Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes - 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: Flame and Ashes write by Janet McNaughton. This book was released on 2014-09-01. Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A touching "riches to rags" story set during the second-worst disaster in the history of Atlantic Canada. Eleven-year-old Triffie is the middle daughter of a well-to-do merchant. Triffie knows nothing about what it means to be poor — until the disastrous fire of 1892 burns down most of St. John's, Newfoundland, leaving Triffie's family and 15,000 others homeless. The fire claimed everything but their underwear, Mother's best china . . . and Triffie's journal. With no other options, Triffie's family moves into a filthy warehouse while they attempt to rebuild their lives from the ground up. The aftermath of the fire teaches Triffie a lot about what it means to survive. More importantly, she comes face to face with her own prejudices, and begins to develop a much greater appreciation for how the less fortunate live.
If I Die Before I Wake
If I Die Before I Wake - 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 If I Die Before I Wake write by Jean Little. This book was released on 2007. If I Die Before I Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "I can hardly bear to look at Fanny. She is grey and her breath rasps and gurgles and wheezes. She has lost pounds. Her face is all hollow and a dark colour. A bluish grey. That is one of the symptoms of this Flu, Aunt told us. Nobody is saying the word, but we all know. So many have died, but not my Fan. I will not leave her no matter what anyone says." Fee uses her diary to record all of her fears when the Spanish Flu rages through Toronto. It comforts her when she almost loses her twin sister -- and when it actually takes their older sister Jemma.
Brothers Far from Home
Brothers Far from Home - 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 Brothers Far from Home write by Jean Little. This book was released on 2003. Brothers Far from Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canada has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. It has been two long years since Eliza's beloved older brother, Hugo, went away to war. Caught up in his enthusiasm, she couldn't understand her parent's less-than enthusiastic reaction. Now that her other brother Jack has also enlisted, she yearns for the safe return of both brothers. If only she had a friend that she could talk to about her feelings....
Days of Toil and Tears
Days of Toil and Tears - 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 Days of Toil and Tears write by Sarah Ellis. This book was released on 2008. Days of Toil and Tears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An eleven-year-old orphan is reconnected to her mother's family, but her courage and strength are tested as she is put to work in a textile mill. Flora is a young, imaginative girl who has dreamt of having a family to call her own since her parents died from pleurisy when she was three. She dreams of family dinners. She dreams of friends. But mostly she dreams of leaving the orphanage. As the diary begins, Flora is still in an orphanage in Kingston, but her Auntie Janet has just married, and she and her husband James send for Flora to come and live with them in Almonte, Ontario. Once she arrives at her aunt's, Flora begins work in the Almonte Mill, even though she is underage -- typical for many children of the era. She works from dawn to dusk, near huge and noisy machines, and she sees the effects of the mill on workers who have lost an arm or their hearing. Still, this life is better than going back to the orphanage. But when Uncle James loses several fingers at the weaving machine and can't work anymore, money is really tight, and it's up to Flora and her aunt to find a way out of the predicament. Through all her trials, Flora writes down her feelings in a journal, one she addresses to "Dear Papa and Mama", because it makes her feel close to the parents she lost when she was young. Days of Toil and Tears includes historical background giving readers the social context of young mill workers, and a map of the textile industry of Canada, as well as fascinating photographs from this era.
Whispers of War
Whispers of War - 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 Whispers of War write by Kit Pearson. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Whispers of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the summer of 1812, as rumours of a looming war become a reality, Susanna, her mother and sister are surviving as best they can while the men are fighting. As news of various battles reaches them, Susanna becomes even more concerned for the safety and well-being of her beloved brother and father. She is also torn between the loyalties of her best friend and her mother -- both Americans living in Upper Canada -- and her father's and brother's allegiance to General Brock and the King. But the night of the Battle of Queenston Heights, Susanna's main concern is for survival.
