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Product Description: Fifteen-year-old Vikki loves her boyfriend, Linc. But when Jona, an attractive teenaged boy, moves to town, things get complicated. Jona is beautiful. Sensitive. Funny. At first, Vikki finds it thrilling to spend time with two delicious boys...read more

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9781550392333 | Sono Nis Pr, February 1, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fifteen-year-old Vikki loves her boyfriend, Linc.

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Product Description: When Molly learns a talent competition is coming to town, her friend Murphy (A Different Game, Murphy and Mousetrap) becomes her manager. Molly is certain she is a good singer—she has been singing in her head for as long as she can remember...read more

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9781459802773 | Orca Book Pub, April 1, 2013, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When Molly learns a talent competition is coming to town, her friend Murphy (A Different Game, Murphy and Mousetrap) becomes her manager.

Over a series of Saturdays, Yetsa and her mother go to Yetsa's grandmother's house, where they help her prepare wool so that she can make Cowichan sweaters.
By Joan Larson (illustrator) and Sylvia Olsen

Hardcover:

9781550391558 | Sono Nis Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Over a series of Saturdays, Yetsa and her mother go to Yetsa's grandmother's house, where they help her prepare wool so that she can make Cowichan sweaters.

Paperback:

9781550392029 | Reprint edition (Sono Nis Pr, March 1, 2013), cover price $9.95

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Product Description: In this sequel to Murphy and Mousetrap, Murphy and his three friends, Danny, Jeff and Albert, are making the transition from the tribal elementary school to the community middle school. They are all trying out for the middle school's soccer team, and they're pretty confident that The Formidable Four will all make the team...read more

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9781554691692 | Orca Book Pub, April 1, 2010, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In this sequel to Murphy and Mousetrap, Murphy and his three friends, Danny, Jeff and Albert, are making the transition from the tribal elementary school to the community middle school.

Miscellaneous:

9781554694594 | Orca Book Pub, April 1, 2010, cover price $2.99

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Product Description: Award-winning writer Sylvia Olsen's sensitively drawn depiction of innocence lost and wisdom hard won, Counting on Hope tells the story of an English girl named Hope and a Lamalcha girl named Letia, whose lives are profoundly changed when their two cultures collide...read more

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9781550391732 | Sono Nis Pr, March 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Award-winning writer Sylvia Olsen's sensitively drawn depiction of innocence lost and wisdom hard won, Counting on Hope tells the story of an English girl named Hope and a Lamalcha girl named Letia, whose lives are profoundly changed when their two cultures collide.

Product Description: You are the same girl that came to school last year. They are the same kids. But nothing was the same and I knew it. I had become the girl with a baby. Jane has always been the good Williams. Her brothers might be high school dropouts and late-night rowdy partiers, but never Jane...read more

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9781550391428 | Sono Nis Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: With the help of her friends and First Nation family, teenage mother Jane returns to school, determined to face the prejudices, and plans for the future with her daughter, Destiny.

Reinforced:

9780606325851, titled "Girl With A Baby" | Demco Media, October 1, 2004, cover price $17.75 | About this edition: You are the same girl that came to school last year.

Prebinding:

9781439564370 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 15, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: You are the same girl that came to school last year.
9781417643516, titled "Girl With a Baby" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: With the help of her friends and First Nation family, teenage mother Jane returns to school, determined to face the prejudices, and plans for the future with her daughter, Destiny.

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After her mother marries a Canadian Indian man, fourteen-year-old Josie finds herself living on a reserve outside of town and becomes a target of bullies for being white.

Paperback:

9781550391473 | Sono Nis Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: After her mother marries a Canadian Indian man, fourteen-year-old Josie finds herself living on a reserve outside of town and becomes a target of bullies for being white.

Reinforced:

9780606347891 | Demco Media, September 1, 2005, cover price $17.85 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Prebinding:

9781435293564 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $17.95
9781417672370 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: After her mother marries a Canadian Indian man, fourteen-year-old Josie finds herself living on a reserve outside of town and becomes a target of bullies for being white.

