Fourteen-year-old Bing-wing Chan lives in Vancouver's Chinatown in 1907. He resents his father, not because his father gambles away their money, but because he is a bone collector. He digs up the bones of the dead and sends them home to China for permanent burial. Bing hates having to help his father with this job and is afraid of the ghosts that hover around graveyards. In order to escape his father and bone collecting, Bing gets a job as a houseboy in a westerner's home. But the westerner's house is haunted and Bing must overcome his own fears in order to rid the house of ghosts.
Readers learn about the lives of Chinese immigrants in the early 1900s and the struggles they faced due to poverty and discrimination.

The issues of Bifocal include a student arrested on suspicion of terrorism and a high school torn apart by racism. The story is told from two different points of view. Haroon is devoted to his family and his grandparents emigrated from Afghanistan. Jay is a football star devoted to his team and is Caucasian.
One day their high school is on lockdown and the police arrest a Muslim student on suspicion of terrorist affiliations. The entire student body fragments along racial lines and both Haroon and Jay find that their differences initially put them at odds. The Muslim students become targets, while Jay and his teammates believe they have been set up to look like racists.

Meg Christie dreams of becoming a pilot just like her heroes Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham. Meg lives in Cape Breton, where life is a struggle for coal miners' families, especially during World War II. Meg's aunt suffers from tuberculosis, her uncle is an alcoholic and her cousins are neglected. Meg's family does not understand her dream of becoming a pilot.
Miss MacKinnon, the new teacher who falls in love with Meg's cousin, Caleb, encourages Meg. However, the school committee dismisses Miss MacKinnon for her modern attitudes and Caleb is killed during the war. Meg is given the chance to fly when a pilot, who is a friend of Caleb's, returns from the war and offers her flying lessons.
Meg's voice regarding the technical, historical and cultural matters will lead to discussions about labour issues, gender equality, the war, the history of coal mining and the dynamics in family life and in an extended family.
This book won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children in 2005.

This sequel to The Hunger presents a chilling account of genocide and its aftermath. Survivors of the 1909 Adana massacre, Miriam, her siblings, Kevork, and her aunt, scramble to survive during the turmoil and violence. Finding protection in an orphanage, the Armenians again face the threat of persecution by the Turks. Separated, each faces horrifying events, but hold to the steadfast belief that they will again be reunited. Skrypuch offers an account of the suffering endured by the Armenian people and their quest for peace. The book includes a list of websites, print and media resources.

The author documents a Japanese teacher's effort to find out what happened to a young Jewish girl named Hana Brady during World War II. Fumiko Ishioka was concerned that her students in Japan would never learn about this significant tragedy in history. Ishioka searches various Holocaust centres for authentic materials, and one day, a suitcase owned by Hana Brady arrives. Ishioka travels to Czechoslovakia and finally to Toronto where she interviews Hana's brother, George Brady, a survivor of the Holocaust.Ishioka's work is a comprehensive collection of archival material with a postscript from George Brady. It educates children about the horrors of the Holocaust and war.
The Canadian Library Association in 2003 selected Hana's Suitcase as the winner of the Book of the Year for Children Award. Hana's Suitcase also received the National Jewish Book Award and the Silver Birch Award.
The newspaper article about the work of Fumiko Ishioka also became a CBC radio documentary called Hana's Suitcase. The CBC radio documentary originally aired January 21, 2001, and can be accessed at www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/features/hanassuitcase/