Norma Charles

Boxcar Kid

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In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrive in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they'd move into hasn't been built. So the Godins have to make due with living in a railway boxcar with three other families. Luc's father and the many other newcomers to the Fraser Valley have come to work in the lumber industry. Their new home still has vestiges of the wilderness, and Luc and his family find find pioneering life difficult, especially as French speakers in a world of English. Luc's father, who becomes a teamster in one of the many lumber mills, is old-fashioned. Horses are what he knows, while Luc has an eye for… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-55488-501-5
EAN: 9781554885015
Produktnummer: 20458962
Verlag: Dundurn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 120 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'638 KB
Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 15 J.

Über den Autor

Norma Charles is the author of the bestselling picture book, See You Later, Alligator, and 11 previous children's novels, including the Sophie Alias Star Girl adventures with Dundurn, The Accomplish (nominated for a Sheila A. Egoff Award), and All the Way to Mexico (winner of the Chocolate Lily Award). She lives in Vancouver.