush on, but when her choices land her on the nightly news and in the arms of a local rock star, she realizes she has the courage to face any situation.

John Lowry was declared dead in 1968-the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowing in Hemmingford Quebec. The corpse is later identified as John Lowry. It's up to Tempe to discover who the really John Lowry is.

Pictures and text describe ordinary life in rural and urban Quebec as observed by the artist-author.