Queen of hearts
By: Martha Brooks
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780888998286
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Hospitals; Tuberculosis; Fiction
Description: It's 1941, and Canada is two years into World War II. Meanwhile, in rural Manitoba, fifteen-year-old Marie-Claire Cote begins a war of her own as she and her brother and sister, all stricken with tuberculosis, are taken by their anguished parents to "chase the cure" at nearby Pembina Hills Sanatorium.