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Shire Summer
Shire Summer
Shire Summer
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Shire Summer

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World War II is over, her father is home safe and Annie McLeods parents are building a new life. But its not quite the life this 12 year- old wants. Most of their beautiful house on the Scotlands Fife coast is filled with paying summer guests and Annie has just had to move schools again. But when the polio epidemic strikes and Annie is asked to share her tiny attic room with her six-year-old cousin, Moira, it is almost too much to bear.

In an effort to ease her frustrations Annie sneaks into her fathers workshop to build a toy for Moira and accidentally breaks one of his treasured model boats. However, her secret repairs to the damaged William Morr prove so skilful that she comes to believe the boat has magical powers, not only for her, but for Moira too. To test her theory she lends the boat to her pal Hamish, who, in one horrible moment, loses it to the sea. Then news follows that Moira is ill.

Knowing her parents would never agree to her death-defying schemes to recover the William Morr, Annie concocts a complicated plan of deception, and once caught in the tide of her own scheming, there is no turning back. The journey is hair-raising, her discoveries astounding and the course of her life is altered in ways she would never have dreamed possible.

Shire Summer is a compelling read, whether the reader is a young adult, or an adult who remembers what it means to be young.
--Matthew Bin, former National Chair, Canadian Authors Association

LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 17, 2015
ISBN9781480822764
Shire Summer
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Noelle Jack

Noelle Jack A career teacher and librarian, NOELLE JACK has loved books and writing all her life. Her family immigrated to Canada in the early 1950’s but instead of the promised ranch in Alberta they settled in Montreal. The spirit of this time and these places live in the pages of Being Pete, her second novel.

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