Firebird

by Glen Huser

Firebird explores a period in our history -- one year in particular (1915- 1916) -- when a massive number of newcomers were deemed " enemy aliens," arrested and put into internment camps set up all across Canada. Alex Kaminsky, a fourteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant boy, suffers burns to his hands and face when his uncle's farmhouse burns down. Rescued by a neighbour, he is tended to by a backcountry midwife before being taken in by a local postmaster...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553805879
• ISBN13: 9781553805878
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7