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  • Grey and black banner image with the cover of Jessica Outram's Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold and text reading "Excerpt from Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold by Jessica Outram". Background on either side of the image echoes the background used on the cover of the book: the grey waters of a stormy bay
    Grey and black banner image with the cover of Jessica Outram's Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold and text reading "Excerpt from Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold by Jessica Outram". Background on either side of the image echoes the background used on the cover of the book: the grey waters of a stormy bay
    June 29, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from Jessica Outram's Historical Métis Adventure Story, Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold

    In many ways, Bernice, the heroine of Métis author and teacher Jessica Outram's Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold (Second Story Press), is like any other eight-year-old: she lives with her family, ...

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Book cover for "Briarwood" by Natalie Hyde, featuring an illustrated treehouse scene, with text describing the novel as a middle-grade story about mysteries at Camp Briarwood.

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