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Factory Girl (Kids Can Press, 2007) Illustrated with archival photographs.
1-55337-648-4 hcj $22.95

A Pioneer Christmas: Celebrating In the Backwoods in 1841 (illus. Heather Collins) Kids Can Press, 2003
1-55074-953-6 hcj $16.95
1-55074-955-2 pb $8.95
2004 - ForeWord Magazine, Bronze Award Winner

Gold Rush Fever: A Story of the Klondike in 1898 (illus. Heather Collins) Kids Can Press, 2001
1-55074-852-1 hcj $22.95
1-55074-850-5 pb $15.95
2001 - Junior Library Guild Selection
2002 - Society of School Librarians, International, Social Studies Honor Book
Nominated for - Silver Birch Readers’ Choice Award
Rocky Mountain Readers’ Choice Award
2003-4 - Nominated for The Red Cedar Award

A Pioneer Thanksgiving: Harvest Celebrations in 1841 (illus. Heather Collins) Kids Can Press, 1999
1-55074-744-4 hcj $14.95
1-55074-574-3 pb $6.95
2000 - ForeWord Magazine, Silver Award Winner
2001 - Selected as Outstanding by Parents’ Council

The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad (illus. Heather Collins) Kids Can Press, 1998
1-55074-507-7 hcj $22.95
1-55074-509-3 pb $16.95
1998 - Smithsonian’s Notable Books for Children
1999 - IRA Teachers’ Choice
The Children’s Literature Roundtables Information Book Award
Nominated for - Hackmatack Readers’ Choice Award
Red Cedar Readers’ Choice Award
The Norma Fleck Information Book Award

The Kids Book of Canada: Exploring the Land and Its People (illus. Jock McRae), Kids Can Press, 1997, updated 1999, 2001. Also available in French
1-55074-315-5 hcj $18.95
1997 - Quill and Quire Best Non-Fiction Book
1998 - Parents’ Choice Approval
Selected as Outstanding by Parents’ Council
Silver Birch Award, Official Selection
Shortlisted for the Ch.Lit. Roundtables Information Book Award

Pioneer Crafts (illus. Heather Collins), Kids Can Press, 1997
1-55074-359-7 pb $5.95
1997 - American Bookseller Pick of the Lists

A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840 (illus. Heather Collins), Houghton Mifflin, 1995 (American version of Pioneer Story)
0-395-71540-7 hc $19.00
1996 - ABC Children’s Booksellers’ Choice

A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840 (illus.
Heather Collins), Kids Can Press, 1994
1-55074-128-4 pb $16.95
1995 - The Mr. Christie Book Award
The Ruth Schwartz Book Award
The Children’s Literature Roundtables Information Book Award

Speak Up! Speak Out! A Kid’s Guide to Public Speaking (with Bob
Greenwood, illus. Graham Pilsworth), Pembroke Publishers, 1994
ISBN 1-55138-030-7 pb $6.95

Spy In the Shadows, Kids Can Press, 1990
1-55074-018-0 pb $4.95
1992 - International Youth Library White Raven Award

A Question of Loyalty, Scholastic Canada, 1984
0-590-71450-3 pb $5.99
1985 - Runner-up Saskatchewan Young Adult Book Award (now CLA Award)