Mary Pickford’s ambition, passion, innate talent, and savvy business acumen sent her career into the stratosphere and set the blueprint for the modern movie star. Born Gladys Louise Smith in 1892...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary: -
Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Living in grim Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Frannie, Ivy Chalmers has never met her father. In 1931, Frannie sends twelve-...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:2013 Speaker’s Book Award — Shortlisted Laura Secord is now famous for her singular feat of bravery during the War of 1812, but did she warn the British and help defeat the American invaders as...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Twelve-year-old Martin Jessup, teller of tall tales and other untruths, cannot understand his sister’s objections to the family’s move from Winnipeg to small-town Ontario. With Dad in the military...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:It’s an exciting time for seventeen-year-old Libby, as she announces to her aunt that she plans to leave Toronto in the 1950s to spend the summer living alone in the empty family home in Pinkney...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Thirteen-year-old Mark Rogers knew that his Grandpa Luigi had Alzheimer’s but he hadn’t counted on it turning his life upside-down. When his mother suggests that the two of them move in with...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Thirteen-year-old Norah Bingham and her mother plan to spend Christmas in the country with Caroline Stoppard, Norah’s great-aunt. When her mother is called away on business, Norah goes on her own...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Thirteen-year-old Jane Covington doesn’t want to go to Sky Lake to visit her grandmother for the summer holidays - she wants to visit her father in the north. But when she returns to the cottage...
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Author: Larsen, Wayne, Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: nineteenth century railway builder William...
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Author: Ferguson, Julie H., Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Larsen, Wayne, Stewart, Sharon, Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson...
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Author: Fitzgerald, Judith, Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Braid, Kate, Rigelhof, T.F., Plante, Raymond, Slade, Arthur, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Stewart, Sharon, Macpherson, Margaret, goodall, lian, Paulin, Marguerite, Legaré, Francine, Evans, Gary, Cowley, Deborah, Shardlow, Tom, Kirk, Heather, Cimon, Anne, Vanasse, André, Larsen, Wayne, Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Ferguson, Julie H., Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy Dymond, Sadlier, Rosemary, Argyle, Ray, Tidridge, Nathan, Martin, GedSummary:This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:Molly Brant, a Mohawk girl born into poverty in 1736, became the consort of Sir William Johnson, one of the wealthiest white men in 18th-century America. Suspected of being a spy for the British...
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Author: Leavey, Peggy Dymond, Stewart, Sharon, Sadlier, Rosemary, Butts, EdwardSummary:Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series profiling prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these four books, we explore the cultural heritage at the roots of Canada’s present-day...
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Author: Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Leavey, Peggy Dymond, Evans, GarySummary:Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these books we explore the lives of some Canadian pioneers in the world of performing...
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Author: Ferguson, Julie H., Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Larsen, Wayne, Stewart, Sharon, Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson...