Sharon Stewart
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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.
2) Raven Quest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Banished! Tok, the best flyer of all the young ravens, faces a terrible fate. Falsely accused of murder, he must leave the Raven Mountains forever. If he ever returns, he will be put to death by those he once called friends and family. Tok's only hope is to reclaim his honor by completing a quest. Long ago, the ravens lived in partnership with the Grey Lords. Can Tok reunite his kind with these legendary hunters? The quest will take him on a perilous...
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Romance was for fools...
And CEO Matthew Kent was anything but. So what was he doing in Arizona as half owner of a shop devoted to romance? He blamed it all on his aunt. The silly woman had thought he wouldn't be happy until he was married, so she'd set him up. She'd left him not only her fortune, but a business partner, as well. A sweet, sultry, thoroughly romantic business partner.
Rachel McCarthy was exactly the kind of woman he avoided. How...
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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. A variation on the Arthurian legend, The Minstrel Boy introduces us to Merlin as a stern music teacher who takes David under his wing and a young King Arthur who becomes his friend. David eventually wins the respect of the town with his strange but...
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Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada's present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman; Metis revolutionary Louis Riel; and frontiersman Simon Girty, who adopted and respected Native culture long before the vast majority of white people, we...
6) Canadian Cultural Heritage 4-Book Bundle: Molly Brant / Louis Riel / Harriet Tubman / Simon Girty
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Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series profiling prominent figures in Canada's history. In these four books, we explore the cultural heritage at the roots of Canada's present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman, Metis revolutionary Louis Riel, frontiersman Simon Girty, and aboriginal elder stateswoman Molly Brant, we discover that the struggle for inclusion and human rights...