Author: Lucy Sloan
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525525530
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Cindy and Cristabelle are two little fainting goats with big worries. After all, while life at Lil Steps Farm seems happy and safe, it could change at any moment! Yet no matter how cautious they are, their worries and fears keep growing, and soon Cindy and Cristabelle don’t know where to turn. Lucky for them, they have a friend in Percy the Pig. He’ll teach the goats that when you take a moment to appreciate the world around you, you’ll realize there’s a lot of reasons to feel as happy as happy can be! Cindy and Cristabelle’s Big Scare tackles the subject of childhood anxiety disorders in two stages: the storybook and the workbook. This approach helps adults to learn more about anxiety and how to manage it together with their child. Adults and children alike will love joining the animals of Lil Steps Farm in learning more about worries and fears, and how to overcome them!
Cindy and Cristabelle’s Big Scare
Author: Lucy Sloan
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525525530
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Cindy and Cristabelle are two little fainting goats with big worries. After all, while life at Lil Steps Farm seems happy and safe, it could change at any moment! Yet no matter how cautious they are, their worries and fears keep growing, and soon Cindy and Cristabelle don’t know where to turn. Lucky for them, they have a friend in Percy the Pig. He’ll teach the goats that when you take a moment to appreciate the world around you, you’ll realize there’s a lot of reasons to feel as happy as happy can be! Cindy and Cristabelle’s Big Scare tackles the subject of childhood anxiety disorders in two stages: the storybook and the workbook. This approach helps adults to learn more about anxiety and how to manage it together with their child. Adults and children alike will love joining the animals of Lil Steps Farm in learning more about worries and fears, and how to overcome them!
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525525530
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Cindy and Cristabelle are two little fainting goats with big worries. After all, while life at Lil Steps Farm seems happy and safe, it could change at any moment! Yet no matter how cautious they are, their worries and fears keep growing, and soon Cindy and Cristabelle don’t know where to turn. Lucky for them, they have a friend in Percy the Pig. He’ll teach the goats that when you take a moment to appreciate the world around you, you’ll realize there’s a lot of reasons to feel as happy as happy can be! Cindy and Cristabelle’s Big Scare tackles the subject of childhood anxiety disorders in two stages: the storybook and the workbook. This approach helps adults to learn more about anxiety and how to manage it together with their child. Adults and children alike will love joining the animals of Lil Steps Farm in learning more about worries and fears, and how to overcome them!
Cindy and Cristabelle’s Big Scare
Author: Lucy Sloan
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525525522
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Cindy and Cristabelle are two little fainting goats with big worries. After all, while life at Lil Steps Farm seems happy and safe, it could change at any moment! Yet no matter how cautious they are, their worries and fears keep growing, and soon Cindy and Cristabelle don’t know where to turn. Lucky for them, they have a friend in Percy the Pig. He’ll teach the goats that when you take a moment to appreciate the world around you, you’ll realize there’s a lot of reasons to feel as happy as happy can be! Cindy and Cristabelle’s Big Scare tackles the subject of childhood anxiety disorders in two stages: the storybook and the workbook. This approach helps adults to learn more about anxiety and how to manage it together with their child. Adults and children alike will love joining the animals of Lil Steps Farm in learning more about worries and fears, and how to overcome them!
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525525522
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Cindy and Cristabelle are two little fainting goats with big worries. After all, while life at Lil Steps Farm seems happy and safe, it could change at any moment! Yet no matter how cautious they are, their worries and fears keep growing, and soon Cindy and Cristabelle don’t know where to turn. Lucky for them, they have a friend in Percy the Pig. He’ll teach the goats that when you take a moment to appreciate the world around you, you’ll realize there’s a lot of reasons to feel as happy as happy can be! Cindy and Cristabelle’s Big Scare tackles the subject of childhood anxiety disorders in two stages: the storybook and the workbook. This approach helps adults to learn more about anxiety and how to manage it together with their child. Adults and children alike will love joining the animals of Lil Steps Farm in learning more about worries and fears, and how to overcome them!
