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Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World
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Craig Kielburger, Kevin Major
Craig Kielburger is an activist prodigy who, at 12, was talking to national leaders, lecturing in public forums, and following the burning passion that would not allow him to overlook cruel injustices thrust upon children around the world. Inspired by a newspaper article about a young boy's murder at the hands of his boss in Pakistan, Kielburger ...
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The Story of the House of Wooden Santas
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Kevin Major, Ned Pratt (Illustrator), Imelda George (Illustrator)
Jesse's unemployed mother tries to make a new start for them by moving to a rural home where she hopes to foster a business carving figures for the Christmas season.
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Eh? to Zed
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Kevin Major, Alan Daniel (Illustrator)
From Arctic to Bonhomme, Imax to kayak, EH? TO ZED is an alphabetic tour of Canada.
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Free the Children: A Young Man's Personal Crusade Against Child Labor
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In April 1995, 12-year-old Craig Keilburger read an article about a Pakistani child who, at the age of four, was sold into slavery by his parents. For the next six years, he was shackled to a carpet loom, tying thousands upon thousands of tiny knots, twelve hours a day, six days a week. For this he was paid three cents a day. Amazingly, his will ...
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Ann and Seamus
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Kevin Major, David Blackwood (Illustrator)
In 1828, off the Newfoundland fishing village of Isle aux Morts, Ann Harvey, her father, and her younger brother came upon the wreck of the Despatch, an Irish immigrant ship originally destined for Quebec City. In thick fog and fierce wind it had run aground and broken apart. Ann's courage and strength at the oars of the rescue boat were largely ...
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Aunt Olga's Christmas Postcards
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Kevin Major, Bruce Roberts (Illustrator)
Anna's great-aunt Olga has collected Christmas postcards all her life. She's ninety-five, and many of the cards are very old. The holidays are the perfect time for Aunt Olga to share her postcards and her memories with her favorite niece. Decked out in red, Aunt Olga is ready for fun as she teaches Anna how to write her very own Christmas rhymes. ...
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Free the Children
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Eating Between the Lines
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Jackson is a young man with an appetite for many things, including words. But faced with parents on the brink of breakup, a love interest going sour, and a refrigerator lacking anything edible, he finds it hard to come up with the right words to solve his problems. Just when the world seems most dismal, however, it is words--the written kind--that ...
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House of Wooden Santas
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Kevin Major, Ned Pratt (Photographer), Imelda George
Jesse's unemployed mother tries to make a new start for them by moving to a rural home where she hopes to foster a business carving figures for the Christmas season.
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Thirty-Six Exposures
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Seventeen-year-old Lorne is used to having just his camera for company. But when his friend Trevor is unfairly suspended, Lorne becomes the leader of a school strike and finds his life changing drastically. "A compelling coming-of-age novel with a message".--Booklist.
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The End of the World
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No Man's Land
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Set in France during World War l, "No Man's Land" pulls us into the lives of the young men of the Newfoundland Regiment as they prepare to set out for the trenches and what will come to be known as the Battle of the Somme. A classic war novel, the book is equally effective in its portrayal of the camaraderie and unnatural quiet before the storm, ...
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Gaffer: A Novel of Newfoundland
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Gaffer is a surreal, haunting novel of a young man tied to a place, but able to explore the depths of the sea and swim freely across the tides of time. Living in a dying outpost town and haunted by the memory of his father's death aboard the doomed Ocean Ranger, Gaffer is obsessively drawn to the sea. Miraculously, he is transformed into a fish ...
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Hold Fast
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Michael turned 14 in May. By June, both his parents have died, victims of a car crash. And for Michael, who has lived all his life in small Newfoundland outport community, this means being suddenly uprooted and sent to live with relatives in St. Albert, hundreds of miles away. Hold Fast is the story of Michael's struggle in his new environment. In ...
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Dear B.Springsteen
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Kevin Major
In his letters to his favorite rock star, fourteen-year-old Terry reveals his musical aspirations and his problems coping with his parents' separation, communicating with girls, and finding his own place in the world.
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As Near to Heaven by Sea: A History of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Chronology and Fact Book
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Kevin D Hutchison, John H Admire, Major (Foreword by)
This detailed history consolidates official US records and coalition sources from around the world to provide information about day-to-day movements and events, units, missions, equipment and personnel during the operation. Biographies provide information whilst the glossary lists the coalition prisoners of war and service people killed in action, ...
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Far from Home
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Follows the lives of a Newfoundland family for several months as they deal with the father's drinking and unemployment, the son's poor choice of friends and subsequent problems, and general familial deterioration.
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Far from Shore
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When first published in 1980, "Far from Shore" was hailed as unique and innovative. Author Kevin Major broke new ground in a young adult novel by using a multinarrative structure - five different voices - to tell the story of a troubled youth. Fifteen-year-old Chris Slade lives in a small coastal community on the island of Newfoundland. Faced ...
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Christmas Elves
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Gaffer
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Caustic, poetic, profoundly moving, Gaffer jackknifes through five hundred years of Newfoundland history, and lunges ahead through fifty more.The young gaffer at its centre is tormented by the death of his father aboard a doomed offshore rig. He refuses to stand idle and watch his outport home collapse. Obsessively pulled to the sea, the boy ...
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Blood Red Ochre
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Living in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old David meets a mysterious new girl named Nancy and makes a startling discovery while doing research for a school project on the Beothuck Indians.
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Dear Bruce Springsteen
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Terry hates schooland has dreams of finding a girlfriend and being a rock star. He looks for guidance in his idol Bruce Springsteen and begins a one-way correspondence with him. As he pours out his feelings, Terry comes to see how to manage his life and become his own hero.
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Diana My Autobiography
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An intimate biography of Diana, the Princess of Wales, based on notes provided by the Princess herself. Born into a wealthy but obscure aristocratic family in the south of England, Diana came into sudden prominence in 1981 when she married Prince Charles, the heir apparent to the British throne. Her subsequent divorce and eventual death in an ...
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Bath Science Materials
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