LAX-SYD-YVR is a seniors' fairy tale. After a fairy godmother (lottery) showers a huge windfall on Bev, she decides to take her best friend Heather on a luxury trip to Australia. She doesn't know that a big, bad wolf lurks in the shadows seeking to destroy her friend and that she will have to mend family fences to keep her safe. And, as octogenarians, neither suspects that Prince Charming can also be a senior."I devoured LAC-SYD-YVR in 4 sittings. It was really, really fun. I espec...

Kidnapped, gagged and locked in a closet, Beverley Boissery hoped for rescue with the fierce, bitter longing of a wounded child. That experience taught her a life-long lesson. We must have the temerity to hope, otherwise life can be futile and we will be overcome by despair. The Temerity to Hope is funny, poignant, electrifying and, at times, desolate."Boissery's memoir is electrifying in its troubles and triumphs." --Luci Shaw, author, Thumbprint in the Clay, Writer in Residence, ...

Follow Sophie Mallory’s adventures during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1838 as she’s taken prisoner by rebels and must save her imprisoned father. Three acclaimed chapter books by historian and author Beverley Boissery are collected in this special three-book bundle!Includes:Sophie’s RebellionRebellion becomes personal for American Sophie Mallory when she’s taken prisoner during a visit to Lower Canada in 1838 but then she is befriended by ...

After his family is killed and his house burnt down by invading Americans, Theo Bentley vows to retaliate. He will burn down the house of the President of the United States.But how? As he's only thirteen, the militia won't let him join up. Then a friend of his guardian offers a chance for them to become British spies in Baltimore.During the long trek down from Canada to Baltimore, Theo learns that Americans are not much different from people he knows back in York, Upper Can...

Imagine being trapped 200 years from now. Thad Compton doesn't have to imagine, because it's happened.Born in 1820, Thad tries to adapt to the twenty-first century with its technologies and medical miracles but, sometimes, it seems that nothing is real. His badly broken leg has been rebroken and healed; his teeth are encased in braces, and, if you looked at him you'd seen a good looking youth who was almost 200 years old. For a while, everything is different and an adventure until ...

2006 Word Guild Award — Winner, Young Adult FictionSophie Mallory’s American family knows everything about fighting the British. It’s the family tradition. But after she comes to Lower Canada in 1838, rebellion becomes personal when she’s taken prisoner. Befriended by Luc, a young rebel, she comes to see its many sides - the deep wrongs underlying the passionate revolt, the politics, and the brutal savagery of its aftermath.This is no ordinary novel about our Canad...

Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s. Most were ill equipped for the difficult terrain, the icy water, and the inhospitable climate. Some found the motherlode. Others settled for becoming rich merchants. Most became impoverished, and a large number lost their lives. With new roads and new settlers, the gold rush helped build Canada’s West. This pictorial history tells the stori...

When Chloe Murray's mother disappears from Wahmurra, Australia, people search everywhere. Nobody thinks of looking in the past.Four years later, Chloe herself is catapulted back to 1833 where she hears about Lady Peter Kendricks, a woman who sounds and looks suspiciously like her mother. While she waits to meet the mysterious Lady Peter, Chloe makes friends with Thad Compton, a young convict.Life in 1833 proves hectic. Someone wants to kill her. Thad is always a hairsbreadt...

2007 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice SelectionIt is 1838, and in the wake of the rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie’s and Luc’s worlds are falling apart. Luc is powerless as his only brother stands trial for treason, while Sophie searches for clues to her father’s mysterious disappearance. Meanwhile, her scheming brothers threaten to rip away Sophie’s inheritance. Luc’s brother is sentenced to die by hanging, and then, when it seems nothing more can go wrong, Sop...

In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last.In Uncertain Justice, Beverley Boissery and Murray Greenwood portray a cast of women characters almost as often wronged by the law as they have wronged society. Starting with the Powers trial and continuing to the not-too-distant past, the authors expose the patriarchal values that lie at the core of criminal law, an...

In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were ordinary people who had been caught up in the political whirlwind of the 1838 rebellion. Even though they were all civilians, they had been tried by court martial. Convicted of treason, their properties forfeited to the crown, they paid a heavy price for rebellion. And as convicts in Australia, they were considered the lowest of a bad lot. During their years there, however, they earned the respect of S...

2009 Word Guild Award — Winner, Young Adult FictionIn the aftermath of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie Mallory’s father is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in Australia. But there is no question about what Sophie should do: with her guardian, Lady Theodosia Thornleigh, and Luc Moriset, she sets sail for Sydney. She finds Australia an outside-down country. The water goes down the drain the opposite way, half the population are (o...