After living in Canada for five years during World War II, ten-year-old Gavin and his fifteen-year-old sister Norah are now faced with the prospect of returning home to their family, but Gavin wants to stay in Canada, the only place he has known as home.
While visiting her cousins one summer Patricia discovers an old watch hidden under a floorboard. With it she is taken back in time to the summer when her own mother was twelve.
The experiences of a young girl and her small brother who are evacuated to Canada at the beginning of World War II and find that they will be staying with complete strangers.
With the end of World War II, Gavin and Norah, who had been sent to Canada for safety, must return to England after a five year absence, and Gavin is faced with the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Canadian family and his best friends.
The experiences of a young girl and her small brother who are evacuated to Canada at the beginning of World War II and find that they will be staying with complete strangers.
Theo, the ten-year-old daughter of a young and irresponsible mother, dreams of belonging to a family with two parents and brothers and sisters, and, with the help of a ghostly friend, little by little her life seems to get better.