This book written by Budge Wilson is a prequel to Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and explains how Anne became an orphan and how she came to leave the orphanage for a new life on Prince Edward Island.
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It's 1942, and Izzie Publicover's father has been accepted by the Canadian navy. Her family is moving to Dartmouth so that Izzie's mother can work. Making the most of her new circumstances, she soon befriends another recent arrival to her school, Patricia, who has been evacuated ...
"A sequel to the acclaimed Blue Jean Collection, Notes Across the Aisle contains the best stories from the 1994 cross Canada Young Adult Short Story Competition."-- Amazon
Meet Izzie, as she and her family prepare for a very special Christmas in their coastal Nova Scotia village. The year is 1941, and with soldiers, and ships crowding into nearby Halifax, World War II seems especially close at hand. But, this year, despite the war and rationing, Iz...
After their black cat Deirdre disappears, the Wilson family, living in Ontario, Canada, wonders if they will ever see her again.
Angus chooses to learn to play the fiddle, but it is not an easy instrument to learn.
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's house and who is as awkward as Franki...
It's 1945, and after hearing reports that the war is coming to an end, Izzie awaits the return of her father, but also wonders what will happen to her two best friends, Roberta and Patricia.
When Lorinda sees the red vase, she knows she has found the perfect Christmas present for her mother but doubts she can afford it. Her brother James and their friends come up with great money-making ideas, but they have to make sure that their two-year-old sister doesn't ruin the...
The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of ancient Egyptian magic spells and road maps to assist individuals through the underworld and into the afterlife.
Anne is finally off to college and the start of a new life outside the world of Prince Edward Island. But, as much as life changed, the important things stayed the same -- especially the irrepressible, and high-spirited Anne Shirley.
Duff and Simon do such a good job of acting out their favorite story "Jack the Giant Killer" that the police get called inches.