Bay Girl

"Designated an Our Choice title by the Canadian Children's Book Centre" Eleven-year-old Patsy travels up the Newfoundland coast in 1962 - to visit her Gran and Uncle Wish in the outport of Shoal Harbour. Learning to row a dinghy and helping out on her uncle's fishing dory give Patsy a new sense of pride and self-reliance. But Shoal Harbour is scheduled to be shut down. It's part of an actual plan the Newfoundland government put into effect in the early 1960's to shut down the outports and move all the people in them away from homes they'd had for generations. It looks like a way of life she's just come to love may be ending, just as Patsy is on her way to becoming a real Bay Girl. "Dorion's story has lots of emphasis on the fun and adventure of meeting new friends and doing new things...with a fast-moving plot and a realistic, open-ended conclusion. Bay Girl is fresh and appealing."-Atlantic Books TodayDorion, Betty F. is the author of 'Bay Girl' with ISBN 9780613238397 and ISBN 0613238397.