Product Description: He’s just making a cup of coffee, so what could possibly go wrong? Well, for someone living off-grid on a floating home in the middle of a frozen lake, there are all sorts of challenges! Author Daniel Gillis and illustrator Monique Robert have built very unique floating homes in the middle of Great Slave Lake, which they have opened as a Bed & Breakfast...read more

Product Description: A topical tale of one teen's addiction to the Cyber World - and the Northern adventure that saved his life.Fourteen-year-old Indio McCracken enjoys meteoric stardom as a guitar prodigy after his father posts a video of him playing...read more

Product Description: Much more than a guidebook, this natural and cultural feast takes you down the wildest, longest stretch of the Trans Canada Trail, from Alberta's far north to the Arctic Ocean. It provides all the nuts and bolts you'll need for your journey- whether on land or in an armchair- including detailed route maps, major landmarks, access points, community facilities, campsites, points of natural and historical interest, recommended side trips, and precautions...read more

Product Description: Alberta Children's/Young Adult Book of the Year Winner, 2008CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2008Free as the Wind is Jamie Bastedo's and Susan Tooke's re-creation of one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of the wild horses of Sable Island: the moment in the early 1960s when it was decided the horses would be removed and auctioned off, many of them slaughtered for dog food...read more

Product Description: Alberta Children's/Young Adult Book of the Year winner 2007White Ravens: International Youth Library selection of outstanding books, 2007ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards Honorable Mention - Young Adult Fiction 2006Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007 Ashley Anowiak is in search of a murderous polar bear that may be real or mythical...read more

When the wild horses of Sable Island in Nova Scotia are rounded up and sold to make dog food, a young boy is determined to save them, so he writes a letter to the Prime Minister, in a story based on a true episode in Canada's history.

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After the death of his mother, Benji Gloss frequents his father's diamond mines to occupy his time, but his adventures begin as he happens upon a team of biologists following a grizzly bear and her cubs.

After the death of his mother, Benji Gloss frequents his father's diamond mines to occupy his time, but his adventures begin as he happens upon a team of biologists following a grizzly bear and her cubs. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Canadian Shield is a distinct ecological region that forms the evergreen, granite-studded crown stretching across two-thirds of North America. In size, it approximates western Europe with one percent the number of people. A satellite view of the region on a winter's night shows tiny, widely scattered blips of light-islands of human settlement adrift in a sea of subarctic wilderness...read more

Product Description: Jamie Bastedo looks into the heart of one of Canada's largest yet least understood regions-the subarctic wilderness. Told with a passion for northern people and an exacting eye for detail, Reaching North celebrates a vast northern wilderness, drawing inspiration from its basement rock all the way to the aurora borealis...read more