Lesias Dream

Lesias Dream

by Laura Langston
Lesias Dream

Lesias Dream

by Laura Langston

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Overview

FIFTEEN-YEAR OLD LESIA can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukrainian hometown in order to flee to Canada. Dreaming of fields of wheat, wealth and security, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada, free from poverty and rumours of war. But the 160 acres of hardscrabble prairie look nothing like the wheat fields of her dreams. And even though there is no fighting in her new country, the First World War follows them there.

SHORTLISTED FOR
The Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award, The Snow Willow Award and The Rocky Mountain Book Award


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780006392842
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 01/24/2005
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 4.75(w) x 7.12(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Laura Langston is the author of several books for children and adults. Lesia’s Dream recently won for the Kobzar Literary Award, Canada’s newest national book award. It was also nominated for three other children’s choice awards. Mile-High Apple Pie, her recent picture book, was nominated for the OLA’s Blue Spruce Award; The Fox’s Kettle was nominated for a Governor General’s Award for Illustration; and Pay Dirt! was nominated for the Red Cedar and Silver Birch Awards. A former writer and broadcaster for the CBC, Laura Langston also writes regularly for Canadian Gardening magazine and has authored a book on herb gardening. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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