Queen of Hearts

By: Martha Brooks

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Synopsis: Finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book It's 1941, and Canada is two years into World War II. Meanwhile, in rural Manitoba, fifteen-year-old Marie-Claire Cote begins a war of her own as she and her brother and sister, all stricken with tuberculosis, are taken by their anguished parents to "chase the cure" at nearby Pembina Hills Sanatorium. While her roommate retains a dogged cheerfulness that is both heroic and irritating, Marie-Claire resists with all of her prideful strength while she fights her own illness and tries to seek privacy where there is none. Her father, overwhelmed by fear and guilt, never visits. And her young brother, Luc, who is losing his battle with TB in another wing of the infirmary, sends notes to her penned for him by his nineteen-year-old roommate, Jack Hawkings. This is a story about surviving loss, and finding friendship, and love, in surprising places.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 208 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781554982219
Related ISBNs:: 9781554986477, 9780888998286
Publisher:: Groundwood Books Ltd
Date of Addition:: 06/22/21
Copyrighted By:: Martha Brooks
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Romance, Teens, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction
Grade Levels:: Ninth grade
Reading Age:: 14–14
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.