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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

Afterword

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

Library of Congress Control Number:
2004110125

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher–or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency–is an infringement of the copyright law.

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

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) and that of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative. We further acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program.

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