Dear Canada: Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt
By: by Kit Pearson.
Series: Dear Canada
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Markham, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Ontario -- Niagara-on-the-Lake -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; Canada -- History -- 1791-1841 -- Juvenile fiction.; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Juvenile fiction.; Niagara Peninsula (Ont.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.; Canada -- History -- 1791-1841 -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: When war breaks out between the United States and Great Britain in 1812, eleven-year-old Susanna chronicles her experiences when her father and brother go off to fight leaving the women to fend for themselves on the family farm on the Niagara Peninsula of Upper Canada.