Strawberry Moon

by Becky Citra

Overview

The year is 1838 and Ellie's grandmother has arrived all the way from England. Ellie is horrified to discover that the forbidding old woman intends to take her back to Britain to be raised properly. Ellie is determined that she will not go, but what can a nine-year-old girl do in the face of an adult with her mind made up?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554697243
Publisher:	Orca Book Publishers
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Series:	Orca Young Readers
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Becky Citra is the author of over twenty books, ranging from early chapter books to novels for young adults. She was an elementary school teacher for over twenty-five years and began writing for children in 1995. Becky's books have been shortlisted for and won many awards, including the Red Cedar Award, the Diamond Willow, the Silver Birch and the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. She lives in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Read an Excerpt

Grandmother's steel gray eyes flickered past me.
She saw the rows and rows of black stumps. She stared at them for a long time. Then she shuddered and said, "It's worse, much worse, than I ever imagined."