Summary:Meet Vinita! She's a shy girl who learns how to spend, save, budget, and invest money at school. Why do these activities interest her so much? Because every student in her class has a mortgage!Readers will enjoy following Vinita and her classmates' funny antics and financial ventures. They'll also find out how Vinita discovers and embraces who she is-flaws and all!Introducing kids to financial literacy is known to be important for their succ...

Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious...

Meet Vinita! She's a shy girl who learns how to spend, save, budget, and invest money at school. Why do these activities interest her so much? Because every student in her class has a mortgage!Readers will enjoy following Vinita and her classmates' funny antics and financial ventures. They'll also find out how Vinita discovers and embraces who she is—flaws and all!Introducing kids to financial literacy is known to be important for their success in life. This book presents a...

Set in London, England in the early twentieth century, the normal day-to-day life of everyday citizens suddenly changes as there is an increase in missing persons, and before long a London officer is found dead on the street, stripped to the bone.This short story was first published by Australian author Robert Coutts Armour in 'The Red Magazine' in November 1914.

An avid researcher, Porter embarks on a journey to study birds on the remote isle of Eiarn. As his expedition continues, something about the island seems to be a bit unsettling. Is Porter being tracked by a new species of creature on the island, or have old fisherman tales and weeks of isolation been playing tricks on his mind?

In Invasion of the Super-Ants a new strain of super-intelligent, venomous ants invade Fleet Street, devouring all in their path including a bus-load of passengers.Watching horrified, Henry Mayence, Mr. Vidal douse themselves in gasoline as a deterrent—but how long can they hold out against an army of billions?With Central London ablaze and ringed in a cordon of poison, it transpires that the attacks have spread countrywide."It's a conquest, an arranged busi...

In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived and worked at the Hudson’s Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of family, community, and daily life, define their past and provide insights into a way of life that has largely disappeared in northern Canada. The era the elders describe, from the end of World War I to the closing of York Factory in 1957, saw dramatic changes – both posi...

L’Occupation a recouvert la France d’une vaste zone d’ombre, où s’agitent des personnages marginaux, aux activités troubles. Ainsi, dans un atelier de Montparnasse, vit une bande de garçons étranges, cyniques et amoraux. Leurs chefs, Tolra et Dumas, trafiquent, pillent, tuent à l’occasion. Lorsque Eugène, un peintre qui ne vit que pour son art, entraîne rue Littré sa toute jeune camarade de travail, Marie, il ne sait pas encore dans quelle extraordinaire aventure amoureu...