Flying With a Broken Wing
β Scribed by Laura Best
- Book ID
- 110618563
- Publisher
- Nimbus
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771080385
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Cammie Deveau began life with a few strikes against her. Sheβs visually impaired, abandoned by her mother at birth, her father was a casualty of the Second World Warβand if all that isnβt enough, sheβs being raised by her bootlegging aunt. No wonder she dreams of starting a brand new life.
When Cammie learns about a school for blind and visually impaired children she becomes convinced a new life is waiting for her in Halifax, but how will she ever convince her aunt to let her go? With the help of her best friend, they devise a plan to blow up the local moonshinerβs still. But Cammie has not managed to change her luck, and things get worse than she ever imagined.
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