Norma Norma: 415 books

Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Emma’s Secret: The Cincinnati Epidemic (covering the year 1832), Nellie the Brave:...

Short-listed for the Chocolate Lily Book Award, 2005 It’s summer 1950, and for 11-year-old French Canadian Sophie LaGrange, Camp Latona on British Columbia’s Gambier Island promises to be pure bliss. But then Sophie has to buddy up with a strange, unfriendly Jewish refugee girl named Ginette...

Time Period:  1844  Slavery is a growing issue in the United States of the 1840s. . .but Meg Buehler can only think about drawing. This fictional twelve year old, an aspiring artist, is frustrated when her family, much more concerned with practical living and politics, can't understand her desire to...

Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with her family. In 1949, the year Newfoundland joins Confederation, Sophie soars over flooded prairies,...

Thirteen-year-old Kalu and his young cousin, Aisha, are the only survivors when their African village is overrun by rebels and burnt to the ground. After making their way to the coast, Kalu gets a job aboard a smuggler’s boat heading for Ireland. When the smuggler learns that the coast guard is...

Star Girl flies again in this sequel to the bestselling, award-winning Sophie Sea to Sea. Starting her new classes at the new French school in British Columbia, Sophie is happy to escape the old Alderson Avenue School where stuck-up Elizabeth Proctor and her friends rule. But trouble develops when...

In this young reader novel, ten-year-old Jeanie Leclare has just moved to the West Coast from Saskatchewan. She’s desperately lonely and longs for a new friend. When the girl sitting in front of her at school seems friendly, she feels a little better. Then an excavator arrives and demolishes the...

«Unas manos manchadas de sangre no merecen mi silencio», piensa Eddie la noche en que su pasado regresa para ajustar cuentas. El secreto inconfesable que ella guarda detrás de su personalidad huidiza y enigmática, orilla a Michael Parker, su nuevo amigo y cronista solitario, a enfrentarla para...

Time Period:  1744  Slavery confuses Maggie Baldwin. It's 1744, and the tenderhearted twelve-year-old can't understand why her friend was given a young female slave as a Christmas present-or why her friend mistreats the miserable Caribbean girl. When a major spiritual revival breaks out, Maggie is...

The indigenous peoples of Alaska have a rich and colorful history. Come to the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (WEIO) to learn more about it. The games, all rooted in Native history, are made up of such diverse events as blanket tossing, high kicking, knuckle hopping, fish cutting, seal skinning, muktuk...

Pensado para conocer, respetar y cuidar el medio ambiente, en este libro se presentan los contenidos básicos y muchos otros datos que sorprenderán, además de acciones concretas para llevar a cabo para cuidar y mejorar el medio ambiente.

Come fly away with Little Jay and his family of blue jays as they experience the most exciting flight of their lives inside a big red box kite. Watch as Little Jay takes his first flight away from his family oak tree toward his biggest adventure yet!

El tlacuache ha crecido y ahora tiene un hermano menor. Mamá Tlacuache los llama a comer y todo se vuelve un lío: los chicos quieren muchas cosas a un tiempo y se quejan de extraños dolores, pero Mamá se las ingenia para pasar un rato feliz.

La familia Pachón pasa por momentos difíciles: Fernando, el papá, acaba de perder su empresa millonaria de jugos, por lo que se ve obligado a dejar la vida de lujos y comodidades que su familia y él disfrutaban; Rodolfo, su hijo mayor, que se cree un imán para la mala suerte, piensa que las cosas...