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Thirteen-year-old Katie is an unwilling summer guest in the Victorian home of her Halifax grandparents. All she wants to do is stay in her attic bedroom and brood. Disgruntled over her new stepmother's pregnancy and how a baby might affect her life, Katie takes refuge in her dreams of playing the part of the disagreeable orphan Mary Lennox in the upcoming school production of The Secret Garden. When Katie sees a shadow on her bedroom wall of an old-fashioned girl holding a flower, she tries to convince herself it is caused by moonlight. But the girl reappears and shares her life with Katie, reaching across the years to her. Is she a ghost? As Katie searches for some tangible evidence of the girl's presence, she discovers a package of letters from World War I containing clues to a bygone time when British orphans were sent to Canada as Home Children. In this haunting journey of a young girl looking for answers and an orphan girl from the past who tries to provide them, award-winning novelist Irene N. Watts uncovers a tale about the real meaning of family.

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Thirteen-year-old Katie is an unwilling summer guest in the Victorian home of her Halifax grandparents. All she wants to do is stay in her attic bedroom and brood. Disgruntled over her new stepmother's pregnancy and how a baby might affect her life, Katie takes refuge in her dreams of playing the part of the disagreeable orphan Mary Lennox in the upcoming school production of "The Secret Garden.
When Katie sees a shadow on her bedroom wall of an old-fashioned girl holding a flower, she tries to convince herself it is caused by moonlight. But the girl reappears and shares her life with Katie, reaching across the years to her. Is she a ghost? As Katie searches for some tangible evidence of the girl's presence, she discovers a package of letters from World War I containing clues to a bygone time when British orphans were sent to Canada as Home Children. In this haunting journey of a young girl looking for answers and an orphan girl from the past who tries to provide them, award-winning novelist Irene N. Watts uncovers a tale about the real meaning of family.

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Title Flower
Author Irene N. Watts
Binding Paperback
Edition Apparent First
Pages 192
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Tundra Books (NY), U.S.A.
Date March 8, 2005
ISBN 9780887767104 / 0887767109
Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
Dimensions 7.24 x 5.48 x 0.39 in (18.39 x 13.92 x 0.99 cm)
Ages 09 to 12 years
Grade levels 4 - 7
Reading level 790
Library of Congress subjects Domestics, Stepmothers
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004110125
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

Quill & Quire, 01/01/2005, Page 35
School Library Journal, 06/01/2005, Page 172
Voice of Youth Advocates, 04/01/2006, Page 67

About the author

Irene N. Watts is a writer, playwright, and drama consultant who has worked throughout Canada and Europe. She is the author of three award-winning novels about the Kindertransport, including Good-bye Marianne, Remember Me, and Finding Sophie, which have been published in the United Kingdom and translated into Italian. She also co-edited Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People with Lillian Boraks-Nemetz. Irene N. Watts lives in Vancouver.

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Toronto: Tundra Books, 2005. Apparent First. Paperback. Very Good +. 180 p.; YA novel; historical fiction. Thirteen year old Katie is reluctantly spending the summer in her grandparents' Victorian home in Halifax. Her encounter with a shadowy girl who apppears in her attic bedroom leads her to discoveries about her family history and a reappraisal of her relationship with her stepmother and new sibling. Minor wear.

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