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Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.

William Little Bear Tucker and Sarah love to explore the caverns of the Sacramento Mountains, but are they clever enough to find an exit from both the maze-like cave and the dangerous men lurking i

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is forgotten in a farmhouse attic until the fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

After taking pictures of drug dealers disembarking from a small plane, two tenagers find themselves on a flight that may force them to make their first jump much sooner than they expect.

Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and hating his role as hunter.

Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west to the Oregon Trail, where they hope to find the Tucket family.

"Wabusk Outside the Wire / Nanook Looking In" is Joseph Boyden's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's m

In 1848, Francis Tucket was stolen from his family while they were travelling west along the Oregon Trail.

An epic story of first contact between radically different worlds, steeped in the natural beauty and brutality of our country's formative years.

Northwords is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt, Rabindranath Maharaj, Noah Richler, and Alissa York as they experienced one of Canada&#

Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous

When the camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has some tough choices to make.