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  • Champlain

    Illustrated by Francis Back ...
    “One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure.” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring “father of New France.”Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village that eventually became the great city of Quebec ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World

    Adapted from the New York Times bestseller Mayflower!After a dangerous journey across the Atlantic, the Mayflower?s passengers were saved from certain destruction with the help of the Natives of the Plymouth region. For fifty years a fragile peace was maintained as Pilgrims and Native Americans learned to work together. But when that trust was broken by the next generation of leaders, a conflict ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Who Was Marco Polo?

    by Joan Holub, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • From Then to Now

    A Short History of the World

    Illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski ...
    Just 50,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors ventured off the African savannah and into the wider world. Now, our technology reaches far out into the cosmos. How did we get to where we are today?With lively text and colorful illustrations, From Then to Now explains how individual societies struggled to find their own paths, despite war, disease, slavery, natural disasters, and the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?

    Series series Who Was?
    When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. Black-and-white line drawings illustrate Magellan's life and voyage, with sidebars and a time line that enhance ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Who Was Charles Darwin?

    Illustrated by Nancy Harrison ...
    Series series Who Was?
    As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Rocks and Minerals of The World

    Geology for Kids - Minerology and Sedimentology

    Series series Children's Rocks & Minerals Books
    Those stones you see might be an important mineral that the Earth creates. This book will open your child’s minds to the importance of the rocks and minerals you can dig up. It is a very informative book that is complete with images and just the right amount of texts too. Go ahead and get a copy of this book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Child in Prison Camp

    When Shizuye Takashima, “Shichan” as she was called, was eleven years old, her entire world changed forever. As a Japanese-Canadian in 1941, she was among thousands of people forced from their homes and sent to live in internment camps in the Canadian Rockies. Although none had been convicted of any crime, they were considered the enemy because the country was at war with Japan. In this true story ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Explorers

    Journeys to the Ends of the Earth

    by Jon Balchin ...
    Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresisibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Explorers charts the astonishing feats of history's most intrepid pathfinders. From the early voyages of the Ancient Greek mariner Colaeus, who first discovered that beyond the Mediterranean lay a far greater ocean, to the compelling tale of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fossils And History : Paleontology for Kids (First Grade Science Workbook Series)

    Prehistoric Creatures Encyclopedia

    Series series Children's Prehistoric History Books
    What are fossils and what clues do they hold of the past? Teach your children the basics of paleontology in a fun and engaging manner. You want them to fall in love with the subject to encourage active learning. By using pictures and as little text as possible, your child gets to experience learning on a more personal level. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping the Wilderness

    The Story of David Thompson

    by Tom Shardlow ...
    Series Book 9 - Stories of Canada
    David Thompsons story is one of the great tales of North American adventure. His life was a mixture of truth and legend, but he was without a doubt one of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers of the North American continent. Raised in a charity school in London, England, and apprenticed to the Hudsons Bay Company as a teenager, he then travelled extensively, recording valuable navigational ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Silk Road

    Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route with 20 Projects

    by Kathy Ceceri ...
    Illustrated by Kathy Ceceri ...
    Series series Build It Yourself
    From Roman times until the Age of Exploration, the Silk Road carried goods and ideas across Central Asia between two major centers of civilization, the Mediterranean Sea and China. In The Silk Road: Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route, readers ages 9–12 will learn about the history, geography, culture, and people of the Silk Road region.Marco Polo was just one of many who set out on the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus