Kirjahaku

When Chloe Murray's mother disappears from Wahmurra, Australia, the police and her family search everywhere. Nobody thinks of looking in the past.Four years later, Chloe herself is catapulted back to 1833 and hears stories about Lady Peter Kendricks. While she waits to meet the mysterious Lady Peter, Chloe makes friends with Thad Compton, a young convict.Life in 1833 is surprisingly hectic. Someone wants to kill her. Thad is always a hairsbreadth away from being flogged, and death is always close. Eventually she must choose between love and friendship in 1833 and her other life with her dad and grandmother with all the advantages of the twenty-first century.

Sophie Mallory's American family knows everything about fighting the British. It's the family tradition. But after she comes to Lower Canada in 1838, rebellion becomes personal when she's taken prisoner. Befriended by Luc, a young rebel, she comes to see its many sides - the deep wrongs underlying the passionate revolt, the politics, and the brutal savagery of its aftermath. This is no ordinary novel about our Canadian past. Its two wonderful characters face complicated problems of friendship, loyalty, and betrayal and begin questioning their families' political beliefs. In Sophie's Rebellion, Beverly Boissery deftly weaves adventure, excitement, sadness, humour, and personal growth.

Kidnapped, gagged and locked in a closet, six-year-old Beverley Boissery hoped for rescue with the fierce yearning of a wounded child. Through this experience, she learned that, no matter how bleak the situation, hope would sustain and support her.This transformational memoir is funny, poignant and, at times, desolate.