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published: Mar 2011
ISBN:9781554704217
publisher: Key Porter Books

Charlie

A Home Child's Life in Canada

by Beryl Young

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About the Author

Beryl Young is the author of several critically acclaimed books for children, including Wishing Star Summer, Charlie: A Home Child’s Life in Canada, Would Someone Please Answer the Parrot!, and Follow the Elephant. In addition to the Chocolate Lily award, which Young won in 2011 for Follow the Elephant, her books have been nominated for several awards, including the Red Cedar (BC), the Red Maple (ON), the Diamond Willow (SK), the Hackmatack Award (Atlantic Canada), the Silver Moonbeam Medal for pre-teen fiction (US), and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award for Canadian Children’s Literature. Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Young now lives in Vancouver. She has three grown children and four grandchildren.

Contributor Notes

Beryl Young had impressive first-time success with her novel Wishing Star Summer (Raincoast 2001). The book was on the BC Children’s Bestseller list for 26 weeks, and was named an Our Choice book by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Beryl is a member of the Federation of B.C. Writers, the Children’s Writers and Illustrators of B.C., the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable, and the Canadian Society of Authors, Illustrators, and Performers. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

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