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More Than Money
Economic inequality affects everybody.
No matter how rich or poor you are, economic inequality impacts every aspect of your life—the place where you live, the opportunities you experience, the healthcare y ...
Fatty Legs (10th anniversary edition)
The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the injustices of residential school.
Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to c ...
Fight to Learn
The heroic efforts of people fighting for children’s right to an education.
In many countries around the world, universal access to education is a seemingly unattainable dream; however, determined individuals ...
In Your Face
A lively, thought-provoking look at the power and pitfalls of the beauty industry hype.
From fairy tales and Hollywood movies to magazine ads, reality TV and the Internet, we absorb the lesson early: being ...
Not My Girl
Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected.
Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her e ...
Made You Look
THE kids’ survival guide to advertising, revised and updated for the digital age.
Ads are everywhere these days: they are trying to be your friend on Facebook, popping up in the background of your videogame, ...
When I Was Eight
Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers.
Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to t ...
A Stranger At Home
Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected.
Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. ...
50 Underwear Questions
Most of us take our underwear for granted, but throughout history our undies have revealed a lot about who we are (king or peasant), how we work (in fields or factories) or the shapes we value (manly ...
Cry of the Giraffe
In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with ...