Authors: Irene N.Watts
Flower (15 page)
I wait until my sister’s eyes begin to close and then I tuck her back in her crib. “Happy New Year,” I whisper to both of them.
The End
Of the more than 100,000 homeless children sent to Canada from Britain between 1867 and 1967, 30,000 came from Dr. Barnardo’s Homes.
Copyright © 2005 by Irene N. Watts
Published in Canada by Tundra Books, 75 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Ontario M5A 2P9
Published in the United States by Tundra Books of Northern New York, P.O. Box 1030, Plattsburgh, New York 12901
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2004110125
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Watts, Irene N., 1931-
Flower / Irene N. Watts.
eISBN: 978-1-77049-050-5
I. Home children (Canadian immigrants)–Nova Scotia–Juvenile fiction. 2. World War, 1914-1918–Juvenile fiction. I. Title.
PS8595.A873F59 2005 JC813’.54 C2004-904121-5
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