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Laura Secord

A Story of Courage

Laura Secord( )
Author: Lunn, Janet
Illustrator: Newhouse, Maxwell
ISBN:978-0-88776-538-4
Publication Date:Sep 2001
Publisher:Tundra Book Group
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

Laura Secord never thought of herself as brave. She was gentle, shy, and soft spoken. But Laura was brave, and Janet Lunn tells her compelling story. A war between Great Britain and the United States was raging. The American political leaders were sure they would win the war. “It will be a mere matter of marching,” they said. For two years, from the summer of 1812 to the winter of 1814, fierce and bloody battles were fought. One day in the spring of 1813,...
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Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Places / Canada
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.29 x 9.27 x 0.41 Inches
Book Weight:0.681 Pounds
Author Biography
Lunn, Janet (Author)
Janet Lunn was born in Dallas, Texas on December 28, 1928. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her first book, Double Spell, was published in 1968. Her other books include The Root Cellar, Come to the Fair, and Shadow in Hawthorn Bay. The Hollow Tree received the Governor General's Literary Award in 1998 and The Story of Canada written with Christopher Moore received a Mr. Christie's Book Award in 1993. She also received the Canadian Authors Association's Vicki Metcalf Award for Body of Work and The Writer's Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award in Celebration of a Writing Life. She died on June 26, 2017 at the age of 88.

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