Teaching with Dear Canada Vol. 4
Author: Amy Jeanette Von Heyking
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 9780545994149
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This fourth teaching guide for the Dear Canada historical fiction series focuses on The Death of My Country, Turned Away, No Safe Harbour and A Rebel's Daughter. As students learn about Canada's past through the diaries, the guide extends the learning and builds important social studies and language arts skills. It includes an overview of teaching social studies through historical fiction and provides a summary for each book, themes for classroom discussion, crosscurricular activities, ready-to-use reproducibles and more. Teaching with Dear Canada, Vol. 4 is the perfect tool for teachers.
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 9780545994149
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This fourth teaching guide for the Dear Canada historical fiction series focuses on The Death of My Country, Turned Away, No Safe Harbour and A Rebel's Daughter. As students learn about Canada's past through the diaries, the guide extends the learning and builds important social studies and language arts skills. It includes an overview of teaching social studies through historical fiction and provides a summary for each book, themes for classroom discussion, crosscurricular activities, ready-to-use reproducibles and more. Teaching with Dear Canada, Vol. 4 is the perfect tool for teachers.
Orphan at My Door
Author: Jean Little
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed with another family. Victoria vows to help Mary Anna find her brother, so they can be a family once again.
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed with another family. Victoria vows to help Mary Anna find her brother, so they can be a family once again.
The Don of Siracusa
Author: Sean Rea
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525538829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Stefano Caruso always does things the right way. With a grandfather who was forced to flee the venal Sicilian mafia and start life anew in America, Stefano now heads the corporation his father and grandfather built. Handsome and successful, he’s on top of the world...until one day he has an unexpected visitor and gets shocking news. Stefano is being cheated and lied to, and the company his family built from the ground up is in mortal jeopardy. That’s when Benito Cuggi, the face of the modern-day mafia, comes into his life. Cuggi appears to live by a strict code of morals that the laws of Western society cannot enforce. Loyalty and trust are rewarded, while betrayal is punished. Now Stefano faces a difficult choice. Can he ally himself with what he’s been taught to hate and fear? Or should he let what generations of his family built be stolen out from under him? Fraught with moral complexity, Siracusa is a fast-paced, exciting crime thriller that pits good against evil and righteousness versus deception, while asking whether good men should sometimes do bad things to punish evil.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525538829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Stefano Caruso always does things the right way. With a grandfather who was forced to flee the venal Sicilian mafia and start life anew in America, Stefano now heads the corporation his father and grandfather built. Handsome and successful, he’s on top of the world...until one day he has an unexpected visitor and gets shocking news. Stefano is being cheated and lied to, and the company his family built from the ground up is in mortal jeopardy. That’s when Benito Cuggi, the face of the modern-day mafia, comes into his life. Cuggi appears to live by a strict code of morals that the laws of Western society cannot enforce. Loyalty and trust are rewarded, while betrayal is punished. Now Stefano faces a difficult choice. Can he ally himself with what he’s been taught to hate and fear? Or should he let what generations of his family built be stolen out from under him? Fraught with moral complexity, Siracusa is a fast-paced, exciting crime thriller that pits good against evil and righteousness versus deception, while asking whether good men should sometimes do bad things to punish evil.
