James Lorimer Company Ltd Publishers: 361 books
by Beverly Scudamore
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Mel's best friend Dustin is her dream guy, but she lost her chance with him last year and now he's seeing someone else. Enter Colter, the handsome new guy in school who is definitely interested in her. It's just the thing Mel needs to get her mind off Dustin. Before Mel realizes it, she's spending...
Summit Series '72
Eight games that put Canada on top of world hockey
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
It wasn't until Canadian teams started losing in international tournaments in the mid 1950s that an epic hockey rivalry between Canada and the Soviet Union began. Canadians believed hockey was "their game." So Canadians were in for a rude awakening when they lost Game One of the 1972 Summit...
by Steven Barwin
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Hockey is all Tyler ever wanted to do. But when he finally makes the Select team, things aren't how he imagined it. Tyler divides his time between playing for fun in house league and playing high-stakes hockey in Select. But trying to succeed at both is wearing him down: the house league team accuses...
by Steven Sandor
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Hockey rules in Branko Stimac's new hometown, where its star players get the royal treatment. Any other sport -- like soccer, where Branko excels -- is considered second-rate. This means the sacrifices Branko's Croatian immigrant father made so he can play in Canada go unnoticed, as does Branko's...
Long Shot
How the Winnipeg Falcons won the first Olympic hockey gold
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
The sons of Icelandic immigrants and friends since boyhood, the Winnipeg Falcons were a superbly talented team of just eight players who brought home Canada's first Olympic gold medal in hockey in 1920. But before they became world champions, the Falcons endured years of prejudice on and off the ice.
Author...
by Robert Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Fast-paced sports action novels that get kids reading.
Shay and his pal Toby are among the players on the school soccer team who fall foul of the "fair play contract" introduced by the new school administration. After being banned from playing on behalf of the school for the rest...
Big League Dreams
Baseball Hall of Fame's first African-Canadian, Fergie Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This is a history of black major league baseball players and the crumbling of the colour barrier in sport, and the story of how Fergie Jenkins rose to the top to become Canada's first inductee into the American Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fergie Jenkins grew up in the era when Jackie Robinson became...
Fighting for Gold
The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Canada is internationally recognized as a leader in men's and women's hockey - but in 2006 Canada had yet to conquer the world of sledge hockey, the Paralympic version of ice hockey played by athletes with a physical disability in the lower part of the body. The Canadian Men's Sledge Hockey team came...
by Steven Barwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Gregg Stokes can tell you exactly when his life took a turn for the worse. It was the day his new stepsister, Amy, joined the starting line-up of his hockey team, and everyone immediately felt the deep chill between them. Can they thaw their icy relationship for the sake of the team
and their new family? [Fry Reading Level - 3.4
Old Enough to Fight
Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured...
Negotiating So Everyone Wins
Secrets you can use from Canada's top business, sports, labour and political negotiators
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Every day, people make deals that matter. But very few of us benefit from the public scrutiny and analysis that have helped Canada's leading negotiation experts hone their craft. Hockey team executives, cabinet ministers, bank presidents and labour leaders are constantly under the microscope, and...
Campus Confidential
100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this...
by Beverly Scudamore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Gina is the kind of girl who works hard to keep up her appearance -- not just her hair and makeup, but going so far as breast-enhancement surgery and regular diet pills. When tall, athletic, good-looking Colter wants to be her boyfriend, Gina jumps at the chance. She thinks they'll be the perfect...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada
A Citizen's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its twelve participating countries on three continents, is the largest regional trade and investment agreement that Canada has ever negotiated. It is also one of the most controversial— for good reason. Negotiations ended exactly a year ago, in October 2015, and...