New Releases by Julie Lawson

The year is 1896 and Emily pines for a bicycle, the latest craze. On the other side of Victoria''s James Bay Bridge is Chinatown and thousands of Chinese immigrants who are looking for a better life in Canada.

I got the goldstone at a time when I needed something special. I wore it for years, never thinking it was more than a beautiful pendant and a link to the past. Later I learned the the goldstone is also a link to the future. Wear it at night, and you''ll see what lies ahead. With these words, Aunt Jo gives Ashley the beautiful goldstone necklace that has been in their family for nearly a century. Ashley is immediately enchanted by the magic of the stone, and can hardly wait to dream on it to see what her future holds. But fate has brought Ashley much more than the goldstone. When she wears her gift, a presence deep within the glacial mountains is awakened. A boy named Jonathan, who has transcended the bounds of time, begins to stalk her nights--and days. He, too, dreams of the future and has foreseen the moment when he can reclaim the stone. But he know that he can only do so once Ashley has joined him in the space between life and death.

On her first night in the mountains with her family, a little girl is unable to sleep. She sits by the window and listens to the sounds of the winter night. As she imagines the nighttime world outside, she also anticipates the pleasures of the days to come. And day or night, even if she falls asleep, the little girl knows the mountains will beckon her to a magical place of endless snow. Full-color illustrations.

Jo''s world is spinning too fast. She''s so far out of it she might as well be in orbit with that new Russian satellite, Sputnik. Her best friends have left her behind. All they care about is Elvis, rock n'' roll, and boys. And Mack, her wonderful, loyal, beautiful friend Mack, has used her friendship terribly. If it wasn''t for Michael, the new boy on her street, Jo wouldn''t have a friend in the world. But when faced with a choice between Jo and the cool crowd, will Michael stand up to her? Something like terror tells her what the answer is. The worst is yet to come. When Jo accidentally learns a carefully kept secret, nothing is the same -- not even herself. Feeling betrayed by everyone, it takes near crisis, a special family story, and a mysterious goldstone necklace to guide Jo to acceptance and the future that is hers. Although Turns on a Dime stands perfectly on its own, it is Part Two of the Goldstone trilogy. Look to Goldstone and find out more about the pendant and the people who have worn it.

Mama''s "old country" ways were a source of frustration and embarrassment to twelve-year-old Karin, who wanted to be a "modern" Canadian girl. How could she know the harsh words between them would be the last words they ever spoke? With shocking swiftness Mama is gone, and Karin longs to be with her again. And when Mama''s precious goldstone pendant is found, can Karin interpret the dreams that come to her every time she sleeps with it around her neck? Does the stone really forecast the future? When it warns Karin of the deadly avalanche that threatens her father and his railway crew, will she be able to prevent another disaster? This poignant and suspenseful tale is based on real events in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, at the turn of the century.

Long ago when dragons were still young ten suns lived at the far edge of the world. One day they decided to shine together! 5 yrs+

When the wind picks up on Mistaken Road remarkable things can happen. It''s going to take a resourceful trio of night-time adventurers to undo what the wind has done in one day. Under an agate moon, Jess, Claire and Rigby set off on their mission to the Castle of Kite. To say that they get carried away is an understatement! In this high-flying adventure, they encounter a giant that sneezes, the spindrift of the Milky Way, and a windfall of lost and blown away objects. Their only problem now is how to get home. In this, her lovliest, most fantastical picture book to date, prolific West Coast children''s author Julie Lawson lets her own potent of imagination get carried away - out on the finest of strings. There is no better match for lawson''s story than pictures by Kathryn Naylor. Her luminous watercolour palette of snap-flapping colours and her own georgeous sense of play make Blown Away a marriage of talents made in heaven or somewhere very near by.

"Who knows what the gods have in store for us?" Xiao Sheng sang out to his mother every morning. "Today may not be the same as yesterday." In spite of his hardships, Xiao Sheng is a cheerful boy who loves to sing. He works from sunrise to sunset to earn enough money to feed his family. When Xiao finds a magic pearl, everything is changed forever.

In a tumble-down house carved out of the dunes lives an old man with second sight. He is the sifter of sands, the man who separates the sparkling mica, black lava, golden-reds, and misty grays. And as he sifts he mesmerizes Jessica and Andrew with his tales of the trickster-creator Raven and how a lonely young man lived to be 300 years old.

On a trip to Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia, 13-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the much different Chinatown of the 1880s.

An illustrated story about a little girl who shares a love of the stars with her grandfather and who uses that love to help reconcile herself to his death.

Working Paper 2 is a close adaption of a report delivered at the Community Housing Conference in Sydney in March 1994. It seeks to place the evolution of community housing in an historical context as well as relate its development to broader sociological and political movements. The paper then provides an overview of the current stage of development of community housing on a state by state basis by describing the range of models and quantity of stock in the sector.