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Author:

Schwartz, Virginia Frances.

Title:

Messenger / Virginia Frances Schwartz.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Holiday House,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

vii, 277 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Silver mines and mining--Fiction.
Family life--Ontario--Fiction.
Single-parent families--Fiction.
Croats--Canada--Fiction.
Ontario--History--20th century--Fiction.
Canada--History--20th century--Fiction.
Silver mines and mining--Ontario--Juvenile fiction.
Croats--Ontario--Juvenile fiction.
Children of single parents--Juvenile fiction.
Poor families--Juvenile fiction.
Maturation (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Argent--Mines et extraction--Ontario--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Croates--Ontario--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Enfants de famille monoparentale--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Familles pauvres--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Maturation (Psychologie)--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Ontario--Social conditions--1918-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Ontario--Conditions sociales--1918-1945--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.

Summary:

Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.

ISBN:

9780823417162
0823417166

LCCN:

2002017108

Locations:

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)

RVPB135 -- Pomeroy Public Library (Pomeroy)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)