In this moving addition to the Dear Canada series, award-winning author Barbara Haworth-Attard recreates a desolate time in Canadian history, and one girl's brave fight against a deadly disease. To Stand On My Own is Noreen's diary account of her journey through recovery: her treatment life in the ward the other patients, some of them far worse off than her adjustment to life in a wheelchair and on crutches and ultimately, the emotional and physical hurdles she must face when she returns home. Number of Pages: 273 Age Range: 13-15 Review: Barbara Haworth-Attard is a beautiful writer. After a few weeks she gains partial recovery, but her family makes the painful decision to send her to a hospital far away for further treatment. In the process she learns terrible truths about her absent mother, and the father she has never known. She has been haunting libraries since she was ten years old. In a horrible twist of fate, Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is placed in an isolation ward, unable to move her legs. Barbara Haworth-Attard was born in Elmira, Ontario and presently lives in London, Ontario. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen's family must scrimp to make ends meet. Haunted : Haworth-Attard, Barbara, 1953- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 273 pages 22 cm Skip to main content We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us Internet Archive logo A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building faade. In the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The dark threat of polio becomes a reality for a young Prairie girl.
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