Uncovering Iris
Author: Karen Hyatt
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525544438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Stella, adopted at birth, moves from England to Canada following the death of her adoptive parents and the discovery that her live-in boyfriend is gay. On the plane to Toronto she meets Madeleine, whose offer of help to this young and naïve stranger ushers in a remarkable series of events for both women—almost all of which, it transpires, revolve around a woman they do not know they share a deep connection to: Iris Parker. Intertwining the family sagas of each of its main characters, Uncovering Iris lifts the lid on each of their lives and the circumstances that have shaped them. Spanning many generations of families in twentieth-century Canada, the novel pays particular attention to the fates of women in a dangerously patriarchal world. With deep insight and compassion, author Karen Hyatt tells the stories of the hardened protagonist, Iris, and those of the many people she has hurt, hindered, and harried in her life as a strong-willed and defiant single woman. What causes a person to become who they are? How do life events change a personality? How can we come to terms with the way we are treated by others, including those whom we love? These are just some of the questions asked and explored in this engaging first novel.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525544438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Stella, adopted at birth, moves from England to Canada following the death of her adoptive parents and the discovery that her live-in boyfriend is gay. On the plane to Toronto she meets Madeleine, whose offer of help to this young and naïve stranger ushers in a remarkable series of events for both women—almost all of which, it transpires, revolve around a woman they do not know they share a deep connection to: Iris Parker. Intertwining the family sagas of each of its main characters, Uncovering Iris lifts the lid on each of their lives and the circumstances that have shaped them. Spanning many generations of families in twentieth-century Canada, the novel pays particular attention to the fates of women in a dangerously patriarchal world. With deep insight and compassion, author Karen Hyatt tells the stories of the hardened protagonist, Iris, and those of the many people she has hurt, hindered, and harried in her life as a strong-willed and defiant single woman. What causes a person to become who they are? How do life events change a personality? How can we come to terms with the way we are treated by others, including those whom we love? These are just some of the questions asked and explored in this engaging first novel.
The Unwanted Twins
Author: Heidi L. Kline
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525536737
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
As a child, Heidi Kline endured unfathomable physical and sexual abuse at the hands of almost everyone she ever trusted. She and her twin sister, Holly, were labelled "The Unwanted Twins" by their entire family and spent their early years feeling unloved and unprotected. Now, in this gripping, powerful autobiography, she tells her courageous story of triumph over an upbringing she would not let define her. With the help of her twin sister’s love, as well being a spiritual medium, she was able to survive her childhood and put her shattered life back together. The Unwanted Twins is one woman’s unflinching look at a childhood no child should have to endure, with a message of hope, resilience, love, and forgiveness.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525536737
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
As a child, Heidi Kline endured unfathomable physical and sexual abuse at the hands of almost everyone she ever trusted. She and her twin sister, Holly, were labelled "The Unwanted Twins" by their entire family and spent their early years feeling unloved and unprotected. Now, in this gripping, powerful autobiography, she tells her courageous story of triumph over an upbringing she would not let define her. With the help of her twin sister’s love, as well being a spiritual medium, she was able to survive her childhood and put her shattered life back together. The Unwanted Twins is one woman’s unflinching look at a childhood no child should have to endure, with a message of hope, resilience, love, and forgiveness.
The Amulet
Author: Norma Sluman
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525504827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
It is 1884 on the Canadian prairies. After an impetuous, whirlwind wedding, young bride Catherine McNab has left her comfortable home in Rosemere, Ontario, determined to start a new life with veteran trader Ian McNab. Arriving in her new home of Pounding Lake in the District of Saskatchewan, Catherine learns the Indigenous people are frustrated, starving and restless. Her husband believes the growing tension will pass, but a North West Mounted Police detachment has just been assigned to keep the peace with the notorious Big Bear band of Crees who have been coerced into making camp in Pounding Lake for the winter. As an unscrupulous Indian Agent attempts to force the Cree band to accept a reservation by withholding their winter rations; Catherine tries to navigate the growing political tension, small town relationships with her fellow settlers, local Métis land owners, and her unexpectedly complicated new marriage. Concerned for her safety, Jay Clear Sky, the Cree band’s interpreter, befriends Catherine and gives her his sacred amulet for protection. Torn between loyalty to her husband, compassion for the Big Bear people, and terror over what might happen, Catherine’s world, buffeted by the winds of change, begins to fall apart. Author Norma Sluman tells the story of the Frog Lake Massacre which ignited the North West Rebellion in 1885, through the eyes of the people who experienced it, white, Métis, and Indigenous. Her writing embodies insight and deep human empathy which pull the reader into the story. A must read for lovers of true events of history and those seeking to understand its unintended consequences.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525504827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
