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    If This Is Home
    If This Is Home
    If This Is Home
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    If This Is Home

    By Kristine Scarrow

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    When her mom is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Jayce searches for her estranged father, hoping he can fix everything.

    Jayce Loewen has had to take on a lot of responsibility over the years. Her single mom works two jobs and long hours, leaving Jayce in charge of her four-year-old sister most of the time. When her mom is diagnosed with cancer, Jayce decides to track down her long-absent father in the hope that he will be able to make everything okay again.

    Looking for her dad was one thing, but when she actually finds him, Jayce is in for a real shock. When everything in her life seems to be going wrong, Jayce has to figure out who her family really is, and how to live with the possibility of losing the person she loves most.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateJan 28, 2017
    ISBN9781459736511
    If This Is Home
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    Kristine Scarrow

    Kristine Scarrow is the author of young adult novels The 11th Hour,If This Is Home, and Throwaway Girl. She is currently the writer-in-residence at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon, where she teaches writing as a healing art in the community. Kristine lives in Saskatoon.

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