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All fall down

the landslide diary of Abby Roberts
2014
A young girl chronicles her struggles to survive when a landslide buries much of the town in which she lives.

Pieces of the past

the Holocaust diary of Rose Rabinowitz
2013
A young Jewish girl living in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948 is given a diary by her foster father so she can write down what happen to her in Poland during the Holocaust.

If I die before I wake

the flu epidemic diary of Fiona Macgregor
2007
Twelve-year-old Fiona Macgregor uses her journal to record her thoughts and fears about the Great War and the flu epidemic of 1918.

Not a nickel to spare

the Great Depression diary of Sally Cohen
2007
Sally Cohen struggles to cope with not only being poor during the Depression, but also with the growing anti-Jewish feelings in her community.

Where the river takes me

the Hudson's Bay Company diary of Jenna Sinclair
2008
Jenna Sinclair uses her journal to record the experiences she has while traveling with her family in the Hudson Bay Company.

Winter of peril

the Newfoundland diary of Sophie Loveridge
2005
Twelve-year-old Sophie Loveridge chronicles the experiences of her family as they spend one winter in Newfoundland during the early eighteenth-century.

A prairie as wide as the sea

the immigrant diary of Ivy Weatherall
2001
Ivy Weatherall records the events and her experiences in their family's trip from England to Canada in May of 1926.

Orphan at my door

the Home Child diary of Victoria Cope
2001
Presents the fictional diary of Victoria Cope, eleven years old in 1897, in which she describes events at her Canadian household when her mother becomes pregnant and the family takes in an orphan, or home girl, who quickly becomes dear to everyone's heart.

Blood upon our land

the North West Resistance diary of Josephine Bouvier
2009
Thirteen-year-old Josephine describes, in journal format, her mixed feelings about the North West Resistance against the white settlers in the late nineteenth century as the M?tis and allied First Nations fight for their way of life in Canada.

An ocean apart

the gold mountain diary of Chin Mei-Ling
2004
Presents a youth novel set in Vancouver during the 1920s about the effects of the Chinese Head Tax on a young girl's struggle to reunite her family.

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