Trottier, Maxine

A captain's son becomes separated from his icebound ship, and in doing so, becomes part of the mystique surrounding the striking stone figures the Inuit call Inukshuk.

A young woman uses her journal to chronicle her journey from France to Canada.

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.

Anna, the child of Mennonites from Mexico who travel north to harvest fruit and vegetables, compares herself to various animals that share some of her behaviors, and wonders what it would be like to be a tree with deep roots as opposed to a feather in the wind.

Thirteen-year-old Josephine describes, in journal format, her mixed feelings about the North West Resistance against the white settlers in the late nineteenth century as the M?tis and allied First Nations fight for their way of life in Canada.

Genevieve Aubuchon, twelve-years-old in 1759, receives a journal for her birthday in which she records the details of her life in Quebec, New France, and her concerns that she may have to flee in the face of British invasion.

In 1666, thirteen-year-old H?l?ne chronicles her journey from France to Montr?al, New France, and her life in the new country as a "fille ? marier" or marriageable girl.

A captain's son becomes separated from his icebound ship, and in doing so, becomes part of the mystique surrounding the striking stone figures the Inuit call Inukshuk.