Sono Nis Press: 25 books

On a fresh spring day, young Yetsa, her mother and her grandmother gather to prepare the sheep fleeces piled in Grandma's yard. As they clean, wash and dry the fleece, laughter and hard work connect the three generations. Through Yetsa's sensual experience of each task, the reader joins this family...

Josh put his finger on the word and tried to sound it out.“D-d-d-d …”By the time he got to the bottom of the page, a headachehad started to pound behind his left ear. He snappedthe book shut and shoved it across the table.“I hate reading.” Eleven-year-old Josh’s summer is getting...

No Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people. These unforgettable children are taken by government agents from Tsartlip Day School to live at Kuper Island Residential School....

Hope and her family travel from England to their new home on an island off the coast of British Columbia in the 1860s. Hope thinks that she has arrived in paradise. She is right … until whiskey traders arrive. Letia and her family are Lamalcha people who winter on Kuper Island and move to...

"They're our horses and I should be on them!" When Reid Widmark's jockey mother takes a fall, their barn and the horses they train become Reid's responsibility. He's fine with it: he was practically born on a horse, and he's always been his mother's right-hand man. He'll hold the fort until...

Kirsty laughed. "Faye will never part with Robin."A sly smile spread over Nicole's thin face. "We'll see." Robin is a pony in a million. He'll do anything Faye asks him to do, and Faye loves him with all her heart. Then the farm truck breaks down and there's no money to pay for repairs....

Kirsty's got a secret--a big, four-legged secret . . . When they moved out to the country after the divorce, Mom promised Kirsty a pony of her own. Then Lancelot practically drops in her lap, and Kirsty empties her money box to buy him. He's skinny and starved and only half trained for riding....

As they stared, the smoke clouds began to glow, ruby and vermilion tongues of flame flickering in their bellies. In the short time they'd been down in the gully, fire had staked claim on the mountain. Faye Marsh is out show-jumping for Lawrence Devries, and twelve-year-old Kirsty's still working...

Margo Talbot's unflinchingly honest account of a childhood characterized by abuse and neglect, her descent into depression, addiction, and criminal activity is both heartbreaking and, ultimately, inspiring. Finding redemption and healing through her passion for the outdoors and, in particular, ice...

Eight-year-old Ting misses her parents, but her comfortable life in China hasn’t changed too much since they both went away to Canada. She’s living with loving relatives who care for her like their own child (even though her cousin is so annoying!). She goes to the same school with the same classes,...

The chapter headings in Born to Be Hung hint at the "range" Dude Lavington has covered: "Runaways—High Water Crossings", "Moose-Hunting Yarns", "Range Riding on the Batnuni", "The Lady Said Yes", "Bluffing Wolves" ... This is the...