Travel to Canada’s past…
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 Journal 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.
Ms, Glassen reading Winds of L’Acadie to her students in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A team of fantastic authors, illustrators and storytellers on tour in northern Alberta. What a treat to visit the schools and enjoy the company of other literary artists courtesy of Young Alberta Book Society and Cenovus Energy.
Left to right: Robert Feagen (author) Gail DeVos (storyteller) Gerry Rasmussen (illustrator) me (author) Rita Felt (author) Karen Spafford-Fitz (author) Fun times!
The amazing David Poulsen, voice of The Calgary Stampede and talented author is my partner here at Le Goff School, Cold Lake, First Nations, Alberta. Again, courtesy of Young Alberta Book Society and Cenovus Energy.
Lana Shupe went all out with this Acadian flag inspired dessert and Nova Scotia tartan for the wrap up to her Winds of L’Acadie book club meeting. The ladies asked lots of interesting questions. Usually I speak to groups of young readers, which I love, and I have to admit, the questions were not so different. As it turns out, age doesn’t really matter and I enjoyed every minute with my adult readers.
