Dear Canada: A Country of Our Own

by Karleen Bradford

Overview

As the rest of the country gears up for Confederation, Rosie's life is about to be pulled apart.

It's 1866. The year before Confederation. And the year Rosie's life turns upside-down.

She has just gone into service with Mr. Bradley, a civil servant working in Quebec City, the bustling capital of the Province of Canada. When the capital is moved to the rough sawmill town of Ottawa, the Bradleys have to move there too. Rosie will desperately miss her own parents and siblings, and wonders if she will ever have a place in her own family again.

Karleen Bradford draws on her own experience as the wife of a diplomat in Ottawa and embassies around the world to craft this authentic portrait of a young girl displaced in the whirlwind of government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443128506
Publisher:	Scholastic Canada Ltd
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Series:	Dear Canada
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	323,016
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Karleen Bradford is the beloved, award-winning author of many novels. Though her first book was not published until she was forty, the same year she became a pilot and a scuba diver, Karleen cannot remember a time when she didn't write. In grade four her friends whispered desperately to one another, "Run! Hide! Karleen's written another play and she's going to make us act in it." Karleen grew up in Argentina, then lived all over South and Central America and Europe as the wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She now lives and writes in Owen Sound, Ontario, with her husband, Jim, and a gentle gia