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Queen of hearts /

Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Martha, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Tuberculosis > Juvenile fiction.
Sick > Juvenile fiction.
Medical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Families > Manitoba > Juvenile fiction.
Manitoba > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Canada > History > 1914-1945 > Juvenile fiction.
Tuberculosis > Fiction.
Sick > Fiction.
Hospitals > Fiction.
Coming of age > Fiction.
Loneliness > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Forties (20th century) > Fiction.
Family life > Manitoba > Fiction.
Manitoba > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Canada > History > 1914-1945 > Fiction.
Description
Summary:Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.
Item Description:Originally published: Toronto, Ont. : Groundwood Books, 2010.
Physical Description:214 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780374342296 (hbk.)
0374342296 (hbk.)