Product Description: What better way for young readers to truly understand another era than to spend a day in the life of another child? Like On a Medieval Day and On a Canadian Day before it, On an American Day Volume 1 uses nine extraordinary pieces of historical fiction — covering American history from 1750–1899 — to give young readers an intimate look at life in another place and time...read more

Explores strategies to deal with peer pressure as the insider, who puts pressure on others; the outsider, who gives into pressure in order to fit in; or the witness, who stands by as others are being taunted.

Product Description: All the kids in Morgan's class are itching to go to the zoo--all except Aldeen Hummel, the Godzilla of Grade Three. Aldeen didn't bring her eight dollars, and now she's not allowed to go. When Morgan sees Aldeen looking in the teacher's desk, he suspects there's going to be trouble...read more

Product Description: There are things in this world that remain unseen by many in their lifetimes – and it is this unfamiliar territory that Ben Shannon explores in his work, There Is a Secret Up There. Through these two short tales, Shannon first recounts his encounter with a UFO...read more