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Waiting Under Water

Categories: Fiction
Power of Story: Mental Health
Paperback  Ebook  
ISBN: 9781443175135 Pages: 240 Ages: 9-14 Dimensions: 5" x 7.75"

About this book

A beautiful celebration of small town life, friendship, and opening up to change!

Hope’s world is shaken when her parents announce that they’re leaving their small New Brunswick town and moving to Toronto for her father’s job.

Hope’s anxiety, manageable before that point, skyrockets as she fears making new friends and leaving her beloved ocean, and the sea glass that she has been carefully nurturing for years. At least there’s a tremendous diversion for her final summer — her village of St. David’s is one of five entrants in a nationwide TV contest that celebrates “Canada’s Tiniest Treasures.”

In the countdown to the summer’s end — and the move date —Hope and her best friend, Willa, dedicate themselves to the St. David’s campaign, celebrating what is unique about small town life, and their friendship.

Reviews

Praise for The Town That Drowned:

"If her debut novel, The Town That Drowned, is any indication, Riel Nason is a writer to watch. This tender tale about a New Brunswick village threatened by the provincial government's plan to build a dam has a ton of soul." NOW Magazine, Toronto

"The strength of The Town That Drowned is Ruby’s voice: charming, wry, and believable. The prose style is smooth and clean, and avoids calling attention to itself, allowing Ruby’s voice, vibrating with contradictory desires, to deliver shot-to-the-heart moments of real humour and pathos." — Quill & Quire

Praise for All the Things We Leave Behind:

"[All the Things We Leave Behind is a] powerful rumination on the universal aches of loss, existential dread and adolescence." Quill & Quire

Awards

Award Winner, Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction, New Brunswick Book Awards 2020
Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, Top Recommended Read 2023
Commended, TD Summer Reading Club Selection 2023
Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection 2020

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