This book is the sequel to Naomi: The Strawberry Blonde of Pippu Town. Naomi is now 15 years old. She visits Hong Kong while her mother teaches in an international school. Naomi takes several travel excursions outside of Hong Kong to Beijing and Macau. This book reads like a travel guide, but it gives a historical perspective about the Cultural Revolution.
Schreyer has several subplots running throughout the novel. Naomi volunteers at an orphanage and befriends Grace, a 16-year-old who is pregnant and rejected by her family. She forms a new friendship with Chen, an elderly man. Naomi struggles with her mother's new relationship and, through her Asian friends, learns the importance of patience and honesty.

In 1962, Bobby's life in an English seaside village is touched with amazing experiences. He has a friend, Alisa Spink, who can heal injured fawns with her dreams and he knows an illusionist, McCultry, who can eat fire. Things begin to change, however, and Bobby's life is filled with darkness. At home, his world is shattered by his father's illness and at school Bobby encounters abusive treatment from his classmates and teacher. Further, the media keep relaying the doom-and-gloom message that Cuba, the United States and the Soviet Union are readying missiles for nuclear warfare.

The Montagues and Capulets have been enemies for as long as anyone can remember. Romeo attends a ball and immediately falls in love with Juliet. They proclaim their love for each other and secretly wed. Unaware of the marriage, Capulet arranges for Juliet to wed Paris. Romeo and Juliet's passion for each other leads towards their tragic end.
The graphic novel format makes Shakespeare accessible to students. Additional material is available online at www.oxfordnext.com
Included is a table of contents, a brief biography, information on Shakespeare's theatre and Shakespeare in Canada.
The text is available in three formats to accommodate varied learning styles.

The Taliban forbid women and girls to appear in public without being covered from head to toe and accompanied by a male family member. Parvana's father is arrested and the family is left without a breadwinner - someone who can earn money and shop for food. As conditions for the family become desperate, only one solution remains. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana disguises herself as a boy and becomes the breadwinner. This novel brings to life an issue that has recently come to light around the world.

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.

At the end of the Second World War, about 1,000 teenage Jewish orphans came to Canada and settled in 38 communities in Canada. This real-life event in Canadian history is told through the fictional stories of Danny, Lilli and Marilyn.
Danny survives the Buchenwald concentration camp but loses his entire family. Lilli is an Auschwitz survivor who saw her mother and younger sister sent to their death and was separated from her other sister by the refugee process. She hopes for a new life in Canada, but has bad experiences with foster families. Marilyn is a Canadian girl who goes to school with the newcomers and gradually comes to understand the adversities that shape their lives and influence their reactions to Canadian life.
The story is told against a background of the Holocaust and the German concentration camps. Readers learn about the horrors of the camps, the atrocities that took place there and the way prisoners survived. There is information about attitudes toward immigrants and the way immigrants were treated during this period in Canadian history.

Fifteen-year-old Ian must complete community volunteer service in order to pass his Civics class. He chooses to work at "The Club," a soup kitchen for the homeless in an unsafe part of the city.
When the man who saved Ian shows up at the soup kitchen, he gets to know "Sarge." Jacques was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces and his last tour of duty was as a peacekeeper stationed in Rwanda, an African nation Ian knows little about.
Ian begins to learn truths not only about Rwanda, but about the world, for which he is not at all prepared. Shattered invites students to ask themselves what they can do to make a difference in the world.
Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, the Force Commander for the United Nations Mission to Rwanda, wrote the foreword to the book.

Sidonie Quince lives in Elizabethan England. Her father is an alchemist who conducts unsuccessful experiments in an effort to transmute base metals into gold. He promises the Queen results and Sidonie fears for his life if he fails.
Sidonie has a gift for scrying - foretelling the future by gazing into a crystal. Sidonie and her friend, Kit, set off to Glastonbury Abbey in search of the missing ingredient that will make her father's experiments successful.
Many historical characters and events provide the backdrop for Sidonie's adventures, including Queen Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney and the Spanish Armada. Conversations are conducted using words, expressions and linguistic structures typical of the Elizabethan period.
The Alchemist's Daughter was nominated for a 2005 Saskatchewan Book Award.

McKay successfully blends fact and fiction about her great uncle, Charlie Wilcox. Charlie Wilcox is a Newfoundlander born into a family of sailors and sealers. A clubfoot prevents Charlie from following in the family tradition. When Charlie is in St. John's pursuing a higher education, he makes his way to the harbour and boards a boat that he thinks is a sailing vessel. Fourteen-year-old Charlie does not realize that he has climbed on a boat sailing for Europe with soldiers to fight in World War I! Because Charlie is too young to fight, he becomes a medic. Charlie Wilcox highlights the historical context of Newfoundland before Confederation and the life of a soldier.
The Saskatchewan Young Readers' Willow Choice Awards Committee nominated this book for a Snow Willow Award in 2004.

The setting is Whitby, Ontario in the summer 1943. Two brothers, 12-year-old George and 14-year-old Jack, are left on their own a lot while their father fights overseas and their mother works in a munitions plant. As the boys explore the town they have moved to, they play war games. One game brings them to what looks like a military base. They are escorted home and ordered to stay away, but curiosity brings them back to Camp X. The boys become involved in the work of the top-secret spy camp and soon learn that everyone is under suspicion, including themselves.
The story is fictitious, but a spy camp was established in Whitby in 1941 by the Canadian who headed British security during the war. This Canadian, Sir William Stephenson, appears in the novel in a minor role as Little Bill.

While hockey provides a thematic strand for the book, the protagonist, Sean, has more to address than pressures of the team sport and a perfectionist father. Complex family issues include an ethical situation that requires Sean to decide whether to do what is right or to support his father by withholding evidence involving criminal charges. The story is one that provides the hook of hockey and a familiar prairie setting in Alberta, but is given depth through the issues and the complexities of human relationships.