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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: 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: 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

  • 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: Whispers of War

    by Kit Pearson ...
    In the summer of 1812, as rumours of a looming war become a reality, Susanna, her mother and sister are surviving as best they can while the men are fighting. As news of various battles reaches them, Susanna becomes even more concerned for the safety and well-being of her beloved brother and father. She is also torn between the loyalties of her best friend and her mother — both Americans living in ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (Dear America)

    by Deborah Hopkinson ...
    Series series Dear America
    Critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson's HEAR MY SORROW is back with a beautiful new cover!Fourteen-year-old Angela Denoto and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work as a hod carrier, Angela must leave school and find a job in a shirtwaist ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Dear America: The Fences Between Us

    by Kirby Larson ...
    Series series Dear America
    Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings us the first new Dear America diary in years, taking readers through the attack on Pearl Harbor, the start of World War II, and the Japanese incarceration. With this sweeping tale of life on the World War II homefront, Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings her incredible talent to the Dear America series. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, America is finally ... Read more

    $4.99 USD