Thirteen-year-old Nathalie Vaughan struggles to save friends and neighbours on the night of Canada's Frank Slide disaster.
At 4:00 a.m., April 29, 1903, Nathalie lies awake in the booming coal town of Frank, at the base of Turtle...
Landslides
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Author:Draper, PennySummary: -
Author:Beveridge, CathySummary:In this fascinating historical novel, twelve-year-old Jolene travels back in time to the year 1903 and finds herself in the coal mining town of Frank on the eve of Canada's deadliest rockslide. Disguised as a boy, Jolene must face the...
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Author:Stagg, BruceSummary:The residents of Harbour Breton, a small fishing village in Newfoundland, claimed that it rained for forty days and nights.
For forty days and nights, a prevailing southwest wind off the Grand Banks brought persistent rain,...
- Author:Catton, EleanorSummary:
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will...
