The several lives of Orphan Jack
When, at the age of twelve, he is sent out from the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings to be a bookkeeper's apprentice, Jack finds his heretofore predictable life full of unusual adventures.
| Main Author: | Ellis, Sarah |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Toronto:
Groundwood Books,
2005.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
When, at the age of twelve, he is sent out from the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings to be a bookkeeper's apprentice, Jack finds his heretofore predictable life full of unusual adventures. |
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| Physical Description: |
84 p. |
| ISBN: |
9780888996183 0888996187 |
| Author Notes: |
SARAH ELLIS is a celebrated author, teacher and children's literature expert. She has written more than twenty books across the genres, and her books have been translated into French, Spanish, Danish, Chinese and Japanese. She has won the Governor General's Literary Award (Pick-Up Sticks), the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award (Odd Man Out) and the Sheila Egoff Award. Her first novel, The Baby Project, remains a children's classic, still in print more than thirty years after publication. Sarah is a masthead reviewer for the Horn Book Magazine, and she is a former faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Bruno St-Aubin is one of Canada's most renowned children's book illustrators and to date has written or illustrated over 130 picture books and novels. |