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2006 Word Guild Award — Winner, Young Adult Fiction Sophie Mallory’s American family knows everything about fighting the British. It’s the family tradition.

2007 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Selection It is 1838, and in the wake of the rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie’s and Luc’s worlds are falling apart.

Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s.

In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were ordinary people who had been caught up in the political whirlwind of the 1838 rebellion.

In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery.