Juvenile Fiction, Historical, Canada, Post-Confederation (1867 To Present)
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Alicia's Journey to the Past
Revisiting the Komagata Maru Incident
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Alicia, a third-generation Canadian, doesn’t know much about her Punjabi heritage. But that starts to change when she stumbles across a memorial for the Punjabi passengers who tried immigrating to Canada on the Komagata Maru ship. To her...
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Let's Go, Darby!
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The Hospital for Sick Children was Georgie's only hope...Based on a true story. It’s 1898. Ten-year-old Georgie Titus has clubfoot. He can’t walk. He can’t go to school. Kids in his small town laugh and call him names. Georgie hears about a new...
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Dora and the Yellow Strawstack
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Dora and Henry are so excited about the harvest crew gathering in the field behind their house. There are horses, wagons, and all kinds of interesting machines. Look! There’s their father, driving his tractor. It’s 1929, and life on the farm is...
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The Tree of Life
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Charlotte lives with her grandfather in a house with a secret: The Tower Room. It is the one room in which she’s been forbidden to snoop. Charlotte, however, is eleven years old and has a mind of her own, and when she and her friend Henry hide...
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The Shiny House
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What secrets lurk inside the house of mystery? And what is its connection to the Louis Riel Rebellion of 1885? The gigantic historical house sits forlornly on the Saskatchewan prairie, its windows boarded and heavy locks securing the doors daring...