Things have changed since Raedawn and Vince started going out and the racial boundaries in town have slipped a bit. But when Dune, who never took sides, disappears, Raedawn is determined to find out where he has gone—or what happened to him. Fighting against ignorance and hate, they track Dune down and find he is in more trouble than they thought and that nothing is black and white.

Hardcover:

9781551439013 | Orca Book Pub, March 1, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Things have changed since Raedawn and Vince started going out and the racial boundaries in town have slipped a bit.

Paperback:

9781551438993 | Orca Book Pub, March 1, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Things have changed since Raedawn and Vince started going out and the racial boundaries in town have slipped a bit.

Miscellaneous:

9781554696727 | Orca Book Pub, March 1, 2008, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Teen moms are nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember, families, communities, and governments have been grappling with the poverty and lack of life opportunities faced by these parents and their children. For First Nations in particular, the issue has become critical...read more

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9781550391527 | Sono Nis Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Teen moms are nothing new.

Vince, a white teenager, faces discrimination when he begins to fall for a First Nations girl.

Paperback:

9781551434629 | Orca Book Pub, September 1, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Vince, a white teenager, faces discrimination when he begins to fall for a First Nations girl.

Miscellaneous:

9781554697830 | Orca Book Pub, September 1, 2005, cover price $9.95

Reinforced:

9780606336246 | Demco Media, May 1, 2005, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Prebinding:

9781417675579 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $20.80 | About this edition: Vince, a white teenager, faces discrimination when he begins to fall for a First Nations girl.

Product Description: Murphy and his cat, Mousetrap, never expected to end up back on the reserve. (20061124)

Paperback:

9781551433448 | Orca Book Pub, August 1, 2005, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Murphy's mom moves them back onto the reservation where she grew up, but Murphy isn't so sure he and his cat, Mousetrap, will fit in, until he begins to play soccer with the boys.

Miscellaneous:

9781554696758, titled "Murphy & Mousetrap" | Orca Book Pub, April 1, 2005, cover price $7.95

Reinforced:

9780606342353 | Demco Media, November 1, 2005, cover price $14.70 | About this edition: Murphy and his cat, Mousetrap, never expected to end up back on the reserve.

Prebinding:

9781417685059 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Murphy's mom moves them back onto the reservation where she grew up, but Murphy isn't so sure he and his cat, Mousetrap, will fit in, until he begins to play soccer with the boys.

Product Description: The year is 1957, and Bobby lives on the Tsartlip First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island where his family has lived for generations and generations. He loves his weekend job at the nearby marina. He loves to play marbles with his friends...read more

Paperback:

9781551432984 | Orca Book Pub, September 30, 2004, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Bobby, a boy of the Tsartlip First Nation, would like to win the bicycle that is the top prize for the Kid's Fishing Derby at Dan Adam's marina in August, 1957, but he does not have enough money to register and is scheduled to work that day.

Miscellaneous:

9781554695881 | Orca Book Pub, April 1, 2004, cover price $7.95

Reinforced:

9780606325943 | Demco Media, October 1, 2004, cover price $13.60 | About this edition: The year is 1957, and Bobby lives on the Tsartlip First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island where his family has lived for generations and generations.

Prebinding:

9781417641956 | Turtleback Books, September 30, 2004, cover price $14.80 | About this edition: Bobby, a boy of the Tsartlip First Nation, would like to win the bicycle that is the top prize for the Kid's Fishing Derby at Dan Adam's marina in August, 1957, but he does not have enough money to register and is scheduled to work that day.

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Product Description: For most North Americans, the practice of sending First Nations children to aboriginal boarding schools is a chapter in history that seems best forgotten. But the generations of children who were rounded up and sent to those faraway schools won't ever forget the day-to-day reality of that "chapter...read more

Paperback:

9781550391213 | Sono Nis Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: For most North Americans, the practice of sending First Nations children to aboriginal boarding schools is a chapter in history that seems best forgotten.

Prebinding:

9780613784498 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: No Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people.

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