Kit Pearson
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Kathleen Margaret "Kit" Pearson CM (née le 30 avril 1947) est une écrivaine canadienne et lauréate de nombreux prix de littérature. Pearson a écrit les romans The Sky Is Falling (1989), Looking at the Moon (1991), et The Lights Go on Again (1993), publiés en 1999 sous le titre The Guests of War Trilogy, et Awake and Dreaming (1996), qui ont remporté le Prix du Gouverneur général pour la littérature pour enfants en 1997. Elle a été nommée à l'Ordre du Canada en 2019.Pearson est née à Edmonton, en Alberta, et a passé son enfance entre cette ville et Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique. En tant qu'étudiante, elle retourne à Vancouver pour recevoir ses études à la Crofton House School. Elle a obtenu un diplôme en littérature anglaise à l'Université de l'Alberta. En 1975, elle a commencé son diplôme de bibliothèque à l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique et a pris ses premiers emplois dans ce domaine en Ontario. Elle a ensuite obtenu un M.A. au Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature à Boston. De retour à Vancouver, elle termine son premier roman The Daring Game qui est publié par Penguin Books. Pearson a déménagé à Victoria, en Colombie-Britannique, en 2005, où elle vit avec sa partenaire Katherine Farris.
Books
And nothing but the truth
Thirteen-year old Polly is following in her sister's footsteps to a boarding school in Victoria. Will her sister's new secret tear her family apart again?
The lights go on again
In 1945, after living in Canada for five years to escape the war in Europe, ten-year-old Gavin and his fifteen-year-old sister Norah face the prospect of returning home to their family in England with radically different emotions.
The sky is falling
The Sky Is Falling A spellbinding novel of glamour, sex, power, and murder that spans the globe If America had a royal family, the Winthrop.
A handful of time
When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends. When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases her; Aunt Ginnie and Uncle Doug feel sorry for her. She doesn't fit in. Then Patricia discovers an old watch hidden under a floorboard. When she winds it, she finds herself taken back in time to the summer when her own mother was twelve ...
The daring game
At first Eliza is happy with her new life at boarding school, settling into the Yellow Dorm, making new friends, learning the rituals of school life and doing well in her classes. But a bond begins to develop between Eliza and Helen, a mischievous, unpopular girl who defies authority, plays practical jokes and doesn't seem to care what others think of her. It is Helen who starts the daring game among the first girls in the Yellow Dorm.
Awake and dreaming
A young man is haunted by nightmares until a witch gives him a magic formula for untroubled sleep.
Dear Canada
When war breaks out between the United States and Great Britain in 1812, eleven-year-old Susanna chronicles her experiences when her father and brother go off to fight leaving the women to fend for themselves on the family farm on the Niagara Peninsula of Upper Canada.
Le ciel croule
Pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, près de 15000 enfants anglais furent évacués dont 8000 au Canada. Norah et son petit frère Gavin furent de ceux-là. Si le garçonnet s'adapte bien à cette situation et à ses tantes d'occasion, il n'en va pas de même avec Norah. Ce roman, aux personnages bien campés, évoque avec réalisme des événements vécus. [SDM].
Whole Truth
The year is 1932 when Polly and her sister Maud move from Winnipeg to an island between Vancouver and Victoria, to live with their grandmother, who is their new guardian. Polly's older sister Maud seems to settle into their new life pretty easily. But the girls have a huge mysterious secret they must keep, and Polly doesn't know how long she can keep it. Especially when Maud leaves the island to go to school.