Children's Fiction Pre-confederation (to 1867)
Strawberry Moon
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2005
- Category
- Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Values & Virtues, Multigenerational
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554697243
- Publish Date
- Apr 2005
- List Price
- $6.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9 to 12
- Grade: 4 to 7
- Reading age: 9 to 12
Description
The year is 1838 and Ellie's grandmother has arrived all the way from England. Ellie is horrified to discover that the forbidding old woman intends to take her back to Britain to be raised properly. Ellie is determined that she will not go, but what can a nine-year-old girl do in the face of an adult with her mind made up?
About the author
Becky Citra is the author of over twenty books for children, ranging from early chapter books to novels for young adults. She was an elementary schoolteacher for over twenty-five years and began writing for children in 1995. Becky’s books have been shortlisted for and won many awards, including the Red Cedar Award, the Diamond Willow, the Silver Birch and the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. She lives in Bridge Lake, British Columbia. For more information, visit www.beckycitra.com.
Awards
- Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Awards
- Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Our Choice
Excerpt: Strawberry Moon (by (author) Becky Citra)
Grandmother's steel gray eyes flickered past me.
She saw the rows and rows of black stumps. She stared at them for a long time. Then she shuddered and said, "It's worse, much worse, than I ever imagined."
