Home Child
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2017
- Category
- General
- Recommended Age
- 9 to 12
- Recommended Grade
- 4 to 7
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780006393122
- Publish Date
- Dec 2003
- List Price
- $10.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781443452960
- Publish Date
- Mar 2017
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
The year is 1914. Thirteen-year-old Arthur is a "home child" who has just been sent from an orphanage in England to work on a Canadian farm. Sadie, a year younger, surreptitiously develops a friendship with Arthur despite her mother's warnings to keep away from him. Then Arthur saves the house from a fire she carelessly started. Will Sadie reciprocate by taking a stand for Arthur against her mother's rules?
Home Child explores how Home Children - and their American counterparts on the Orphan Train - experienced being displaced, enslaved and ostracized.
About the author
Barbara Haworth-Attard is the acclaimed author of 13 children’s books, including Theories of Relativity, winner of two teen choice awards—the Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan) and the Stellar Book Award (BC)—and finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Her other popular titles include A Is For Angst, Forget- Me-Not, Irish Chain and Flying Geese. Haworth-Attard lives with her family in London, Ontario. Visit her online at www.barbarahaworthattard.com.
Other titles by
Haunted
Forget-Me-Not
Flying Geese
Love-Lies-Bleeding
A Is for Angst
Theories Of Relativity
Irish Chain
Dear Canada: To Stand on My Own
The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937
Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas
Dear Canada: A Trail of Broken Dreams
The Gold Rush Diary of Harriet Palmer, Overland to the Cariboo, 1862