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  • 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

  • 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

  • Dog Tracks

    by Ruby Slipperjack ...
    Abby is having trouble fitting in at Bear Creek Reserve. After having lived most of her life with her grandparents in town, it's definitely a transition moving back to the reserve. When Choom, her grandfather, falls ill, Abby must leave her best friends at school, her supportive grandparents, and her perfect pink bedroom, and adjust to living with her mom. But it’s not only being back with Mom ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

    by Brian Doyle, Rukhsana Khan, Paul Yee, Afua Cooper, Ruby Slipperjack, Irene N. Watts, Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Shelley Tanaka ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life.In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • 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: To Stand on My Own

    by Barbara Haworth-Attard ...
    The dark threat of polio becomes a reality for a young Prairie girl.In the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen's family must scrimp to make ends meet.In a horrible twist of fate, Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is placed in an isolation ward, unable to move her legs. After a few ... 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

  • Dear Canada: A Sea of Sorrows

    The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary, Canada East, 1847

    by Norah McClintock ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster — only to land in another.After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family.But typhus and other illnesses plague the "coffin ships," so named for the staggering number of immigrants who died enroute. One by one Johanna loses the members of her family — first her baby brother ... 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: 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: Pieces of the Past

    The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948

    by Carol Matas ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    A young Jewish girl recounts her experiences during a horrifying time in recent history.As Rose begins her diary, she is in her third home since coming to Winnipeg. Traumatized by her experiences in the Holocaust, she struggles to connect with others, and above all, to trust again.When her new guardian, Saul, tries to get Rose to deal with what happened to her during the war, she begins writing in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land

    by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch ...
    The heart-wrenching story of one girls 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

    $14.99 USD