50% OFF! - MG - No Place For Kids + Picturing Alyssa (by Alison Lohans)

Paperback
12.7 x 17.8 cm (5 x 7 in)

Sarah and her older sister Jennifer are in dire straits - uncared for, and often hungry. Their mother has died and, in his grief, their dad has turned to drinking for solace. He loses his job, then their house - and so the small family drifts from one place to another. When things reach yet another breaking point, the two sisters decide to go on the run. Can they manage to get from Winnipeg to Vancouver, where their Aunt Ellen lives?

Finalist: 1999 Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature
Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice” listing

Paperback
12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in)

Who is the girl staring out of the old photograph? Every time Alyssa looks at it, even by accident, she finds herself flung back in time to an Iowa farm in 1931. The past is much nicer than Alyssa’s present life, with her mother severely depressed after the stillbirth of her sister, bullying by a popular girl at school, and a teacher who is unsympathetic towards Alyssa’s family’s pacifist beliefs.

Somehow Alyssa always gets yanked back to the present. And the past isn’t perfect either, with so much work, and Deborah’s mother about to have a baby too. Worse, Alyssa’s old family photographs show alarming things about her family in the past. Can she stay on top of the problems in both places?

Finalist: Saskatchewan Book Awards, Children’s Literature category
Finalist: Saskatchewan Book Awards, City of Regina Book Award

Alison Lohans appreciates funding from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, which provided assistance for the writing of Picturing Alyssa.