After Pearl Harbor is bombed by Japanese forces, the Canadian government orders Ellen's best friend Amy Takashima and her family to leave Vancouver, because Japanese Canadians are suspected of being spies.
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When Ellen becomes sick she does a lot of thinking about how to cheer up her sick friend, and how to help the men who have enlisted for the war.
Three girls in Vancouver feel the effects of World War II, partly because one of them is of Japanese descent.
Unable to sleep, Jeffrey gathers many of his favorite things into bed with him and finally finds comfort from a very special friend.
Ellen who lives in Vancouver with her parents during the Depression must move to live with her grandfather and leave her friends behind. But she soon makes friends with Will who has to do odd jobs to support himself and who has no home at all, except a makeshift one in the hobo j...
Young Zachary is not happy when his new brother Cameron is born and steals away his parents' attention. Later though, Zachary becomes fond of him and wishes that it was just the two of them when their new baby sister is born.
"Anorexia? But that was a disease. I wasn't sick, I just wanted to be something special." Melanie Burton is quiet and good, and always gets top grades in school. But that's not enough anymore. She wants to be really special, and she thinks that being thin will do it. Melanie does...
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