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This special bundle contains both of Jennifer Maruno's Cherry Blossom novels about the internment of Japanese-Canadians, viewed through the eyes of 9-year-old Michiko Minagawa.

Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award (When the Cherry Blossoms Fell) This special bundle contains all of Jenni

After being outcast to a small community, 10-year-old Michiko’s life gets better when a former baseball star becomes her teacher. Second book in the Cherry Blossom Books series.

2015 Rocky Mountain Book Award — Shortlisted A boy is thrown into the middle of history’s biggest war. Fatherless and penniless, fifteen-year-old Richard Fuller wants a bike, so Mr.

Etienne is called on an adventure in the new world… In 1647, ten-year-old Etienne yearns for a life of adventure far from his family farm in Quebec.

Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birth

Jonny must travel to the distant past to understand the present.

This special bundle contains both of Jennifer Maruno’s Cherry Blossom novels about the internment of Japanese-Canadians, viewed through the eyes of nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa.

CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2016) — Commended Is pretending to be someone else the only way Michiko can fit in? Michiko Minigawa’s life is nothing but a bad game of baseball.

David Morgan, the gifted heir to a family fortune, rebels and becomes a fighter pilot.

A powerful man and a beautiful woman fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption as they attempt to save the native people and wildlife of Africa from extinction.

A sweeping drama that moves from the glitter of London society to the grandeur of Europe and the heat of Africa.

A brutal tale of greed and lust set in the goldfields of South Africa.

Craig Mellows undertakes a secret mission and the chance to return home to Zimbabwe.

After the prospectors and hunters had opened the way to the African interior, the miners and adventurers followed.