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Dazzling Women Designers

Dazzling Women Designers

 


Designing our World—from Fashion to Robots



The work of women designers touches every part of our lives. In the 1920s British furniture desig...

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Dynamic Women Dancers

Dynamic Women Dancers

Dancing to Change the World The women profiled here have become masters of their art, dancing and choreographing their way around the world. All of them have helped transform their style of dan...

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Exceptional Women Environmentalists

Exceptional Women Environmentalists

From Rachel Carson, the woman who started the modern environmental movement, to Severn Cullis-Suzuki, former host of Suzuki's Nature Quest, to Marina Silva, who fights to keep the Brazilian rain fo...

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Fabulous Female Physicians

Fabulous Female Physicians

Women have been doctors for a very long time. From a great variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, women have overcome great odds to heal and help their communities. This new book of ten bio...

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Fantastic Female Filmmakers

Fantastic Female Filmmakers

Go behind the camera! Women have been writing, producing and directing movies since filmmaking began in the early 1900s. From taming wild dogs to filming from the open door of a plane to ...

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Fearless Female Journalists

Fearless Female Journalists

Women who’ve changed the world by reporting on it…

Ten inspirational biographies of women who risked everything – including their lives – to bring us the world...

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Franny and the Music Girl

Franny and the Music Girl

By the same author as Hattie Pearl Click Click

"Franny and the Music Girl features the irrepressible, energetic girl who also happens to be in a wheelchair ... the illustrations...

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Girl Who Hated Books, The

Girl Who Hated Books, The

Many months on the bestseller list, this book has received rave reviews around the world.

"There were books in dressers and drawers and desks, in closets and cupboards and chests. The...

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Gray Wolf's Search

Gray Wolf's Search

From our new First Nations series: Coming of Age in the Wolf Clan In this richly illustrated picture book, young Gray Wolf lives on the Pacific Northwest coast with the other members of the Wol...

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Great Athletes from our First Nations

Great Athletes from our First Nations

From Second Story's recently launched First Nations series, Great athletes from our First Nations profiles thirteen outstanding athletes in such diverse sports as figure skating, race car dr...

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Great Musicians from our First Nations

Great Musicians from our First Nations

Music is their passion


Follow the journeys of ten talented musicians from the Native community as they make their way to the top. All of them, whether their musi...

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Great Women from our First Nations

Great Women from our First Nations

This new title in the First Nations Series for Young Readers profiles ten outstanding women leaders. They include Suzanne Rochon-Burnett, a Métis broadcaster, journalist and First Nations advocate,...

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Great Women Leaders

Great Women Leaders

Since the days of ancient Egypt, women have demonstrated their skills as leaders. The last couple of hundred years, however, have seen increasing numbers of self-made women of distinction take thei...

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Guardian Angel House

Guardian Angel House

Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II.

Mama had always told twelve-year-old Susan that there was no safe place f...

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Hana's Suitcase

Hana's Suitcase

New edition with foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu:

"How extraordinary that this humble suitcase has enabled children all over the world to learn through Hana's s...

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Hana's Suitcase - Book and Audio CD

Hana's Suitcase - Book and Audio CD

"Hana's Suitcase should be required reading." Quill and Quire "Like the documentary, the book is a treasure for children and adults." The Toronto Star In the spring o...

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Hana's Suitcase on Stage

Hana's Suitcase on Stage

Since its publication in 2002, the story of Hana Brady, a little girl who wanted to become a teacher, has captured hearts and minds of schoolchildren and adults around the world. Since its 2006 ...

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Hattie Pearl Click Click

Hattie Pearl Click Click

This book is especially appropriate for children having difficulty with reading. Today, Janey is an adult writer who uses a computer to help children who also like to write. But when she was a g...

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Hiding Edith

Hiding Edith

Winner of the 2009 Yad Vashem Award for Children's Holocaust Literature The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl who was saved from the Nazis by the courage of the entire French v...

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Home Free

Home Free

A GUTSY GIRL BOOK

TD Children's Book Award Finalist!

Governor General's Award Fina...

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