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One Year Commencing
*Shortlisted for a 1998 Canadian Library Association Award
Al is a high-spirited 12-year-old with a close group of friends, all on the brink of their teen years. She lives with her mother in a small Alberta community and spends a month each summer with her father in Toronto. Out of the blue comes a court order insisting that she live with him for a whole year.
Al's strength of character is tested to the limits by her loneliness, her homesickness for her friends, and by the realities of life in a big city.
Al is a high-spirited 12-year-old with a close group of friends, all on the brink of their teen years. She lives with her mother in a small Alberta community and spends a month each summer with her father in Toronto. Out of the blue comes a court order insisting that she live with him for a whole year.
Al's strength of character is tested to the limits by her loneliness, her homesickness for her friends, and by the realities of life in a big city.
- GenresCanada
149 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1997
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Kathy Stinson
50 books76 followersKathy Stinson, author of internationally acclaimed Canadian children's classic, Red is Best and the TD Award Winner, The Man with the Violin, also writes novels, short stories, and nonfiction for young people of all ages.
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