It is 1884 on the Canadian prairies. After an impetuous, whirlwind wedding, young bride Catherine McNab has left her comfortable home in Rosemere, Ontario, determined to start a new life with veteran trader Ian McNab. Arriving in her new home of Pounding Lake in the District of Saskatchewan, Catherine learns the Indigenous people are frustrated, starving and restless. Her husband believes the growing tension will pass, but a North West Mounted Police detachment has just been assigned to keep the peace with the notorious Big Bear band of Crees who have been coerced into making camp in Pounding Lake for the winter. As an unscrupulous Indian Agent attempts to force the Cree band to accept a reservation by withholding their winter rations; Catherine tries to navigate the growing political tension, small town relationships with her fellow settlers, local Métis land owners, and her unexpectedly complicated new marriage. Concerned for her safety, Jay Clear Sky, the Cree band’s interpreter, befriends Catherine and gives her his sacred amulet for protection. Torn between loyalty to her husband, compassion for the Big Bear people, and terror over what might happen, Catherine’s world, buffeted by the winds of change, begins to fall apart. Author Norma Sluman tells the story of the Frog Lake Massacre which ignited the North West Rebellion in 1885, through the eyes of the people who experienced it, white, Métis, and Indigenous. Her writing embodies insight and deep human empathy which pull the reader into the story. A must read for lovers of true events of history and those seeking to understand its unintended consequences.
FlowSong
Author: Gina Williams
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152554652X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
11 year old Flo Song dives into Puget Sound every day. Her favorite thing is to travel the world with her band, The GloHearts. Together, in their music powered vessel, the Friend-Ship, they Explore, Discover, Learn, Grow, and Create together. Do you want to learn how to create your dreams too? Would you like to join the adventure? Playful rhymes, dynamic illustrations, and centuries-old musical wisdom come together in this introductory book. Get into the Flo!
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152554652X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
11 year old Flo Song dives into Puget Sound every day. Her favorite thing is to travel the world with her band, The GloHearts. Together, in their music powered vessel, the Friend-Ship, they Explore, Discover, Learn, Grow, and Create together. Do you want to learn how to create your dreams too? Would you like to join the adventure? Playful rhymes, dynamic illustrations, and centuries-old musical wisdom come together in this introductory book. Get into the Flo!
Crime By Design
Author: Andrea Peter
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525538209
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Amaya June is a young woman mourning the death of her father. Not believing the tragic hit and run that claimed her father’s life was an accident, she and her close friends Megan and Tyler try to dig up some answers. During their investigation, they uncover secrets that her father had been hiding from her for the past twenty-two years. Adding to the chaos of their discoveries is the appearance of two Italian twin brothers in their town. Although charming and handsome, Steven and Aaron have their own dark secrets that somehow seem to involve Amaya. With every step closer to the truth, Amaya finds more secrets unraveling and hints that something supernatural is happening in her small town of Mill Hills. Yet amidst this chaos is a chance for Amaya to find love in an unexpected place – if she doesn’t get killed in the process.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525538209
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Amaya June is a young woman mourning the death of her father. Not believing the tragic hit and run that claimed her father’s life was an accident, she and her close friends Megan and Tyler try to dig up some answers. During their investigation, they uncover secrets that her father had been hiding from her for the past twenty-two years. Adding to the chaos of their discoveries is the appearance of two Italian twin brothers in their town. Although charming and handsome, Steven and Aaron have their own dark secrets that somehow seem to involve Amaya. With every step closer to the truth, Amaya finds more secrets unraveling and hints that something supernatural is happening in her small town of Mill Hills. Yet amidst this chaos is a chance for Amaya to find love in an unexpected place – if she doesn’t get killed in the process.