Margaret feels lost and alone, her family uprooted from their beloved Saskatchewan farm and relocated to London, where they're ridiculed for their patched clothes, bare feet and requests for credit at the local store. Only Margaret's unfinished quilt...
Rose Dunlea is slow. At least that is what she being constantly told by the Sisters at school in Halifax during the early 1900s. She's been held back twice now and if she fails again, next year she'll be in the same class as Winnie, her younger siste...
"Let's buy you some boobs," she said. Thanks to a freakish act of generosity on the part of her older sister, fourteen-year-old Teresa Tolliver is starting tenth grade with a brand-new bra--and the "womanly profile" she's always wanted. Maybe now...
Nathan is miserable. He's stuck in a new school with no friends and a bully who shadows him. His Dad never visits. And Katie - is she a witch-child? - is always underfoot. What's more, Nathan's given up on his beloved music, until he's drawn through ...
Still reeling from the death of her mother, Harriet sets out on a dangerous journey -disguised as a boy since no "petticoats" are allowed on the trip - determined to find her missing father in the gold fields of British Columbia's Cariboo....
The dark threat of polio becomes a reality for a young Prairie girl.In the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen's family must scrimp to make ends meet.In a horrible twist ...