The word for home

Title
: 
The word for home

Personal Author EPSB
: 
Joan, Clark

Summary
: 
"Sadie tries to provide her sister with love, but it's not easy. A moving story, set in pre-Confederation Newfoundland, of one girl's quest to save her family - and to find a home" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

Year Published
: 
2003

Physical Description
: 
286 p. ; 19 cm.

Note (Local)
: 
Paperback

Reading Grade level
: 
5-6.

Age Interest level
: 
10-13.

Grade Interest level
: 
3-6

Program Information
: 
Accelerated reader, level 6.5, points 13.0
 
Juvenile Literature

Awards
: 
Geoffrey Bilson Award, 2003

Subject
: 
Sisters -- Fiction.
 
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
 
Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
 
Maturation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
 
Boarding schools -- Fiction.
 
Family -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.
 
Historical Fiction -- Canadian.
 
Father-daughter relationship -- Fiction.
 
School stories.
 
Schools -- Fiction.
 
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction

Geographic Term
: 
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Social conditions -- 1900-1949 -- Fiction.
 
Newfoundland -- Fiction.

Summary
: 
"Sadie tries to provide her sister with love, but it's not easy. A moving story, set in pre-Confederation Newfoundland, of one girl's quest to save her family - and to find a home" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

ISBN
: 
9780141005027

Publisher
: 
Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2003.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
WestbrookF CLABook30197000134484Historical Fiction