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In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility-much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that dont include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Ph�nix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life 'back on track'. Elodie is raised...
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Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit-the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.
In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility-much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage...
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The Home for Unwanted Girls: The heart-wrenching, gripping story of a mother-daughter bond that could not be broken, inspired by true events by Joanna Goodman: Conversation Starters
Fifteen-year-old Maggie is the daughter of a poor French woman and a middle-class Englishman in post-war Quebec. She falls in love with a poor French boy, Gabriel Phenix, who lives in the next farm but her father looks down on the relationship. She becomes pregnant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Una joven esquimal se pierde en el r̀tico, gracias a su sentido comn͠ y a su valor logra sobrevivir.
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2019.
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En el Quebec de los a©łos 50, franceses e ingleses se toleran a duras penas; tal como sucede entre los padres de Maggie. El padre de Maggie es un angloparlante con grandes ambiciones para su hija que no incluyen un matrimonio con Gabriel Ph©♭nix, un joven franc©♭s y pobre que vive en la granja de al lado. Sin embargo, el coraz©đn de Maggie le pertenece por completo. Cuando queda embarazada a los quince a©łos, sus padres la obligan a dar...