Lesia's dream
Title
:
Lesia's dream
Personal Author EPSB
:
Laura, Langston
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Lesia can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukrainian hometown in order to flee to Canada. Dreaming of wealth, security and gold fields of wheat, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada free from poverty and rumours of war. But the 160 acres of hardscrabble prairie look nothing like the wheat fields of her dreams. And even though there is no fighting in her new country, the first World War follows them there.
Year Published
:
2005
Physical Description
:
258 pages ; 18 cm
Edition
:
First mass market edition.
Program Information
:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.1 7.0 73796
Gr. 7+
Accelerated Reader
6.9
Subject
:
Ukrainians -- Canada -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Manitoba -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada -- Fiction.
Determination (Personality trait) -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Lesia can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukrainian hometown in order to flee to Canada. Dreaming of wealth, security and gold fields of wheat, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada free from poverty and rumours of war. But the 160 acres of hardscrabble prairie look nothing like the wheat fields of her dreams. And even though there is no fighting in her new country, the first World War follows them there.
ISBN
:
9780006392842
Publisher
:
Toronto : HarperCollins, [2005]
©2005
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Elizabeth Finch | F LAN | Book | 31459000013533 | Fiction |