Holeman, Linda

Collection of ten short stories depicting teenage responses to such issues as love, self-image, growing up, and the loss of a parent.

Fourteen-year-old Rosetta faces unimagined hardships when she and her small sister Flora arrive in Canada after surviving a perilous journey across the sea, only to have their dreams of a family crushed.

Mercy tries to cope with a family in which everyone has a major psychological problem.

In order to have money for the drams of opiate that take away the pain of her injured hand and of poverty, Emmaline Rote's mother sells her young son, Tommy, to a master chimney sweep. Emmaline is determined to find her brother and to save him from the short life of a chimney sweep.

In order to have money for the drams of opiate that take away the pain of her injured hand and of poverty, Emmaline Rote's mother sells her young son, Tommy, to a master chimney sweep. Emmaline is determined to find her brother and to save him from the short life of a chimney sweep.