Counting on Hope (Paperback)

Award-winning writer Sylvia Olsen's sensitively drawn depiction of innocence lost and wisdom hard won, "Counting on Hope" tells the story of an English girl named Hope and a Lamalcha girl named Letia, whose lives are profoundly changed when their two cultures collide. The action is set against the backdrop of the confusing events surrounding the English colonization of British Columbia and an 1863 naval assault on Kuper Island. Alternating between free verse and prose, "Counting on Hope" follows the girls' individual story lines before, during and after their meeting. The novel captures the wonder and joy with which Hope and Letia develop their friendship and describes the tragic events, suspicion, fear and confusion that characterize so many early encounters between Europeans and the First Peoples. Ultimately a story of hope, the novel follows the two girls out of childhood, off their island paradise and into the complex realities of an adult world.

General

Imprint:	Sono NIS Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	March 2010
Authors:	Sylvia Olsen
Dimensions:	228 x 171 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-1-55039-173-2
Categories:	Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > General
LSN:	1-55039-173-9
Barcode:	9781550391732

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