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Winds of L'Acadie.(Fiction: Grades 7-12)(Young adult review)(Book review)
Good, even great at times, generally useful!
DONOVAN, Lois
Winds of L'Acadie
Ronsdale Press, 2007. 214p. Gr. 6 up. 978-1-55380-047-7. Pbk. $9.95
As this book begins Sarah White has just arrived in Nova Scotia to spend the summer with her grandparents in Wolfville. The last time she visited her grandparents was fourteen years ago when she was two and there had been "a huge fight which her mother refused to talk about. After that they never went back." Sarah is not looking forward to what she expects to be a very dull summer. Her expectations are not heightened any when she meets Luke, the nephew of her grandparents friend--the first thing he does is spill eggs all over her at his aunt's farm market and then he and Sarah get caught in a windstorm in his sailboat off Cape Split in the Bay of Fundy. Nevertheless Luke and Sarah do become friends. However, Sarah keeps seeing a young Acadian girl and eventually she is transported back in time to the town of Grand Pre during the days leading up to the expulsion of the Acadian people by the British. She meets a young Acadian girl who takes her to her home where she is made welcome and lives as part of the family for a time, taking part in the daily work and experiencing the warmth of a closely-knit family. Back in her own time, Sarah attempts to learn as much as she can about the Acadian people and when she and Luke return to 1755 she tries to find a way to help her friends escape from the British ...
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