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A varied historical-fiction collection following protagonists through moments of cultural encounter, disaster, illness, family upheaval and racial hardship in Canadian history.
In Emily: Across the James Bay Bridge, Emily discovers B.C.[alpha]s Chinatown in 1896 and befriends Hing, her middle-class family[alpha]s servant. In Penelope: Terror in the Harbour, Penelope[alpha]s world is rocked-literally-with the 1917 Halifax harbour explosion. In Marie-Claire: Dark Spring, Marie-Claire[alpha]s life in 1885 Montreal is turned topsy-turvy amidst a smallpox outbreak and some drastic family changes, and in Rachel: A Mighty Big Imagining, Rachel, a freed slave, dreams of a better life in Nova Scotia, only to find that Canada brings its own set of hardships.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA varied historical-fiction collection following protagonists through moments of cultural encounter, disaster, illness, family upheaval and racial hardship in Canadian history.
The collection includes potentially difficult material: a harbour explosion, a smallpox outbreak, major family changes, enslavement-related history, and hardships faced by a freed slave.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough.
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