Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival (Dear Canada)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0545986974 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Hoping for Home includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Doyle, Paul Yee, Irene N. . Watts, Ruby Slipperjack, Afua Cooper, Rukhsana Khan, Marie-Andrée Clermont, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz and Shelley Tanaka
About the AuthorHoping for Home includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Doyle, Paul Yee, Irene N. . Watts, Ruby Slipperjack, Afua Cooper, Rukhsana Khan, Marie-Andrée Clermont, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz and Shelley Tanaka
Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and girls, each one living at a different point in Canada's vast landscape and history. Hoping for Home includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Dowle, Paul Yee, Irene N. In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, expl
"I get to read this first! I didn't take children's lit in school for nothing!" according to Mary Corey. This is going on my bookshelf. Did not see the point to the collection Meghan U. I felt like some of these stories did not belong in a collection about finding home. Several were about topics covered in other Dear Canada books so they weren't as original or interesting. Two of the characters had the same name and one claimed to be about the atomic age when really it did not seem to be about anything. Not a significant addition to Dear Canada.