\t\t\t<p>Ten-year-old Cassie lives with her working-class family in 1919 Winnipeg. The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll, and workers in the city are frustrated with low wages and long hours. When they orchestrate a general strike, Cassie \u2014 bright, determined and very bored at school \u2014 desperately wants to help.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>She begins volunteering for the strike committee as a papergirl, distributing the strike bulletin at Portage and Main, and from her corner, she sees the strike take shape. Threatened and taunted by upper-class kids, and getting hungrier by the day, Cassie soon realizes that the strike isn\u2019t just a lark \u2014 it\u2019s a risky and brave movement.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>With her impoverished best friend, Mary, volunteering in the nearby Labour Caf\u00e9, and Cassie\u2019s police officer brother in the strike committee\u2019s inner circle, Cassie becomes increasingly furious about the conditions that led workers to strike.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>When an enormous but peaceful demonstration turns into a violent assault on Bloody Saturday, Cassie is changed forever.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>Lively and engaging, this novel is a celebration of solidarity, justice and one brave papergirl.<\/p>
\n\t\t\t<p>Financial assistance provided by the Manitoba Arts Council.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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