Кит Пирсон0.0 For five years Gavin and his sister Norah have lived in Canada as "war guests." But now, as 1945 approaches, the war is finally ending, and Gavin and Norah will soon be going back to England Norah, who's fifteen, is eager to see her parents again, but ten-year-old Gavin barely remembers them. He doesn't want to leave his Canadian family, his two best friends and his dog.
Then something happens that forces Gavin to make the most difficult decision of his life.
The Lights Go On Again is the last book in the acclaimed series that began with The Sky Is Falling and Looking At The Moon
David Richards0.0 bugle boy stows away on a train, dreaming of glory, to help fight the Metis rebels.
A Metis boy takes his father's gun and enlists as a scout to spy on the English camp.
In a steep coulee off the South Saskatchewan river, they meet face to face in the Battle of Fish Creek. This battle in 1885 was a turning point in Canada's history.
An impeccably researched, wonderfully dramatic novel of the Riel Rebellion and those who put it down.
Маргарет Бюнель Эдвардс0.0 The year is 1874. After her father is accused of being a traitor, Isabelle de Montigny, a fifteen year-old French Huguenot girl, flees France with her family. She leaves behind a life of luxury and a young officer whom she loves. In a vivid portrait of the past, we follow Isabelle's adjust ment to the new world of Quebec and the discovery of her true desires and aspiratio
Джон Иббитсон0.0 Seventeen-year-old Lee doesn't know much about newspapers - he's only ever read the sports and the funnies. So when Lee lands a job as a copy boy at the Toronto Telegram he enters a whole new world, where panic and energy and controlled mayhem rule the day. The year is 1954, a time when newspapers revelled in sensational stories and the shady means of getting them. Lee, taken on by veteran reporter Jack Murphy, witness Toronto's great news stories of the year, including Marilyn Bell's historic swim across Lake Ontario and the catastrophic Hurricane Hazel, the biggest natural disaster in Toronto's history. The other part of Lee's life is spent in a rundown Cabbagetown apartment that he shares with Angela, a struggling actress and communist sympathizer who teaches him about politics and life, and with whom Lee falls hopelessly in love.
Кэрол Матас0.0 Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family face the dangers threatening Jews in Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. No longer able to practice their religion, vote, own property, or even work, Daniel's family is forced from their home in Frankfurt and sent on a long and dangerous journey, first to the Lodz ghetto in Poland, and then to Auschwitz —, the Nazi death camp. Though many around him lose hope in the face of such terror, Daniel, supported by his courageous family, struggles for survival. He finds hope, life and even love in the midst of despair.
