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Hoist Your Sails & Run

by (author) Robin McGrath

Publisher
Creative Book Publishing
Initial publish date
Nov 1999
Category
General

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894294119
    Publish Date
    Nov 1999
    List Price
    $3.00

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 13 to 18
  • Grade: 8 to 12

Description

Knowing of an ancestor's confrontation with a legendary giant squid more than a century ago, Aquin White begins a high school science project on the mysterious creature and soon comes to learn of its importance to his family. Soon Aquin's world is turned upside down when he must come to terms with the ensuing death of his grandfather, his changing relationship with his best friend Emma and the fact that he may have to leave Newfoundland forever.

About the author

Robin McGrath is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Trouble and Desire (1995), Escaped Domestics (1998), Hoist Your Sails and Run (1999), Donovan's Station (2002),Covenant of Salt (2005), and Livyers World(2007).  She has published over two hundred pieces in magazines such as Beaver, Inuit Art Quarterly, Parchment, TickleAce, Fiddlehead and Room of One's Own. 

 

She is an occasional contributer to CBC Radio, has written and narrated three video scripts, had her first play staged in 2002, and is currently the non-fiction columnist for the St. John's newspaper The Telegram.

 

Robin was born in Newfoundland and lives in Labrador with her husband, provincial court judge, John Joy.  She is a member of The Writers Union of Canada and the Letterset Association of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Robin McGrath's profile page

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Nursery Rhymes of Newfoundland & Labrador

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Life on the Mista Shipu

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The Illustrated 'Ode to Labrador'

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Birchy Maid, The

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Hammered by the Waves

A Young Frenchman's Sojourn in Newfoundland in 1882-83

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The Winterhouse

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