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  • 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

    $10.79 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

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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

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  • Dear Canada: Brothers Far From Home

    The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates, Uxbridge, Ontario, 1916

    by Jean Little ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canda has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. Jean Little's latest addition is the diary of a young girl observing her world change as war rages thousands of miles away.It has been two long years since Eliza's beloved older brother, Hugo, went away to war. Caught up in his enthusiasm, she couldn't understand her parent's less-than ... Read more

    $10.79 CAD

  • Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles

    Twelve Tales of Christmas

    Series series Dear Canada
    Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country!What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in ... Read more

    $10.79 CAD

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  • Dear Canada: A Sea of Sorrows

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

    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

    $12.23 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Where the River Takes Me

    The Hudson's Bay Diary of Jenna Sinclair, Fort Victoria, Vancouver's Island, 1849

    by Julie Lawson ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    A young girl living at three Hudson's Bay Company posts yearns for more adventure and freedom than the rules of mid-1800s HBC society allow.Motherless for years, and now orphaned when a hunting accident takes her father's life, Jenna Sinclair is in the care of her prim Aunt Grace, who always finds fault with Jenna's high spirits and tendency to break rules. Jenna finds kindred spirits in her ... Read more

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  • Dear Canada: Not a Nickel to Spare

    Coping with being poor during the Depression is hard enough, but Sally also has to contend with anti-Jewish sentiment when she ventures outside her familiar neighbourhood near Toronto's Kensington Market. Her cousin Benny is always getting into scrapes or dragging Sally into his hare-brained schemes. But it's also Benny who tries to open Sally's eyes to the wider world, telling her about Hitler's ... Read more

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  • Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea

    The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall, Milorie, Saskatchewan, 1926

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. But in Milorie, Saskatchewan, their dreams crumble into dust when they reach Uncle Alf's small sod hut and discover that jobs are scarce, and that they can barely make ends ... Read more

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  • 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

    $12.23 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Torn Apart

    The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1941

    by Susan Aihoshi ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    The harsh conditions of an internment camp become a reality for a young Japanese-Canadian girl.It is 1941 and Mary Kobayashi, a Canadian-born Japanese girl enjoys her life in Vancouver. She likes school, she likes her friends, and she yearns above all else to own a bicycle. Although WWII is raging elsewhere in the world, it hasn't really impacted her life in B.C.Then on December 7, 1941, Japan ... Read more

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  • Dear Canada: Turned Away

    by Carol Matas ...
    This dramatic story tells of 11-year-old Devorah's efforts to help her cousin and pen pal Sarah emigrate from Paris before the Nazis deport the Jews to internment camps.Devorah learns that 5,000 Jewish children in France have visas to leave the country, but the Canadian government will not let them in, leading Devorah to desperately lobby the government to change its policies. Turned Away ... Read more

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