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  • Dear Canada: An Ocean Apart

    The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922

    by Gillian Chan ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    With over 400,000 books already in print, the Dear Canada series has fast become the book series for children.Each fictional diary invites readers into the world of a girl living through a particular period in Canada's past. Gillian Chan's latest addition illustrates the effect the Chinese Head Tax has on one young girl and her family. Mei-ling and her father are struggling to pay the head tax ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles

    Twelve Tales of Christmas

    by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Janet Lunn, Sarah Ellis, Gillian Chan, Carol Matas, Maxine Trottier, Julie Lawson, Sharon Stewart ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country!What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Disappearance

    by Gillian Chan ...
    This novel centers on the unlikely friendship between two boys, Jacob Mueller and Mike McCallum. Jacob seems to be from a different world. After mystifying experts and doctors, who finally decide that he is an elective mute, Jacob ends up in a juvenile group home, isolated and withdrawn, the butt of teasing by the other kids. Mike exists in his own private hell. Scarred physically and emotionally ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • I Am Canada: Defend or Die

    by Gillian Chan ...
    Series series
    A captivating and rarely told World War II story: that of the Canadian troops sent to defend Hong Kong from the invading Japanese.Nineteen-year-old Jack Finnigan is a born troublemaker. He has grown up defying authority and leaves his small town to enlist in the Royal Rifles, expecting adventure . . . and not afraid of danger. Little does he know what awaits across the Pacific, where his untested ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • I Am Canada: A Call to Battle

    by Gillian Chan ...
    Series series I Am Canada
    The War of 1812 comes to life through the eyes of a young Canadian boy.It's 1812. War has begun, and thirteen-year-old Alexander (Sandy) MacKay is jealous when his older brother Angus goes off with their father to fight the Americans attacking the Niagara region. Too young to know the darker side of battle, he resents being left to shoulder the work on his family's farm.Itching to get in on the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I Am Canada: A Call to Battle

    by Gillian Chan ...
    The War of 1812 comes to life through the eyes of a young Canadian boy.It's 1812. War has begun, and thirteen-year-old Alexander (Sandy) MacKay is jealous when his older brother Angus goes off with their father to fight the Americans attacking the Niagara region. Too young to know the darker side of battle, he resents being left to shoulder the work on his family's farm.Itching to get in on the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Dear Canada: Banished from Our Home

    by Sharon Stewart ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    The latest addition to the bestselling Dear Canada series takes readers directly into the historic struggle between the French and English for control of the area. Angelique watches as families are torn apart and forced to settle far away from one another, and worries about her brother who is fighting for the Acadian cause. Will her family stay together during this dramatic time or will they be ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Exiles from the War

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is being waged across the Atlantic, Charlotte begins to feel its danger, as her brother George defies their parents and enlists in the Navy. After months ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Dear Canada: Alone in an Untamed Land

    by Maxine Trottier ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Young Hélène St. Onge and her older sister Catherine are orphans. When King Louis XVI orders all men in New France to marry, Catherine becomes a "fille du roi," one of the many young women sent to the new world as brides. Hélène will accompany her on the long sea voyage and live with her sister's new family. But Catherine dies during the gruelling journey, and Hélène finds herself alone in a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

    by Karleen Bradford, Norah McClintock, Janet McNaughton, Susan M. Aihoshi, Barbara Haworth-Attard, Ruby Slipperjack, Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Carol Matas ...
    Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new!A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Île; Mary Kobayashi spends a second ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage

    by Karleen Bradford ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    When Mary's family sides with the British against the American rebels, they are branded traitors and forced to flee their home. All they have is what they can carry with them — and their determination and courage — when they head north toward Canada. Along with other Loyalists they hope to start a new life in Québec, where there is land for those who have been loyal to the King. But the journey is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Winter of Peril

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Sophie Loveridge's family is uprooted from the comfort of their home in England when her eccentric father — inspired by the new novel, Robinson Crusoe — decides to move the family to the New World so he can write an epic poem about surviving the rugged winter conditions. When the only help they have — a skillful fisherman — dies, it is up to Sophie and her mother to make sure the family survives ... Read more

    $13.09 USD