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  • Dear Canada: No Safe Harbour

    The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1917

    by Julie Lawson ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Charlotte struggles to find her twin brother after the rest of her family is killed in the tragic Halifax explosion.No Safe Harbour is set in the months before and after the December 6, 1917 Halifax explosion, which was the largest man-made blast in history until the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The explosion levelled most of the city and sent shards of glass and burning debris flying ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Dear Canada: Where the River Takes Me

    The Hudson's Bay Diary of Jenna Sinclair, Fort Victoria, Vancouver's Island, 1849

    by Julie Lawson ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    A young girl living at three Hudson's Bay Company posts yearns for more adventure and freedom than the rules of mid-1800s HBC society allow.Motherless for years, and now orphaned when a hunting accident takes her father's life, Jenna Sinclair is in the care of her prim Aunt Grace, who always finds fault with Jenna's high spirits and tendency to break rules. Jenna finds kindred spirits in her ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Dear Canada: A Ribbon of Shining Steel

    by Julie Lawson ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Kate's father is a builder for the Canadian Pacific Railway as it snakes across the mountains and through the Fraser Canyon. Everyone is excited about the "Iron Horse", but building the railroad is a treacherous undertaking. Kate is always thinking about her father's safety, and the Accident Hospital next door is a constant reminder of the hazards the railroad brings. Despite the danger, there is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage

    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

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  • Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes

    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

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

    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

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  • Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land

    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

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  • 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

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  • 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: A Season for Miracles

    Twelve Tales of Christmas

    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

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  • Dear Canada: These Are My Words

    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

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  • 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

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