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Reading the Bones
Gina McMurchy-Barber

Sandcastle Books, 2007

Due to circumstances beyond her control, 12-year-old Peggy Henderson has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, British Columbia, to live with her aunt and uncle. Without a father and seperated from her mother, who's looking for work, Peggy feels her unhappiness increasing until the day she and her uncle start digging a pond in the backyard and she realizes the rock she's been trying to pry from the ground is really a human skull. ...

From Scratch, Water Colours: Art Workshop with Paul
Paul Taggart

Sandcastle Books Ltd, 2006

Mystery at Shildii Rock
Robert Feagan

Sandcastle Books, 2007

To the Gwich'in First Nation, Shildii Rock near Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories is a place of deep mythological significance.When 12-year-old Robin Harris, the son of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, spots someone on the rock staring at him, he just knows something is wrong. Robin and his friend Wayne Reindeer, a Gwichíin youth, set out to discover what's going on and to gain the respect of their fathers. But Robin ...

Skateway to Freedom

1 review
Ann Alma

Sandcastle Books, 2008

A very nice book...
This was the first kind of "historical" book that took place ten or twenty years ago. Josie Grün is down in the dumps, since her parents have decided to move to Canada while their town in East Germany is in danger. Josie gradually makes friends, and is overjoyed when she can skate again. I liked this book, for the most part. The bad thing about it was that some parts were rather slow and ...

Spirit Quest
Diane Silvey

Sandcastle Books, 2008

In the rich tradition of Coast Salish legend, mother and son Diane and Joe Silvey write and illustrate a classic quest story. Teenage twins Kaya and Tala journey into the perilous British Columbia wilderness confronting fish and fowl, beast and phantom, and the wolf spirit destined to be Tala's protective guardian. Imaginative black-and-white illustrations complement this unique story of adventure.

Ben Franklin's War

1 review
Stephen Eaton Hume

Sandcastle Books, 2006

A tale of adventure, featuring inventions and challenges at the dawn of the American nation.
Award-nominated children's author and English teacher Stephen Eaton Hume presents Ben Franklin's War, a novel for young adults set in the time of America's Revolutionary War. Ben Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers, journeyed to Canada in search of help fighting against England's rule over the America, but finds little aid and much danger. Ben Franklin's War is told from the perspective ...

Charlotte's Vow
Marion Woodson

Sandcastle Books, 2000

It is Christmas 1912, and Charlotte McEwan is 15 years old. The coal-mining town of Extension, British Columbia, on Vancouver island has hit hard times. When the opportunity to work in a local dynamite factory presents itself, Charlotte braves the disapproval of her mother for the chance to bring in some extra cash and keep the vow she made to herself to get her family as far away from the mine as possible. But the job is more dangerous than ...

White Jade Tiger

2 reviews
Julie Lawson

Sandcastle Books, 2006

White Jade Tiger Rocks
This is the best book ever. I recommend it for everybody who like mysteries, adventures, and to read this book you have to be a really smart reader. (So says a ten yr. old who read it as a novel study.)

Boxcar Kid

1 review
Norma Charles

Sandcastle Books, 2008

Written for Children but this adult loved it.
A great read. The story of the early B.C. lumber mills come to life with the arrival of laborers from Quebec. Young Luc and his family are among those who arrive and find there is no housing available. They quickly adapt and four families move into a boxcar for shelter from the rain. Luc's knowledge of English is the key to connecting the French lumbermen from Quebec and the English ...

Up, Up, and Away
Ruth Heller

Sandcastle Books, 1993

A book about adverbs.

Battle Cry at Batoche
B.J. Bayle

Sandcastle Books, 2008

Ben and Charity Muldoon are 15-year-old twins who find themselves in the midst of politically charged events in the Saskatchewan River Valley in 1885. One day, as Ben is walking through a ravine, he encounters a Cree boy named Red Eagle, who quickly becomes his friend after a hair-raising rescue. Ben eventually discovers that a confrontation between the North-West Mounted Police and the Natives, led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, is ...

Oils from Scratch
Paul Taggart

Sandcastle Books Ltd, 2006

Dinosaur Fever
Marion Woodson

Sandcastle Books, 2008

It's the summer of 1988 and 15-year-old aspiring artist Adam Zapotica has a big problem. He's crazy about dinosaurs, and a team of paleontologists and scientists at Milk River Ridge near Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta has recently unearthed a major cache of dinosaur eggs. They need volunteers to assist them at the dig, but there's a catch -- you have to be 18! Adam soon figures a way to get around that, and faster ...

Napachee
Robert Feagan

Sandcastle Books, 1999

Napachee
Ann Walsh

Sandcastle Books, 2006

As a Sikh living in small-town British Columbia, Rana knows he is different; in fact, he is the first Sikh in Dinway to join the hockey team. But Rana persists, making the team, and meets Les, who becomes a new friends. But the jibes from his teammates and community members continue. Finally, just before the most important game of the season, an extraordinary event interrupts the lives of everyone in Dinway, and Rana explodes in anger, ...

By the Skin of His Teeth

1 review
Ann Walsh

Sandcastle Books, 2004

A gripping, suspenseful drama
Written by Ann Walsh, By the Skin of His Teeth: A Barkerville Mystery is a historical novel set in Barkerville, British Columbia, during the year 1870. When a Chinese man is found stabbed to death outside his restaurant, only a young Chinese boy can testify against the prideful and cruel accused perpetrator. Seventeen-year-old Ted MacIntosh befriends the boy, helping him stand up for justice ...

Tiger Trap
Eric Walters

Sandcastle Books, 2007

Sarah and Nicholas Fraser, the irrepressible sister-and-brother duo of Eric Walters's bestselling Tiger by the Tail , Tiger in Trouble , and Tiger Town , are back for a fourth adventure. The kids are already swamped with exotic animals when Mr. McCurdy and Vladimir, the owners of Tiger Town, rescue another truckload of creatures, including two baby kangeroos, a leopard, and a lion. Always the worrier, Sarah frets about finances and ...

An Island of My Own
Andrea Spalding

Sandcastle Books, 2008

Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British Columbia. Desperate for a summer project, she camps on a neighbouring island to monitor the progress of an endangered group of sea otters, further threatened by the development plans of a real estate agent trying to sell the property for tourism.

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