Sam is leaving her home to go to Vancover Island. When she gets there it is nothing like she imagimed. Her older twin cousins tease her. She gets seasick. She does not fit in. Then one day she overhears her cousins talking about her. thats where the adventure begians. Sam takes her rowboat out of the cove and into the basin. She sets out on foot and meets a cougar with her babies!

This book is wonderfully suspenseful.It is definitely worth reading and if you like suspenseful stories, this is your chance. Unfortunately, I couldn't give it a 10 because of its confusion initially.

This is a meticulously researched, beautifully told, and exquisitely illustrated fairy tale. During a severe drought, a poverty-stricken boy discovers by accident a magic pearl that saves his, his mother's, and many of their fellow villagers' lives until some villains came with the intent to snatch the pearl away. In addition to the common theme of the struggle between good and evil, this tale expounds particularly well the Chinese concept of the benevolent dragon and filial piety.

The illustrations are worth noting. Paul Morin, an award-winning Canadian artist, spent months on location in China to research the scenery, architecture, costumes, and customs of the people. As in his previous book, The Orphan Boy, he incorporated real objects onto his canvas to enrich the texture of the paintings. If you are looking for a magnificent picture of the Chinese dragon, look no further.

A wonderful book for children 6 and up for reading, for adults interested in Chinese folklore, and for storytellers. Highly recommended.

I found this book while doing some research on children's books, and it was a complete surprise. My grandmother is from the area discussed and used to watch the Silk Train when she was a little girl. She had only mentioned this recently, and my brother and I were interested enough to look on our own, but came up empty. I'm buying three copies, one for my brother, one for me and one for gran!

In her new book, the end of the Goldstone trilogy, Julie Lawson ties together two stories; one from the past, one from the present, and the connections, how a boy from the early part of the century searches for one of two magical goldstones, and how it got into the hands of Ashley's family, first owned by her great-aunt's mother and passed down from Aunt Joanne to Ashley herself, and how it linked her with a strange story from the early part of the 20th century in B.C.'s mountains.

Julie Lawson takes us to a place where we all existed, if only for a moment, to a castle in our youth. She uses language that "swirls and twirls" the imagination to make a little girl's day at the beach a fairy tale adventure. She, along with illustrator Frances Tyrell, present a beautiful time capsule of childhood.

Turns on a Dime is one of the most interesting and wonderfulbooks I've read. Being a reader of Young Adult books, I rarely find abook that combines a true to life story and a page-turning plot. This is one of these books. Relating adolesence, mystery, and romance, Turns on a Dime is at its best. Great work Julie Lawson!

my teacher made me read this one, what i found was that the book was amazing! I loved the time travel, a heroine who know how to defend herself, who is independent, she is normal and I could really relate to her. The plot is wonderful, though I had to read it twice to really get it througholy. 4 years after I read it, I read it again! I fell in love with it!

This is one of those books you want on your shelves for any 4 - 8 year olds in the house. Boys, in particular, would identify with the story. It's a gentle, though unsentimental tale of bear meets trainline, while a boy looks on. No, the furry fellow doesn't meet his maker because of this interaction. Rather, this particular bear takes advantage of a ready-made den and food supply on board a train car, as it travels the very long and beautiful distance across the Canadian mountains and prairies. The accompanying illustrations are absolutely wonderful. My own two small boys love the poetic chant repeated whenever the bear and his train pull into town. My older child brought it into his grade one classroom when the topic of hibernation was on the roster; all 25 classmates clamoured for another reading, and another.

If you take white Fang by Jack London and then butcher it this is what you get. The story was extrodanaire but the writer's writing skills were mediocere. She often boasts her vast knowledge of the klondike in her writing which stands out like a sore thumb. Thier are a few twists and turns, but not many even then. This is a book that is hard to put down while painstaking to read. I was to read this book for a school report and i thought it was below my reading level that might be why i give it such a poor rating. The book includes a love story which leaves you hanging like in the movie the castaway. Other than the love story and a few other things it pretty much remains the same as white fang. If your looking to read a good klondike based novel look into Jack Londons novels or anywhere else but here. The book is about 200 pages which makes for a short read. The book is meant for 5th graders in my own humble opinion and could make a great class read along. There are only a few books which I reserve for my "not worthy of being in my book shelf" section that i have read. I still only wish a worthy author could have taken on such an impressive storyline. The charcters in the book are very good and have such depth to each specific one. The executive publisher should have spent more time on this certain novel to improve the quality of the writing.Good luck on wether you choose or not to choose to read this book, you may need it.

The book that i read was Destination Gold! It is about a boy named Ned Turner who travels up to the Klondike. Up there he has a lot of new experiences with a lot of new people. He has a sister named Sarah. She decides to go up there also. There she has tragic events and memorable experiences She meets a girl along the way named Catherine. She is haunted my the nightmare of the day her dad bet her in a poker game and lost. The story is about a young mans journey to persue his dreams of getting gold and happiness for his friends and family. I recommend this book to you because it has a good and interesting plot. It is action-packed, educational, and a very good historical fiction or class-wide reading book.