Norma Charles

Last Chance Island

Ten-year-old Sophie LaGrange uses her comic-book alter ego to combat the drudgery of her life in 1949 British Columbia, and adventures ensue as the school year begins.

Sophie Alias Star Girl to the Rescue

Criss Cross, Double Cross

Star Girl flies again in this sequel to the bestselling, award-winning Sophie Sea to Sea. Starting her new classes at the new French school in British Columbia, Sophie is happy to escape the old Alderson Avenue School where stuck-up Elizabeth Proctor and her friends rule. But trouble develops when the teachers go on strike and Sophie is forced back into Alderson. Will she have to endure as an outcast? Or will she, like Star Girl, save the day with a daring rescue?

A Sophie Alias Star Girl adventure

James Heneghan

Nell has been in foster homes all her life—most of them have been horrible. She finally gets moved to a home she likes, and the ministry threatens to close it down unless an expensive renovation is made to the house. Nell and the two boys in the home, Billy and Tom, decide to raise the funds themselves. How do kids get large amounts of money quickly? By robbing banks, of course. Their first few heists are successful, but when they almost get caught on their sixth robbery, the friends start to fight about whether they should continue. The bank jobs that were meant to keep their family together just might tear it apart.

Bank Job

Harry Jerome is one of Canada?s forgotten heroes. From a skinny little kid growing up in St. Boniface, Manitoba, he rose to become ?the fastest man in the world,? a title he held for an incredible eight years in the 1960s. He achieved this, despite having to battle the prejudices he and his family had to overcome, on account of their African-Canadian heritage.

Harry Jerome, World's Fastest Man

Runner

Norma M. Charles

Eleven-year-old Sophie LaGrange's enthusiasm at spending the summer of 1950 at Camp Latona on Gambier Island is dampened by being paired with a disagreeable girl from a refugee camp in France and having to hide her "Star Girl" comics.

Sophie's Friend in Need

Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with her family. In 1949, the year Newfoundland joins Confederation, Sophie soars over flooded prairies, dinosaur badlands, and the peaks of the Rockies. Each chapter is a snapshot of provincial history and an adventure in which she flies her cape, and the flag, in the name of Stars everywhere!

Norma Charles

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