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  • For the Record

    by Monique Polak ...
    A middle-grade novel thoughtfully explores the realities of parents’ divorceTwelve-year-old Justine’s parents are recently divorced. She and her little sister, Bea, go back and forth between their parents’ homes in Montreal. Their mother, whose anxiety manifests as the need to control, believes that their father and beloved half-sister are a bad influence on Justine and Bea. So, she enlists ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Passover

    Festival of Freedom

    by Monique Polak ...
    Series Book 1 - Orca Origins
    During Passover, Jews are reminded of how, more than three thousand years ago, their ancestors emerged from slavery to become free men and women.Bestselling author Monique Polak explores her own Jewish roots as she tells the Passover story, which reminds us that the freedom to be who we are and practice our religion, whatever it may be, is a great gift. It also teaches us that if we summon our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Miracleville

    by Monique Polak ...
    Sixteen-year-old Ani lives in the tiny Quebec town of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, where her family runs Saintly Souvenirs, a tourist shop catering to the many pilgrims who come to the town seeking a miracle.The bane of Ani's existence is her hyperactive, over-sexed younger sister, Colette. Ani and her mother, Therese, are devout Catholics; Colette and her father are not. When Therese is paralyzed after a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • I Am a Feminist

    Claiming the F-Word in Turbulent Times

    by Monique Polak ...
    Series Book 1 - Orca Issues
    What is feminism? Why does it still matter? What exactly does intersectionality mean?In order to answer these (and many other) questions, I Am a Feminist first examines the history of feminism and then addresses the issues girls and women continue to face today. The book also looks at the ways in which people, especially young people, are working together to create a world where gender equality is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Christmas Weekend

    by Monique Polak ...
    Geoffrey isn't too thrilled about having to spend Christmas weekend at his dad's cottage in the Laurentians. The Internet is so lousy Geoffrey can't play computer games. Even worse, there's Rebekah, his dad's latest girlfriend. Rebekah is unbearably cheerful and for someone Jewish, she's way too into Christmas. It doesn't help that Geoffrey's kid sister Angela and the family dog, Paprika, give ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Straight Punch

    by Monique Polak ...
    Tessa McPhail has a bad habit—tagging—that lands her at New Directions, an alternative school in Montreal’s toughest neighborhood. The school is far from Tessa’s home and full of troubled kids. To make matters worse, half of every school day is devoted to boxing. The other students think boxing is cool. Not Tessa, who cannot handle violence of any kind. But when a neighbor starts a petition to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Middle of Everywhere

    by Monique Polak ...
    Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in Kangiqsualujjuaq, in Quebec's Far North, where his dad is an English teacher in the Inuit community.Noah's not too keen about living in the middle of nowhere, but getting away from Montréal has one big advantage: he gets a break from the bully at his old school. But Noah learns that problems have a way of following you—no matter how far you travel. To the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Finding Elmo

    by Monique Polak ...
    Series series Orca Currents
    Fifteen-year-old Tim loves his job at his dad's pet store, partly because he gets to spend time with his best friend, a black cockatoo named Elmo.But things at work have been tense since the store moved to a larger, more expensive location. To make extra money his father rents out the store's exotic birds for parties and Tim is furious at this exploitation of his friend. When Elmo is stolen from ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • No More Pranks

    by Monique Polak ...
    Series series Orca Soundings
    Pete's pranks have gotten him in plenty of trouble, but they might be the only way to bring justice to a seaside town.Pete likes to play pranks. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it gets a laugh. When he impersonates his vice-principal on a radio call-in show, he goes too far and is suspended from school. Pete's parents send him to spend the summer working with his uncle, a whale-watching ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bullies Rule

    by Monique Polak ...
    Series series Orca Currents
    Daniel Abel is surprised when, instead of being punished for "pantsing" another eighth-grader, he is invited to become an ambassador of Mountview High at the school's upcoming open house.What Daniel doesn't realize is that he is part of a social experiment on bullying being conducted by the local university. He is a little nervous to learn he will be working with Jeff Kover, a tenth-grader with a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Taste of Rain

    by Monique Polak ...
    It is 1945, and thirteen-year-old Gwen has been a prisoner at the Weihsien Internment Camp in northern China for nearly two and a half years.Gwen is one of 140 children who were enrolled at a boarding school in Chefoo when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded China. Life in the camp is difficult. There is not enough food or water, and even the children are forced to do hard labor. But Miss E., one ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Forensics Squad Unleashed

    by Monique Polak ...
    Tabitha is thrilled to be attending a summer forensics camp, even if she has to go with her sort-of friend Mason. Soon she is learning to dust for fingerprints, photograph a crime scene and take footprint impressions. Even though the camp instructors have set up a “crime” for the kids to solve, Tabitha longs to use her newfound skills to solve a real-life mystery. She’s pretty sure a dognapping ... Read more

    $8.99 USD