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“laura e williams”

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  • Behind the Bedroom Wall

    A Novel of Nazi Germany

    by Laura E. Williams ...
    "For the sake of my own—and everyone's—grandchildren, I hope there will never be an end to the flow of stories that speak of history and to the human heart." —Lois Lowry, Newbery Award–winning authorWinner of the Milkweed Prize for Children's LiteratureIt is 1942. Korinna, a thirteen-year-old girl in Germany, is an active member of the local Jungmädel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slant

    by Laura E. Williams ...
    Lauren, a Korean American adoptee, is best friends with the prettiest girl in school. Julie has an endless amount of confidence. Lauren doesn't. It's not that she wants to look like everyone else in her suburban Connecticut school—she'd just be happy if Sean, the cutest boy in her class, noticed her. And she could do without the names, too. Like "Slant."When Sean slips one day and calls her by the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Can Man

    by Laura E. Williams ...
    Illustrated by Craig Orback ...
    To earn money, a young boy decides to collect and redeem empty soft drink cans, but ends up giving away his money to help a local homeless man.Tim's birthday is just a week away, and more than anything he wants a skateboard. But money is tight, and Tim knows his family cannot afford to buy him a board.As Tim ponders how he might earn money for a skateboard, he hears The Can Man down the street ... Read more

    $12.95 USD

  • The Ghost Stallion

    by Laura E. Williams ...
    I didn't have no hope of seeing the ghost stallion but I looked anyway. 'Course he wasn't really a ghost. He was flesh and bone, with blood running through him so wild that nobody tried to break him.Since Ma ran off, Pa doesn't pay much attention to Mary Elizabeth. Maybe it's because she doesn't look anything like Pa, with her long black hair and brown eyes. Or maybe it's because of something that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Up a Creek

    by Laura E. Williams ...
    A thoughtful coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to connect with her eccentric mother."I picked up my poster, raising it so everyone could see that if they chopped down these old oak trees, they'd be killing the South as well. I held it high like I meant it, and I walked around Oak Square forty-six more times that day, till all that was left of the sun was a buttery smear in the sky ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Executioner's Daughter

    by Laura E. Williams ...
    The riveting tale of an executioner's daughter who struggles to find a different path in lifeBorn into the family of an executioner, Lily has always been sheltered by her mother from the horrors of her father's occupation. But when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse, Lily is suddenly thrust into the paralyzing role of executioner's assistant. Aside from preparing healing concoctions for ... Read more

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    Kataryna Baliuk, a gifted fine arts student, is hoping to have a fresh start at Cawthra School for the Arts after a less-than-successful year at the neighbouring Catholic high school.But her hopes for a peaceful Grade 10 are shattered when she comes home from her first day at Cawthra and finds the RCMP interrogating her grandfather, Danylo Feschuk. Kat learns that Danylo is accused of being a ... Read more

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  • Underground Soldier

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    A companion to the award-winning books Stolen Child and Making Bombs for Hitler.Fourteen-year-old Luka works as an Ostarbeiter in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, alongside Lida from Making Bombs for Hitler. Desperate to escape the brutal conditions of the labour camp, he manages to get away by hiding in a truck under a pile of dead bodies.Once free, Luka joins a group of Ukrainian resistance ... Read more

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  • Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past

    The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948

    by Carol Matas ...
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    A young Jewish girl recounts her experiences during a horrifying time in recent history.As Rose begins her diary, she is in her third home since coming to Winnipeg. Traumatized by her experiences in the Holocaust, she struggles to connect with others, and above all, to trust again.When her new guardian, Saul, tries to get Rose to deal with what happened to her during the war, she begins writing in ... Read more

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  • Kenilworth

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    Mel and her mother, Cecily, know what it’s like to live rough, whether it’s on the streets or in the apartment of an abusive man.When Cecily announces that they’ve had enough and that they are going to go home to her mother’s, Mel dreams of security, a comfortable bed, and a grandmother’s love seem to be about to come true. But some mistakes cannot be easily forgiven or erased. Her grandmother is ... Read more

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    Coping with being poor during the Depression is hard enough, but Sally also has to contend with anti-Jewish sentiment when she ventures outside her familiar neighbourhood near Toronto's Kensington Market. Her cousin Benny is always getting into scrapes or dragging Sally into his hare-brained schemes. But it's also Benny who tries to open Sally's eyes to the wider world, telling her about Hitler's ... Read more

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