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Title Statement | Reading by lightning / Joan Thomas ; with an afterword by Lisa Moore. |
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Author | Thomas, Joan(Sandra Joan) |
Publication | Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane Editions, c2011. |
Extent of Item | 407 p. |
ISBN | 0864926642 (pbk.) 9780864926647 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2222710 |
General Notes | "Reader's guide edition"--Cover. |
Summary | For Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare, austere, and tucked in. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate has Lily on her way to England to care for her aging grandmother. There, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped. |
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By Topic | Families--Fiction |
Prairies--Fiction | |
By Location | England--Fiction |
By Genre | Bildungsromans |