Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic inter...

SHOWOFF: someone who is given to bragging, having a swelled head, boasting, swaggering, knowing it all …Griffin Bing and his friends are back—and this time, things have gone to the dogs!After former attack dog Luthor goes berserk at a dog show, he’s accused of ruining the career of the three-time national champion. Griffin has always wondered whether you could teach such a vicious dog new tricks … but he also smells a setup of some kind. He feels bad for Luthor—bad enough t...

JINGLE: a light clinking or tingling sounds, often heralding the approach of Santa, reindeer, or the mysterious thief of a priceless possession …Griffin Bing and his friends are NOT happy. Instead of going away for winter break, they've been signed up to volunteer at a local Christmas extravaganza … as elves.It's not easy being an elf. Not when Santa is bad news and Rudolph is being played by a Doberman who makes up his own rules wherever he goes.But being an elf is...

HIDEOUT: a place to escape detection, especially when being chased by someone determined to have revenge …When Griffin Bing and his friends first met Luthor, he was a vicious attack dog working for the slimy S. Wendell Palomino—also known as Swindle. The kids rescued Luthor, and never thought they’d see Swindle again.But now Swindle’s returned. And he wants his dog back.Swindle has manipulated the law so that there’s no way for Savannah Drysdale to keep Luthor in he...

FRAMED: made to look guilty, even when you’re innocent …Griffin Bing didn’t do it.Yes, a valuable Super Bowl ring has been stolen from his school. But Griffin swears he never touched it.The only problem?All the evidence points to him. And the more he and his friends try to find the real criminal, the more they get into trouble. BIG trouble.Griffin Bing has always been a Man With a Plan. But how is he going to get out of this one?It’s up to hi...

After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way—a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and their inability to drive—but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his … even if hijinks ensue.This is Gordon Korman at his crowd-pleasing best,...

Cooper Vega's family moves so often that he's practically invisible at any school he attends. Now they've relocated to the town of Stratford—where nobody even makes an effort to learn Cooper's name. To them, he's just … whatshisface.Cooper's parents feel bad about moving him around so much, so they get him a fancy new phone. Almost immediately, it starts to malfunction. First there's a buzzing. Then there's a weird glare on the screen. Then that glare starts to take on the form of ...

A story of telling truth from lies—and finding out what being a hero really means.There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games, and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America.Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war—from training to in...

Luthor, a former attack dog, is supposed to be on his best behavior now that he's in the care of Savannah, a girl who's easily a dog's best friend. But every time a certain truck passes by Savannah's house, Luthor goes into attack mode, and chaos follows.Meanwhile, Griffin Bing is locked in the fight of his life with his archenemy, Darren Vader. Both are trying to win an invention contest, and will stop at nothing to be victorious.A runaway dog. Some majorly strange inventi...

The sixth installment in the Swindle series, in which The Man With The Plan gets a new rival … and the search for a missing lottery ticket becomes a hunt of epic proportions.JACKPOT: the top prize in a game or lottery; a sensational and unexpected success, stroke of luck, windfall, bounty, pay day …What would you do with $30,000,000? That's the question everyone in Cedarville and every town near it is asking, because right now there's an unclaimed lottery ticket worth that ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman harkens back to his No More Dead Dogs days in this stand-alone that takes a tone more serious than you've ever seen from him before. A boy who's been a bully and hanging out with the wrong friends gets a new start after a memory-loss-inducing accident. But can someone really change who he is, or will the old him merely come back over time?

Teens and pre-teens flock to any new offering from New York Times best-selling author Gordon Korman. Told through multiple viewpoints, Ungifted follows Donovan Curtis and his year at a magnet school for gifted and talented kids. Thanks to an administrative foul-up, the decidedly mediocre student Donovan finds himself enrolled in the Academy of Scholastic Distinction. Out of place and out of luck, Donovan joins the robotics team. And while he learns a few lessons from his gifted classmates,...