Two sisters in colonial North America set off on an adventure to find the spirits that dance by the light of an eerie green glow in the wild woods behind their house. With the help of their Mother, the village Hunter, and Father O'Reilly, the girls make amazing discoveries about the world they thought they knew and forge new friendships with the native people nearby. Parents and young readers alike will delight in this wonderful adventure.

When rock and roll was transforming American culture in the 1950s and '60s, East Harlem pulsed with the sounds of mambo and merengue. Instead of Elvis and the Beatles, Marta Moreno Vega grew up worshiping Celia Cruz, Mario Bauza, and Arsenio Rodriguez. Their music could be heard on every radio in El Barrio and from the main stage at the legendary Palladium, where every weekend working-class kids dressed in their sharpest suits and highest heels and became mambo kings and queens. Spanish Harlem was a vibrant and dynamic world, but it was also a place of constant change, where the traditions of Puerto Rican parents clashed with their children's American ideals. A precocious little girl with wildly curly hair, Marta was the baby of the family and the favorite of her elderly abuela, who lived in the apartment down the hall. Abuela Luisa was the spiritual center of the family, an espiritista who smoked cigars and honored the Afro-Caribbean deities who had always protected their family. But it was Marta's brother, Chachito, who taught her the latest dance steps and called her from the pay phone at the Palladium at night so she could listen, huddled beneath the bedcovers, to the seductive rhythms of Tito Puente and his orchestra. In this luminous and lively memoir, Marta Moreno Vega calls forth the spirit of Puerto Rican New York and the music, mysticism, and traditions of a remarkable and quintessentially American childhood.

Acclaimed film producer Don Hahn offers his own unorthodox, yet highly effective methods for finding creative spirit.

Five people are given a once-in-a-lifetime vacation on a remote island. After they arrive, they are presented with an interesting proposition. They will be given an opportunity to participate in a game. If they are successful and win, they reap the benefits and they are allowed to leave the island alive. If they lose, they willingly give their souls to the owner of the island for the rest of eternity. Unknown to them, their host is the leader of a cult that has existed for centuries. Investigating the island for clues that will solve the mystery of the island and win the game, the group accidentally releases the spirits of the cult members from their eternal bondage. Now facing unknown dangers, the group will have to use their talents, faith, trust for each other and knowledge to defeat their host and live. Will they succeed or perish forever in the attempt.

AURORA AWARD WINNER A Heroka story. The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing vitality from their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle with the Tainchel, the covert government agency that hunts his kind—a battle that cost him the woman he loved. But to save an old friend, Gwyn must again face the Tainchel—and his own dark past. “A vivid and wonderfully written tale about Native Canadian spirits, in the vein of Thomas King.” —Challenging Destiny “Draws on North American Indian myths, particularly the idea of shapeshifters... Smith once more creates a credible and sympathetic protagonist, Gwyn Blaidd, [who] returns to his old stomping ground to help out some fellow shapeshifters who have become embroiled in a conflict with a large logging concern.” —The Fix

Presents a photographic chronicle of the life of reggae musician Bob Marley, accompanied by text tracing his life from his youth in Jamaica to his death at age thirty-six.

A Note on the Title the hoop dancer Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Sacred Circle: Spirituality and Joe Duquette High School Chapter 2 Overview of the School: A Healing Place Chapter 3 View from the Past: Saskatoon Native Survival School Chapter 4 Into the School and the Classrooms: "Everything is Interconnected" Chapter 5 The Students: "Respect is The Number One Rule" Chapter 6 The Staff: Working Within the Four Directions Chapter 7 The Parent Council: "Keepers of the Vision" Study Notes Bibliography Contributors