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Gr 2–5—Moving from rural Saskatchewan to the city holds a lot of opportunity for a girl and her brother. The young protagonist experiences her share of apprehension as well, "This is where I live. I don't know Toronto. I know here." "Here" is first described as a single, trailer-lined road that runs from the dam that her father is working on to the school. Readers are then treated to the flora and fauna of the forest, hills, and creeks that the girl will miss. There'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Upon hearing the news that her family will be moving to Toronto, a little girl claims and names the details of her life in a one-road community of eighteen trailers, homes to the workers, like the girl's father, on a now-completed dam on the North Saskatchewan river. (Clothing and trailer design suggest that the dam is the E. B. Campbell Dam, completed in 1963.) The narrative is intensely first-personal, as the never-named little girl describes t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A little girl's family is moving from its one-road community in the wilderness to Toronto. The narrative is intensely first-personal, as t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More