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His Banner Over Me

Jean Little - Author
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 224 pages | ISBN 9780140377613 | 25 Apr 2007 | 8 - 12 years
His Banner Over Me

For as long as she can remember, Flora Gauld has lived in Taiwan, but now her family is going home to Canada, a place she has only seen in pictures

At first she's a bit intimidated by all the cousins she meets in Kippen, Ontario, but after a while she begins to feel at home. Then her parents explain that they must go back to Taiwan, where they work as missionaries. Flora will be left behind with her aunt and uncle, whom she hardly knows, in yet another town. She is given the special responsibility of looking after her younger brother, William—but who will look after her?

With time, Flora is buoyed by the love of her Aunt Jen and her "adopted" family, but then the Great War begins, and Flora's world is turned upside down.

Based on the true story of Jean Little's remarkable mother, His Banner over Me brings a distant time and place to vivid life.

Violet Downey Book Award

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