At the edge: daring acts in desperate times
Award winning fiction, Adventure and exploration, Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio
Summary
A young man in Nunavut fights off a polar bear to save his friend, a Canadian peacekeeper in the Congo risks his own life to save those of stranded tourists, and ordinary people show extraordinary character during the Halifax Explosion,… the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, the Tiananmen Square protests, and September 11, 2001. Over twenty true-life stories about life-threatening situations and the wrenching choices made by the people facing them. Winner of the 2010 Silver Birch Award for Non-fiction. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.