Джоан Кларк0.0 The Dream Carvers is the story of Thrand, a Norse boy in the 11th century, who is captured by the Beothuk, the red ochre people of the new-found land. At first his thoughts are only of his home in Greenland, and he struggles with his sense of identity as he lives among people so different from him. But slowly he adjusts to the world of the Beothuk, learning their language and their ways. In time he begins to think of himself as one of the red ochre people and is pleased with his new sense of belonging.
Хейзел Хатчинс0.0 Lonely and a little insecure, 12-year-old Allison steps through a magical painting and into the Rocky Mountains of 1898. While trying to solve the mystery of her time travel, she also begins to explore her emerging sense of identity.
Лиллиан Боракс-Немец0.0 The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of Slava, a young girl who survived the Holocaust against all odds. At age fourteen, Slava comes to Canada with her parents and sister and a suitcase filled with memories of a lost childhood, memories that now haunt her new life. She cannot forget the hunger, stench and disease in the Warsaw Ghetto, nor the fear and humiliation of being incarcerated behind a high brick wall. She cannot forget her extraordinary escape from the Ghetto, leaving behind her beloved parents and sister. Nor can she forget being swallowed up in a strange and unknown place to survive under a hidden identity. The story juxtaposes heart-wrenching scenes from a child's life in war-torn Poland with the life of a teenager trying to adjust to a new country in time of peace. In Canada, it is not easy for Slava to build a bridge between two cultures; nor is it easy to live with the turmoil of her immediate past. At the same time she must face the new challenges involved in being an immigrant, a Jew and a teenage girl. Historical notes on the Warsaw ghetto and a bibliography for future reading have been appended for those who wish further insights.
Jean Little0.0 Based on the Jean's mother’s childhood. Winner of the IODE Violet Downie Award.
For as long as she can remember, Flora Gauld has lived in Taiwan, but now her family is going home to Canada, a place she has only seen in pictures.
At first she’s a bit intimidated by all the cousins she meets in Kippen, Ontario, but after a while she begins to feel at home. Then her parents explain that they must go back to Taiwan, where they work as missionaries. Flora will be left behind with her aunt and uncle, whom she hardly knows, in yet another town. She is given the special responsibility of looking after her younger brother, William—but who will look after her?
With time, Flora is buoyed by the love of her Aunt Jen and her "adopted" family, but then the Great War begins, and Flora’s world is turned upside down.
Based on the true story of Jean Little’s remarkable mother, His Banner over Me brings a distant time and place to vivid life.
Шерон Гибсон Палермо0.0 This historical fiction takes up the perspective of a ten year old girl whose father is an Italian "detainee" in Atlantic Canada during the Second World War.
Джин Букер0.0 Ellen has secrets. Mostly they are the everyday sort of secrets a girl keeps: she's failing math, she's spent some of mum's rent money on dinner, she's taken one of the school's pet rabbits home and it's run away. She's even snuck around the Home Guard and discovered a real German Parachute.
Кэрол Матас0.0 Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century France is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother--a midwife and healer to half the families in the town--is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose must weigh the terror of death against the pain of life on her own. First published in 1993, The Burning Time is an unrelenting examination of cruelty and injustice.
Set in France in the sixteenth century, The Burning Time tells the story of a young girl whose mother is accused of being a witch. In her village, everyone is suspect. An accusation is enough to bring arrest, shame, even torture. Rose Rives cannot understand how the authorities--from the magistrate to the village priest--can encourage the villagers to denounce their neighbours as witches. Rose's simple life is shattered when her mother, who has been a midwife and a healer to half of the families in town, is turned over to the authorities. Struggling to free her mother, Rose finds herself pitted against some of the people she trusted the most.
The Burning Time is an unrelenting examination of the cruelty and injustice committed against women through all ages and the courage some women have found to speak out.
