When Lucy, a French-Canadian girl, allows herself to be talked into representing her school's eighth grade in a scholarship competition, she is surprised by the changes in others' attitudes toward her as well as by her own inner strengths.
A French-Canadian grandmother prepares her grandson for his first maple-sugaring party by describing the one she first enjoyed sixty years earlier, as well as the process of tapping the maple trees and making syrup and taffy.
In the summer of 1938, Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.
In Maine, retired French Canadian logger Jean du Bois and his grandson, Ti'Jean, rescue an orphaned moose calf who refuses to leave when it is grown. Meanwhile, Jean's work horse, Kate, grows too old to pull the plow.
On Christmas Eve, six French-Canadian trappers meet a mysterious stranger who gives them the gift of a trip to their homes in Montreal, if only they agree not to speak until they cross their own thresholds.
Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.
Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French-Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.
