Dear Canada: A Desperate Road to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Canada: A Desperate Road to Freedom write by Karleen Bradford. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Dear Canada: A Desperate Road to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A riveting tale of a brave family's last bid for freedom, and the price they pay to find it. Julia May and her family have done the unthinkable. They have fled from their life of slavery on a tobacco plantation in Virginia, and are making their way north, on foot, where they have heard that slaves can live free. Their story, told through Julia May's journal entries, is gruelling. Their journey takes them through swamps, travelling by night and hiding by day. It is a harrowing, terrifying experience, but determination to find a new life in Canada keeps them going. The diary that Julia May keeps is another act of bravery. Learning to read and write alongside her mistress at the plantation was her own secret, and strictly forbidden for a slave girl. Now as she records her fears and the extraordinary things she sees during her journey, she is deeply afraid that she'll be found out and suffer the consequences. But her journal keeps her going through the hard times until they are finally free. Readers will be moved as they follow her family's trek north . . . but even here old prejudices die hard.
A Desperate Road to Freedom
A Desperate Road to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Desperate Road to Freedom write by Karleen Bradford. This book was released on 2009-09. A Desperate Road to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A riveting tale of a brave family's last bid for freedom, and the price they pay to find it. Julia May and her family have done the unthinkable. They have fled from their life of slavery on a tobacco plantation in Virginia, and are making their way north, on foot, where they have heard that slaves can live free. Their story, told through Julia May's journal entries, is gruelling. Their journey takes them through swamps, travelling by night and hiding by day. It is a harrowing, terrifying experience, but determination to find a new life in Canada keeps them going. The diary that Julia May keeps is another act of bravery. Learning to read and write alongside her mistress at the plantation was her own secret, and strictly forbidden for a slave girl. Now as she records her fears and the extraordinary things she sees during her journey, she is deeply afraid that she'll be found out and suffer the consequences. But her journal keeps her going through the hard times until they are finally free. Readers will be moved as they follow her family's trek north . . . but even here old prejudices die hard.
Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 11: Singing a Prayer
Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 11: Singing a Prayer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 11: Singing a Prayer write by Karleen Bradford. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 11: Singing a Prayer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Experience the wonder of Christmas wishes. Julia May and her family thought they had at last found freedom when they made the final stage of their dangerous trek north to Canada, but even here old prejudices die hard, and the family has had to search for a community that will truly welcome them. As another Christmas in their chosen land approaches, they still have no word of Julia May's brother Thomas, who returned to the United States to fight for the North in the Civil War. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Julia May, whom they first met in the popular Dear Canada book A Desperate Road to Freedom. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!
Dear Canada: To Stand on My Own
Dear Canada: To Stand on My Own - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Canada: To Stand on My Own write by Barbara Haworth-Attard. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Dear Canada: To Stand on My Own available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dark threat of polio becomes a reality for a young Prairie girl. In the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen's family must scrimp to make ends meet. In a horrible twist of fate, Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is placed in an isolation ward, unable to move her legs. After a few weeks she gains partial recovery, but her family makes the painful decision to send her to a hospital far away for further treatment. To Stand On My Own is Noreen's diary account of her journey through recovery: her treatment; life in the ward; the other patients, some of them far worse off than her; adjustment to life in a wheelchair and on crutches; and ultimately, the emotional and physical hurdles she must face when she returns home. In this moving addition to the Dear Canada series, award-winning author Barbara Haworth-Attard recreates a desolate time in Canadian history, and one girl's brave fight against a deadly disease.
Dear Canada: Not a Nickel to Spare
Dear Canada: Not a Nickel to Spare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Canada: Not a Nickel to Spare write by Perry Nodelman. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Dear Canada: Not a Nickel to Spare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 rise in Europe and urging her to stand up for herself when she comes across anti-Semitism. A historical note gives readers the background of the Depression, which hit Canada harder than most other countries. It also describes the way Jews were treated in Canada. Today's readers might be surprised to know that there were people in Toronto who prided themselves on being part of The Swastika Club. A map, photographs and documents provide a visual context for the story.
