Dear Canada Christmas Story No 3 Something That Matters

Author : Carol Matas
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124192
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 3: Something That Matters written by Carol Matas and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Holiday cheer really does go a long way. Devorah is still trying to make others aware of the desperate plight of Jews in Europe under Hitler's Nazi regime. And she's still worried about her brothers overseas, one a pilot with the RAF, one in a Japanese POW camp. A forced visit with her no-nonsense Zionist grandmother, and helping out a neighbour who has lost two sons to the War, give Dev a different take on what really makes a difference in people's lives. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Maxine Trottier, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Devorah, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book Turned Away. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

Author : Maxine Trottier
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124206
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 4: These Three Gifts written by Maxine Trottier and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Gifts from the heart are the best gifts of all. Genevieve feared for her brother's life when he and his friend fought to defend New France against the British siege of their city. Their hopes came undone in one day following a fierce battle on the Plains of Abraham. With Quebec in British hands, everything - everything - changed! And now another shift in their fortunes brings a new challenge. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Genevieve, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book The Death of My Country. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday

Author : Julie Lawson
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124214
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 5: When War Hits Home written by Julie Lawson and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Rekindling a treasured friendship helps a young girl understand the meaning of Christmas. Charlotte and her brother Luke, a soldier serving overseas during World War I, frequently exchange letters. Charlotte fears for his safety, for the worst she can imagine is that Luke will not come home from the war. She's still a year away from knowing how her own life will be changed when a munitions ship in Halifax Harbour catches fire, causing the largest man-made explosion in history and flattening the city of Halifax. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Maxine Trottier, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Charlotte, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book No Safe Harbour. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

Author : Sarah Ellis
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124222
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 6: Reading Henry written by Sarah Ellis and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! A Christmas wedding is just the thing to bring everyone together. Flora longed for a family of her own after living in an orphanage for almost ten years. She found one with her aunt and uncle, though she spent long hours at the woollen mill, where the work was sometimes dangerous. When that danger strikes close to home, it is time for yet one more move, and trying to get along with new relatives. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Jean Little, Karleen Bradford, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Flora, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book Days of Toil and Tears. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124176
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 1: Untangling Christmas written by Jean Little and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Share in the excitement leading up to Christmas morning. During the euphoria towards the end of World War I, a different enemy stalked the land, killing by the hundreds and thousands. First Fee's twin Fanny, then her older sister Jemma, caught the dreaded Spanish Flu. Fee's family struggled to pick up the pieces, to put the War behind them, to face an even deadlier enemy. But finally, there is bright spot on the Macgregor family's horizon. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Sarah Ellis, Maxine Trottier, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Fee, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book If I Die Before I Wake. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

Author : Julie Lawson
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124230
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 7: The Daft Days of Christmas written by Julie Lawson and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Celebrate the holidays with someone new. After growing up at bustling Fort Edmonton on the Prairies, Jenna found it hard to follow the stricter rules at the more "civilized" Fort Victoria. Even with new friends and different family ties, she still treasures her exciting make-believe world of Villains and Heroes. Adventure is never far from Jenna's mind . . . and sometimes it erupts right into her life. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Jenna, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book Where the River Takes Me. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780439969000
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brothers Far from Home written by Jean Little and published by Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canada has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. It has been two long years since Eliza's beloved older brother, Hugo, went away to war. Caught up in his enthusiasm, she couldn't understand her parent's less-than enthusiastic reaction. Now that her other brother Jack has also enlisted, she yearns for the safe return of both brothers. If only she had a friend that she could talk to about her feelings....

Author : Karleen Bradford
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443133744
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas written by Karleen Bradford and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new! A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Île; Mary Kobayashi spends a second Christmas at a Japanese internment camp; Rose Rabinowitz finds some surprising challenges in her new country, and many more! A Special Gift is a story from Ojibwe writer Ruby Slipperjack to preview her upcoming Dear Canada (coming in Fall 2016!), set the winter before the diarist is sent to Residential School. Contributors include Jean Little (Exiles from the War and All Fall Down), Barbara Haworth- Attard (To Stand on My Own), Sarah Ellis (That Fatal Night), Susan Aihoshi (Torn Apart), Norah McClintock (A Sea of Sorrows), Karleen Bradford (A Country of Our Own), Janet McNaughton (Flame and Ashes), Carol Matas (Pieces of the Past), and Ruby Slipperjack.

Author : Sarah Ellis
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124168
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 12: Lo, the Perfect Plan written by Sarah Ellis and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Join the lively Christmas pageant and you'll be in for a big surprise. The homesteading life that Ivy and her family were promised when they emigrated from England to the Canadian West turns out to be a pipe dream. Some settlers gave up and headed back home to England; others stayed on, trying to scrape out a living. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Ivy, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book A Prairie as Wide as the Sea. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124265
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Canada Christmas Story No. 10: Like a Stack of Spoons written by Jean Little and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! See how love brings this family even closer together at Christmastime. Eliza's brothers both enlisted to fight in World War I. On the Home Front there were coal shortages, rationing, heart-stopping news of soldiers missing or dead. While praying for her brothers' safe return, and longing for her very own friend, Eliza's greatest comfort was the warmth of her exuberant and loving family. But Christmas Day 1919 brings a new challenge. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada's top writers for children, including Sarah Ellis, Karleen Bradford, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Eliza, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book Brothers Far from Home. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!