The dark threat of polio becomes a reality for a young Prairie girl.In the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen's family must scrimp to make ends meet.In a horrible twist of fate, Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is placed in an isolation ward, unable to move her legs. After a few weeks she gains partial recovery, but her family makes the painful decision to send her to a hospital far away for further treatment.To Stand On My Own is Noreen's diary account of her journey through recovery: her treatment; life in the ward; the other patients, some of them far worse off than her; adjustment to life in a wheelchair and on crutches; and ultimately, the emotional and physical hurdles she must face when she returns home.In this moving addition to the Dear Canada series, award-winning author Barbara Haworth-Attard recreates a desolate time in Canadian history, and one girl's brave fight against a deadly disease.

Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new!A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Île; Mary Kobayashi spends a second Christmas at a Japanese internment camp; Rose Rabinowitz finds some surprising challenges in her new country, and many more!A Special Gift is a story from Ojibwe writer Ruby Slipperjack to preview her upcoming Dear Canada (coming in Fall 2016!), set the winter before the diarist is sent to Residential School.Contributors include Jean Little (Exiles from the War and All Fall Down), Barbara Haworth- Attard (To Stand on My Own), Sarah Ellis (That Fatal Night), Susan Aihoshi (Torn Apart), Norah McClintock (A Sea of Sorrows), Karleen Bradford (A Country of Our Own), Janet McNaughton (Flame and Ashes), Carol Matas (Pieces of the Past), and Ruby Slipperjack.

Still reeling from the death of her mother, Harriet sets out on a dangerous journey -disguised as a boy since no "petticoats" are allowed on the trip - determined to find her missing father in the gold fields of British Columbia's Cariboo.

Teresa s'apprête à entrer en Seconde. Cette année pourrait bien être la meilleure, ou la pire, de sa vie. Peut-être deviendra-t-elle enfin « une Branchée », à moins qu'elle ne soit reléguée au rang des « Craignos » ? Teresa est issue d'une famille mi-maltaise, mi-anglaise, catholique et complètement déjantée : sa mère retombe enceinte par accident à l'âge de 42 ans, son père est ultra-timide voire associable, son grand-père perd la boule, sa soeur est complètement hystérique depuis qu'elle prépare son mariage et son frère est loin d'être un modèle de gentillesse. En plus de ça, elle qui se sent plutôt moche et plate comme une planche à repasser, est complètement dingue de l'inaccessible AAA, l'Atrocement Adorable Adam.