Barbara Haworth-Attard

Irish Chain (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 sister. Although the war against Germany seems far away, her most pressing fears are the words that inexplicably tumble together on the page whenever she tries to read them. They don't make sense to her. Isolated from her schoolmates and ashamed of her inability to read, Rose tries to escape into her Mam's Irish Chain quilt, a handmade emblem of the family's past, laden with love. But when that doesn't help, Rose desperately prays to God so that she doesn't have to go to school anymore. Exactly one day later on December 6, 1917, two ships explode in Halifax's harbor, resulting in the greatest human tragedy Canada has ever seen. Rose's life changes forever, and she's sure it's all her fault.

A stunned and grief-stricken Rose draws on the heroic stories of her great-grandmother stitched into the Irish Chain quilt to find her own courage and inner strength. Irish Chain is a beautifully moving story about awakening the gifts within.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Canada
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781443452977
• Artikelnr.: 47749962

Autorenporträt

BARBARA HAWORTH -ATTARD is an acclaimed children's author, enjoyed by critics and readers alike. Theories of Relativity was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, among other prizes, and Irish Chain was a Red Maple Honour Book, a Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Honour Book and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award. Her other popular titles include Forget-Me-Not, Flying Geese, Home Child, Dark of the Moon, Truth Singer and Love-Lies-Bleeding. Barbara Haworth- Attard lives with her family in London, Ontario. Visit her website at www.barbarahaworthattard.com.