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Domestic fiction. Fiction. Juvenile works. Livres d'images. Picture books. picture books.Munsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNKeefer, Janice Kulyk
Summary: In the summer of 1963 a group of Ukrainian-Canadian housewives compare the lost opportunities of their lives to the romance of the Taylor-Burton affair. Every summer the ladies gather up swimsuits and children and head to their lake cottages at Kalyna Beach, an enclave of Ukrainian immigrants. The husbands, some wealthy, some working class, stay in the city until the weekend, leaving the ladies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEEYee, Paul.
Summary: When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2001