For sixteen year-old Jack O’Hara, a new life in India is both an exotic and fascinating departure from his previous life in the wilderness of Canada West and a return to where his Irish father and Indian mother met and married, and where he was born. With his parents both dead of smallpox, Jack [...]
In their house at the end of the road down in Hog’s Hollow, that year of 1965, the River family dreams. While Flo writes her epic of life in pre-Civil War America, she dreams of fame and fortune and of moving her family to a mansion in the South. Twelve year-old Beau builds [...]
Fifteen year-old Will anxiously awaits Choosing Day, when he and his four ward mates will learn to which craft master they will apprenticed. Told that his nameless father was a war hero, Will dreams of being a knight, but, with his small, wiry body, fears that he will be rejected by the head of [...]
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, [...]
It’s Christmas of 1945, the first Christmas since the end of the War, and Tommy is troubled to learn that his best friend Sammy’s father has been beaten up and left in a coma. Is it because somebody wants his job at the streetcar barns, or because he’s a Jew? Tommy, who is [...]
In this final story of Allende’s trilogy, Nadia Santos and Alex Cold travel with his grandmother, Kate Cold, a writer for International Geographic, a photographer and a larger-than-life female pilot named Angie Ninderera into the heart of the African jungle at the behest of Brother Fernando, a Catholic missionary who is looking for two missionaries [...]
London, 1945. When their house is bombed, 10-year-old Peggy, along with her mum and baby brother Tommy, go to live with her granddad, a difficult old man whom Peggy doesn’t know very well, and who doesn’t seem happy to have them stay. Peggy must go to a new school, where she is ignored [...]
As Armenian refugees living in a Greek orphanage in 1923, 12-year-old Aram and the other boys know that food is scarce and that, as they grow into men, it will not be safe for them, even in Greece. But, when the boys are offered the chance to start new lives in Canada, Aram does [...]
