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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

    $11.59 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and doctors, who finally decide that he is an elective mute, Jacob ends up in a juvenile group home, isolated and withdrawn, the butt of teasing by the other kids.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

    $11.59 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: 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

    $11.59 USD

  • Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes

    by Janet McNaughton ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    A touching "riches to rags" story set during the second-worst disaster in the history of Atlantic Canada.Eleven-year-old Triffie is the middle daughter of a well-to-do merchant. Triffie knows nothing about what it means to be poor — until the disastrous fire of 1892 burns down most of St. John's, Newfoundland, leaving Triffie's family and 15,000 others homeless.The fire claimed everything but ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Dear Canada: All Fall Down

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    A young girl survives the deadliest landslide in Canadian history — but a family secret could call into question everything she thought she knew about her life before the disaster.After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land

    The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914

    by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    The heart-wrenching story of one girl's experience at a Ukrainian internment camp in Quebec during World War IAnya's family emigrates from the Ukraine hoping for a fresh start and a new life in Canada. Soon after they cram into a tiny apartment in Montreal, WWI is declared. Because their district was annexed by Austria — now at war with the Commonwealth — many Ukrainians in Canada are declared ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Dear Canada: These Are My Words

    by Ruby Slipperjack ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl's experience at a residential school in 1966.Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her "white" school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name—she is now just a ... Read more

    $13.09 USD