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Visit Canada’s past through the magic of time-travel.
With the help of an authentic Mi’kmaq quill box, Sarah slips through time to the Nova Scotia of 1755. The Great Dispersement is heating up. Will Sarah be able to save her Acadian friends from deportation by the British soldiers?
“I love watching my children get really excited at the end of the book when you help them put all the connections together. I have read this book to my class for 12 years now and I never fail to get the gasps from them when Sarah gets the gift from her grandparents. If you had a couple of minutes to write back to them it would mean the world. Thanks for writing about such an important piece of history and giving me a way to teach it that my kiddies get.” Madame Peters, February, 2021 Geary Community School, New Brunswick
I’m always impressed by authors who write historical and Lois Donovan’s novel is no exception. What makes this book truly remarkable is the mix of modern and past. I think she did an amazing job of mixing the two timelines and more importantly, giving readers a historical overview of the Acadian Deportation without overwhelming us with information.
The novel is intense at times (like the scene where Sarah takes on two English soldiers) and heartbreaking, but it also has a wonderful mix of humour, action, and just the right amount of romance. This is definitely a book worth reading! Natasha Deen, author.
Kami receives a crazy offer involving her grandparents’ historic house in Edmonton. Not Kami’s idea of “her best year ever,” but her mother insists it will be the perfect opportunity to connect with her estranged father. When Kami discovers a journal from 1929, newspaper clippings send her hurling back in time where she becomes an eye-witness to two of Alberta’s biggest stories of the year. “Wop” May is about to make his historic Mission of Mercy flight and Emily Murphy and the Famous Five are fighting to have women declared persons in the British North America Act. As for Kami, well, she has her own battles to fight in 1929.
by Cara Smusiak, a writer and editor in Toronto. Quill and Quire
January/February 2015