Abigail’s Wish
Spring. Beautiful blossoms. Chirping peepers. Trees swaying in their new greenery. Pussy willows glistening in furry white coats. Rain and warmth. New births and new… Read More
By: Gloria Ann Wesley (CA)
Spring. Beautiful blossoms. Chirping peepers. Trees swaying in their new greenery. Pussy willows glistening in furry white coats. Rain and warmth. New births and new… Read More
By: Helene Boudreau (CA)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, Evangeline, tells the story of two young people deported from beautiful Acadie just before they are to be married and their search for each other that… Read More
By: Helene Boudreau (CA)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, Evangeline, tells the story of two young people deported from beautiful Acadie just before they are to be married—and their search for each other that lasts the rest of their… Read More
By: Anne C. Kelly (CA)
Fourteen-year-old Acadian Jacques Terriot is being deported with his family to the British colony of Massachusetts. He longs to escape and join his older brother in fighting with the French…. Read More
By: Danielle Marcotte (CA)
“He gets halfway up, screams and throws a stick towards the cougar, which hits it in the eye. The sound of his scream surprises the boy himself. He is full of a singular rage, of a refusal to die here, all alone. It’s… Read More
By: Danielle S. Marcotte (CA)
English description follows. Au pied des vestiges de Louisbourg s’agitent des bandits fort inquiétants. Alexis arrivera-t-il à s’échapper de leur emprise et à rejoindre sa famille au Nouveau-Brunswick ?… Read More
By: Joanne Jefferson (CA)
Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Evans is the privileged and naive only child of prominent New Englanders, part of a group of Planters who settled in Nova Scotia following the deportation of the Acadian people. As a… Read More
By: Marcia Pierce Harding (CA)
After a vicious storm aboard ship, fourteen-year-old Caleb is tossed into the Atlantic Ocean. Frightened and alone, he finds himself nudged awake. He’s been recovered by one of Sable Island’s legendary wild… Read More
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