When a teenage boy and his family move to a new home in a lumber camp along the Alaska Highway, their lives change dramatically.

Flying Ghosts (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

MATHESON, Shirlee Smith

Historical Fiction

Turtleback Books

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This series offers the best of contemporary, compelling fiction for reluctant teen readers. Edgy cover art and high-interest topics appeal to older teens, while reading levels from 2.0 to 4.5 mean success for struggling readers.

Fastback Beach (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Literature & Fiction

This Was Our Valley

The story and history surrounding the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

Pollon, Earl K.

Science & Math

Detselig Enterprises

The story and history surrounding the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.

History

Americas

Brush Education

The potential of Hudson's Hope, the third oldest community in British Columbia, has been a recorded fact dating from the diary notes of Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser. In the 1960s, this area was recognized and became the site of the world's largest earth-filled dam, the W.A.C. Bennett Dam. The reservoir giving force to the dam was named Williston Lake and covered over 1000 square kilometres of land. This Was Our Valley deals with the conflicts that arose when a particular area became valuable to the rest of the world. Pollon and Matheson, who know the area intimately, tell the story of B.C. Hydro and the residents of Hudson's Hope. The dam's influence is carefully explored and well-documented as these award-winning authors resurrect the true stories that lie buried beneath the waters of Williston Lake.

Fastback Beach

Miles Derkach is in trouble. Along with two friends, he stole a car and went joyriding. When the dust clears, he is all alone and his friends have left, leaving him to take the blame—and the punishment—while maintaining his silence. Placed on probation and sentenced to community service, Miles begins working for a man who after suffering a stroke and not being able to drive, has kept his beloved hot rod under wraps in the garage. Seeing a chance to learn more about cars and pursue his dream of becoming a mechanic, Miles helps to restore the car. When the hot rod is stolen and Miles is the prime suspect, he realizes that he must confront his friends and stand up for himself.

Fastback Beach (Orca Soundings)

Orca Book Publishers

What happened to Johnny Bourassa, a former World War II air force hero, en route from Bathurst to Yellowknife? Where is the crew of the famous "Stalin's Falcons"? Are there really "haunted" flight paths in the west over the Canadian Cordillera? Since the earliest days of Canadian air travel there have been ghostly tales, unexplained sightings, and mysterious accidents and disappearances. Now to excite our curiosity and sense of wonder, award-winning author and aviation buff Shirlee Smith Matheson brings the best of these often inexplicable tales together in Lost: True Stories of Canadian Aviation Tragedies. This compelling collection of stories chronicles intriguing aviation anomalies from the shores of Labrador to the British Columbia coast and beyond our aerial borders to describe Canadian participation in bringing resolution to more far-reaching aviation mysteries and disasters. Without exception, the stories are offered in a spirit of respect and reverence for the many lost souls of the flying fraternity From the appearance of underwater phantoms to the disappearance of hockey heroes and veteran northern pilots, these tales of flights and flight plans that have gone terribly wrong all have three things in common - they are true, tragic, and defy human comprehension. Matheson meticulously researched this book in echoing airport hangars, hushed airline offices, and the private homes of key players, surviving family members, and flying associates.

Lost: True Stories of Canadian Aviation Tragedies

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

Flying the Frontiers : A Half-Million Hours of Aviation Adventure

Fifth House Publishers

Flying the Frontiers brings to life tales from the log books and journals of people for whom aviation is a way of life. These intrepid and independent pilots, engineers, aircraft salvagers, and smoke jumpers tell of their adventures and misadventures over the endless bush and forbidding barrens of Canada's North, allowing readers a rare glimpse at a unique way of life that has taken these men and women across Canada and around the world. 
Told first-hand by the people who experienced them, these are wondrous tales of near-misses and amazing successes, heroism and foolishness, innovations and renovations, where the element of risk is part of every flight plan. 
Flying the Frontiers tells of an era that has all but disappeared, and of people whose careers spanned the pioneer age in aviation. Many continue to fly today. Their stories are enhanced by more than seventy personal photographs that depict the airplanes they flew, the territory they covered, and the predicaments in which they found themselves.

Flying the Frontiers: A Half-Million Hours of Aviation Adventure

Fifth House

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Flying Ghosts (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Fastback Beach (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

This Was Our Valley

This Was Our Valley

This Was Our Valley

Fastback Beach (Orca Soundings)

Lost: True Stories of Canadian Aviation Tragedies

Flying the Frontiers : A Half-Million Hours of Aviation Adventure

Flying the Frontiers: A Half-Million Hours of Aviation Adventure