Growing up Ivy
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Historical fiction
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
1931. Living in Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Ivy has never met her father, but when she’s sent to live with her paternal grandmother in Larkin, Ontario, Ivy's father, Alva, arrives unexpectedly. He turns out not to be the… Prince Charming she imagined, but an illiterate peddler, who takes her with him for the summer. Back in Larkin at summer's end, Ivy meets teenager Charlie Bayliss. Unknown to both of them is a secret connection they share, and when the final pieces of the puzzle fall into place, nothing will ever be the same. For junior high readers. 2010.