For young Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings. But Jack is good at staying out of trouble. But when Jack turns twelve, he is given the biggest opportunity of all, and suddenly his life is nothing but trouble. Jack is made an apprentice to a bookkeeper, which at first sounds like the job of his dreams. Taking care of books -- what could be better for a lad whose most treasured possession is a grubby, torn dictionary that he received from the Benevolent Ladies Auxiliary one year for Christmas. But Jack soon learns the hard way that bookkeeping does...
For young Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings. But Jack is good at staying out of trouble. But when Jack tu...
One fall day, Kate goes with her father, a fish biologist, to the river where he works a river in the Pacific rain forest the salmon forest, as he calls it. Together they watch the sockeye salmon returning to the river to spawn, and witness a bear scooping up a salmon. Next, Kate and her dad run into a Native boy named Brett and his family fishing at a pool in the river. From her adventures, Kate discovers how the forest and the salmon need each other and why the forest is called the salmon forest. David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis s charming and informative text and Sheena Lott s watercolors...
One fall day, Kate goes with her father, a fish biologist, to the river where he works a river in the Pacific rain forest the salmon forest, as he cal...