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  • The Long Way Westward

    by Joan Sandin ...
    Illustrated by Joan Sandin ...
    Series Book 3 - I Can Read
    America, at last! This classic early reader tells an exciting story and is also a good launching pad for classroom and home discussions.The Long Way Westward relates the experiences of two young brothers and their family, immigrants from Sweden, from their arrival in New York through the journey to their new home in Minnesota.This lively sequel to The Long Way to a New Land follows the fortunes of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • From Anna

    by Jean Little, Katherine Paterson ...
    Illustrated by Joan Sandin ...
    Jean Little's classic celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new look for a new generation!Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family — somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the chalkboard at school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her "Awkward Anna."When Papa announces that the family is moving from Germany to Canada — he's ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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  • Listen for the Singing

    by Jean Little ...
    A companion to the beloved classic From Anna!Just as Anna is about to enter a new school, she hears news on Papa's radio — Canada is at war with Germany. What will that mean for the Soldens, who immigrated from Germany just a few years ago?She soon finds out. Customers stop shopping at Papa's store, a teacher in her school bullies any students with German surnames, and Rudi is threatening to ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Dancing Through the Snow

    by Jean Little ...
    Jean Little's poignant novel about an abandoned girl, and the dog who helps teach her how to trust again.Ten-year-old Min has had a long history of foster care since she was abandoned at age three. Now, let go by yet another foster family, Min continues to build a protective wall around herself. Her newest caregiver, a former Children's Aid doctor, sees past Min's hardened shell and tries to find ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door

    The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dear Canada: If I Die Before I Wake

    The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor, Toronto, Ontario, 1918

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Fee uses her diary to record all of her fears when the Spanish Flu rages through Toronto. It comforts her when she almost loses her twin sister, and when it actually takes their older sister Jemma. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dear America: I Walk in Dread

    by Lisa Rowe Fraustino ...
    Series series Dear America
    Lisa Rowe Fraustino's dramatic tale of the Salem witch trials is back in print with a beautiful new cover design! Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • 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

    $13.59 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Banished from Our Home

    by Sharon Stewart ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    The latest addition to the bestselling Dear Canada series takes readers directly into the historic struggle between the French and English for control of the area. Angelique watches as families are torn apart and forced to settle far away from one another, and worries about her brother who is fighting for the Acadian cause. Will her family stay together during this dramatic time or will they be ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • 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

    $9.89 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Footsteps In the Snow

    by Carol Matas ...
    Isobel thinks that she and her family will find their fortune in Canada. But Isobel's mother dies before they even cross the ocean, and other misfortunes follow their every step. Isobel's family and the other Selkirk Settlers, caught in the fur-trading rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company, cannot even start to build when they do reach their destination. The harsh climate, and escalating ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Winter of Peril

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Sophie Loveridge's family is uprooted from the comfort of their home in England when her eccentric father — inspired by the new novel, Robinson Crusoe — decides to move the family to the New World so he can write an epic poem about surviving the rugged winter conditions. When the only help they have — a skillful fisherman — dies, it is up to Sophie and her mother to make sure the family survives ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD