As daughter of Edward Schreyer, governor general of Canada and premier of Manitoba, and great-granddaughter of Anton Schreyer, late-nineteenth-century immigrant and pioneer, Karmel Schreyer grew up in a tradition of both pioneer simplicity and political activism. After more than a decade of globetrotting, Schreyer returns from her Hong Kong home ...
In this much-anticipated third and final installment of the Naomi series, Naomi is now 17 and living in Lombok, Indonesia, when Islamic extremists bomb the nearby tourist resort of Bali. Coming on the heels of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, Naomi once again has to struggle with the cultural divide between Asia and the West. This divide is ...
Naomi is 12 years old, the time in a girl's life when all she wants to do is fit in -- which she does, living in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, with her family and friends. Then her parents divorce, and her mother decides to move to Japan, where the young strawberry blonde who resembles a modern day Anne of Green Gables sticks out like a sore thumb ...
For a Canadian teen, even one like Naomi who has travelled the world, the reality of life in China comes as a harsh surprise. This sequel to Naomi: The Strawberry Blonde of Pippu Town takes place three years later as Naomi, now 15, and her mother move to Hong Kong. Here Naomi ventures outside of the sheltered world of a tourist and meets Chen, an ...
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