New Releases by Sharon Stewart

Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it. He was a pioneer in the field of Aboriginal rights and land claims but was branded an outlaw in his own time. In 1885, he was executed for treason. In 1992, the House of Commons declared Riel a founder of Manitoba. November 16 is now designated Louis Riel Day in Canada.

Collection documentaire à saveur didactique regroupant des textes simples et des activités sous quatre séries gradées par niveaux de difficulté et "adaptée[s] selon les principes reconnus de l''apprentissage de la lecture". (cf. quatrième de couverture). On propose d''y explorer un thème par album correspondant aux objectifs d''un programme de formation (univers social, sciences et technologie, arts), à travers des notions et activités touchant certaines compétences transversales, disciplines et particularités du texte identifiées par un encadré en quatrième de couverture. Des questions et un projet permettent de vérifier les compétences acquises en fin d''album. [SDM].

"In choosing the California Wine Country diet, you will be choosing a weight management program that is based on the latest scientific research and the experience of thousands of years of healthy, traditional diets. You will be eating and drinking fresh, seasonal foods and beverages. You will ge to experience the recipes of some of the california wine country''s finest chefs in the comfort of your own home. Adn, you will be attending to all six aspects of the Wheel of weight-management, which will ensure you an enjoyable experience that will lead to the creation of your own unique blueprint for long-term weight maintenance." -- from the publisher.

Tok, the most nimble-winged of the young ravens, is banished for a crime he did not commit, and the only way he can restore his honor and his father''s name is to perform a brave and daring deed to benefit all ravenkind.

Canada''s forests, wetlands, and grasslands are home to a variety of plant and animal life. Shows how you can safely explore environments like these, so you can learn about the living things that make up a particular ecosystem.

Save Our Earth is a Persuasive text covering Science, Geography and PSHE and Citizenship themes for Year 4. It is part of Four Corners, the most visually compelling series of cross-curricular books to motivate all readers from 4 to 11.

Complete Classroom Library includes one each of the following: Math Library Science Library Social Studies Library Content Area Classroom Libraries include: 1 display box containing 10 6-packs (60 little books) 1 Teacher Resource Portfolio 1 Assessment Book (where available) Classroom Library Add-on Packs include 1 copy of each title from the social studies, science, and math libraries. Add-On Packs include 1 copy of each title.

The latest addition to the bestselling Dear Canada series takes readers directly into the historic struggle between the French and English for control of the area. Angelique watches as families are torn apart and forced to settle far away from one another, and worries about her brother who is fighting for the Acadian cause. Will her family stay together during this dramatic time or will they be wrenched apart forever?

"A god of death lurks in the streets ... an ethereal presence types messages on a computer screen ... Spine-tingling tales guaranteed to take readers to the edge of fear and back" Cf. Our choice, 2002

David Baird, a talented young rock musician, accompanies his estranged father to Wales. Fleeing after a quarrel, David has a bizarre motorcycle accident which hurls him back in time to medieval Prydein.

Dunia, a Siberian peasant girl, has run away from her abusive family and is discovered by Grigory Rasputin, a wandering holy man and friend of the Romanov Imperial family. He decides to take her with him to visit the Romanovs in St. Petersburg. Although Rasputin treats Dunia well, her experience tells her that he has a very dark side. The Imperial family quickly warms to Dunia. All exceptAnastasia, the youngest of the Tsar''s daughters. At first, the girls bicker relentlessly, but their teasing antics eventually lead to a close friendship and Dunia travels with the family across Russia. But when World War I is declared, the Imperial family''s fortune and lives are in jeopardy. In the midst of the war,Rasputin is assassinated and the Tsar is soon forced to abdicate the throne. The family is taken to a small village in Siberia, where guards patrol day and night andeventually cut off contact between Dunia and the family. Her attempts to rescue the family are fruitless, and she wakes one morning to find that Anastasia and the family she loved so much have been executed. Based on true events, My Anastasia is a touching and tragic historical tale about a friendship that grows between two young girls from entirely different worlds.

Spider''s state-of-the-art computer is the creation of her new step-father, who''s gone with Spider''s mother on a honeymoon. Now Spider has free reign, so she logs on to the Internet and invents a whole new online personality. But she''s soon in over her head, and it takes computer whiz Jerry and his uncle to make her see that she needs real friends.

"During the French Revolution, the 11-year-old daughter of King Louis XVI is imprisoned in a dismal tower. Based on the original journals of the princess" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.

Assessment of the use of mudbricks in housing construction. Includes a case study of two houses constructed in mudbrick at West Street, Brompton, South Australia by the Hindmarsh Housing Association.