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.
To Stand on My Own
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 To Stand on My Own write by Barbara Haworth-Attard. This book was released on 2010. 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: A Season for Miracles
Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles - 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 Season for Miracles write by Gillian Chan. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country! What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in the actual diary are over. Anyone new to the Dear Canada series will be introduced to characters so compelling, they'll want to read more.
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....
A Trail of Broken Dreams
A Trail of Broken Dreams - 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 Trail of Broken Dreams write by Barbara Haworth-Attard. This book was released on 2004. A Trail of Broken Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Still reeling from the death of her mother, Harriet sets out on a dangerous journey -- disguised as a boy, since no "petticoats" are allowed on the trip -- determined to find her missing father in the gold fields of British Columbia's Cariboo. The journey itself is incredibly difficult, and Harriet still has to find her father before the winter snows close down the entire Williams Creek area. Will she be able to find him, or will her journey be for nothing?
