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Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the Asia, a steamship...
Editeur :
Orca Book Publishers
Parution :
2018-03-06
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A rollicking wartime adventure on the BC coast.A lot has changed in the world since Sophie, Molly, Mark, Harriet, Leticia, and Posy’s last adventure in The Silver Lining. Now it’s 1940, and the Second World War is making life back home in the United Kingdom very...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2017-11-23
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Sam and Annabel are on vacation with Annabel's parents in Italy.
While visiting the small hilltop town of Civita, they hear rumors of looted gold from World War II buried somewhere in the town's network of underground tunnels and caves. Once again the two friends cross...
Editeur :
Orca Book Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-24
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In 1930 nine-year-old Miriam travels by train from Brooklyn to her grandparents' farm in upstate New York.
Her grandparents are kind, generous people, but they aren't exactly ideal playmates for a lonely girl. When Miriam is not doing homework in the kitchen with Bubby...
Editeur :
Orca Book Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-17
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It's 1917 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The First World War is raging, and despite its distance from the conflict, the Halifax Harbour is bustling with activity. Anti-German prejudice is rampant, and though 12-year-old Maddie Schroeder and her 15-year-old brother Will are...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2017-09-30
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It's 1946. A poor Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal where a few dollars equal a fortune, and no matter where you go, you'll find the best home cooking anywhere on earth.It's also a million miles away from the posh mansions on the other side of town. But a...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2017-08-02
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This gripping novel for young readers begins in 1805, when fifteen-year-old Duncan Scott and his sister Libby lose their parents in a Glasgow cotton mill fire. Their tragedy is compounded when, through one reckless act of grief, the Scott children become fugitives as...
Editeur :
Ronsdale Press
Parution :
2017-03-31
ePub
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This gripping novel for young readers begins in 1805, when fifteen-year-old Duncan Scott and his sister Libby lose their parents in a Glasgow cotton mill fire. Their tragedy is compounded when, through one reckless act of grief, the Scott children become fugitives as...
Editeur :
Ronsdale Press
Parution :
2017-03-31
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?Spring. Beautiful blossoms. Chirping peepers. Trees swaying in their new greenery. Pussy willows glistening in furry white coats. Rain and warmth. New births and new beginnings...Ten-year-old Abigail Price is excited about spring in her new home in Birchtown. Spring...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2016-10-30
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When his dad decides to hire a German prisoner-of-war to help out on their New Brunswick farm, thirteen-year-old Warren Webb is pretty sure the family is doomed. Who invites a Nazi to sleep under their roof? But Martin is not the German Warren expected. After his early...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2016-04-30
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All aboard! Join Bullet, a new steam engine, on his first journey across Newfoundland! Along the way he meets a herd of caribou, helps rescue fishermen, experiences the northern lights, and safely travels through the Wreckhouse area to arrive in Port aux Basques! Told...
Editeur :
Pennywell Books
Parution :
2016-04-22
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Did a gift of potatoes in 1768 lead to a popular
dish enjoyed by Acadians today?
Christian Treitz, the youngest son in a German family immigrated to the Monckton Township, learns that the trauma of the Acadian Deportation is still alive. The Treitz family is hungry and...
Editeur :
Bouton d'or Acadie
Parution :
2015-04-08
Collection :
Étagère Tout-Terrain
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Award-winning author Caroline Pignat's new historical novel recreates the world of a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1858. Through the different points of view of slaves, their masters and a visiting bird-watcher the world of the plantation comes to live in this...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2014-10-01
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Ordinary citizens risk everything to save a young Jewish girl in wartime Holland.
Five-year-old Beatrix looks on in horror as the soldier forces her mother off the tram. It is 1942 in Amsterdam, and everyone knows what happens to Jews who are taken away by the Nazis....
Editeur :
Annick Press
Parution :
2014-09-23
ePub
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David is delighted to be spending two weeks of his summer vacation with his cousins Richard and Heather in Little Heart’s Ease. One day while exploring the seashore, the trio comes across a mysterious cave opening. A glow up ahead catches their attention, and they make...
Editeur :
Pennywell Books
Parution :
2014-07-17
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It’s 1914. Sixteen year old Sophie Pritchard, orphaned two years earlier by the sinking of the SS Titanic, is about to begin a new life in the unfamiliar world of British India. For Sophie, still devastated by her parents’ death, India proves a dangerously unsettling...
Editeur :
Thistledown Press
Parution :
2014-03-31
epub sans DRM
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In July 1940, a British government-sponsored program called Children's Overseas Reception Board -- or CORB -- was set up to send children from Britain to Canada and other Commonwealth countries, in order to rescue them from the bombings of British cities.The City of...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, Evangeline, tells the story of two young people deported from beautiful Acadie just before they are to be married and their search for each other that lasts the rest of their lives. First published in 1847, the poem has been...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2013-04-03
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Spring 1651: a young man from Paris lands in Trois-Rivières on the St. Lawrence River. Within weeks, the course of his life changes drastically when Iroquois braves capture him. Pierre-Esprit Radisson, then 15 years old, begins a new life. Canoeing rivers and lakes and...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2012-11-15
epub sans DRM
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It's the Hungry Thirties and Bonnie's family has been hit hard by the Depression. Relocating from their farm in Massasaga to Lang, Ontario, is supposed to give them a fresh start. But Lang soon presents its own set of challenges for Bonnie and her family as they learn...
Editeur :
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Parution :
2010-06-30
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