Dark spring
By: Kathy Stinson ; [map illustration, Sharon Matthews ; interior illustrations, Sharif Tarabay].
Contributors: Tarabay, Sharif, ill.
Series: Our Canadian girl.; bk. 1
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Family problems -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction.; Smallpox -- Fiction.; Montréal (Québec) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.; Montréal (Québec) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.; Canada -- History -- 1867-1914 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In Montréal, Québec in 1885, ten-year-old Marie-Claire, worried about sickness in the family, quits school to help at home after her fireman father is injured and her mother takes in work as a seamstress.
Notes: "Ages 8-12"--Cover p. [4].