Mountain Girl River Girl concerns the lives of two girls with very different backgrounds who nevertheless have a few things in common. They have both grown up in the country, both come from poor families, and both are determined to seek a better life by leaving for the city and the prospect of a […]
Mimi has come to Canada to get away from a creepy professor who has abused her trust. Her father owns a cottage over a snye (a narrow channel) which he hasn't visited in years. He tells her she can have all to herself for as long as she needs. However, no sooner does she arrive, […]
It's the fall of 1982. The Cold War has taken a decidedly frostier turn now that Yuri Andropov has replaced Leonid Brezhnev as Chairman of the USSR. None of this would normally be important to your average New York City high school student. Rose is more interested in New Wave bands like The […]
Told from the alternating points of view of James Nelligan, a young orphan and Mary Finn, a teenage servant girl, this is an engaging and revealing work of historical fiction. Folly is a tale of the kind of rotten luck that could typically befall a poverty stricken youth in the largely unforgiving society of […]