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Young Adult / Fiction
ISBN 1-894294-11-4
160 pages 5.5" x 8.5"
paper
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$11.95 |
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Hoist Your Sails and Run
By: Robin McGrath
Hoist Your Sails and Run, a new young adult novel from Robin
McGrath, brings together three strands of a family's history - an
encounter between Tommy Picco and a giant squid in Newfoundland in 1873,
his descendant Mogue White's part in Memorial University's famous
"Squid Squad" in the 1960's, and Mogue's grandson Aquin's high
school project on squid in the 1990's.
With the encouragement of his friend Emma Trimm, Aquin begins a
science fair project on the mysterious giant squid. Aquin knows of
his ancestor's confrontation with this legendary creature in the waters
off Portugal Cove more than a century ago but now he also comes to
understand its importance in the life of his ailing grandfather.
Over the summer Aquin's world is turned upside down. He and
Emma must come to terms with Mogue's illness, their own changing
relationship and the fact that Aquin may have to leave Newfoundland
forever. But who is the oddly-dressed kid that comes to the rescue
every time they find themselves in trouble? And is the giant squid
just a memory, or is it still lurking in the waters of Conception Bay?
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