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  • Irish Mongrel Child

    by Ruby Cooper ...
    Conceived with passion and lust by a handsome paratrooper and an Irish American woman with alburn hair and smokey gray/green eyes, and reared 'by the book' with unfettered freedom, common sense, and nonsense, the Irish Mongrel Child experienced and understood the essence of life by age eleven: love, trust and evil.. With the best of intentions, her mother rejected her at birth, left her outside in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

    by Brian Doyle, Rukhsana Khan, Paul Yee, Afua Cooper, Ruby Slipperjack, Irene N. Watts, Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Shelley Tanaka ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life.In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Parlor Matches (Unabridged)

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    by Walter Ben Hare ...
    Narrated by Billy Cooper, Ruby Long, Lydia Davis, Doreen Pineda ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    This little comedy of society life has to do with the match-making proclivities of Mrs. Seltoon. Having arranged satisfactory matches for her two daughters, Mrs. Seltoon turns her attention to her niece, Gail Laurence, a girl just graduated from college. Mrs. Seltoon decides that the cousin of one of her daughters' fiances would make the perfect match for Gail. This cousin turns out to be a moving ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Dear Canada: Exiles from the War

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is being waged across the Atlantic, Charlotte begins to feel its danger, as her brother George defies their parents and enlists in the Navy. After months ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: To Stand on My Own

    by Barbara Haworth-Attard ...
    The dark threat of polio becomes a reality for a young Prairie girl.In the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen's family must scrimp to make ends meet.In a horrible twist of fate, Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is placed in an isolation ward, unable to move her legs. After a few ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes

    by Janet McNaughton ...
    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

    $13.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: A Sea of Sorrows

    The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary, Canada East, 1847

    by Norah McClintock ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster — only to land in another.After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family.But typhus and other illnesses plague the "coffin ships," so named for the staggering number of immigrants who died enroute. One by one Johanna loses the members of her family — first her baby brother ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land

    by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch ...
    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

    $14.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past

    The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948

    by Carol Matas ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    A young Jewish girl recounts her experiences during a horrifying time in recent history.As Rose begins her diary, she is in her third home since coming to Winnipeg. Traumatized by her experiences in the Holocaust, she struggles to connect with others, and above all, to trust again.When her new guardian, Saul, tries to get Rose to deal with what happened to her during the war, she begins writing in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 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 USD

  • Dear Canada: A Rebel's Daughter

    by Janet Lunn ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    After Arabella's father is jailed for his part in the short-lived 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion in Toronto, her mother just cannot cope. The family is ostracized, they lose their home and they have no income — yet Arabella's mother still doesn't take action. So it is up to twelve-year-old Arabella to find new lodgings and to get employment so they have money to live on. And as if that weren't enough ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $13.99 USD