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The World Around Us series introduces children to complex cultural, social and environmental issues in a straightforward and accessible way.

Seventeen-year-old Lucy "Lucky" Graves is devoted to her championship rugby team, but her dreams of a scholarship are destroyed when she breaks her leg during an important game.

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function.

Fifteen-year-old Natalie is obsessed with ballet and plans to spend the entire summer in dance class with her two best friends.

Josh, Mark, Angela and their friends have been waiting for years to go on the class trip to Drumheller, Alberta.

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Tongue-twisty teasers lead the reader through a miscellany of animals in this brilliantly illustrated hint-and-reveal book.

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Would you recognize your own bum if you didn't know it was yours? How about your dog's bum? Or your baby's bum?

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Angus loves sparkly things, so much so that he can hear them.

The dog shows up the way snow does on a winter's day. She just drifts in and stays, becoming the friend of a young Cree boy.

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function.

What you choose to wear becomes part of your identity, but it doesn't affect just you. Your clothing sends a message to the world, whether you want it to or not!

Billy Stuart is a young raccoon who aspires to be just like his grandfather, a globe-trotting adventurer who knows no fear.

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural  world to life on the canvas.

Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life.

Tom is looking forward to spending spring break in Mexico with his girlfriend, Kat. Her father, an FBI agent, has invited Tom to join them at a fancy Cancun resort for some much-needed R&R.