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Yeny and her family have escaped from the violence in their mountain village in Colombia to live in the city.

Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border.

Sometimes, the only way to get through life is to escape into a good book. For Phoebe Hecht, that means a good mystery. And this summer, Phoebe really needs to escape.

Marion Dewar could never ignore a person who was begging in the street. Along with money, she would offer words of encouragement and friendship.

The true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz’s time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", a man charged with being complicit in the deaths of more than 300

The work of women designers touches every part of our lives. In the 1920s British furniture designer and architect Eileen Gray developed ideas for homes that still seem modern today.

By the prizewinning author of the classics Red is Best, The Bare Naked Book and Big or Little, this chapter book is about a man who spends every day in a school but who cannot read. Mr.

On a 300-year journey through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States, Morrison examines national views of the past, nature, place and home, religion, vio

Bernadette continues her adventures with Annie, Keisha, and Megan, aka "The Lunch Bunch".

The women profiled here have become masters of their art, dancing and choreographing their way around the world.

Frank, clear-eyed and consistent, this collection of Susan G. Cole's writings bucks the backlash against feminist ideas.

Ten profiles of amazing young environmental activists. Each child is captured in a portrait, their achievements described, and filled out with photos.

From Bridgehead, the trading company owned by OXFAM-Canada which promotes economic justice through fair trade with the developing world, comes a cookbook with a difference.

The year Louisiana – Easy for short – meets Janis Joplin is the year everything changes. Easy is a car mechanic in her dad’s shop, but she can sing the blues like someone twice her age.

A motorbike-riding business writer is asked to investigate the death of a tycoon in the first of a new mystery series featuring the irreverent Jane Yeats, a still-grieving widow who smokes and some