Fourteen year-old Dana is a runaway, living on the streets of Toronto. Begging for spare change to buy coffee and a doughnut, and protecting her rapidly dwindling possessions from thieves is a far cry from her comfortable life in the suburbs, but she cannot go home.
Fortunately, Dana is adopted into a street family. [...]
Eleven year-old Jamie is preoccupied with memory and forgetting. He lives with his mother and his amnesic aunt, Sapphy, in Wondrous Acres trailer park, having moved there after his father took off with the cashier at the MicroMart, and his aunt was struck in the head by a big metal pipe in the cherry [...]
It’s the summer of 1945, and all of Ottawa awaits word that the war in Asia is over and that the world can return to happy times. However, young Martin O’Boy’s life is too complicated to be transformed by the end of war. His father is an emotionally abusive drunk and his mother, [...]
