Describes Quebec's history, its plants and wildlife, and some of its special places, and provides background on its coat of arms, flag, government seal, and official bird, flower, and tree.
Second grade is over and Jules is on her way to Quebec to film a spy movie, but she misses all her friends, and with only a hockey player and a diva starlet as cast mates in a place where nobody speaks English, she is feeling lonely--and her mother will not even let her go bungee-jumping.
Describes the preparations that began in summer to get ready for New Year's Day. The time is 1941 in Quebec as a young boy explores an important New Year tradition.
Genevi?ve Aubuchon, au temps de la bataille des plaines d'Abraham
Trottier, Maxine
2005
Orphan Genevi?ve Aubuchon is adopted by a family in Qu?bec after her village is destroyed and she worries about the fate of her brother who joined the fight to defend the colony against the English.
Fifty-year-old artist Clara Morrow, having survived her first solo show at the famed Mus?e in Montr?al, returns to her home in the tiny village of Three Pines for a celebration with close friends, but her high spirits are dashed when the body of an old art school classmate is found in her garden, leaving Chief Inspector Gamache to navigate the light and shadow of the art world in search of answers.