A young orphan and survivor of the Armenian genocide in Turkey is one of fifty boys chosen to make the long journey to Canada and a new life in Georgetown, Ontario. Based on the recollections of one of the original Georgetown Boys.
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Father buys an old mare to carry Archie and his brother to school every day but the stubborn old horse has other ideas about her place on the farm. In the battle of wills that follows, Bird gets a chance to show that she's not ready to go out to pasture just yet.
Ten-year-old Sal must spend Christmas with her grandmother in small town Ontario. Lonesome and bored, she finds an old-fashioned coat in an old trunk that takes her back in time to an earlier Christmas.
"This delightful Christmas collection vividly recreates the simple joys and hardships of homesteading life. Accompanied by beautifully realized paintings throughout" Cf. Our choice, 2002.
Henri has been living within abbey walls all his life. When Micah arrives, his voice and presence bring a fresh breeze into dead places.
A group of refugee orphans escape the Armenian genocide in Turkey and are sent to a farm in Georgetown, Ontario, where they must adjust to the unfamiliar habits and customs of their Canadian sponsors.
When an accident leaves her orphaned her life in the city of London is over. Nothing has prepared her for life on a dusty prairie farm in Canada.
Compares in rhyme the coats people wear to the coverings of a variety of animals.