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Belonging Place
Jean Little
Paperback (Puffin Canada, Jan. 15, 2008)All her life, Elspet Mary seems to have known nothing but loss; her mother died, then her father, leaving her with her Aunt Ailsa and Uncle Will Gordon. Just as she is beginning to feel at home, she must go to the New World in Upper Canada. What awaits Elspet Mary in the strange new land?
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The Belonging Place
Jean Little
Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, Nov. 1, 1997)In the 1840s, a Scottish orphan is brought to Canada to live with distant family members, and she finds her strange new world difficult at first as she must learn to cope with her previously unknown relations, new surroundings, and a dramatically different way of life.
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The Belonging Place by Jean Little
Jean Little
Mass Market Paperback (Puffin, March 15, 1763)None
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The Belonging Place
Jean Little
Mass Market Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 1, 1998)seems young Elspet Mary has known nothing but loss. First her mother died, then her father, leaving her in the care if her aunt and uncle. With them, she has moved from one lonely Scottish village to another, and now, just as she is beginning to feel at home, she is being torn away again, to move to rugged Upper Canada. What awaits her in the strange new land? What will become of her grandmother, left behind in Scotland, and her beloved cat? Will she finally find a place to call home, a place where she belongs? Told in Jean Little's inimitable voice, this moving coming-of-age story explores loss, loneliness and love-and the universal search for a place to belong.
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