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The Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest is the follow-up title to The Salmon Bears by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read. With stunning photography by McAllister, this award-winning book is both inspiring and informative.

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FEBRUARY 2011
Brand-new websites... 
Dedicated websites are now up and ready with excerpts and reviews. Visit these sites for a sneak peek at our Spring 2011 titles.

Cover of Today, MaybeToday, Maybe by Dominque Demers and Gabrielle Grimard. Read an excerpt from this stunning picturebook. Kirkus Reviews said, "The illustrations are beautiful and a bit surreal in their angles and close-ups...layers of color with depth and translucence."

She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock. Tegan and Kelly are as different as sisters can be. But did Tegan see what happened to her friends or didn't she? 

What Is Real by Karen Rivers. Dex tries to sort out what is real and what isn't on The Dex Blog. See what's fresh from Dex this week.  
Don't take our word for it... 
Looking for some great new reads for your enthusiastic and reluctant readers? The following titles will be sure to please.

Cover of LeapLeap (Second Story Press): "Natalie persuasively develops from naive and resentful after Kevin spurns her to hypercritical about others' transgressions...and, finally, to poised." -Publisher's Weekly 

Thief Girl (Lorimer): "Told from an immigrant child's authentic viewpoint, [the novel's] fast, contemporary action never gets preachy... Readers will feel for the desperate thief even as it is clear that she is wrong." -Booklist

She Said/She Saw (Orca): "McClintock lays all the complexities and horror of adolescence bare...The brisk pace, solid character development and inventive structuring make for fast, page-turning reading, and it all wraps up with an unpredictable plot twist and ending. Mysterious and haunting, packed with hard truths about adolescence." -Kirkus Reviews
 
Things are always greener on the "Orca" side...
As part of the GreenStart pilot program, Orca has recently taken on a number of initiatives to reduce its ecological footprint.

Cover of Green CareersIn the office we've become active recyclers and have been more conscious about turning down the heat mid-day and turning off lights and monitors when we're away from our desks. And thanks to a micro-grant from BC Hydro, we'll soon be adding a compost to the Orca kitchen.   
Do your students need some inspiration to go green? Look no further than Green Careers by Jennifer Power Scott (Lobster Press). This inspiring collection of stories from thirty young people who have found success in environmental careers will put teens on the path to finding or inventing their own green dream job.

 

Awards and Nominations...

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OLA Best Bets: Each year the Ontario Library Association Best Bets Committee selects the top 10 picturebooks, fiction and nonfiction titles for children and fiction for teens. We were thrilled to see a number of titles from Orca and our distributed publishers on the list this year. 

 

· Picturebooks: Silas' Seven Grandparents by Anita Horrocks and illustrated by Helen Flook

 

· Fiction: The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw by Lois Peterson and Liars and Fools by Robin Stevenson. Honorable Mention to The Gnome's Eye by Anna Kerz

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· Nonfiction: We Want You to Know by Deborah Ellis (Coteau Books), The Sea Wolves and The Salmon Bears, both by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read.

· Teen Fiction: Somewhere in Blue by Gillian Cummings (Lobster Press) and Death Benefits by Sarah N. Harvey. Honorable mention to Squeeze by Rachel Dunstan Muller and Knifepoint by Alex Van Tol. Knifepoint will soon be available in Spanish as A punta de cuchillo.

Cover of Sister WifeThe Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award is chosen annually by students in grades nine through twelve. Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka is nominated for this year's award.

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The cover of The Sea Wolves  
This month's featured title is The Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read. This award-winning book is the follow-up to The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest.

Illustrated with almost one hundred of Ian McAllister's magnificent photographs, The Sea Wolves presents a strong case for the importance of preserving the Great Bear Rainforest for the wolves, the bears and the other unique creatures that live there. 

Order it for your bookshelf by March 31 and you'll receive 25% off! Enter promo code FEBNEWS at checkout. 
Offer Expires: March 31, 2011