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Five cousins go to their grandmother's cottage to find mining plans threaten the community. Grandma is being pressured to produce the deed of ownership and if she can't remember where it's hidden, she will lose her home. When the kids discover mysterious messages written on the...

When Brendan is diagnosed with leukemia his life is turned upside down. With a smothering family and distant friends, all seems hopeless until he meets Lark, terminally ill yet full of life.

"Two powerful phenomena are simultaneously unfolding on Earth: the rise of the climate movement and the rise of women and girls. The People's Climate March and the Women's March. School strikes for climate and the #MeToo movement. Rebellions against extinction and declarations th...

Jackie Robinson's bid to break the colour barrier in baseball is inspirational to the orphan of a black father and Jewish mother who feels he can't connect with either culture.

A writer and educator reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.

"Vancouver, 1942. When best friends Esther and Michiko spot the beautiful Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret dolls--in vogue at the time--in the local toy store window, they long to get the dolls for their shared birthday. But when Esther receives the doll and Michiko doesn...

Yossi, a Jewish immigrant boy in Montreal, longs to play hockey, but when his father becomes ill and cannot work, all Yossi's hard-earned savings must go to help the family, not to buy skates.