Age: Americas

Materials from the Americas

The Nutcracker

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

On Christmas Eve, a little Russian girl and her brother protect her nutcracker doll from mice, and are rewarded by him by being transported to a land of wonders, in this adaptation of the fairy tale.

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Maria Chapdelaine

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This timeless French Canadian story of a young woman who, while enduring her harsh natural surroundings, must choose between three suitors and family duty is vividly brought to life with beautiful artwork.

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Season Of Rage : Hugh Burnett And The Struggle For Civil Rights

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

The last place in North America where black people and white people could not sit down together to share a cup of coffee in a restaurant was not in the Deep South. It was in the small, sleepy Ontario town of Dresden, the site of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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Susanna’s Quill

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This novel is based on the writer and pioneer Susanna Strickland Moodie, from her life as a young girl in England to her adventures as an adult frontierswoman in Canada.

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Flower

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When thirteen-year-old Katie learns that her stepmother is pregnant, she spends the summer at her grandparents’ Victorian home brooding, until the presence of an old-fashioned girl on her bedroom wall shares secrets of the real meaning of family.

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Wanda And The Wild Hair

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Although Wanda loves her wild hair, all the adults in her life think it’s just horrific, so after a series of mishaps with a magpie, a cat, and a large English sheepdog, Wanda is finally convinced that something needs to be done.

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She Dared: True Stories Of Heroines, Scoundrels, And Renegades

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Delves into the lives of twelve women who took up challenges that society felt could be met only by men, from a Civil War spy and World War II fighter pilot to a Wild West desperado and Yukon adventurer.

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Three Songs For Courage

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In 1956, sixteen-year-old Gordon Westley finds his summer vacation shattered by tragedy, forcing him to come face-to-face with the darkest–and the sweetest–side of human nature.

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The Maestro

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man’s life forever.

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The Travels Of Ms. Beaver

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

One day, Ms. Beaver sets off to visit the big city of Toronto, where she decides to build a dam in a city park and creates a new lake! Although some citizens protest, eventually Ms. Beaver and the newly created lake are allowed to remain.

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