Author: Struan Reid
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: routes, spice, silk, series, trade, inventions
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0921921306
ISBN-13: 9780921921301

The history of humankind is built on a series of technological innovations and inventions-from the horsebit and the wheel to the microchip and the computer. Over the centuries, the exchange of these technologies has inspired new developments and improvements. It is through trade that much of this exchange has taken place. Across Asia, the paths of the Silk and Spice Routes brought together many different peoples to trade and so gather knowledge of each other’s science and inventions. In this way, some of the most fundamental technologies, including writing, weaving and agriculture, have

Authors:Ted Staunton,  Bill Slavi,
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: series, novel, first, birthday, morgan
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-04-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0887805604
ISBN-13: 9780887805608

Morgan loves everything about birthdays--presents, party food, cakes, games--and is sure that nothing can spoil his upcoming birthday. Nothing, that is, but Aldeen Hummel, the Godzilla of Grade Three. When Morgan’s mom makes him invite Aldeen to his birthday party, he’s sure that she’ll wreck it. And when a wild food-fight breaks out, she almost does. But a strange and unexpected present brings Morgan and Aldeen together, showing them what they share in common. Morgan’s Birthday is a story about a boy who discovers a valuable gift where he least expects it.

Authors:Jean Lemieux,  Sophie Casson, Sarah Cummi,
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: novel, series, first, last, laughs, toby
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2006-10-15
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 088780716X
ISBN-13: 9780887807169

When Toby climbs too high in a tree to rescue a kite, he tumbles to the ground and has to go to hospital. The doctors stick tubes down his throat and bandage him up - with the result that Toby finds he can’t laugh any more.

Authors:Margaret M. Saunders,  Gwendolyn Davie,
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: treasures, fiction, formac, joe, beautiful
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2001-11-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 088780540X
ISBN-13: 9780887805400

Beautiful Joe is a timeless, classic account of an abused dog brought to health by a loving owners.Beautiful Joe, a mongrel dog, was cruelly mutilated by his master and through pure good fortune was brought to the Morris family, who nursed him back to health. This tale of tender devotion between a dog and his owners changed the way we look at our best animal friends.Beautiful Joe is a profoundly touching story that revolutionized our understanding of the humane treatment of animals.A Formac Fiction Treasures series title.

Author: Louise Leblanc
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: novels, first, danger, maddie
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0887803067
ISBN-13: 9780887803062

All Maddie’s friends get to see the latest TV shows and movies, but her parents think they’re too violent. They think if Maddie watches them, she’ll be marked for life. But when their parents go away overnight, Maddie and her brother Alexander decide to stay up and watch the most violent movie of all--The Exterminator. While their grandmother sleeps upstairs, Maddie slips the cassette into the VCR--and is soon scared out of her wits. And when grandma finds out what they’ve watching, she sets out to teach them a lesson--one that will mark them for life. Maddie in Danger

Author: Raymond Fraser
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: durelle, yvon, life, fisherman, fighting
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-06-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0887806562
ISBN-13: 9780887806568

Yvon Durelle fought from the tiny Acadian hamlet of Baie Ste. Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This bi

Author: Brenda Bellingham
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: series, novel, first, middle, lilly
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0887805892
ISBN-13: 9780887805899