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Hoping for home : stories of arrival / [illustrated by Greg Ruhl].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dear CanadaPublication details: Toronto : Scholastic Canada, 2011.Description: 242 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0545986974
  • 9780545986977
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Contents:
Marooned in Canada / Kit Pearson -- Ghost town / Shelley Tanaka -- To get away from all that / Rukhsana Khan -- The flower of the flock / Irene N. Watts -- The Charleston at the Trapline / Ruby Slipperjack -- Prairie showdown / Paul Yee -- In the silence of my heart / Lillian Boraks-Nemetz -- Entrance certificate / Brian Doyle -- To learn...even a little / Afua Cooper -- Out of the ashes / Marie-Andrée Clermont -- Hattie's home / Jean Little -- About the authors.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Dear Can Pearson Available 33111006786855
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 girls, each one living at a different point in Canada's vast landscape and history.

With unforgettable protagonists -- such as Miriam, a Warsaw-ghetto survivor, now reunited with her family in Montreal; Wong Joe-on, a young Chinese immigrant who faces racism in a small Saskatchewan town; and Insy, an Ojibwe girl who makes her first trip to a "white" town in Northern Ontario -- young readers will be moved by the opportunities and difficulties that these characters face, as each one ponders what it means to be Canadian, and struggles to fit in.

Hoping for Home includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Dowle, Paul Yee, Irene N. Watts, Ruby Slipperjack, Afua Cooper, Rukhsana Khan, Marie--Andrée Clermont, Lillian Boraks--Nemetz and Shelley Tanaka.

Marooned in Canada / Kit Pearson -- Ghost town / Shelley Tanaka -- To get away from all that / Rukhsana Khan -- The flower of the flock / Irene N. Watts -- The Charleston at the Trapline / Ruby Slipperjack -- Prairie showdown / Paul Yee -- In the silence of my heart / Lillian Boraks-Nemetz -- Entrance certificate / Brian Doyle -- To learn...even a little / Afua Cooper -- Out of the ashes / Marie-Andrée Clermont -- Hattie's home / Jean Little -- About the authors.

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