Charis Cotter

Despite their differences, the two girls Rose and Polly become friends and explore the uncertain world between life--and death.

The pace of life in Toronto picked up after 1919 and never slowed down again. During the 1920s and '30s, Toronto went through massive changes that affected the physical and the social life of the city. In these two decades between World War I and World War II, Toronto was finding its place in the swiftly changing world of the twentieth century. Toronto Between the Wars features 180 archival photographs of Toronto during this fascinating period. Each...

The whole world seemed to tilt at that moment, like a painting on a wall that gets knocked a little crooked. Everything she had known as real up until now was slightly altered, and she seemed to be standing on the edge of a huge, dark, trembling world that was just a little different than it had been one minute before. Ghosts were real. There is no dark like the Newfoundland dark. These ominous words beckon young readers onward in this spooky collection...

Ghosts, a family curse, buried secrets .. a summer they won't soon forget. --Provided by publisher.