Джанет Макнотон0.0 Winner of three historical fiction awards! 14-year-old Aggie, a newly arrived immigrant working as a domestic, is tormented by her trouble-making sister and an overbearing housekeeper. Luckily, Aggie is soon befriended by a rich, young, idealistic girl named Rose who convinces her to dress like a lady and attend a dance at the Palais Royale. Rose's brother falls for Aggie, but her deceptive appearance hides the truth about her social class and sets her up for heartache.
Селия Баркер Лоттридж0.0 Winner of the IODE National Chapter Violet Downey Book Award
This sequel to Ticket to Curlew finds eleven-year-old Josie well settled in her new home, but she's never had a friend her own age. So when a girl named Margaret moves to the area from England, Josie is glad to have someone with whom she can ride to school, explore the mysterious, abandoned silver house and dream about the future.
But what does the future hold for a young girl in 1918? Could Josie fly airplanes like Katherine Stinson, her heroine? Will she be a teacher like Miss Barnett? What would it be like to be Margaret's sad mother, who can't bear to unpack her fine English china in the crude sod house that is her new prairie home?
Alison Acheson0.0 Twelve-year-olds Oliver and Bert, once close friends as well as cousins, aren't speaking to each other. Neither are their fathers. To make matters worse, Oliver's dad has left town on a very dangerous mission in a desperate atempt to feed his hungry family. Set in 1880, Thunder Ice is an historical adventure novel about the rivalry between two men, two towns, and two ways of life. Prince Arthur's Landing is a boisterous mining town where people dance, gamble and enjoy the pleasures of life; Fort William is quiet, reserved and almost forgotten by the Hudson's Bay Company. Can anything bring the communities together?
Susan E. Merritt0.0 A young girl struggles to understand the upheaval in her life as she is swept up into the tide of events surrounding the Fenian invasion. The turmoil helps dislodge certain truths which resolve her own misunderstandings.
Карлин Брэдфорд0.0 In this gripping sequel to the award-winning There Will Be Wolves, Karleen Bradford once again shows her immense talent for combining a sizzling plot, fascinating historical detail and real-life characters whose eleventh-century concerns ring surprisingly true with contemporary young readers.
Set against the violence of the Holy Crusades, Shadows On A Sword is the tale of Theo, a passionate young knight; Emma, a strong and subversive girl bound by her position in life; and Amalric, a young man ready for war - holy or not. Confronted by life-or-death consequences, the injustices of war and politics and the joys of first love, the trio are believable players in a riveting, yet sensitive coming of age story.
Моника Хьюз0.0 Young adult novel set just after Britain declared war on Germany. Maureen Frazer's father has been sent to the front, her mother is helping with the war effort, and Maureen is shipped off to the Logan Academy for Young Ladies, a remote but safe boarding school in Scotland. There she finds that the girls have a secret society, called the Seven Magpies. When Maureen herself falls under the spell of a strange standing stone, she begins to understand what's making her schoolmates seem so strange and then she discovers what the real danger is. A magical story of what may happen when teenagers tamper with the ancient power of the Celts.
Линда Хоулман0.0 The year is 1900 and orphaned 14-year-old Rosetta and her beloved younger sister Flora sail from England as “home girls.” They are sent to Canada so that they can have a chance at family life. Their dreams are shattered when Flora is adopted, but Rosetta is deemed to be too old. She is to become a farm worker, far from Flora’s new home.
Rosetta’s only dream is to find her sister. But slowly and against her will, she is drawn into the lives of the strange couple with whom she has been placed. It is soon clear to her that their home is full of fear and sorrow.
As her relationship develops with the farmer’s wife, Rosetta learns that true sisterhood can take many forms. The support the two young women offer one another makes each one stronger until they find a way to follow their dreams
Барбара Хаворт‑Аттард0.0 The year is 1914. Thirteen-year-old Arthur is a "home child, " an English orphan forced to work on a Canadian farm. Will he ever be truly accepted there?
Джанет Ланн0.0 From one of Canada's best loved children's writers comes the enthralling tale of a brave young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War. It is 1777 and Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the horrors of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged for being a British spy. When she finds a message left by Gideon containing the names of Loyalist families to be protected by the King's army, Phoebe knows she must deliver the message to the general at Fort Ticonderoga. She sets out into the wilderness and soon meets up with Jem, a young Loyalist travelling to the safety of British Canada. As they travel across the country facing rebel guns, wild animals and worse, Phoebe and Jem discover they have a growing attraction for each other. But her own mission cannot be ignored and Phoebe once again finds herself alone, freezing and near death before she is reunited with Jem on the shores of Lake Ontario.
Дэйл Кэмпбелл Гетц0.0 A boat trip from Southampton to the Caribbean is just the first in a series of journeys that takes Katherine Harris and her family away from England to a plot of land in Yale, B.C., where her father wants to start a farm. The Harris family's attempt to establish a new life for themselves in turn-of-the-century British Columbia suffers a serious blow at the start: the oldest daughter, Susan dies just as the family finally reaches their new log house in Yale.
Just before she dies, Susan presses a nugget of gold into her sister's hand -- the Golden Rose, which was given to her by the grateful parents of a sick child she helped nurse. A stoic Katherine is determined to live up to the virtue that earned her sister the Golden Rose, but her brother George can't deal with the family tragedy and he heads north, Cariboo-bound, in search of gold-digging fields where he hopes to make his fortune. The intrepid Katherine dons boy's clothes and heads north in pursuit, to bring him back to the family and his responsibilities. Helping her to come to terms with Susan's death and to value her own virtue is her friend William, who accompanies her north as far as his family's winter village near Camchin (Lytton).
Кэрол Матас0.0 "Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground organization Brichah find her, and she joins them in their dangerous quest to smuggle illegal immigrants to Palestine. Ruth risks her life to help lead a group of children on a daring journey over half a continent and across the sea to Eretz Israel, using secret routes and forged documents -- and sheer force of will.
This adventure will touch readers, who will marvel at the resources and inner strength of mere children helping other children to find a place in this world in which they can belong. Carol Matas, one of the foremost authors of historical fiction, brings the desperation and passion of this remarkable journey to life.
Jean Little0.0 It seems young Elspet Mary has known nothing but loss. First her mother died, then her father, leaving her in the care if her aunt and uncle. With them, she has moved from one lonely Scottish village to another, and now, just as she is beginning to feel at home, she is being torn away again, to move to rugged Upper Canada. What awaits her in the strange new land? What will become of her grandmother, left behind in Scotland, and her beloved cat? Will she finally find a place to call home, a place where she belongs? Told in Jean Little’s inimitable voice, this moving coming-of-age story explores loss, loneliness and love-and the universal search for a place to belong.
