![]() ![]() The supporting characters are an interesting lot, some of whom come to know and love Rebecca and want what’s best for her. She never appears to be a victim but a smart, curious girl who wants to know the truth. In Rebecca, she’s created a strong protagonist who has lived a strange life. Sharon Jennings has outdone herself with this fabulous page-turner that kids won’t want to put down. With the help of Phoebe, the mysterious neighbour in her new building, Rebecca begins to unravel the truth about her life. When Rebecca turns 12, she wants answers to her questions, but this makes her dad angrier than she’s ever seen him before. Rebecca’s dad has told her that all her family are dead and it’s just the two of them, but why aren’t there any photographs of anyone? She also wonders why she doesn’t go to school like other kids and wears baggy clothes from thrift shops. ![]() Rebecca lives with her dad, and they move around A LOT! Every time she gets to know the people in the neighbourhood where they live or make friends, her dad decides it’s time to move again. Get Published: The Writing for Children Kitįiction | Mystery | Family | Secrets | Abduction.Bibliovideo: Canadian Kids’ Books on YouTube.How You Can Help the CCBC – A resource for educators. ![]() Donate to the David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award.Donate to the Jean Little First Novel Award.Donate to Canadian Children’s Book Week.CCBC Articles of Continuance and By-laws. ![]()
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![]() ![]() in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. ![]() After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had an air of energy, self-confidence, ambition, joie de vivre. The Hickory Kid sort, he was a Hickory Kid on the deb circuit, however. At any moment his face was likely to break into a wild grin revealing the gap between his front teeth. Pete was a short, wiry, blond boy who joked around a lot. She had gone East to college, to Bryn Mawr, and had met her husband, Pete, at a debutante's party at the Gulph Mills Club in Philadelphia, when he was a senior at Princeton. Her father was a rancher in southwestern Texas. She looked a little like the actress Jean Simmons. But the day was young! And what a setting she had for her imminent enlightenment! And what a picture she herself presented! Jane was tall and slender and had rich brown hair and high cheekbones and wide brown eyes. Being barely twenty-one years old and new around here, Jane Conrad knew very little about this particular subject, since nobody ever talked about it. ![]() Something was part of the official Wife Lingo for tiptoeing blindfolded around the subject. Alice just called me, and she says something's happened …" She picked up the telephone and began relaying this same message to some of the others. Have you heard anything?" That was the way they phrased it, call after call. Listen, I just got a call from Betty, and she said she heard something's happened out there. ![]() Within five minutes, or ten minutes, no more than that, three of the others had called her on the telephone to ask her if she had heard that something had happened out there. ![]() ![]() Minorities in the novel are labeled with nicknames commonly used in the 1940s ("Yid," "spade," "coon," "boy") that the author makes clear are offensive. The Nazis force women and children into a church and set it on fire. Soldiers are blown up by underwater mines, "obliterated" by mortar shells, and cut down by machine guns. ![]() The violence builds as the day unfolds and becomes constant, vividly recounted, and sometimes unexpected, as characters that readers have come to know are killed or wounded. The novel interweaves the stories of young soldiers (two American infantrymen, two paratroopers from Canada, an African American medic, and a member of a British tank crew) and two young French girls. ![]() This is D-Day, just as the invasion of France by Allied forces fighting against Nazi Germany is about to begin. ![]() Parents need to know that Alan Gratz's novel, Allies, takes place from dawn until after nightfall on June 6, 1944. To German soldiers, the French are all "Frogs," and American soldiers call Germans "Krauts." There's one use of "hell" and two of "damn."ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() A Jewish soldier is called "Sid the Yid," a Cree Indian from Canada is "chief," and an African American has been called a "spade," "coon," and "boy" by white soldiers. Minorities in the novel are labeled with nicknames common in the 1940s that the author makes clear to readers are offensive and should never to be used. ![]() |